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Giant Spider Web
Stochastic_Elastic writes "According to an article at CBC, a biology professor in northern British Columbia has discovered a giant spider web stretching 60 acres across a field. Here is a quote: "Some people have said, 'oh yes, well it's a trampoline for aliens,'" Thair joked. "Or maybe it was an effort collectively by these spiders to try and catch a sheep.""
this was build by Dr. Evil as a prototype for an even larger one, and he will call it
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Hahaha ahahahah hahahahaha.
Free as in mason.
millions of them, but off course, like in any good horror movie they don't know yet about the giant spider that's really causing all this :)
True warriors use the Klingon Google
Even were it only a handful of species, it's the equivalent of a trigger that causes ALL primates to engage in the same activity.
You mean a trigger such as posting a story on Slashdot, causing thousands of users to flock to a single web site?
Karma: Basking in the warm afterglow of post-coital whoring.
I'll agree that the use of pheremones has military applications, but I don't see it happening. Maybe it's 'cause I'm just too cynical, or I don't have the mind set of Oliver Stone, or it's because I live in Canada.
I also think that if the military (I'm assuming you're talking US military) is taking an interest in it (which I doubt), it's not, as you say, an OBSCENE interest. If the DoD develops (at a great expense) some kind of pheremonal weapon, then
1) It will be branded as a cruel and unusual weapon by the general public.
2) It will be easy for terrorists to steal and use. (can't have that!)
And at the risk of sounding humourous, the thought of a testing accident that would affect civilians bring chills to my spine and a tent to my trousers. Now there's a business plan...
1) Create pheromone that induces copulation
2) ????
3) Hell, who cares about profit!!!
They're trying to catch one of those butterfly dudes from those damn MSN ads.
"Sic Semper Tyrannosaurus Rex."