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    Bill Gates Seeks To Cure Malaria With Candy

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    Image of LiC LiC
    10/22/09

    In reply to Bill Gates Seeks To Cure Malaria With Candy
    Malaria is most often found in the tropics where it's hot. Won't the chocolate melt?

    I thought this was going to be about hard candies. That makes more sense. #billgates
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    10/22/09

    @LiC: Chocolate was invented in the tropics. #billgates
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    Image of goograwks000 goograwks000
    10/22/09

    In reply to Bill Gates Seeks To Cure Malaria With Candy
    I can't see anything on www.gatesfoundation.org
    that doesn't extend M$ monopoly.

    In fact, this is smoke and mirrors to divert attention away from www.bgc3.com which stands for Bill Gates Company 3. [shivers]
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    10/22/09

    @goograwks000: If you're upset that people who now have a slim chance of not dying are going to grow up loving Microsoft, maybe you should petition Apple's founders to drive similar programs? Oh wait, that would make sense. #billgates
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    Image of Clatu6 Clatu6
    10/22/09

    @goograwks000: Yeah right. It all about extending the windows Monopoly and diverting attention away from a different company.

    Are you scared of your own shadow too?

    Bill Gates has given away ~28 billion dollars so far. If he really wanted to extend the windows monoply wouldn't he just give out 28 billons dollars worth of windows licenses instead of funding Aids and malaria research.

    Grow up. #billgates
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    Image of Chris Tomalty Chris Tomalty
    10/22/09

    In reply to Bill Gates Seeks To Cure Malaria With Candy
    As much as I dislike Microsoft, Gates certainly has his philanthropic heart in the right place. Whatever we can say about his business, he definitely spends his money well. #billgates
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    Image of senatormayer senatormayer
    10/22/09

    In reply to Bill Gates Seeks To Cure Malaria With Candy
    By the looks of that picture I just assumed this was an article about that 'Men Who Look Like Old Lesbians' site.
    I kid, I kid. Mister Gates, you are a wonderful man, despite your lesbian appearances. #billgates
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    Image of ridgecity ridgecity
    10/22/09

    In reply to Bill Gates Seeks To Cure Malaria With Candy
    Did he ever get Voldemort? #billgates
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    Image of Aaron Kravitz Aaron Kravitz
    10/22/09

    In reply to Bill Gates Seeks To Cure Malaria With Candy
    Why not do it the way the british did? Gin and tonics all around, bill can afford it.

    This is pretty excellent, though. #billgates
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    10/22/09

    In reply to Bill Gates Seeks To Cure Malaria With Candy
    Truly a man who know's what his responsibilites are in life.

    Why are so few millionaires (sorry, billionaires), like this in the C21st?

    Go back a hundred years or so and self made people and those with old money would give all the time - seems we've become more materialistic or jaded perhaps? #billgates
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    Image of taniquetil taniquetil
    10/22/09

    In reply to Bill Gates Seeks To Cure Malaria With Candy
    Bill Gates: Being my hero since, well, forever.

    I bet he even has a massive supercomputer in his basement contributing to Folding@home. That's why the [Default] usergroup has so many points.

    The world thanks you, Mr. Gates. #billgates
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    Image of Je_suis_un_revolutionnaire Je_suis_un_revolutionnaire
    03/14/09

    In reply to Badass Scientists Prepare Anti-Mosquito Laser
    I love lasers and all but isn't it a bit of an overkill?


    When they built the panama canal they had the same problem so they just put lime into any large lakes to kill the larvae and destroyed the vegetation where the mosquitoes where hiding.


    After so many years it's still the only place in latin america where there are no mosquitoes at all!

