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- TheGonzo, on 08/13/2008, -2/+158debugging has now come full circle
- zephc, on 05/16/2008, -1/+77Damn, Nature, you scary!
- duk0r, on 05/16/2008, -0/+63The article is inaccurate. They are not "eating" electronics. Thousands of ants are causing the electronics to simply short out.
Source: http://www.informationweek.com/news/hardware/deskt ... - dougmidkiff, on 05/16/2008, -7/+70Reason #8,161,786 why Houston sucks
- chuckDontSurf, on 05/16/2008, -0/+57Does the chalk work by trapping their souls?
- macwac, on 05/16/2008, -0/+56a diggers worst nightmare.. invasion of the computer eating ants!
- darkhero, on 05/16/2008, -6/+59Sorry Texas, put we have to nuke you and destroy these ants.
- dist0rtedwave, on 05/16/2008, -1/+54hey, theres these ants... doesn't sound terrible
they run around randomly... ok
they eat fire ants... great!
they are going to destroy all your electronics... eek!
they are spreading like wildfire... *sounds of asthmatic breathing*
THEY CAN"T BE KILLED... (muffled words due to paper bag over head) - theNazz, on 05/16/2008, -0/+37This particular type of ant is resistant to traditional ant killers plus these ants use their corpses as a bridge to get over areas that have ant killer put down. Nasty little *****.
- KingGorilla, on 05/16/2008, -0/+34I think this is a job for the internet anteater
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v349/kishiria/Fu ... - swrostmore, on 05/16/2008, -11/+42I for one etc
- CompIsMyRx, on 05/16/2008, -2/+32Perfect solution: flamethrower. Now I have the justification to buy/make one.
- Tomboys, on 05/16/2008, -1/+30This is insane. I don't know if this works for this crazy tech eating ant but there is a chalk you can get... I've bought it both in China town and at hardware stores... anyway you just draw the chalk in the path of the ants and they won't cross it. I used to get tons of ants in the summer but I started using this chalk like 8 years ago and haven't had an ant problem since.
- levitron, on 05/16/2008, -2/+29This was an episode of MacGuyver, no?
- thinman1189, on 05/16/2008, -1/+28I'm waiting for a flamethrower DIY to hit the front page. I seriously need one, my Zombie/Apocalypse kit doesn't cover this...
- Tanath, on 05/16/2008, -2/+28Damn, sounds like an escaped military experiment. :P
- brentfoor, on 05/16/2008, -1/+25The ants have become super intelligent from living in the computers I think they have been eating ram!
- rlray216, on 05/16/2008, -2/+22Crazy stuff this - like a Michael Crichton novel.
- headzoo, on 05/16/2008, -2/+21"Even killing the queen of a colony doesn’t do any good, because each colony has multiple queens."
I've never understood why ants/bees only have a single queen responsible for the survival of the hive. That doesn't seem like a very good evolutionary tactic. - 4degrees, on 05/16/2008, -1/+20Could this be an indicator of just how strong of a "force" evolution can be? For an organism to make its food source something that does not occur naturally? Create a huge abundance of a food source and life will find a way to eat it...
- zapatosdepatos, on 05/16/2008, -4/+23"the ants are now marching towards Nasa’s Johnson Space Centre"
***Discovery, this is Houston... we have a problem.*** - chuckDontSurf, on 05/16/2008, -3/+22"If you’ve seen a car racing, that’s how they are. They’re going fast, fast, fast. They’re crazy.” Uh, what?
- Smuikas, on 05/16/2008, -2/+20If we can contain them, they might provide a means for disposing of toxic computer waste.
- AlexanderZero, on 05/16/2008, -0/+17Holy *****, kill them all. KILL THEM ALL!
- thumperings, on 05/16/2008, -0/+15I had a few beers the other night, and got annoyed at a huge ant colony right out my front door up here in Vermont. I stepped on a ton of them. LIke at least 1000. The next morning all the corpses were stacked with military precision in this cool symmetrical pile. I wonder If while carrying said dead buddy ants, they go "ahh I remember this guy!"
