Well, like it or not, the dense humanity is there & will be there for a long, long time.

So how does your little propaganda spiel help?

Assuming it was intended to be helpful, that is...

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On Thu, 5/1/14, Ian Wood <xxxxxx@xtra.co.nz> wrote:

 Subject: Re: [TML] Oh god, it's real!
 To: "xxxxxx@simplelists.com" <xxxxxx@simplelists.com>
 Date: Thursday, May 1, 2014, 4:12 AM

 how wonderful, we
 have a technical device that wasnt needed before europeans
 interfered wiht their lives.

 malaria requires dense humanity for it to
 flourish.
 Something the Papuans know.

 Ian

 From: Richard
 Aiken <xxxxxx@gmail.com>
  To: xxxxxx@simplelists.com

  Sent: Thursday, 1 May
 2014 10:59 PM

  Subject: Re:
 [TML] Oh god, it's real!

 On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 4:22
 AM,  <xxxxxx@shadowgard.com>
 wrote:

 Some of you make recall years back when I requested that
 someone

 design an anti-insect (and possibly anti-bird/bullet) laser
 goizmo

 using Traveller rules...

 Well, someone has done it in the real world

 http://37.media.tumblr.com/747b469aa4b118347ad85e3c66c789e6/tumblr_n2r

 hq9dHjH1rhavdko4_r1_500.jpg

 (from the Ultrafacts blog: https://www.tumblr.com/follow/ultrafacts
 )

 It seems
 that the main objections to it working for it's intended
 purpose (to kill malaria-carrying mosquitoes in Africa) are
 the high cost - each $50 laser covers only a ~100 foot
 radius - and need for reliable electrical power. But the
 per-unit price would like drop once production got going and
 a small solar panel/battery seems likely to be enough to
 provide it with power.

 Of course, then you would
 have the problem of people stealing the solar panel/battery
 unit . . .
 But for
 zapping mosquitoes/gnats on your porch/patio, it appears as
 if it would work just fine.

 Hey! Maybe they could sell
 them for commercial use, then use the income to install them
 for anti-malaria use. E.g., the Newman's Own Profit
 Model. :)
 -- 

 Richard Aiken

 "Never
 insult anyone by accident."  Robert A.
 Heinlein"A word to the wise ain't
 necessary -- it's the stupid ones that need the
 advice." - Bill Cosby"We know a little
 about a lot of things; just enough to make us
 dangerous." Dean Winchester

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