Comments on: NASA IT battling swarming ants

By: Lou

Lou — Sat, 17 May 2008 06:48:09 +0000

Terrorist ants, better call Homeland security.
You ants are with us or against us.

By: MikeN

MikeN — Sat, 17 May 2008 01:59:41 +0000

Call in McGyver

By: Delicate Swiss Skin

Delicate Swiss Skin — Sat, 17 May 2008 00:57:03 +0000

Yipes – never mind my computer equipment
I would not want to get those caustic ants on my delicate swiss skin
Finally a good reason for a laptop
You can take it away with you when you finish working on the laptop and not have to leave your computer ( and precious data) at the mercy of those irritating insects

By: BryanP

BryanP — Fri, 16 May 2008 22:54:15 +0000

These illegal alien ants are just eating the electronics that American ants won’t.

By: John Paradox

John Paradox — Fri, 16 May 2008 20:12:07 +0000

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047573/

J/P=?

By: green

green — Fri, 16 May 2008 19:56:03 +0000

sugar and borox people. SUGAR AND BOROX

By: JustSomeGuy

JustSomeGuy — Fri, 16 May 2008 19:26:42 +0000

I actually live in Pearland and have several friends who work out at JSC. A couple of nights ago the local news had a “The worlds gonna end because of x” piece about invading ants and then there’s this article.

Normally I wouldn’t think anything about stories like this and would write them off as sensationalist journalism but one of my buddies has mentioned something about ant issues over there so it’s starting to sound like #6 Mike might have the right idea (love that line BTW).

By: JustSomeGuy

JustSomeGuy — Fri, 16 May 2008 19:25:35 +0000

Normally I wouldn’t think anything about stories like this and would write them off as sensationalist journalism but one of my buddies has mentioned something about ant issues up there so it’s starting to sound like #6 Mike might have the right idea (love that line BTW).

By: Ascii King

Ascii King — Fri, 16 May 2008 19:17:36 +0000

And this will be how our society is brought down. Ants eatin’ the machines. Can we even feed ourselves without machines?

By: Mark Derail

Mark Derail — Fri, 16 May 2008 19:11:57 +0000

#7 L-O-L you still seeing ads?

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By: Mbowman

Mbowman — Fri, 16 May 2008 19:05:07 +0000

Scary.If we could only train them to take out those pesky Snakehead fish then we’d really have something.

btw John, did you realize that ads for Ann Coultier are appearing on your site? Blech.

By: Mike in Fort Worth

Mike in Fort Worth — Fri, 16 May 2008 18:58:23 +0000

And I for one welcome our new insect overlords.

By: The Warden

The Warden — Fri, 16 May 2008 18:47:25 +0000

Eco terrorism at it’s finest. Ants to bring down the intertubes!

By: JimD

JimD — Fri, 16 May 2008 18:40:28 +0000

Talk about having a “Buggy” System !!! Although, the first recorded actual bug was a moth …. Quck, Henry, the Flit !!!

By: Mark Derail

Mark Derail — Fri, 16 May 2008 18:18:32 +0000

FTA
Gold warned people not to spray any pesticides inside their computers, but to simply call in professionals to avoid mixing up poisonous concoctions or storing partly used, potentially harmful insecticides.

Talk about good IT advice from a non-IT professional. I think RAID should team up with McAfee !