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very much enjoyed catching up with this thread since my last post. here's a thing I found today on the microfilm projector in my local library.  sorry about the quality, I couldn't remember how to make xerox prints with the setup and the active librarian working there at the time had no idea how to run the machine at all 
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I was thinking it would be better if the ants were walking around the letters, but then I realized most of the letters don't have any circular parts at all. 
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I think it's absolutely perfect that way and am just waiting alnilam's confirmation to make sure it works out before I upload it. Also I showed it to my friend and also neighbor who is afraid of ants and he couldn't look at it for a long time, which is a good sign. Also he said it's nice, which is an even better sign. He continuously begs me to make sure that my ants never break out, which I always guarantee to him to at least 95%.
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Goons Are Great posted:Also I showed it to my friend and also neighbor who is afraid of ants You can ants if you want to But you'll leave your friend behind |
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Apr 4, 2019 02:23
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Goons Are Great posted:I think it's absolutely perfect that way and am just waiting alnilam's confirmation to make sure it works out before I upload it. Also I showed it to my friend and also neighbor who is afraid of ants and he couldn't look at it for a long time, which is a good sign. Also he said it's nice, which is an even better sign. lookin' good! essentially all credit belongs to luvcow who got the aesthetic exactly right, I just made it creepy crawlier |
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Apr 4, 2019 02:58
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Apr 4, 2019 02:59
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Mummy Napkin posted:how does one go about starting an ant farm? first ur gonna need two birds and two bees write this down |
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Apr 4, 2019 03:01
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Manifisto posted:lookin' good! essentially all credit belongs to luvcow who got the aesthetic exactly right, I just made it creepy crawlier I mean I say this a lot recently but it never was misplaced to say that you, luvcow and vanisher are brilliant byob artists and I love you all for it  Just waiting for mod magic to make the last move!
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opioid agonist posted:first ur gonna need two birds and two bees two each? ok slow down gotta jot this down |
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Apr 4, 2019 03:03
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Resting Lich Face posted:You can ants if you want to 
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Apr 4, 2019 03:04
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i queued the av change it won't happen until an admin clicks thru it though so meanwhile 
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Apr 4, 2019 03:05
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A stork is sometimes required as well
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pixaal posted:A stork is sometimes required as well Can I substitute cabbage for the stork? |
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Mummy Napkin posted:how does one go about starting an ant farm? plow a goodly sized field, sowing an ant every 12 to 14 inches water, fertilize, and weed as necessary harvest when approx 4 to 6 feet tall, or as they say "when the ants are as high as an elephant's eye"
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Mummy Napkin posted:how does one go about starting an ant farm? Well there is a lot of specific details and potential and variation, but basically you just have one spot where they live, another spot where they eat and drink and construct their junkyard and also their cemetery (they do all of this), then you get one pregnant queen (depending on the species this is tricky, but it always follows a pattern) and she will happily found her own family in a few week's time! Every species is different, but since Ants are biologically a family (Formicidae), there are also a huge number of various Genus around, that sometimes can heavily vary in what they do, eat, need and stuff. There are ants that hunt insects, some that farm fungi, some that keep their own pets, some that breed their own cattle, also some that are brutal parasites towards other animals, or even other ants! I can go in a full detail if you'd like, but it's quite a thing 
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Manifisto posted:plow a goodly sized field, sowing an ant every 12 to 14 inches When the ants are as high As an elephant's eye That's Formicidae! |
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Manifisto posted:plow a goodly sized field, sowing an ant every 12 to 14 inches
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alnilam posted:i queued the av change it won't happen until an admin clicks thru it though so meanwhile Thank you, you're a treasure 
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trying to start an alien ant farm, not sure where to come by alien ants tho
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alnilam posted:trying to start an alien ant farm, not sure where to come by alien ants tho Have you tried craigslist? |
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careful with that, they can take over the world quite fast, this happened on three planets already!!
