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OKIsItJustMe

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22. Years ago, I worked briefly with a mouse plague researcher

Reply to GliderGuider (Reply #21)

Thu Dec 4, 2014, 10:14 AM

Dec 2014

It was fascinating. I believe I’ve pointed to his research in the past.

In his experiments the die-off's occurred, even under controlled conditions, with no food shortage and no predation. The mice simply stopped breeding It appeared that at least part of it was simply cyclical.

He also found that if the alphas were removed from the colony prior to the cyclical collapse, a plague could be averted, for a time (as if the alphas led the collapse.)

I don’t think this is the same thing.

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Add the banning of monocrop industrial agriculture. GliderGuider Nov 2014 #4

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A number of schemes have been suggested, including GMO trees OKIsItJustMe Dec 2014 #10

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Which goes against every institution we've built The2ndWheel Dec 2014 #12

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Education alone works in limited cases, like Sub-Saharan Africa. GliderGuider Dec 2014 #13

Isn�t wealth also linked to education? OKIsItJustMe Dec 2014 #15

Wealth requires more than education GliderGuider Dec 2014 #16

Surely they are linked though OKIsItJustMe Dec 2014 #18

The UN is now projecting a world population of 11 billion by 2100 GliderGuider Dec 2014 #19

�Prediction is Difficult, Especially the Future� - Niels Bohr OKIsItJustMe Dec 2014 #20

That's true. OTOH, what we are seeing could be just a natural slowdown in reproduction GliderGuider Dec 2014 #21

Years ago, I worked briefly with a mouse plague researcher OKIsItJustMe Dec 2014 #22

Was that Calhoun, or someone else? GliderGuider Dec 2014 #23

(It was someone else) OKIsItJustMe Dec 2014 #24

On paper it would work, as OK said, FogerRox Dec 2014 #27

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Yup. FogerRox Dec 2014 #31

Fusion has always been 20 years away. Odin2005 Dec 2014 #25

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