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    03/14/09

    @Je_suis_un_revolutionnaire: Sorry, my BS-o-meter spiked really hard on that last line.
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    Image of CrashingOut CrashingOut
    03/14/09

    @bpapa9013: really? that pegged my retard meter too, especially since he suggested an extremely environmentally-unfriendly solution: kill everything with chemicals, let the environment sort it out.
    Did this guy get us to use DDT too?!
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    Image of Je_suis_un_revolutionnaire Je_suis_un_revolutionnaire
    03/14/09

    @CrashingOut:


    Hey cos zapping things with lasers is an eco-friendly solution...


    @bpapa9013:

    I read the stuff while reading about John Frank Stevens a while back.


    There is a short note about panama canal building in wiki... look at "later efforts"

    [en.wikipedia.org]


    Oh yeah and DDT doesn't work on Mosquitoes anymore... They are now immune. Not that I would use it of course.

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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_IsSlacking GitEmSteveDave_IsSlacking
    03/14/09

    @Je_suis_un_revolutionnaire: He's not doubting in the earlY 1900's, that they eliminated mosquitoes. But to say that the panama canal is the only place where there are "NO" mosquitoes, is a little far fetched. I can believe that there are a reduced amount due to possible wind conditions as well as the water being in constant motion and also large lakes w/ample wildlife to eat larve, but not the almost lack of.


    And you're right about them lasers. Darn light is very eco-unfriendly. :)

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    Image of xanderbeedle xanderbeedle
    03/14/09

    In reply to Badass Scientists Prepare Anti-Mosquito Laser
    Genetically engineer better mosquitos that can't transmit malaria... They wipe out the old ones + malaria, then the ecosystem stays relatively normal.
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    Image of zweihander zweihander
    03/14/09

    @xanderbeedle: no way.. by genetically engineering a mosquito that doesn't transmit malaria, that leaves it open to transmit something worse. or better yet.. be MORE annoying. one thing i Do know is: when you take something out of the food chain it will be replaced.. adjusting the food chain all the way up to the top. nothing goood can come if this. nothing.
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    03/14/09

    @xanderbeedle: Actually scientists have been working on just that for decades.


    IIRC they have been struggling for funding basically since the inception of the research so they haven't gotten very far, so far as I last heard anyway.

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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_IsSlacking GitEmSteveDave_IsSlacking
    03/14/09

    @zweihander: The best thing I have heard is breeding a strain that has a shorter lifespan than the incubation period of a disease. So you wouldn't eliminate them, but they couldn't transmit disease as easily.
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    Image of Dylorian Dylorian
    03/14/09

    In reply to Badass Scientists Prepare Anti-Mosquito Laser
    Hope they don't frak up the food chain. Mosquitoes are a pain in the arse, but they feed A LOT of animals.
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    03/14/09

    @Dylorian: most of the ecological consumption of mosquitoes takes place very close to where they hatch (standing water, wetlands, lakes, etc.). So as long as you aren't trying to eradicate them from that sort of environment you shouldn't be hindering the food chain too much.
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    03/14/09

    In reply to Badass Scientists Prepare Anti-Mosquito Laser
    This is a really off-topic question, but where has the settings page gone? I believed there was a button called settings somewhere i just cant find it!


    When you click "profile" in the right upper corner you just see the profile like anyone else would have seen it, no settings etc.

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    03/14/09

    @Chariot: Make sure your address bar doesn't start w/ i.gizmodo.com. If it does, erase the "i." part, and press go. It should be there.
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    Image of frigg frigg
    03/14/09

    In reply to Badass Scientists Prepare Anti-Mosquito Laser
    So if they only eradicate the females, will that mean that the male population will learn how to cook, sew, and spread malaria all by themselves?


    I think I saw something to that effect in Jurassic Park.

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    Image of Kanyamagufa Kanyamagufa
    03/15/09

    @frigg:


    "You're implying that a group composed entirely of females will...breed?"

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    Image of frigg frigg
    03/15/09

    @Kanyamagufa: No, I'm simply saying that life, uh... finds a way.
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    03/15/09

    @frigg: That was pure gold. You've already got a star, and I've already "hearted" you.... I'm not sure what more I can do or say!
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