We gave a mosquito gender dysphoria?
Horrors We've Unleashed
Submitted 2 years ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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inb4_FoundTheVegan@lemmy.world 2 years ago
xx3rawr@sh.itjust.works 2 years ago
We have created tomboy mosquito. Humanity has peaked.
LordGimp@lemm.ee 2 years ago
This is what vegans want. They want to take your virile bloodsucking proboscus and replace it with a limp dick fruit licker.
BAN ALL VEGANS
(Small /s)
andshit@lemmy.world 2 years ago
LOL FUCK EM
Flyberius@hexbear.net 2 years ago
Surely this won’t have any knock on effects with the food chain…
BugleFingers@lemmy.world 2 years ago
As long as they can still get blood from other creatures too, I’m okay with it. If not, than that could have wild implications to the food chain assuming it leads to massive population degradation.
spankmonkey@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Not all species of mosquitos feed on blood, like how only some bats feed on blood. As long as we only mess with the ones that feed on blood, it is a lot more likely that species that feed on mosquitos will have time to adapt to population changes.
Even the ones that do feed on mosquitos don’t feed exclusively on mosquitoes.
pennomi@lemmy.world 2 years ago
I have a suspicion this gene would not be selected for when the mosquitos proceeded.
protist@mander.xyz 2 years ago
The entire point is to kill them. They are invasive anyway
BudgetBandit@sh.itjust.works 2 years ago
This will probably work for 20 years, due to evolution they’ll just re-evolve that thing hard
thesporkeffect@lemmy.world 2 years ago
If your proboscis stays engorged for more than 4 hours, contact a geneticist
Reddfugee42@lemmy.world 2 years ago
This is as sad as watching the Terminator try to kill people with a broken gun. Alexa, play “in the arms of the angels”
Reddfugee42@lemmy.world 2 years ago
letsgo@lemm.ee 2 years ago
Yeah but those little bastards started it. People call what’s happening in Gaza a genocide but that’s nothing compared with the mozzie kill count.
thawed_caveman@lemmy.world 2 years ago
I can’t believe i’m saying this, but… I think mosquitos don’t deserve this. There’s basically no life form that deserves our cruelty more than mosquitoes, but this is too cruel.
Sparky@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 years ago
Horrible and unethical idea: We modify the mosquito to strongly prefer the blood of some specific animal species. Said species will then be raised in captivity only for it to be sacrificed to the mosquitos. This way they get to procreate and spread the modified gene to new generations, and keep them alive for the ecosystem to feed on.
grubberfly@mander.xyz 2 years ago
Mosquitoes are the new Gods.
Nunar@lemmy.world 2 years ago
It’s already happened, we’re the sacrifice…
bluewing@lemm.ee 2 years ago
It’s a nice idea. But I wonder what the long term ramifications might be. What ripple effects might happen that we can’t see today that end up being problems in the future.
Human history is littered with such problems.
meliaesc@lemmy.world 2 years ago
There have been extensive studies done on the topic already, the planet does not need mosquitos.
Klear@lemmy.world 2 years ago
While some species may benefit from the absence of mosquitoes, others could face ecological disruptions due to changes in food webs.
However, eliminating mosquitoes entirely could also have unforeseen consequences, highlighting the importance of careful consideration and scientific research.
Other people have asked the same question you have, Niko, and scientists think that removing every single mosquito from the world wouldn’t have a bad overall effect on the environment. But none of us are sure what will happen to small ecosystems and whether these would be better off without mosquitoes.
The science is not really settled yet.
bluewing@lemm.ee 2 years ago
Yes I know. And maybe those studies are fully correct. I certainly have no way to cross check them. So you and I must take them at face value.
But even science will tell you that you should have at least some skepticism of such studies. Because it always seems like we miss some tiny important detail that only reveals it’s self later as we refine our knowledge on a subject.
ghost_of_faso2@lemmygrad.ml 2 years ago
SynopsisTantilize@lemm.ee 2 years ago
“sir, there’s been a complication…it seems the mosquitoes with our gene are dying off in water ways and directly polluting the waters…humans may never be erect again.”
explodicle@sh.itjust.works 2 years ago
In all seriousness… that would solve a lot of problems, and humanity would persist with (upgraded) reciprocal IVF. It would be kinda sad to see mankind disappear though.
SynopsisTantilize@lemm.ee 2 years ago
Well penis pump+ring keep it up long enough I’m sure
Swallowtail@beehaw.org 2 years ago
I’m having a hard time actually finding a source for this. Just a few poorly written articles that basically cite this video as a source. Something this potentially impactful seems like it would make the rounds more, so I’m very skeptical.
fossilesque@mander.xyz 2 years ago
Arfman@aussie.zone 2 years ago
I saw this posted on Twitter and the community notes said the person’s skin was too thick and it’s a normal mosquito.
Fleur_@lemm.ee 2 years ago
Who knew this whole time I was team mossie
umbrella@lemmy.ml 2 years ago
[deleted]daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 years ago
Why making them flacid instead of just killing them?
Most species are invasive and not part of the natursl ecosystem of most places anyway.
TheOakTree@lemm.ee 2 years ago
The idea is to introduce this genetic expression into wild mosquito populations. That way, the inevitable act of mosquito reproduction lowers the next generation’s population size.
sweetpotato@lemmy.ml 2 years ago
I’d like to see any scientific study that reassures at least a little that this won’t have terrible ramifications for ecosystems and the food chain.
We know too little, we are shortsighted and we have a bad record of intervening with nature.
Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 2 years ago
It’s a pretty ineffective strategy, but I’m just going off this one photo.
If it’s genetic, and the females can’t get a blood meal, then they won’t lay any eggs to pass on those genetics and just die.
Then the ones without that gene will lay all their eggs and the next generation will be unchanged and they have to spend all that money again to do whatever they did which had no effect.
general_kitten@sopuli.xyz 2 years ago
Knowing a bit about crispr my understanding is that crispr is the technology that can be used to circumvent that scenario by making the effects kind of like an genetic time bomb