I’ve always thought a stupidly expensive but cool and helpful device would be a tabletop mosquito/fly/wasp killer that shot lasers at said insects. I’m very happy to see there is an underwater version that seems to be really effective
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They exist in trials. The human danger is too great though I think. If the laser thinks your eye is a fly for a split second, game over for vision.
screw that, we'll just wear sunglasses indoors and look supercool and mosquito free
A laser that can kill a fly in the fraction of a second has to deliver enough energy to fry your retina even though a dozen sunglasses. Also consider that the laser is focused down by the lens in your eye which greatly amplifies its power.
That's not how specific wavelength safety goggles work. You can get both near UV blue light 440nm 5 watt goggles, and infrared depending on the laser.
Problem is they tend to shift the color of light for everything so much that they aren't pleasant to wear for a long time.
My worry would be getting hit on the skin, a 5 watt 440nm laser hurts, and it's a deep burning pain that doesn't go away.
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So many ways to engineer out that hazard.
Last I understood was it's been patented 10 different ways from Sunday, and prototypes are just sitting on shelves, collection dust.
So now the fish are lice free, but blind? D'oh!
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https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/worlds-first-portable-mosquito-air-defense#/
2 days left to back. Get it while you can!
LOL, $600 for something that is unproven and has a high chance of being just a scam?
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Fish farms are one of the most 'boring dystopia'-moments in existence. They are bad for the environment, breeding disease like it is their main job, they are cruel as fuck (imagine factory farming could layer their animals on top of each other) and most fish end up dead. It is funny how people instantly close their eyes when we are barbaric as fuck towards "food"-animals, like they do have no place on this planet but on our plates. The same disgusting mindset that has let us to another mass extinction.
Can you image what kind of cult these fish will create?
ALL HAIL THE PILLAR OF CLEANSING
Frank was zapped! HE IS THE CHOSEN ONE!
TIL fish can get lice
it seems like a human created problem int eh first place too. when you farm salmon you have to do it in enclosed area, so this unnaturally density of the amount of fish per area is quite high, and parasites, and infections are spread quite easily. Alantic salmon is usually the only ones that can be farmed, other salmon species are much more difficult. wont affect parasites like parasitic cnidarians.
Haha, that is such a cool use for laser technology and also the fish look like they are clubbing. Thanks fo sharing :)
Now THIS is the cyberpunk reality I want to live in!
That's an antiquated reality. It should be a mRNA vaccine or perhaps some kind of nanobot that kills these parasites.
That’s not cyberpunk though, more solar punk imo.
Cyberpunk is all about unideal but pretty optimal solutions.
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TIL: There is sea lice.
New terror unlocked.
Although it’s technically not lice, this is called swimmer’s lice in many languages.
Seems to be something unrelated to this here. That system could never target such tiny organism, let alone have and impact at the flow speed. These fish are also not any of their hosts.
Yeah, video is about salmon louse: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salmon_louse
They are 5-18mm depending on sex and such.
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Don't look up what replaces a fish' tongue, then...
Why is it I go straight to “some fascist government is going to set this up on the street and just laser undesirables”
I can see a day when we the non-rich have tattooed barcodes, implanted chips, and god knows what else about our persons, we will be scanned to death, system would choose who to zap (kill) or just persecute in some manor.
I had this job where a idiot director thought about forcing us workers to wear wrist bands with barcodes, our timecards have same barcode, everything we do is tracked by barcodes, thankfully was rejected.....but upper management considered it to much for us workers comfort 😞
Except it clears acne and keeps people clean-shaven. Unfortunately it doesn't work for some minority subset due to skin, hair color, or some other overlooked bias. Ultimately leading those individuals to fail job interviews and such. Leading them to a life of meager success compared to the majority.
Given that the (Norwegian) Fish Farms on the coast of BC almost annihilated the natural salmon due to the lice and other ecosystem damage, something to destroy the lice might be a little bit helpful. Although it might only be helpful to the penned fish and not the surrounding environment.
We are the Borg, resistance is futile.
That's pretty clever! Quite the footage
Boston Legal don’t see this coming
TIL there's lice in the sea...
Awesome, but it's hard to imagine what this must seem like from the perspective of the fish.
Participle... she is dangling.
we aren't reading our writing latin so we don't need to follow latin rules for tenses that don't exist in English
Something fishy about this Star Wars episode.
It’s a trap!
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