Exactly, right now there's an alien out there thinking: man, if they would just put down the glowing rectangular-box-toys and start projecting their thoughts with the accompanying emotion-signifying-odors, we could be having a great conversation!

Chimps speak, we just don't care enough about termite mounds or poo-throwing techniques to pay much attention.

>> ^A-Pex:

To the guy who says he doesn't buy into the whole thing, deathcow or whatever... That if apes had a better communication system we'd have been communicating with them blah blah... You missed the whole point of the video; its this lack of skill that we have in anything that would be so amazing to a more developed race. The superiority complex that hes talking about is perfectly explained by your comment.

So right at the end they mention the cops say they didn't break down the door? So what did that termites?

>> ^grinter:

It's not the strongest argument, but, for the sake of continuity, consider what the reaction of Sift omnivores would be if they were forced to slaughter their own meat. Even those claiming they feel no moral imperative to respect the suffering of other animals might wince just a bit as that calf calls for it's mother in its last moments of consciousness.


I'm sure at least a few sifters are also hunters or at the very least, anglers. Personally, I've never killed a farm animal, but I have caught and killed fish. I am morally comfortable with killing for food. Hell I'm comfortable with killing for a lot less than that and so are most people, including vegans. Or are they happy to live in a cockroach infested apartment or a termite/woodworm riddled house?

>> ^bareboards2:

quality
Amazing way to collect information. Amazing application of information collected. Not to be missed!


Thanks.

Generally it is taught that God brought all the animals to Noah. Noah didn't have to go and find them all.
The author of the book seems to have it wrong from what I recall of the story. I don't remember the rainbow being around before the flood, but was a new sign after the flood only...
Ricky probably should have pointed out that the bible says that some were more than just a pair of each, so we end up with far more than 10 million animals on it. He started to touch on some of it, the food issue. You now need enough food for those animals and the people for 1 year... of course this is normally passed on using magic, much like the space issue... I liked mgittle's point of plants as well.
Also, that 5 million figure can't include all the insects now can it? I would think if we toss in all the insects we would have to have far more, there are more than 450,000 species of beetles alone before we toss in the 4,000 termite species, 22,000 species of ants, 40,000 spiders...
I wonder how Christians pick and choose which stories to pass of as parables or morality tales and which to take as full of truth? Why believe Noah's flood and the Earth was made 6,000 years ago but not, with a few notable exceptions, believe the Earth is the center of the universe though the Bible says it is, but they pass that off an allegory or something like that.

>> ^mgittle:

I'd like to see the explanation of how species made it to other continents if Noah let all the animals off the ark in the same place.
Also, there is no mention of plants. I guess they can't drown.

>> ^thinker247:

You're a credit to your kind.
>> ^smooman:
[...] sucked termite ass. [...] blew chowder. [...] shit-tastic movies.
[...] with m night shit [...] turd filled [...] dropped a steaming deuce [...]
[...] crap movies, [...] more crap movies.



the "pretentious, potty-mouthed, amateur movie critic" kind? you caught me!

You're a credit to your kind.
>> ^smooman:

[...] sucked termite ass. [...] blew chowder. [...] shit-tastic movies.
[...] with m night shit [...] turd filled [...] dropped a steaming deuce [...]
[...] crap movies, [...] more crap movies.

and stop with the "sixth sense and unbreakable were great, they sucked after that" garbage. sixth sense sucked termite ass. it was a cool premise and a great movie........then the movie started being about bruce willis and it blew chowder. if you didnt figure the plot of the movie halfway through then you enjoy shit-tastic movies.

and unbreakable. again, it started being cool.....then about 30 minutes into the movie the story, characters, and pretty much everything else get thrown into a blender along with m night shit and bam, theres yer second act. then the turd filled second act dropped a steaming deuce and bam, theres your third act.

both crap movies, that just steamrolled into more crap movies.

I have seen a few black widows running around by garage.

Luckily I have several Pholcidae (Cellar Spiders) that live in my garage.

I usually leave the black widows alone for about a week or two, in hopes that the Pholcidae will prey on them. Pholcidae are natural predators of the Latrodectus family of spiders.

You might ask how do I know that the spiders are Pholcidae? That's easy. The females carry the eggsac near their heads. Both female and male Pholcidae will vibrate their webs in effort to scare away predators. You can try this in your garage, if you live in a habitat where Pholcidae are common. Gently touch the web with a pencil or stick and watch for the defensive tactic.

The spider in the video above is definetly a Lycosidae(Wolf Spider), and not a Zoridae(Relative of Wolf Spider).




Also note that the videos seem to make the spiders appear larger than they are. For example the Pholcidae seems to be extremely large in this video. When in reality it is not but the size of the first two segments of an average index finger which is about an inch and a half.

http://forums.canadiancontent.net/science-environment/77006-female-spiders-eat-small-males.html

Wolf spiders can and will bite humans if provoked. They can get to be 30 millimetres in length, about 1 inch. The female wolf spider does eat the male wolf spider after mating which is not uncommon in the Araneae order.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolf_spider

http://www.termite.com/spider-identification.html

I endeavor to know my enemy, and how to use their natural predators against them. Also Bugs are a hobby of mine.

>> ^residue:
How the hell did they find a single termite at 19000 feet??


Hit the windshield of the shuttle on it's way down.

How the hell did they find a single termite at 19000 feet??

Ohhhhhhh! Ayiieeya! Please to read instrumentation on termite placement diagram!!

Somehow... annoying an animal that routinely demolishes the concrete-like towers of plains termites with it's bare claws doesn't seem like a good idea.

Termites will bring down a building sure as a wrecking ball.

(that's my own turn of phrase, copyright 2009 Budzos).

Wait, I didn';t know we had a bee! Yay for social insects. Now, we need wasps and termites.