• @lath
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    242 months ago

    Maybe i missed some words in the article, but I don’t see it say when they figured this out. Because it’s been at least a decade since I learned about it in school or from a science magazine at school.

    Have people been going around not knowing about this until now?

    Or is it that only now can they say with certainty this is true?

    • @[email protected]
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      162 months ago

      It was always my understanding that they detected carbon dioxide we exhaled. This is the first I’ve heard about infrared.

      • @SandLight
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        132 months ago

        When I worked for the county doing mosquito control about 15 years ago, I was told they did both.

      • @PlasticExistence
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        32 months ago

        “If it bleeds, I can use its proteins to reproduce!”

        Just doesn’t have the same ring to it.

    • @XeroxCool
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      42 months ago

      I don’t remember when I learned about it or how verifiable the source was, but I knew it too for at least a decade. I am a radiant, heavy-breathing, sweaty target. I have outclassed everyone I’ve ever met on the mosquito attraction scale. I’ve used loose longer clothes but thought it was just stopping their bites from reaching my skin. I didn’t think about how it could also be diffusing my thermal appearance since I’d still get bitten on exposed areas like face and hands.

    • HubertManne
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      32 months ago

      yeah I thought we (humanity) already knew this and for some time now.