I’m easily aroused amused. Find below a slow-motion snuff video that shows an unsuspecting mosquito being zapped by a laser beam.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYXPqrXZ1eU
It seems that the mosquito didn’t just wander into the path of the laser, it was being targeted. In 2007, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation tasked a company called Intellectual Ventures to think up new technologies to fight malaria. One of their creations was the Photonic Fence, a defense system that could identify a mosquito by how fast its wings are beating, and then shoot it out of the sky.
[via +Mike Breytenbach]
