[ExI] will raise bugs for food

[darren shawn greer]

> The article claims ticks have shells,
> and the rest of the stuff sounds like they know from ticks:

Ticks are arachnids, so they have chitinous exoskeletons like other arachnids, as someone said, but much, much harder. I can attest to that. I live in a very rural area where in the summer you have to check yourself for the nasty little buggers often, and your dog more often.

> I could collect some and
> next ExI-schmooze we could have a tick crushing contest.

Here we don't even bother to try crushing them. We pick them off, place them on a hard surface, and hold the flame of a lighter to them for a few seconds. They explode. Not kidding. That is the preferred method for disposing of ticks in these parts. They make a very satisfying pop when they go.

Perhaps you could have a tick burning contest also, and whoever has the most flame-resistant tick wins.

Darren


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> Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2010 12:12:36 -0700
> From: spike66 at att.net
> To: extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org
> Subject: Re: [ExI] will raise bugs for food
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> --- On Thu, 8/5/10, MB wrote:
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> http://www.borislavdopudja.net/en/writings/ticks/
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> Cool article, thanks MB!
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>>> Hmmm, disagree. Ticks do not have shells, but you might be right
> that the mosquito
>>> cannot penetrate whatever it is the ticks do have.
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>>Ticks have an exoskeleton. Chitin. Hard.
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> I do stand corrected on that. The article claims ticks have shells,
> and the rest of the stuff sounds like they know from ticks:
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> "...Ticks are robustly built and their shell is extremely hard. A
> female tick (if not enlarged as a result of feeding on the host’s
> blood) or a male tick is very difficult to destroy. Ticks bodies are
> able to withstand great pressure without any consequences and still be
> able to crawl away from you..."
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> This I can confirm by firsthand experience. One cannot crush a tick
> between one's fingers, or at least I can't. I could collect some and
> next ExI-schmooze we could have a tick crushing contest.
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> On the other hand, just the sound of that seems somehow out of
> character with the nature of ExI-schmooze activities, such as the
> now-legendary Hakosote incident at my house instigated by Eliezer, even
> though he was as sober as a Methodist minister when we did it.
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> spike
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