[ExI] we have debugged it

[MB]

Debugging is interesting, but what are the birds going to eat?  Also, 
bees are not the only pollinators... IIRC China tried debugging long ago 
and ended up having to replant grass and encourage birds and bugs.  Yes, 
the Four Pests Campaign, which led (among other things) to The Great 
Famine.  Hmm.

Regards,
MB

Gregory Jones via extropy-chat wrote:
> Decades ago in this forum we discussed a laser mosquito zapper.  I am on
> the road with limited bandwidth and a microscopic keyboard, which hampers
> my ability to research, but I am told a company called Photon Matrix is
> presenting a laser version of the iron dome, aimed at mosquitos. OK then,
> Photon Matrix.
> 
> While I was laboriously thumbing out this note, it occurred to me that I
> didn't experience any significant buggery.  I drive from California to
> eastern Washington regularly on family business.  I need to clean the bugs
> off of my windshield at every fuel stop, or rather I used to.  I realized I
> drove up here this week, thru farm country, but didn't smash thousands or
> even dozens of bugs.  The revolting mess on the windshield has been
> declining for a long time.  Now, thousand mile trip thru farm country, no
> major buggery.  I don't recall mosquito encounters last time I was in
> Florida either.  I recall mosquito swarms, massive ravenous clouds of
> them.  But not now.  That's a huge environmental change, in one human
> lifespan.
> 
> That laser bug zapper sounds cool but I might not buy one because I haven't
> even seen a mosquito recently.  We have debugged this place.  But how are
> the bees doing?
> 
> spike
> 
> 
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