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We went to the moon, but we'll never get rid of mosquitoes. How does this feat and this failure average into our rating as a species? Pretty much any form of matter can replicated out of the same material via 3d printing, yet we'll never see the end of millions flu deaths world wide each year. Honestly I don't know weather to be impressed or not. No matter how far man may try and stretch the boundaries of its dominion it will never conquer those smallest elements, those other organisms that always have the upper hand on us. No matter how many cans of consumer grade cans of pesticide we sell to people so that they can spray it into the stagnant air of their homes the roach population will always be on the rise, no matter how many traps we set there will always be rats openly defying our wishes for them to stay far away from or homes. Not a damn thing we can do about any of it.