- bwa236, on 05/16/2008, -0/+14even after the replies im not sure if you are joking or this "google" is real
- CaptainShaun, on 05/16/2008, -9/+22I guess that makes them electronic-resistANT(s)
- sweeneyowns, on 05/16/2008, -5/+18dude... lets just feed the ants some desktops running vista. they will blue screen in hours.
- bluedragon1981, on 05/16/2008, -2/+15Why don't they just migrate the little buggers to some landfills and just keep them under strict control. Wouldn't that help our electronic waste problems?
- veloscaper, on 05/16/2008, -0/+13No, the military version adds zombie ants.
- Hetman, on 05/16/2008, -0/+13Mother nature does not give a ***** about you. The only reason not to pollute is because in the long run it will have negative affects on humanity, The planet does not care either way. It is just a spinning ball of elements orbiting one of a trillion stars.
- daemonix, on 05/16/2008, -1/+13- Putting on tinfoil hat -
Genetically modified cyber warfare conspiracy! I knew it would happen! I told you all! - chuckDontSurf, on 05/16/2008, -0/+12You needed justification?? A flamethrower is the appropriate solution to many of life's problems.
- duffbluff, on 05/16/2008, -0/+12As an irresponsible citizen, it is my duty to disregard your warning and give one to all the children in the neighborhood.
- MEGACAMZ, on 05/16/2008, -8/+20All those comments and no mandatory
"OM NOM NOM NOM NUM NUM NOM UM NOM!"
haha - bossm4n, on 05/16/2008, -3/+15Why am I not surprised that comment came from some pudknocker in Dallas, the city that's all too familiar with sucking.
- cramd, on 05/16/2008, -0/+11These are not created by nature - this is a test of a new weapon!
- jct821, on 05/16/2008, -0/+9They can't be bargained with! They can't be reasoned with! They don't feel pity, or remorse or fear. And they absolutely will not stop, ever, until you are dead!
- PresRob, on 05/16/2008, -1/+9Any chance they are all heading towards Crawford?
- freezeout, on 05/16/2008, -0/+8Ladies and gentlemen, uh, we've just lost the picture, but what we've seen speaks for itself. Texas has apparently been taken over -- 'conquered' if you will -- by a master race of giant space ants. It's difficult to tell from this vantage point whether they will consume the rednecks or merely enslave them. One thing is for certain: there is no stopping them; the ants will soon be here. And I for one welcome our new insect overlords. I'd like to remind them that as a trusted TV personality, I can be helpful in rounding up others to toil in their underground sugar caves.
- sykotik, on 05/16/2008, -0/+8HAH! I pulled up the comments on this one just to look for that... Someone corrected me that it was the Simpsons episode with the ants, and finally, an article about ants!
Anyways, I live in Texas, this sucks. - Arlum, on 05/16/2008, -0/+8You shall not pass!
- ORBAT, on 05/16/2008, -0/+8Flamethrowers are like XML: if it doesn't solve the problem, just use more.
- twiztidsinz, on 05/16/2008, -0/+7See swrostmore's comment above: "I for one etc"
- obijohn, on 05/16/2008, -0/+7Houston (I live nearby, so I can say so) is like a giant fungus. A big, musty, stinky fungus that keeps spreading and swallowing nearby towns in it's path. That's about all I can say about that.
Oh, and it has ants. - ORBAT, on 05/16/2008, -0/+7Next up: millions of book-eating 'crazy Texans' invade Oklahoma.
- thanakar, on 05/16/2008, -0/+7it's there....reading comprehension..fail
- JinnRikki, on 05/16/2008, -9/+16Oh No!! Texans may be forced to read books!
- revjustin2, on 05/16/2008, -0/+7True. Evolution doesn't really have much of a concept of what is right or not. Also, things constantly evolve, so it's not like evolution just stops when something is "perfect".
- Kronos6948, on 05/16/2008, -0/+6Thank you for allaying my fears.
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