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Parasites That Can Control Insect Minds
Ant writes to tell us that NewScientist is running an article about an interesting parasite that apparently has the power to 'brainwash' its host. From the article: "The parasitic Nematomorph hairworm (Spinochordodes tellinii) develops inside land-dwelling grasshoppers and crickets until the time comes for the worm to transform into an aquatic adult. Somehow mature hairworms brainwash their hosts into behaving in way they never usually would - causing them to seek out and plunge into water."
eeewwwww yuk!
Maybe that is what is wrong with my head.
This could explain George W. Bush...
Fortunately, those parasites are only found on Seti Alpha V.
Sorry couldn't help it.
An "interested observer", was asked to comment on the ramifications of the mind-controlling insects. The observer simply looked at the reporter and said, "KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!"
Behold the evolution of the Goa'uld!
VERY scary, very science fiction. What if this happened to people, but the behavior was at least passable, until it was 'too late'?
I believe it already occurs. People produce spores called 'children'. We are brainwashed into sending them to 'learning centers' where they exchange germs and transport them back home. This also explains why they have trouble preventing various mucous-like substances from escaping their body.Know what I like about atheists? I've yet to meet one that believes God is on their side.
branwashing? is this committed by a cereal killer?
If this isn't a sign of intelligent design behind live the universe and everything, what is? ;)
Finally, a logical explanation on why so many people voted for George Bush.
crotchfruit parasites control human hosts by various brain chemicals. For example, the sight of a smiling infant crotchfruit parasite will cause the brain of the human adult host to secrete beta endorphins, an opiate analog,
Also, the appearance of crotchfruit in a mating pair of adult human hosts will cause the parents to work harder and faster. The female adult human host's brain become more efficient. The male host becomes a harder worker and will seek to prove himself a "good father" for the crotchfruit parasites.
The exact nature of the mix of brain chemicals that are manipulated by the crotchfruit is yet unknown. Furthermore, the human adult society seems to avoid any knowledge of how the crotchfruit biologically manipulate the human hosts. Alas, the human animal, althoough possessed of a potentially powerful rational facility, is unable to apply these rational faculties in certain "taboo areas" (e.g., the birth-life-death cycle, etc).
eat shiat and bark at the moon
Oh my gosh, you're right! We'd all start floating upwards!
My Greatest Heist - Muisc partly inspired by the unbeatable Qwantz
1) Find grasshoppers and/or crickets randomly plunging to their watery graves.
2) Show some friends and explain why they're doing it. Bet them money when they don't believe it.
3) Show them the newscientist article on this.
4) Profit!!!!!!
I suppose if it made you more passive, it would be called Toxoplasma gondhi.
Thankyouverymuch.
What?
http://www.khaaan.com/
Or it will torment the cat using various tricks, tripwires, and other items. In rare cases, it will even involve other members of its genus (i.e. "country cousins"). Cf. "Anvils and ironing boards in the rodent-cat dialectic", authors Tom and Jerry.
In rare cases, the cat becomes immune to death, so that the rodent can torture it indefinitely (e.g. "Amateur surgery at Mouse Hospital" by Dr. Itchy).