Interesting funfact: 1989 California medfly attack

[crash_davis 23158]

The internet is a fascinating place. Look at one picture in Reddit which then leads down a rabbit hole to discover some cool interesting history and facts.

Saw this pic on Reddit. It's of a plane and it's flight path (neon green). This plane flies the same route everyday @ 2000 ft.

 

Yesterday's flight path.

https://flightaware.com/live/flight/N65V

The below links are the reason for the plane and daily flight paths.

https://www.cdfa.ca.gov/plant/PDEP/treatment/notices/2019/SanBernardinoCounty/MedFly-NOT-DevoreSanBernardinoCounty2019-10-14.pdf

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_California_medfly_attack

 

TLDR: a plane flies everyday over LA releasing sterile fruit flies from 2,000ft in the air to combat the invasive Mediterranean Fruit Fly which became an infestation from a bioterrorist attack in 1989 by a group known ass the "The Breeders" as financial retaliation for the environmental damage caused by the state's Malathion aerial spraying; the group's members were never identified. Subsequently, three months after "The Breeders" announced the medfly release, the state ended its decade-long Malathion program and sought alternate ways to handle destructive insects.

30 years later, the state is still combating this bioterrorist attack.

Fascinating shit.

[Handcruser 2805]

Ok that’s pretty damn cool.

The story. Not the terrorism.


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[El Diablo 4232]

Damn, I'd forgotten all about the Medfly scare. Sure didn't realize it was still a real thing.

[crash_davis 23158]

This begs the question of how much shit goes on around the country that people have no idea about. Maybe the tinfoil hat people are onto something?

[Pato del Muerto 52879]

Good band. 
 

hmmmm

The Breeders are an American alternative rock band based in Dayton, Ohio, fronted by Kim Deal and her twin sister Kelley Deal. The band was first formed by Kim Deal and Tanya Donelly in 1989.

Edited November 14, 2019 by Pato del Muerto
1989!!!!!

[crash_davis 23158]

What if that plane wasn't releasing flies but instead releasing pheromones which make big ass women attractive to weak minded people. That can be the ONLY explanation for the Kardashians.

[El Diablo 4232]

1 minute ago, crash_davis said:

This begs the question of how much shit goes on around the country that people have no idea about. Maybe the tinfoil hat people are onto something?

Similar thought crossed my mind the other day. I don't recall now what started me thinking about it but it was along the lines of "I wonder what ever became of that news story?". Unsolved murders etc.. or even interesting inventions that were reported but never saw the light of day.

Gotdamn Medfly was a big deal at the time.

[crash_davis 23158]

There was an old story (20+ years ago) where a dude comes into an ER in New Mexico with some sort of injuries. Doc and nurses proceed to operate, cut him open and then the whole operating room passes out from some gas released from the dude's body from being cut open. Nothing was ever resolved or explained up on that story. That definitely has my interest.

Has to be alien.

[SuingToGetAMessageBoard? 3861]

more likely chipotle

[Gil Bang 26100]

Yeah, I had friends, husband and wife, and she was pregnant during the spraying.   The kid was born severely retarded.  They blame the pesticide, of course. 

[crash_davis 23158]

maybe the spraying saved the child from a worse fate.

[Pato del Muerto 52879]

[El Diablo 4232]

20 minutes ago, crash_davis said:

There was an old story (20+ years ago) where a dude comes into an ER in New Mexico with some sort of injuries. Doc and nurses proceed to operate, cut him open and then the whole operating room passes out from some gas released from the dude's body from being cut open. Nothing was ever resolved or explained up on that story. That definitely has my interest.

Has to be alien.

I remember that story too. Prolly someone in the OR had the chupacabra burrito for lunch but didn't want to admit to being the culprit.

[crash_davis 23158]

6 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:

yea but the kid would've been able to pull awesome wool.

[Incredulity 11689]

1 hour ago, crash_davis said:

The internet is a fascinating place. Look at one picture in Reddit which then leads down a rabbit hole to discover some cool interesting history and facts.

Saw this pic on Reddit. It's of a plane and it's flight path (neon green). This plane flies the same route everyday @ 2000 ft.

 

Yesterday's flight path.

https://flightaware.com/live/flight/N65V

The below links are the reason for the plane and daily flight paths.

https://www.cdfa.ca.gov/plant/PDEP/treatment/notices/2019/SanBernardinoCounty/MedFly-NOT-DevoreSanBernardinoCounty2019-10-14.pdf

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_California_medfly_attack

 

TLDR: a plane flies everyday over LA releasing sterile fruit flies from 2,000ft in the air to combat the invasive Mediterranean Fruit Fly which became an infestation from a bioterrorist attack in 1989 by a group known ass the "The Breeders" as financial retaliation for the environmental damage caused by the state's Malathion aerial spraying; the group's members were never identified. Subsequently, three months after "The Breeders" announced the medfly release, the state ended its decade-long Malathion program and sought alternate ways to handle destructive insects.

