(10-31-2022, 09:10 AM)FaceInTheCrowd Wrote: Releasing something into the global environment that renders all female mosquitoes sterile and rids the entire world of them would be a stupidly bad approach. But if they did it by producing females that couldn't reproduce and releasing them in malaria epidemic zones it would reduce the population locally, but for only a single generation, the effect wouldn't spread and other females that could reproduce would eventually migrate in.
If it's the former, whose dumb idea is it?
The plan was to do this locally. However, the people in the proposed area completely nixed the idea. They were worried about the ecological effect this might have. It sounds terrific, but I see their point. All they have to do is look at history to see the ecological effects of a great idea. I myself wondered why they weren't taking a closer look at the cause of the malaria, which is the parasite.
(10-31-2022, 09:10 AM)FaceInTheCrowd Wrote: It is odd that our heroes didn't blink at all when Sargon told them that they had become so powerful that they started to think of themselves as gods. You would think that after Gary Mitchell and Khan Kirk would have had some reaction, even if it was just, "yeah, seen that already." Maybe an example of "reset button," the old practice of making TV episodes so they can be rerun out of order in syndication later on.
Wouldn't that have been classic? Instead of blathering on yet again about nuclear power, Kirk could have had a one up on Sargon by talking about those whom 'absolute power corrupts absolutely'.
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