Barry Wigmore in Daily Mail on Crazy Ants in Texas. They stuff hi-tech kit to death. High Frontier (Professor Gerard K O’Neill) and Space Colonies (Thomas J Heppenheimer) had the answer. Leave infested Earth. Build human habitats in vacuum. The Sub-Editor moron carelessly assumed we had a munching story and crafted a crud-line. Sack the idiot!
17h34-BST Saturday 17 May 2008-CE
Barry Wigmore reports in Daily Mail today about the Crazy Ants in Texas, cousin to a species in Columbia and no more than 3mm in length, who like to nest in computers and other electronic equipment because of the warmth. They grow to such numbers that they short out circuits, block filters, and bring moving parts to a halt. The sub-editor moron misreports munching in headline. Read the full story on dailymail.co.uk and see my comment next:
Crazy Ants are another issue which stresses the need for mindkind to leave Earth and dwell in cities on orbit (in cislunar space), Selene and Mars. With vacuum outside the habitat, you deal with infestation by mindless crawling vermin by evacuating humans (taking care to be clean) and then the air. This is one of the benefits described in ‘The High Frontier’ by Professor Gerard K O’Neill and ‘Space Colonies’ by Thomas J Heppenheimer, in the 1970s.
The headline on the page 3 piece was “Invasion of the computer-munching ants” yet Barry Wigmore specifically states that the Crazy Ants do NOT eat the wiring but, apparently, just like the heat, magnetic fields, or hum and vibrations. There is no reason why reporters cannot be trained in the skills required to write headlines and then do their own, ten times better than the morons who commonly cock the job up.
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