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Thread ID: 84384	2007-11-03 16:10:00	What About Those Ants? Huh?	SurferJoe46 (51)	PC World Chat

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608082	2007-11-03 16:10:00	Ants (the insects) are already well known as altruists . In their creepy-crawly ways they are willing to lay down their lives for their nest and bypass sexual activities to tend the offspring of others . It seems that they also have a sense of their own lifespan ( . independent . co . uk/sci_tech/article3052357 . ece?source=rss_science" target="_blank">news . independent . co . uk) and adjust their risk-taking accordingly . . . . . volunteering for more dangerous missions . . . . . like distant foraging . . . . . or Narfle The Garthok as they get closer to the end of their usefulness to the colony . Dr . Dawid Moron and his colleagues at Jagiellonian University in Poland did some experiments with manipulating the lifespan of ants and found that they changed their taste for danger accordingly . . . . . I think they made them smoke to stunt their growth . If humans worked this way, I suppose we'd have a lot of 80 y/o cops, Army recruits and Indy racers . We DO get a lot of them as nude sky divers . . . but that's a different story .	SurferJoe46 (51)
608083	2007-11-03 16:25:00	hmmm...what would you do if you knew what day you were going to kick the bucket?	rob_on_guitar (4196)
608084	2007-11-03 19:38:00	hmmm...what would you do if you knew what day you were going to kick the bucket? I don't know the day, but it will be soon after I am 74. PJ	Poppa John (284)
608085	2007-11-03 20:19:00	hmmm...what would you do if you knew what day you were going to kick the bucket? Tell Sally Sparrow to look at the DVD's (www.bbc.co.uk)	bob_doe_nz (92)
608086	2007-11-03 23:25:00	We DO get a lot of them as nude sky divers... but that's a different story. See "Flappers"	R2x1 (4628)
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