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Cloud-based mosquito killer application

Choose a substance or pathogen that selectively kills the type of mosquitoes you want to kill and spray it into clouds using aircraft before they rain
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notexactly, Aug 18 2016

Mosquito not being squamshed into the ground by raindrop https://youtu.be/QaEyWBszYtw?t=41
..evil little buggers.. [not_morrison_rm, Aug 19 2016]

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       Magic time...
normzone, Aug 18 2016
  

       Napalm.   

       Mind you, not exactly selective. But it definitely does kill both mosquitoes and their larvae.
8th of 7, Aug 18 2016
  

       This is a great idea, except for the cloud/rain part. Mosquitoes generally don't fly in the rain, because a raindrop hitting a mosquito is similar to the contents of an olympic swimming pool hitting an Airbus. Not that the latter experiment has yet been done, of course.
MaxwellBuchanan, Aug 18 2016
  

       <ponders>   

       <checks current contents of liquid waste tanks in Cube>   

       <looks down hopefully, trying to spot an Airbus>
8th of 7, Aug 18 2016
  

       Would this work on Internet bugs in the "cloud" ?   

       " Here comes a spamadactile at 6 o clock ! "
popbottle, Aug 19 2016
  

       //because a raindrop hitting a mosquito is similar to the contents of an olympic swimming pool hitting an Airbus.   

       Sadly, mosquitoes have a very good technique at not getting squamshed by raindrops. See video etc
not_morrison_rm, Aug 19 2016
  

       I thought this was obvious, but the point is not for the rain to deliver the mosquitocide directly onto the mosquitoes while they're flying around. The point is for the rain to deliver the mosquitocide into the standing water in/near* which the mosquitoes lay their eggs. Rain delivery is the most effective way I can think of to poison all standing water in a given geographical area, and thereby deny the mosquitoes any places to reproduce.   

       *depending on species
notexactly, Aug 23 2016
  

       Aha. NOW it makes sense.
MaxwellBuchanan, Aug 23 2016
  

       (marked-for-tagline)   

       " I thought this was obvious, but the point is not "
normzone, Aug 23 2016
  

       Mosquitos cannot be defeated so we should find out what they are demanding and begin negotiating.
xenzag, Aug 23 2016
  

       Absolutely not. They can be defeated, and they will be defeated. After all, no-one's tried building a wall yet, have they ?
8th of 7, Aug 23 2016
  
      
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