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Harun Yahya
A Solution to Traffic Problems from Locusts!
Auto accidents cost millions of lives every year. In its search for a so-
lution, the scientific world now believes that locusts might offer just such
a remedy. Even though locusts travel in swarms of millions, research has
shown that they never collide with one another. The answer to how lo-
custs avoid doing so led to the opening of a whole new scientific horizon.
Experiments determined that locusts send out an electronic signal to
any body approaching them to identify that body’s location, and then
change direction accordingly. 80
Inventors are now trying to im-
plement the method locusts em-
ploy in order to resolve a prob-
lem that has remained in-
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