[rescue] SGI Challenge Resurection (was : More Indigo Problems)

[Brian Dunbar]

On Jul 26, 2004, at 11:20 AM, velociraptor wrote:

> On Sun, 25 Jul 2004 18:24:22 -0400, Phil Stracchino
> <alaric at caerllewys.net> wrote:
>> On Sun, Jul 25, 2004 at 05:13:52PM -0500, Bill Bradford wrote:
>>> On Sun, Jul 25, 2004 at 05:28:25PM -0400, Ethan O'Toole wrote:
>>>> Late night last night. Crazy laser pictures though! Argon system 
>>>> doing
>>>> multiple watts in a business park.
>>>
>>> Why did the first thing that came to mind have to be "radar-tracking 
>>> bug
>>> zapper"...
>>
>> I've had a Partly Baked Idea in my head for an anti-mosquito air 
>> defense
>> system using acoustic tracking and a nice beefy semiconductor laser.  
>> It
>> can't take that much energy to flash-cook a mosquito.
>>
>> "weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeZAP!"   [tiny smoke trail]
>>
> Not as fun, but available today:
>
> <http://www.mosquitomagnet.com/>
> <http://www.mosquitotraps.com/productinfo.html>

I've found that for flying pest eradication, the combination of a not 
quite adult cat plus a German Shepherd puppy is, while not so effective 
in reducing the total pest count, very effective on a per-unit basis, 
and  entertaining.

~brian