<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Tue, Sep 25, 2018 at 10:48 AM William Flynn Wallace <<a href="mailto:foozler83@gmail.com">foozler83@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">></span>I just have one question about the mosquitoes:  what species will go extinct if all the mosquitoes disappear?</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4">A male mosquito will normally not mate with a female of a different species and even if they do it will not produce viable offspring, if they did then it wouldn't be a different species because that is the very definition of a species. There are about 3500 species of mosquitoes but only 40 carry malaria.</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4"> John K Clark    </font></div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">bill </div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Sep 25, 2018 at 9:27 AM,  <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:spike@rainier66.com" target="_blank">spike@rainier66.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="m_3174107270398220988m_5254185850788652204WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org</a>> <b>On Behalf Of </b>John Clark<br><br><b>Subject:</b> [ExI] Gene Drive and morality<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">>… biologists have found a way to make mosquitoes go extinct using CRISPR…:</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/nbt.4245" target="_blank">https://www.nature.com/articles/nbt.4245</a> <u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">>… It would be illegal to release that mosquito into the wild… self styled guardians of morality are already calling for a moratorium on the use of this …</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">If that's morality then I'm proud to be immoral.</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> >…John K Clark<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt">If any lab anywhere finds this, there is no way to stop it using legal means.  Anyone working at that lab could come to the same decision you (and I) did, then secretly release them.  There would be no way to prove whodunnit and even if you somehow got a confession, I doubt anything serious would come of it.  They will get loose.  <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt">Let’s hope for the best, with confidence in this particular case.<span class="m_3174107270398220988HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><u></u><u></u></font></span></span></p><span class="m_3174107270398220988HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt">spike<u></u><u></u></span></p></font></span></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div></div></div></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>
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