Tangent: Currently reading Deadliest Enemy [1] which I recommend. I'm firmly in favor of eradicating mosquitoes if we can find a safe means. Which I hope we do.

[1] https://books.google.com/books/about/Deadliest_Enemy.html?id...

> eradicating mosquitoes

Not all mosquitoes are bad. Only some are. We should only eliminate those.

consider that, if humanity had already carried through with the often discussed plan to eradicate mosquitoes, this knowledge of flight would probably never have been gained.

and i wonder what other knowledge will be lost once we finally get rid of these deadly little bastards.

Whatever that knowledge is, it's trivial compared to the 1M people a year killed by Malaria and other mosquito-causes disease.

we could have an island with only male mosquitoes

I supposed Elon will use this in the design of the next vehicle - https://qz.com/611677/elon-musk-is-thinking-about-building-a...