Mike Solana

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.

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.

yes. great opportunity to guide them larger faster smarter. Our next bio-weapon.

how does this make them larger, faster, or smarter? seems like the most prolific breeders (the most fit) would die out first???

i'm suggesting we use gene drive to insert new heritable characteristics to achieve that goal since we appear to have an ideal ecosystem to further develop the characteristics of Super snakes.

ohhhhh yes agree we should do that but also give them wings