Seriously?

"Scientists Build Anti-Mosquito Laser"
http://www.physorg.com/news156423566.html

"Astrophysicists from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory . . . have developed a handheld laser that can locate individual mosquitoes and kill them one by one.
The developers hope that the technology might be used to create a laser barrier around a house or village that could kill or blind the insects.
Alternatively, flying drones equipped with anti-mosquito lasers could track the insects with radar and then sweep the sky with the laser."

Okay, I get the idea of finding new & novel ways of eliminating mosquitoes, and by extension, malaria and other insect-born diseases, but tell me I'm not the only one who finds this idea borderline absurd.

"In experiments, the system could target mosquitoes with a flashlight, and then uses a zoom lens to feed the data to the computer, which fires at the insect. Each time the laser strikes a mosquito, the computer makes a gunshot sound. When the mosquito is hit, it bursts into flame and falls to the ground, and a thin plume of smoke rises."

Really?