Bill Gates Coming In Hot With The Invention Of The Summer: Mosquitos That Kill Each Other Using Sex
Fox News – Microsoft founder Bill Gates is pouring £3million ($4 million) into a project to create killer mosquitoes that destroy each other through sex.
It’s a bold bid to curb malaria, a deadly disease typically transmitted through the bite of infected mosquitoes.
Tech mogul Gates will use funds from his own charity organization – the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation – to eradicate malaria “within a generation”.
The plan is to create genetically-modified male mosquitoes that mate with their female counterparts in the wild.
Only female mosquitoes bite, so Gates’ army of gene-engineered male mosquitoes would be safe to humans.
What’s important is that these male mosquitoes contain a self-limiting gene that gets passed onto female mates.
When the females give birth, their offspring will die before adulthood thanks to the gene.
This shit has my mind in a blender. It took me like 20 minutes to make sense of the fucking headline. Bill Gates is just donating money to companies who are inventing mosquitos now? Seriously what the duck is going on here?
I know it gets said over and over but kudos to Bill Gates for having such an insane amount of money he can just throw a few million dollars at a company literally creating new species of mosquitos that are genetically mutated to create offspring that die before they’re old enough to try and eat us.
To get a tad more scientific and break it down for you, apparently only female mosquitos bite you and drink your blood and thus transmit diseases, so by creating these special male mosquitos and introducing them into areas where mosquitos carry deadly diseases, eventually all the new mosquitos will breed with the old ones and create new mosquitos that die before they’re mature enough to drink our blood.
It’s all pretty fucking brilliant if you ask me. Every now and then you hear a story about some stupid fucking bug like spiders or bees and everyone gets on their high horse about how important they are to the environment and all that noise; I don’t wanna fucking hear it when it comes to mosquitos. They do nothing positive for us. They’re annoying and they bite you and make you itchy and in Africa they give people deadly diseases. All bad things for those keeping score.
If these guys can really pull this off, with or without the help of Bill Gates, it’s obviously a major win for humanity. Our grandchildren might get to live in a world where mosquitos don’t live long enough to bite you. Put that in your pipe and smoke it on this beautiful Friday.