Moore's Ants

Makarand writes "We all know Moore's Law that predicts the future power of computer chips. He now has an ant named after him. A Harvard biologist named several species of ants that he recently found after people who have supported conservation. One species got Gordon Moore's name."

Comments

Sooo...

[Theodore Logan]

In twenty years they will be about 4000 times as powerful as today? Ants can already lift 20 times their own bodyweight, so this is gonna get nasty. I don't know about you, but I welcome our new Insect Overlords!

... because realizing that Moores law applies to ant strength was the reason they named it after him, right? Right?

Now let's just hope nobody reads the article as usual.

Spot the difference

[Trusty Penfold]

Moore I
Moore II

(Yes, I know the ant isn't Pheidole Moorium, but it is a Pheidole)

Slightly Odd

[certron]

The quote at the bottom of the page was this:

The sooner all the animals are extinct, the sooner we'll find their money. - Ed Bluestone

So much for conservation. :-)

Somehow I don't think we'll get a species named after Slashdot, even though the swarming behaviours are quite similar to a site being hammered until it goes down. :-D

Re:Auction

[R.Caley]

People should auction off the right to the name for plants and animamls[...]want to spend money to protect it.

Tie IPR to endangered species. You get to keep your patent/trademark/copyright as long as a totem species survives. The more valuable the IPR, the more species an/or the harder to keep alive the species.

Sorry Bill, the lesser fringed marshmallow newt is extinct, looks like the NT kernel is now public domain.