Their larva/pupae are the primary source of food for hundreds of fish, amphibian, and insect species. Several organisms subsist almost entirely on them. I'll take viruses over a mass-extinction event, thanks.

This Nature article provides a pretty evenhanded analysis of whether total mosquito obliteration is a good idea. It does point out that only a few hundred of the 2500 or so mosquito species out there are disease vectors—perhaps pinpointing those for eradication would be a compromise.

Time to get cracking on a vaccine. It’s only a matter of time and the southern US will only get more friendly to mosquito-borne diseases.

Someone else mentioned up above that the tech level in Star Wars has been stagnant for thousands of years. Any changes we see are always incremental. My theory is that the droids are the ones who design and build everything, and holograms were just their solution to human/organic communication needs. We’ve had video…

The thing is, all hologram projectors are made on a single world. Somehow, they are able to crank out super cheap, compact, power sipping, standards compliant projectors in volume that no one else can match. The ugly bastards kill anyone who lands on their planet, so industrial espionage has been problematic. But the…

Compression. You know how expensive it is to transmit across light years? Plus, in a galaxy swarming with bounty hunters and spies and rebels, I’m sure everything is heavily encrypted and perhaps that affects image quality kind of like how restraining bolts mess with your circuits.

My options include:

In a year he gets to do the most lucrative version of stand up there is. Public speaking engagements.

Humorless? Have you seen any of the White House correspondence dinners? The man missed a career as a stand up comedian.

My wife had Fox News on last night when she went to bed. The woman and her two guests repeatedly talked about how embarrassing it was and how these soldiers were forced to do things they didn’t want to do and that it was basically an act of war.

But imagine there was a system that locked everyones cruising speed on the highway to the speed limit. No more, no less, except when needed to change lanes, or in an emergency. Left lane is no longer the “fast lane”, because everyone is going the same speed. Left lane becomes through traffic, and the right lane…

Listening to Donald Trump speak is like rolling up on a bad car wreck... you know it’s gonna be horrible, but you have to check it out.

If a human can learn to deal with it, the software will be able to at some point as well. It’s only a matter of when not if.

Child victims of sexual molestation or rape may not appear to object, because they do not understand what is happening to them, and just go along with whatever the adult wants. That's not consent, that's waiting for things to be over.

“She was not necessarily all that unwilling, but at the age of 12 it doesn’t matter,” said Kelly.

I can say that I've smoked six paper joints by myself (Bioshock 2, Bioshock Infinite release days and my bday every year) that's two wide, three long. And never gotten sick, or paranoid. I've smoked tin can kush from BC, wax, done dabbers, and eaten it in various baked goods. I've done multiple BC honey oil blade…

LOL I feel really bad that I laughed so hard at this... cutting weed with other drugs?? Like what exactly? Since you clearly don't have any experience in this area, I'll ask: what would be smokeable at the same temperature and does not betray its presence immediately by sight or by taste? Another question: what would…

Oh please expand on cutting weed down with other drugs. I am dying to hear this.