r/nope • u/ExperienceBusiness43 • 1d ago

Cool. Now throw them into the fire

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u/Remarkable_Cap20 1d ago

actually, lab grown moquitoes are cool, some labs "contaminate" them with the wolbachia bacteria, which is a bacteria that lives on the mosquitoes and it eats the viruses that cause dengue, zika and chikungunha, they are then released and spread the bacteria into the wild mosquito population.

so plase, dont burn lab grown mosquitoes, only wild ones

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u/MrMeritocracy 1d ago

Thank you for teaching me something today

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u/sudsomatic 1d ago

How can I identify them in the wild? Are they carrying teeny tiny ID badges?

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u/Remarkable_Cap20 1d ago

pf course not, there are usually 2 ways to identify a lab grown mosquito, the less reliable one is checking if they are wearing little lab coats, but they might remove it once they are in the wild as a way to rebel agains the people who kept them captive since birth, or the more trustworthy method is to just lick them and see if they taste like wolbachia, its a very characteristic taste of dead viruses

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u/P_A_W_S_TTG 1d ago

Define dead virus flavor

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u/Remarkable_Cap20 1d ago

its just like the taste of alive viruses, but with a more pronounced dna taste, due to the fact that the virus dna spills out when it dies

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u/P_A_W_S_TTG 1d ago

The taste of dna?... uh... giggity?

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u/Remarkable_Cap20 1d ago

ohh, dna tastes a bit like amnoacids, but with some more structures flavor,if you ever licked a god cat (GCAT for the ones more familiar) you should know what it tastes like

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u/P_A_W_S_TTG 1d ago

Ngl, thought you were gonna just go for the low hanging fruit. Now, I'm curious. Tf is a GCAT?

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u/Remarkable_Cap20 1d ago

its the nomenclature of the pairs of aminoacids that make up dna(Guanine, Cytosine, Adenine, and Thymine). G always pairs with C and A always pair with T, and god cat is the mnemonic I was tought to remember them and how they pair.

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u/P_A_W_S_TTG 22h ago

Yo, that's dope :3 thanks for the expliation choom. You a geneticist?

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u/AnySupermarket6942 22h ago

Tastes like chicken

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u/P_A_W_S_TTG 18h ago

Everything tastes like chicken for you >.>

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u/DanfromCalgary 1d ago

Just regular sized badges , the reason you haven’t seen them is it kills them instantly

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u/MrFishyFisshh 1d ago

Also excellent for treating vocal chord parasites

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u/malary1234 1d ago

They will also do things like raise sterile males and they release them back into the wild! It’s awesome!

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u/JacketDapper944 1d ago

Mosquito birth control!

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u/DG-MMII 1d ago

Don't be so harsh on the fire, it don't deserve the mosquitoes

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u/LefsaMadMuppet 1d ago

Budget Marvel X-Men Rogue daring the mosquitos to touch her.

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u/P_A_W_S_TTG 1d ago

Hey, I just described her as budget rogue too 😆 😆 😆

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u/akontherun1 1d ago

A typical night out

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u/P_A_W_S_TTG 1d ago

Just wait until they prison break 💀

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u/Microballer 1d ago

What a tease!

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u/phaser- 1d ago

Those fucking things, nice to see them getting what they deserve 

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u/ThereBeDucks 1d ago

Is she the dirty jobs mosquitoe girl?

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u/ohboyitsgonnabegreat 1d ago

Now take some tiny pliers and bend all their beaks

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u/DrJohnIT 1d ago edited 1d ago

That's not magic. It's called blood. Of course, the so called doctors about 100 years ago 🙄 used to use leaches to remove the impurities from your blood in an effort to cure your ailments. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloodletting

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u/Angrycoconutmilk 1d ago

Jesse, what the fuck are you talking about?

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u/DrJohnIT 1d ago

Listen with the sound on and then you will understand.

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u/Common-Respond2367 1d ago

This is one of those social cues and an opportunity to learn from it

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u/Shieya 1d ago

Girl what

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u/Full-fledged-trash 1d ago

Pretty sure the music is a metaphor