Wednesday, September 13, 2006

experiment (introduction)

An anonymous gave the following comment on the post entitled ''vortex'':

i thought that the coil was to make smoke that discourages mosquitoes from coming near, not actually kill them

I partly agree with the comment. But I still think that the coil is an insecticide rather than a repellent. My reasoning is found in the reply to the comment (see the backnumber). To my best knowledge, however, no guidebook studies whether or not it actually kills mosquitoes. To protect you against misuse of mosquito coils, I decided to experimentally demonstrate its killing power.

The apparatuses in the photo are used in the experiment. The next post will report the methodological details.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

how do you always know it is me?

i have a cultural question. are you familiar with drift car racing, or "drifting"? apparently it is very popular in japan. tokyo, in fact. we in america know little about it.

cauchy said...

>how do you always know it is me?

'Cause you are...

Drift race is extremely dangerous. I think that more than two thirds of trafic deaths in Japan are involved in the drift race. You should not get interested in it. Believe me.