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2005-03-22 -Short Attention Span Theater-
"I for one welcome our new Ant overlords..."
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Posted by mojo 2005-03-22 12:37:17 PM|| || Front Page|| [11128 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

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Posted by BigEd 2005-03-22 12:59:59 PM||   2005-03-22 12:59:59 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 I am sure that before this comes to pass, some Israeli would invent fierce nanoant warriors. Ant worker paradise does not stand a chance!
Posted by Sobiesky 2005-03-22 1:00:57 PM||   2005-03-22 1:00:57 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 In related global news, wishing you all a happy International Water Day! That will be 5¢ please, For The Children. And go take a look at Google's main page...
Posted by Seafarious  2005-03-22 1:15:44 PM||   2005-03-22 1:15:44 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 C’mon, some of the big leaf-cutter colonies cover acres, pal...
One super-colony of South American ants, with millions of nests and billions of individuals, stretches 6,000 kilometres around the Mediterranean and Atlantic coasts, researchers have found. Every ant in the colony treats every other as its nest-mate - even though they may be quite unrelated. The nests have buried their differences to create the largest cooperative unit ever discovered, say Laurent Keller of the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, and his colleagues1. "You can mix Spanish and Italian ants and there’s no aggression," says Keller. "We were extremely surprised to find this."
Posted by Steve  2005-03-22 1:33:23 PM||   2005-03-22 1:33:23 PM|| Front Page Top

#5  take a look at Google's main page

Silly me, I thought it was blue Easter Egg dye. Silly silly...
Posted by BigEd 2005-03-22 1:39:15 PM||   2005-03-22 1:39:15 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 So the dream is EU unity is really an Atta cephelotes conspiracy. Let's open up Giscard d'Estaing's cranium and see just what is really controlling his brain.
Posted by ed 2005-03-22 1:47:32 PM||   2005-03-22 1:47:32 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 ed - what brain?
Posted by Barbara Skolaut  2005-03-22 2:20:45 PM||   2005-03-22 2:20:45 PM|| Front Page Top

#8  warmer environments the ants’ body size shrinks, on average, while the number of individuals in the colony booms.

I can handle the little guys... but what happens during an ice age?
Posted by Shipman 2005-03-22 2:28:35 PM||   2005-03-22 2:28:35 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 starship troopers?
Posted by Frank G  2005-03-22 2:30:48 PM||   2005-03-22 2:30:48 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 "BUGS!..."
Posted by mojo  2005-03-22 2:34:57 PM||   2005-03-22 2:34:57 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 "You see a bug hole, YOU NUKE IT."
Posted by Steve  2005-03-22 3:27:28 PM||   2005-03-22 3:27:28 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 Hellstrom knew...
Posted by .com 2005-03-22 3:35:57 PM||   2005-03-22 3:35:57 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 I'm not worried. Due to global warming, the melting polar ice caps will just drown them.
Posted by tu3031 2005-03-22 3:38:14 PM||   2005-03-22 3:38:14 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 Ah, yes, Helstrom's Hive. Gave me the heebeejeebees. I read recently where fire ants are becomming a big problem in China. Hell, we've been battling them in South Alabama for a looooong time. Right Ship?
Posted by Deacon Blues  2005-03-22 3:41:39 PM||   2005-03-22 3:41:39 PM|| Front Page Top

#15 Indeed DeaconMan. Fire Ants are worser than blue bellies.
Posted by Shipman 2005-03-22 3:52:44 PM||   2005-03-22 3:52:44 PM|| Front Page Top

#16 Ya gotta admit, Ace is one handsome horse, a goober, but handsome. I have to be really careful when we're crossing a stream. He likes to lie down in it and roll over. Dang near drowned me oncet.
Posted by Deacon Blues  2005-03-22 4:20:40 PM||   2005-03-22 4:20:40 PM|| Front Page Top

#17 
It's said now that people will be shorter in height,
they can fit twice as many in the same building site.
Posted by Mitch H.  2005-03-22 5:18:49 PM|| [http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/]  2005-03-22 5:18:49 PM|| Front Page Top

#18 Rantburg Classic™?
Posted by Korora  2005-03-22 6:02:02 PM|| [http://basementburrow.blogspot.com]  2005-03-22 6:02:02 PM|| Front Page Top

#19 Deacon, we need a picture of Ace. I gotta see what all the fuss is about...
Posted by Seafarious  2005-03-22 6:10:21 PM||   2005-03-22 6:10:21 PM|| Front Page Top

#20 Check the link Em, that's Db and Ace.
Posted by Shipman 2005-03-22 6:48:31 PM||   2005-03-22 6:48:31 PM|| Front Page Top

#21 yikes twoer Db now. That's DecaonMan and Ace.
Posted by Shipman 2005-03-22 6:49:16 PM||   2005-03-22 6:49:16 PM|| Front Page Top

#22 Yep, that's the infamous "cross-dressing" picture. My great-great-great grandpappy probably turned over in his grave, he being in the 4th Alabama and all.
Posted by Deacon Blues  2005-03-22 9:08:08 PM||   2005-03-22 9:08:08 PM|| Front Page Top

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