05-16-2008, 10:59 AM
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Director of the HFBI
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Calgary
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Electronic Eating Ants invade Texas!
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/new...cle3941545.ece
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billions of tiny reddish-brown ants have arrived onshore from a cargo ship and are hell-bent on eating anything electronic. Computers, burglar alarm systems, gas and electricity meters, iPods, telephone exchanges – all are considered food by the flea-sized ants, for reasons that have left scientists baffled.
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part of me really hopes this is a joke. Seriously? Electronics eating insects? Sounds like the Replicators from Stargate SG-1.
*queue the ant overlord jokes*.
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05-16-2008, 11:01 AM
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Voted for Kodos
Join Date: Mar 2007
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Originally Posted by arsenal
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ask and you shall receive
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05-16-2008, 11:03 AM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Calgary, Alberta
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You know it's your time when...
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05-16-2008, 11:04 AM
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Director of the HFBI
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Calgary
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Seems like they don't actually "eat" the electronics, just short them out.
http://www.informationweek.com/news/...on=All+Stories
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05-16-2008, 11:10 AM
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Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Calgary
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And here I had visions of electronic, robotic ants invading Texas... 
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05-16-2008, 12:02 PM
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Originally Posted by Ironhorse
And here I had visions of electronic, robotic ants invading Texas... |
Add David Arquette (SP?) and you have the ,making of a classic piece of crap movie......
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05-16-2008, 07:09 PM
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So, this is legit?
Why didn't we hear about these ants before...like them eating the electronics in their own country....
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05-16-2008, 07:12 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: Calgary
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yeah it's legit, Crazy Rasberry ants i believe they are called and they hail from the caribbean.
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05-16-2008, 07:20 PM
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Had an idea!
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Nuke them.
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05-16-2008, 08:05 PM
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Ben
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: God's Country (aka Cape Breton Island)
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Originally Posted by Azure
Nuke them.
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can't nuke the ants, we're saving all the nukes for the whales
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05-16-2008, 08:17 PM
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Had an idea!
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I'm sure we have enough nukes.
Nuke them both.
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05-16-2008, 08:19 PM
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Not a casual user
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: A simple man leading a complicated life....
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05-16-2008, 08:49 PM
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The new goggles also do nothing.
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Calgary
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A bacteria recently evolved the ability to digest nylon, who knows maybe soon ants or some other thing will develop the ability to eat electronics.
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05-16-2008, 08:49 PM
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Powerplay Quarterback
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Mahogany, aka halfway to Lethbridge
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Originally Posted by chris lindberg
So, this is legit?
Why didn't we hear about these ants before...like them eating the electronics in their own country....
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Prolly cos' they don't have electronics in the countries where these come from...
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05-16-2008, 08:56 PM
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Director of the HFBI
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Calgary
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Originally Posted by onetwo_threefour
Prolly cos' they don't have electronics in the countries where these come from...
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or they ate them all before they could get the word out....
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