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Re:Scientists discover how mosquitoes can ‘sniff out’ humans by pvaldes on Sunday August 21, 2022 @05:22AM (#32538576)
Yes, it matter. Would we remove the brake pedal of a car while driving? This is the same idea.

We are talking about removing the main wire of entire ecosystems without a clue of the real outcome. Could have some benefits? yes, it could, but the nice extra space for the feet wouldn't worth the danger. An unfixable waterfall of problems and many local economical collapses would be guaranteed.

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Re:Scientists discover how mosquitoes can ‘sniff out’ humans by Fatnino on Sunday August 21, 2022 @11:52AM (#32541364)
We've intentionally made the smallpox virus extinct.

The "unfixable waterfall of problems and many local economic collapses" that have resulted since then are legendary /s

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Re:Scientists discover how mosquitoes can ‘sniff out’ humans by pvaldes on Sunday August 21, 2022 @02:04PM (#32542748)
And mosquitoes are the same as pox viruses now?
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Re:Scientists discover how mosquitoes can ‘sniff out’ humans by Fatnino on Sunday August 21, 2022 @02:49PM (#32543221)
No, one of them has caused many more human deaths than the other.
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Re:Scientists discover how mosquitoes can ‘sniff out’ humans by pvaldes on Sunday August 21, 2022 @05:40PM (#32544737)
So what? Still the wrong metric to compare both organisms
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Re:Scientists discover how mosquitoes can ‘sniff out’ humans by Fatnino on Monday August 22, 2022 @10:38AM (#32552068)
Why? An organism that causes millions of human deaths needs to be wiped out. This is an evolutionary imperative. If a species (humans) get out-competed to death at large scale it will go extinct.
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Re:Scientists discover how mosquitoes can ‘sniff out’ humans by pvaldes on Monday August 22, 2022 @02:38PM (#32555402)
> An organism that causes millions of human deaths needs to be wiped out.

Not necessarily; that would be suicidal. And take in mind that you are perfectly describing humans (and dogs)

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Re:Scientists discover how mosquitoes can ‘sniff out’ humans by Fatnino on Tuesday August 23, 2022 @03:15AM (#32561506)
And snakes.

But mosquitoes blow the rest of these out of the water with staggering numbers of human deaths on their hands.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_deadliest_animals_to...

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