The aluminum anthill (impressive)

Kramodlog

Naked and living in a barrel

• Dec 13, 2013

• #1

Poring molted aluminum into an anthill.

[video=youtube;IGJ2jMZ-gaI]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGJ2jMZ-gaI[/video]

The result is fascinating.

Cruel?

 

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PigKnight

First Post

• Dec 13, 2013

• #2

It's not inhumane if it's done for science!

Or something like that.

 

Dannyalcatraz

Schmoderator

Staff member

Supporter

• Dec 13, 2013

• #3

Probably a quicker death than the poisons they usually get subjected to.

 

Kramodlog

Naked and living in a barrel

• Dec 13, 2013

• #4

PigKnight said:

It's not inhumane if it's done for science!

Or something like that.

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I'm pretty sure science is human and that ants are inhuman.

 

Kramodlog

Naked and living in a barrel

• Dec 13, 2013

• #5

The more I think about it, the more I think they should have spent more time on the cast than the poring.

Call me artistic

 

Mutant Lord

Explorer

• Dec 13, 2013

• #6

That's the coolest thing I've seen in awhile. Fire ants, I hates them.

 

Scott DeWar

Prof. Emeritus-Supernatural Events/Countermeasure

• Dec 14, 2013

• #7

I have seen this done with termite mounds. Those get to be like 8 to 10 feet long, but not as dense

 

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Olgar Shiverstone

Legend

• Dec 14, 2013

• #8

That's pretty cool.

And I have no sympathy for those fire ants whatsoever. That's one species whose extinction I won't mourn.

 

Kramodlog

Naked and living in a barrel

• Dec 14, 2013

• #9

Olgar Shiverstone said:

That's pretty cool.

And I have no sympathy for those fire ants whatsoever. That's one species whose extinction I won't mourn.

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So you like to destroy ecosystems?

Tell me how you like to squish frogs between rocks for "science".

 

Dannyalcatraz

Schmoderator

Staff member

Supporter

• Dec 14, 2013

• #10

So you like to destroy ecosystems?

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Well, in the USA, the fire ant is an invasive species, and has in and of itself horribly disrupted ecosystems.

There are even some areas in Florida where the land was devoid of anything except fire ants due to a mutant strain that had multiple queens & their colonies working semi-cooperatively as opposed to destroying each other.

So yeah, Americans aren't that keen on fire ant survival...at least in our neighborhood.