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- dolemite5005, on 10/12/2007, -69/+301"Idiot. This is serious. How do you feel about starving to death?"
I'm pretty sure my diet will be unaffected as honeybees have little to do with the production of Top Ramen. - pgoetz, on 10/12/2007, -35/+241"Good, now maybe I'll stop getting stung by bees in the summertime. That ***** hurts."
Idiot. This is serious. How do you feel about starving to death? - jake8689, on 10/12/2007, -31/+183Einstein said (at lest i think it's Einstein) "once the bees are gone we have fours years left on earth."
- Hallucinogirl, on 10/12/2007, -17/+159Goodbye and thanks for all the pollen!
- elnerdo, on 10/12/2007, -6/+137It's actually part of the viral marketing campaign for Halo 3.
- everfresh59, on 10/12/2007, -36/+134"If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe then man would only have four years of life left. No more bees, no more pollination, no more plants, no more animals, no more man."
Albert Einstein - caoimhinn, on 10/12/2007, -10/+93So long?
Just sayin. - implied, on 10/12/2007, -0/+81http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colony_Collapse_Disorder very interesting stuff.
- sonaboy, on 10/12/2007, -13/+90that's what the Repubs get when they close the border. all the worker bees can't get to our flowers.
- bmusic, on 10/12/2007, -3/+77The Einstein bee comment is most likely untrue.
http://www.snopes.com/quotes/einstein/bees.asp - doktorrocket, on 10/12/2007, -3/+77Relax, people.
The world's bees are currently relaxing on my giant pile of sugar.
I'll announce my demands shortly. - mutatron, on 10/12/2007, -3/+63It helps to read the article.
There have been other fluctuations in the number of honeybees, going back to the 1880s, where there were "mysterious disappearances without bodies just as we're seeing now, but never at this magnitude," Berenbaum said in a telephone interview. - alecks, on 10/12/2007, -5/+65Or earth poles are starting to shift, screwing with bees' navigation
- airwalkery2k, on 10/12/2007, -0/+55This feels like the beginning of any mother nature attacks movie where animal behaivor foreshadow the impending doom to be rained upon the Earth. (Like, giant hurricanes, sudden ice ages, Earth's cores not moving, ect.)
- Tyorant, on 10/12/2007, -23/+75Bees were never that tasty anyway.
- krebcycle, on 10/12/2007, -7/+56Like he said, aliens.
- insomniacal, on 10/12/2007, -4/+49The latter. (You're being facetious, yes?)
- Jordan117, on 10/12/2007, -4/+49Agreed. This calls for a rousing rendition of "So Long and Thanks for All the Pollen".
- Th3Chicken, on 10/12/2007, -4/+48
Probably they are just doing like the dolphins in the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy. - senorcool, on 10/12/2007, -10/+53So I am having trouble understanding this. Did billions of bees vanish and were found dead somewhere else? Or did billions of bees vanish and nobody has any idea where they went?
- OverThere, on 10/12/2007, -3/+46Oh, don't worry. The dolphins will regain the land and send us back out to sea someday.
I personally eat dolphin-unsafe tuna to help delay the inevitable. - oreomann33, on 10/12/2007, -5/+44At least it's not the dolphins.
- blackthorn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+35I feel a disturbance in the force, it's like billions of bees have cried out at once and been silenced.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -5/+36Cellphones Wiping Out Bees? 4,446 Views
In the US alone, the East Coast has recently lost 70% of its commercial bee population, with the West Coast not far behind those numbers. Apparently it's a result of Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD), when colonies essentially cease to be (no pun intended). From the Independent:
German research has long shown that bees' behaviour changes near power lines. Now a limited study at Landau University has found that bees refuse to return to their hives when mobile phones are placed nearby....Dr George Carlo, who headed a massive study by the US government and mobile phone industry of hazards from mobiles in the Nineties, said: "I am convinced the possibility is real."
http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/gadgets/cellphones-wiping-out-bees-252381.php
X-Files Bee Hives - EridanMan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+30@krosh08 and orlandorand
Except that mobile phone networks have been around for 20 years, and in fact, there has been no significant construction of new network capacity that in any way correlates with the recent losses over the past year.
AND, the 'evidence' you cite is a single study, using 1.9GHZ local wireless phones (the type you get to plug into your land-line at your house, not wide area cellular phones), whose results were marginal at best, and whose study authors openly admitted has absolutely no bearing on modern mobile phone networks.
But I'll shut up with that whole common-sense and logic thing and let you continue to dwell on irrational, sensationalist nonsense if you so desire. - CraigJ, on 10/12/2007, -2/+32In lieu of any scientific explanation it must be God, because everyone knows God is responsible for all things we can't explain.
