obsessed with florida’s invasive species crisis. let’s start with burmese pythons, which have obliterated the everglades: 99 percent of raccoons, 99 percent of opossums, 88 percent of bobcats gone. local rabbits and foxes apparently extinct. it’s time to introduce a gene drive.
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i want to be perfectly clear, here: we should genetically modify burmese pythons in such a manner as they only produce fertile males and sterile females, then release them into the everglades. crash the population. start thinking about lion fish.
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And accidentally triggered the mutation that allows them to grow legs become super giant and take over Florida We erect a giant wall on the Florida border And everyone pretends the state never existed
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Me too But if the place is filled with giant lizard snakes I'm out
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