[ExI] Pythons and rabbits

[Tomaz Kristan]

Yes, Mike, humans are too natural. That's why I want to send the drones or
some other terminators against the snakes. And not some human hunters.






On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 1:40 PM, Mike Dougherty <msd001 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 7:04 AM, Tomaz Kristan <protokol2020 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > I think, if you want to eradicate for example snakes from an island,
> you'll
> > do nothing with some poison. Unless you are ready to cover the whole
> island
> > a meter or so deep with that poison. Which you are NOT going to do.
> >
> > With just some a little poisoned rabbits, you will at most evolve a new
> kind
> > of snakes, which won't eat rabbits but birds or will be adapted to eat
> some
> > poison or whatever.
> >
> > Biology against biology hardly ever works in a desired way.
> >
> > What you have to do, is to launch enough drones or ground robots which
> will
> > spot and kill with a gun or a laser or with a large scissors every snake
> > they will meet.
> >
> > This is a step too high for snakes to adapt. Provided that your
> > drones/Boston dogs are good enough, of course.
> >
> > But no poison will do.
> >
> > As I heard, the large population of wild hogs in the US is now being
> > poisoned with the sodium nitrite. You will soon have the sodium nitrite
> > eating swines. That's what you'll have.
>
> Humans against Nature hardly ever works in a desired way too.
>
> ex:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobra_effect
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