An nameless reader writes "In the Cold War the self-styled 'Star Wars defense system' draft using lasers to destroy incoming Soviet missiles. In a 2007 brainstorming session aimed at combating malaria, Dr. Lowell Wood, the prime mover of that system, projected law modifying his initial idea to kill mosquitoes. The cover of today's Wall Street Journal contains an article that highlights this initiative as well as a few others, like using a giant flashlight to disrupt mosquitoes' vision and using the insects to vaccinate, in the war against malaria. The system is intelligent enough to avoid noncombatants like humans and butterflies and can even tell the dissimilarity between females, the blood-drinkers, and males. My popular quote: 'We'd be pleased if we destabilize the human-mosquito balance of power.'"

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