[ExI] will raise bugs for food

[darren shawn greer]

> Not to be contrary, but no, not they're not *hard*, they're *tough*.
> If they were hard, they'd be brittle, and females wouldn't expand to
> 100 times their normal size, they'd pop. Yes, they're hard to crush,
> but, no, they're not brittle.
My bad. (I love that phrase.) You're right.
Darren



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> From: sparge at gmail.com
> Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2010 19:21:17 -0400
> To: extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org
> Subject: Re: [ExI] will raise bugs for food
>
> On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 6:32 PM, darren shawn greer
>  wrote:
>>
>> Ticks are arachnids, so they have chitinous exoskeletons like other arachnids, as someone said, but much, much harder.
>
> Not to be contrary, but no, not they're not *hard*, they're *tough*.
> If they were hard, they'd be brittle, and females wouldn't expand to
> 100 times their normal size, they'd pop. Yes, they're hard to crush,
> but, no, they're not brittle.
>
>> 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.
>
> Which suggests a new edible tick snack: popticks.
>
> -Dave
>
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