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could_use_a_snack t1_j1zyywz wrote

Reply to Some day soon we might be making popcorn with infrared poppers | It's fast, energy efficient, environmentally friendly compared to conventional heating by chrisdh79

I'd buy this if it popped them on at a time.

You fill a hopper. It funnels the kernels into a little cup that heats it with IR and when it pops it shoots out into a bowl, letting the next kernel in. It would need to be quick though, maybe a minute to fill a bowl. Pop Pop Pop Pop Pop Pop Pop Pop Pop Pop Pop Pop.

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could_use_a_snack t1_ivg81fc wrote

Reply to comment by Taurenzine in English company Oxitec has released a simple, easy to distribute commercial product they say cuts Dengue Fever spreading mosquito populations by 96%. By just adding water, genetically modified mosquito eggs mature into males whose sperm cannot result in viable female larvae. by lughnasadh

Naw that's just making a different problem. Female mosquitos need blood as a food source to produce eggs. (Or something like that) If they can't use blood they would need to find a different food source and whatever that ended up being would also be a huge change to the ecosystem.

Humans need to develop a way to fight the disease within the human population so as not to disrupt other species.

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could_use_a_snack t1_ivfqdd7 wrote

Reply to comment by OtHanski in If the Human Genome Project represents a map of the genome of a few individuals, why is this relevant to humans as a whole if everybody has different genetics? by bjardd

It's like a car. 99% of the parts are identical, if you looked at those parts you would be able to determine that it is a Toyota Corolla. But you need the other 1% to identify the trim package. And if something is different in that first 99% then you might want to take a real good look at it.

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could_use_a_snack t1_ivfp3z8 wrote

Reply to comment by bossonhigs in English company Oxitec has released a simple, easy to distribute commercial product they say cuts Dengue Fever spreading mosquito populations by 96%. By just adding water, genetically modified mosquito eggs mature into males whose sperm cannot result in viable female larvae. by lughnasadh

Agreed. I've brought up similar concerns in the past, and once was told that bats don't eat mosquitoes. Just prepare for a lot of trolling. People really hate mosquitoes.

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could_use_a_snack t1_itvdo3x wrote

Reply to comment by fhjuyrc in Many people despise the homeless, while living one paycheck away from being homeless by flavortownpolitics

Homelessness is the default. Before people were people they were homeless, living wherever, eating whatever, etc. Once people started manipulating their environment they realized that they could build shelter with "work" and work became the go to lifestyle of people. Now we've been a working people for so long that homelessness seems like a failure. If people stop "working" they will eventually become homeless again.

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could_use_a_snack t1_irhf18y wrote

Reply to Space adverts are now economically viable but potentially dangerous by Soupjoe5

I don't really understand how this could even work.

I just built a lighted sign for an event I'm doing that says PARKING with an arrow. It's made up of little lights that are spaced about 2 inches apart. The letters are about 9 inches tall and the sign takes over 200 lights!

I did a bunch of small tests and this design came up as about optimal. It can be seen (and read) from a decent distance, and uses the least amount of lights to do this. But if you are more than about 100 feet away you can't really read it.

If I read the article correctly they are talking about 50 satellites, what are they going to advertise? 50 dots isn't enough to do much. Even the old fashioned dot matrix printers wouldn't be able to spell much of a word with 50 dots. I just don't see this happening.

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