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alnilam posted:trying to start an alien ant farm, not sure where to come by alien ants tho stick with me on this, it's not simple to understand. you have to make the two alien bees gently caress the two birds |
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Apr 4, 2019 03:20
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opioid agonist posted:stick with me on this, it's not simple to understand. you have to make the two alien bees gently caress the two birds my note page is full already
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alnilam posted:trying to start an alien ant farm, not sure where to come by alien ants tho Two can play this game We both want power In winter we can taste the pain
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Apr 4, 2019 04:16
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who was that old BYOB guy who did tons of meth
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we now it's me lol [Disclaimer: if my Avatar and name have not yet been changed to that of, uh, y'know that guy in old byob who did meth a lot, please contact the dictators of this board
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BoldFrankensteinMir posted:Wait, wait, hold up, I'm sorry but I'm still processing the octopus story. Your university had a BLUE RING octopus, like the kind from Australia that can kill in minutes and there's no antivenom, you just die? And you, in a course of study about animal toxins, were told a specimen was innate when it wasn't, go clean its enclosure? Lol - yeah made sure to tell everyone, didn't sue them cause university was poor and would take money away from legit research + figure really I should have just assumed it was dangerous anyway regardless of what I'd been told. Really that's the only way to deal with lethally venomous animals but I was very young and had yet to learn. But while it's true that there isn't an antivenom*, tetrodotoxin is weird in that so long as they keep your heart and lungs going for 16-24 hours then you recover with essentially no side effects. That and I was literally 2 minutes away from one of the biggest hospitals in the state. The speed of the venom, while rapid, is somewhat exaggerated and frankly by the time I'd felt the start of effects I'd still have had time to get into hospital and would likely have survived. As for the second question... yeah a lot of what was taught was wrong and sometimes we had teachers who had simply allowed their knowledge of the subject to become out of date. My personal all time favourite example of that was with an oceanography teacher who insisted that there was no life to be found below the photic zone (where light gets to). There were pictures of it in our text book  *Think they do have one that works but is still in development and hasn't seen full human testing. Also apparently reducing the core and especially brain temperature a couple of degrees neutralizes much of the effects I think I read somewhere a few years back.
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Goons Are Great posted:Oh no, does that mean you are drinking ants? Sorry man, but it does. But very few of them (maybe 10 in the whole bottle) are used to flavour the gin - they're a kind of weaver ant that have been used by indigenous Australian peoples* in cooking and medicine for thousands of years and the use of them in this kind of thing is helping keep large colonies alive and thriving by making them valuable enough that people don't just do the whole people thing and casually wipe them out. Sort of taste like a mixture of peppery and citrus flavours, a bit like lemon grass and black pepper but strangely different?  *they're also used in South East Asia too apparently from at least 400 AD according to wikipedia at least Anyways I salute the fallen ants who went into flavouring my drink - they were delicious - and in general though I'm very pro-ant; my housemates got annoyed with me a few times cause I won't let anyone get rid of the ones around the house or use pesticides. Also I'd love to hear anything you can tell us about ants - I've read a lot of E.O. Wilson and one of his students books over the last couple of years and am always interested to learn more 
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roomforthetuna posted:I was thinking it would be better if the ants were walking around the letters, but then I realized most of the letters don't have any circular parts at all. 
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Stoner Sloth posted:Sorry man, but it does. From a biological perspective it is very acceptable, partly even encouraged to thin out ant population of big, thriving colonies, so if their chitin and proteins can make a gin taste a bit weirder, that's acceptable. Also I'm quite sure one hungry bear kills more of them in a minute than gin production requires in a year.  In general it goes insects are friends, not food though!
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Also also speaking of food, my friend brought me a 9am breakfast cheeseburger and while that's probably the most American thing that ever happened to me, I am not sure how to eat that for breakfast.
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As a reluctant American, that sounds gross. U have my blessing to not eat it |
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Goons Are Great posted:Also also speaking of food, my friend brought me a 9am breakfast cheeseburger and while that's probably the most American thing that ever happened to me, I am not sure how to eat that for breakfast. As an "eat whatever you want for breakfast" American, that does not sound appealing. Sorry. |
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xcheopis posted:As an "eat whatever you want for breakfast" American, that does not sound appealing. Sorry. |
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I'm going to disagree here and say that I would love a breakfast cheeseburger. Unless it's one of those ones out of a vending machine |
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Farecoal posted:I'm going to disagree here and say that I would love a breakfast cheeseburger. Unless it's one of those ones out of a vending machine 
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