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How Quickly Do Mosquitoes Spread?
Rihke: How quickly do mosquitoes spread? And the method he came to en how would you figure that out? Well, you can figure out how quickly a mosquito can fly. But because mosquitoes don't have a mission, because they just flit around randomly,. maybe this day they go this way, this day they went that way. In practice, how far are they likely to go? Not how far could they go, but how far were they likely to going? He made the problem probablistic and it was like a math problem in the end. It's one of the hings wher you fel hik, sometimes the world is ready for a certain idea. This
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