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From: "Vintage Computer Festival" <vcf(a)siconic.com>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
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Sent: Monday, July 26, 2004 7:16 PM
Subject: Re: Insect Conductivity
On Mon, 26 Jul 2004, John Lawson wrote:
> Attracted by something, a stream of medium-sized red ants were
ascending
> the power cord and swarming into the fan grilles
on the power supply -
> turning it on had blown sufficient quantities of them into the HV side
to
cause
hymenopterous formicidae ionization and subsequent zapping of
circuits not engineered to tolerate 220V 50Htz - namely the damn
power-contoller / standby / 'sleep' chips...
What stupid fucking creatures. Good thing too. If they actually had any
sort of intelligence they could take over the world.
--
Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer
Festival
They do own the world, they just like the real estate under the ground more
then above it. Unlike the dinosaurs and allot of other animals and
vegetation the ants will survive just about anything short of an exploding
earth.