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Bark Beetles Hate Rush Limbaugh and Heavy Metal

Posted by samzenpus on from the tiniest-minds dept.

Aryabhata writes "According to scientists, climate change and human activity have allowed bark beetle populations to soar. They decided to fight the beetles by using the 'nastiest, most offensive sounds' that they could think of. These sounds included recordings of Guns & Roses, Queen, Rush Limbaugh and manipulated versions of the insects' own sounds. The research project titled 'Beetle Mania' has concluded that acoustic stress can disrupt their feeding and even cause the beetles to kill each other."

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  1. Pitiful. by fuzzyfuzzyfungus · · Score: 5, Insightful

    They wanted "the nastiest and most offensive" and they picked Guns & Roses and Queen?"

    Clearly they fail at knowing anything about actual metal.

  2. +5 Flamebait by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I wonder if this article would have made it to the front page of ./ if it hadn't provided an opportunity for certain folks to get a political jab in again at the "evil republicans".

    1. Re:+5 Flamebait by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

      I wonder if this article would have made it to the front page of ./ if it hadn't provided an opportunity for certain folks to get a political jab in again at the "evil republicans".

      Ah, yes. Republicans. Nature's eternal victims.

    2. Re:+5 Flamebait by Rei · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Well, look at all of the powerful people conspiring to take away the rights of Republicans:

        * Illegal immigrants
        * Gays
        * The poor
        * African-Americans
        * Environmentalists
        * College professors
        * Peaceniks
        * Atheists
        * Potheads

      How do you stand up against such massive, organized forces when all you have on your side is caucasians, the wealthy, and evangelicals? It's no surprise that Republicans are so oppressed.

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  3. Hmm by zippthorne · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Seems like they only tried "rush," "heavy metal," and manipulated beatle noises, and rush and heavy metal came out *below* beatle noises.

    They did not try white noise, other radio commentators (Al Franken, perhaps), other genres of music, or even other animals. Also unmentioned is whether they tried silence.

    I think a more appropriate title would be "Biologists manage to get paid for amazingly inadequate experiment, while making jabs at completely unrelated fields they really don't know much about."

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  4. if they want to kill beatles with bad music... by Moheeheeko · · Score: 3, Insightful

    ...go play them some ICP, that stuff makes me want to kill MYSELF.