- mrhaines, on 10/12/2007, -1/+31Yeah. this is a very serious problem. If bees do not properly polinate then we will lose a significant portion of our food supply. People are easily motivated to do something when their dinner plate is threatened ;).
I wonder if this will lead to a cell phone ban...that would be very interesting. - blackthorn, on 10/12/2007, -2/+31Maybe they are afraid of getting sued for pollinate monsanto's IP protected plants without paying the royalties.
- IMnotCIA, on 10/12/2007, -0/+25So let me get this straight:
1. Albert Einstein quote: "Mankind would last four years w/o bees"
2. Bees start to disappear, let's say they are all gone by the end of the year.
3. 2008 + 4 years w/o bees = 2012 Which is the end of the Mayan calendar...
Time to start stockpiling. I'd say buy stock in Costco, but what's the point. - OverThere, on 10/12/2007, -1/+26They apparently fly off and die somewhere else. In most cases there are no piles of dead bees next to the hives. Piles of dead bees next to the hives would be a sign of poisoning or some type of mite infestation that destroyed a colony.
They just don't know where they are going or why they don't return back to the hives. - Intrexed, on 10/12/2007, -1/+26I have a hive out in the field behind my house. I used to check them a week at a time. This previous summer I went out one week and they were doing fine, then I came back out the next week to check on them and they were ALL dead. I'd had the hive for five years...
- ICSU, on 10/12/2007, -2/+27In the USA? They just outsourced honey production to China.
- jonsimo, on 10/12/2007, -2/+25killing me won't bring back your goddamn honey!
- nick cage - CannedMango, on 10/12/2007, -0/+21I think what he's alluding to is that no one took the situation seriously as it was developing, and even now people don't seem to grasp the significance of why this is important. People think that bees are insignificant because they're small.
- FRANKeB, on 10/12/2007, -2/+23Monsanto Corporation. Look'em up. Friendly bunch of folks. The Death of Birth kids, Death of Birth. Now go make a rock band with that name to trvialize the real problem.
- cheebs, on 10/12/2007, -2/+22Bee Rapture.
- TheBlindGuy, on 10/12/2007, -7/+26Only one possible explanation... aliens.
- dognose, on 10/12/2007, -0/+18cellphones, powerlines and pesticides aren't new. This is. Maybe it's more of a global electromagnetic thing?
- DiggCommando, on 10/12/2007, -1/+19Sounds to me like it's time to put some really tiny radio collars on those bees and see where they are going!
- Sunsetter, on 10/12/2007, -1/+19"Worker bees can leave
Even drones can fly away
The queen is their slave" - trogdor282, on 10/12/2007, -0/+17On a side note, honeybees are an invasive species in North America. I've heard that the native bees (like bumblebees) are doing much better now that the honeybees are dieing off.
- Urusai, on 10/12/2007, -1/+17First you get the bees, then you get the honey, then you get the women...
...what? Huh? - Denver80203, on 10/12/2007, -5/+21"Also we will not starve to death. Bees don't pollinate major crops like wheat and corn, they only pollinate crops like fruit and some other tasty crops. Nothing we need, just foods we like."
Pardon me but how ***** close minded can you be? We're not the only species on the planet that depends on the food chain functioning properly and this will erode the ecosystem we depend on while you survive on corn flakes. - jun2san, on 10/12/2007, -1/+16Where could they bee?
- thcobbs, on 10/12/2007, -1/+16I'm thinking it's more like this...
Bee: "That's the LAST time I get cutoff on the Juniper Turnpike heading to work..... ***** it, I'm going home"
Bee 2: "Man, I got an idea.... Lets just get a bunch of weed and head to california... their cows are so happy there, we gotta have a shot!"
@Narrator
In the last two years, there's been a massive uptake of GSM phones that operate on some frequencies that might just cause havoc with bees. - diggmetohell, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15The bees go back to where the queen is. They know where she was when they left the hive, and thats where thay usually go back to. Bee handlers have been doing this for decades w/out a problem. It's part of their hive-mind. They have no idea where they were born or where they were a month ago, they only know where the queen is and that they're supposed to bring back nectar.
- sonaboy, on 10/12/2007, -4/+18@sultantravi
I think the best word for you is "buffoon."
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I think the best thing you can do today is crack open a dictionary and study the word "sarcasm."
It comes a bit after "buffoon" in case you need a little help. - insomniacal, on 10/12/2007, -2/+16I guess Stephen Falken's prediction in War Games was wrong: humanity will _not_ be superseded by the bees.
In fact, it looks as though we'll be going out basically together. - DoscoJones, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14The bees are likely not making it back to the hive and are dying alone. This is why no bodies are found at the hive. The big and very serious question is why is this happening, and how can we fix it before we start losing major sections of biosphere.
- mathieusteele, on 10/12/2007, -7/+20Its a conspiracy. The aliens stole them so they can pollinate the alien crops.
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