30 years later, the state is still combating this bioterrorist attack.

Fascinating shit.

That flight path isn't over San Bernardino County.

[Fuck Tim Beck 3855]

31 minutes ago, Gil Bang said:

Yeah, I had friends, husband and wife, and she was pregnant during the spraying.   The kid was born severely retarded.  They blame the pesticide, of course. 

What happened to the kid after he graduated from aggy?

[crash_davis 23158]

5 minutes ago, Fuck Tim Beck said:

What happened to the kid after he graduated from aggy?

hey now, let's not insult mentally challenged kids by comparing them to aggy.

[crash_davis 23158]

14 minutes ago, Incredulity said:

That flight path isn't over San Bernardino County.

Yea I am probably wrong about the same flight path everyday. From the below link, it flew a different path yesterday.

https://flightaware.com/live/flight/N65V

[Incredulity 11689]

1 minute ago, crash_davis said:

Yea I am probably wrong about the same flight path everyday. From the below link, it flew a different path yesterday.

https://flightaware.com/live/flight/N65V

I clicked back a few days.  None of those are San Bernardino.

[crash_davis 23158]

1 minute ago, Incredulity said:

I clicked back a few days.  None of those are San Bernardino.

I KNEW IT!!!

The assholes are releasing pheromones for the Kardashians!

[Gil Bang 26100]

18 minutes ago, Fuck Tim Beck said:

What happened to the kid after he graduated from aggy?

Sadly, she's too fucked up even for aggy.  "Charge Syndrome".   It's really bad.   I lost track of these folks several years ago (they divorced, each moved away, I divorced and moved, etc), but the girl was still in diapers at age 6 or so last time I saw her.  

[Incredulity 11689]

5 minutes ago, crash_davis said:

I KNEW IT!!!

The assholes are releasing pheromones for the Kardashians!

Umm...it's releasing aerosol'd AIDS virus to augment what the CIA is placing in vending machines in urban neighborhoods.  

 

Try to keep up. 

[DaysOff 8005]

There was an old story (20+ years ago) where a dude comes into an ER in New Mexico with some sort of injuries. Doc and nurses proceed to operate, cut him open and then the whole operating room passes out from some gas released from the dude's body from being cut open. Nothing was ever resolved or explained up on that story. That definitely has my interest.
Has to be alien.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Gloria_Ramirez#Exposure_to_methylamine

[crash_davis 23158]

17 minutes ago, DaysOff said:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Gloria_Ramirez#Exposure_to_methylamine

Livermore Labs postulated that Ramirez had been using dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO), a solvent used as a powerful degreaser, as a home remedy for pain. Users of this substance report that it has a garlic-like taste.^[2] Sold in gel form at hardware stores, it could also explain the greasy appearance of Ramirez's body.^[2][3] The Livermore scientists theorized that the DMSO in Ramirez's system might have built up owing to urinary blockage caused by her kidney failure.^[3] Oxygen administered by the paramedics would have combined with the DMSO to form dimethyl sulfone (DMSO₂). DMSO₂ is known to crystallize at room temperature, and crystals were observed in some of Ramirez's drawn blood.^[2] Electric shocks administered during emergency defibrillation could have then converted the DMSO₂ into dimethyl sulfate (DMSO₄), the highly toxic dimethyl ester of sulfuric acid, exposure to which could have caused some of the reported symptoms of the emergency department staff.^[4] The Livermore scientists postulated on The New Detectives that the change in temperature of the blood drawn, from the 98.6 °F (37 °C) of Ramirez' body to the 64 degrees Fahrenheit (18 °C) of the emergency department, may have contributed to its conversion from DMSO₂ into DMSO₄. This, however, has not been confirmed.

 

That's a shit load of coincidences but it's sounds more plausible than my hypothesis. Alien!

[Deej 77173]

Couldn't they just fly a "Med flies are not our standard" banner every day? 

[crash_davis 23158]

6 minutes ago, Deej said:

Couldn't they just fly a "Med flies are not our standard" banner every day? 

med flies are immigrants.  they don't read english good.

[El Diablo 4232]

So the lady with the Hispanic sounding name may have been slathered in degreaser? Not. Going. There.

[Pato del Muerto 52879]

42 minutes ago, El Diablo said:

So the lady with the Hispanic sounding name may have been slathered in degreaser? Not. Going. There.

That should solve one slur, but only exacerbate another. 

[El Diablo 4232]

58 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:

That should solve one slur, but only exacerbate another. 

Slippery slope?

[Sandman 3420]

6 hours ago, crash_davis said:

The internet is a fascinating place. Look at one picture in Reddit which then leads down a rabbit hole to discover some cool interesting history and facts.

Saw this pic on Reddit. It's of a plane and it's flight path (neon green). This plane flies the same route everyday @ 2000 ft.

 

This map is useless to me and my colorblind brethren.