<![CDATA[Grist - Comment Feed for A locust swarm worries Chinese officials ahead of Olympics]]> Grist Comment Feed en Comment #1 by amazingdrx http://www.grist.org/article/olympic-trials-the-locusts-of-control/ Fri, 04 Jul 2008 16:50:09 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/olympic-trials-the-locusts-of-control/1 Get those heathens jebus!

That'll larn them devils.  Too bad falwell can't be around to enjoy this.  Or do they have basic cable down there?  Hehey.

http://amazngdrx.blogharbor.com/blog John Schneider, Northern Wisconsin

]]> Get those heathens jebus!

That'll larn them devils.  Too bad falwell can't be around to enjoy this.  Or do they have basic cable down there?  Hehey.

http://amazngdrx.blogharbor.com/blog John Schneider, Northern Wisconsin

]]> Comment #2 by Delay And Deny http://www.grist.org/article/olympic-trials-the-locusts-of-control/ Fri, 04 Jul 2008 17:59:30 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/olympic-trials-the-locusts-of-control/2 So It Is Written...So It Shall Be Done!

Looks like swarming locusts are self-eliminating:

http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S21/02/63A06/

Since ancient times, locust plagues have been viewed as one of the most spectacular events in nature. In seemingly spontaneous fashion, as many as 10 billion critters can suddenly swarm the air and carpet the ground, blazing destructive paths that bring starvation and economic ruin.

What makes them do it?

A team of scientists led by Iain Couzin of Princeton University and including colleagues at the University of Oxford and the University of Sydney believes it may finally have an answer to this enduring mystery.

"Cannibalism," said Couzin, an assistant professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at Princeton.

]]> So It Is Written...So It Shall Be Done!

Looks like swarming locusts are self-eliminating:

http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S21/02/63A06/

Since ancient times, locust plagues have been viewed as one of the most spectacular events in nature. In seemingly spontaneous fashion, as many as 10 billion critters can suddenly swarm the air and carpet the ground, blazing destructive paths that bring starvation and economic ruin.

What makes them do it?

A team of scientists led by Iain Couzin of Princeton University and including colleagues at the University of Oxford and the University of Sydney believes it may finally have an answer to this enduring mystery.

"Cannibalism," said Couzin, an assistant professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at Princeton.

]]> Comment #3 by Wolverine http://www.grist.org/article/olympic-trials-the-locusts-of-control/ Sat, 05 Jul 2008 03:46:42 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/olympic-trials-the-locusts-of-control/3 Locust Swarms Due To Agriculture?

Just asking.

In case anyone hasn't noticed, the host country of the Olympics, always cause serious environmental and ecological harms just to hold the event.  The idea -- bringing people from different cultures together to play games and hopefully create a friendly atmosphere between the cultures -- is a noble one, but the motorized travel and nationalistic formats combined with the environmental and ecological destruction caused by the modern Olympics mean that this is just another activity whose time has long past.

]]> Locust Swarms Due To Agriculture?

Just asking.

In case anyone hasn't noticed, the host country of the Olympics, always cause serious environmental and ecological harms just to hold the event.  The idea -- bringing people from different cultures together to play games and hopefully create a friendly atmosphere between the cultures -- is a noble one, but the motorized travel and nationalistic formats combined with the environmental and ecological destruction caused by the modern Olympics mean that this is just another activity whose time has long past.

]]> Comment #4 by caniscandida http://www.grist.org/article/olympic-trials-the-locusts-of-control/ Sun, 06 Jul 2008 06:48:44 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/olympic-trials-the-locusts-of-control/4 "That'll larn them divils!"

Right, and so is the excellent suggestion of John Bailo regarding, finally, cannibalism.

Yum!  Haunch of pole-vaulter!  Whoa!

One of the great disappointments of the latest big competitive events is that flesh is hidden, for high-tech reasons.  The more they do that, the more they may as well let Data compete.

Meanwhile: Good luck to those grasshopper kids, but que' sera' sera'.

Chickens deserve our true friendship! So do fish! So do other sentient beings! Let us learn to be kind.

]]> "That'll larn them divils!"

Right, and so is the excellent suggestion of John Bailo regarding, finally, cannibalism.

Yum!  Haunch of pole-vaulter!  Whoa!

One of the great disappointments of the latest big competitive events is that flesh is hidden, for high-tech reasons.  The more they do that, the more they may as well let Data compete.

Meanwhile: Good luck to those grasshopper kids, but que' sera' sera'.

Chickens deserve our true friendship! So do fish! So do other sentient beings! Let us learn to be kind.

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