[ExI] how mosquitoes fly in the rain

Anders Sandberg anders at aleph.se
Tue Jun 19 23:54:38 UTC 2012


Mosquitos are a plague up in the north on both sides of the Atlantic. Up 
in Gällivare in north Sweden they have a mosquito museum (with a section 
housed on a stair in a bigger museum!)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/arenamontanus/6064999153/

http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=CDyVKgVIW24C&pg=PA486&lpg=PA486&dq=Sjaunja++mosquito+museum&source=bl&ots=rkQo0bKJxE&sig=VJjL9Yx43XLd3_4ZrXWJowvr4bI&hl=en&sa=X&ei=SxDhT6mFCIO_8APukqmUDw&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=Sjaunja%20%20mosquito%20museum&f=false

I think the survival of mosquitos in rain also tells us something about 
how to make resilient gnatbots.

-- 
Anders Sandberg,
Future of Humanity Institute
Philosophy Faculty of Oxford University




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