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[Vilix]

Actual science and animal threads on GAF are lucky to have one fifth the posts that this one does.

But for ants? Really?

 

[Timedog]

I think this thread is as good as the plate licking thread, and I don't give out praise like that lightly.

 

[Chezzymann]

It could actually be seen as a social experiment. The framing of the thread title was that the ants would be drowning in molten metal, which obviously creates a particular mindset for people. Some of whom might empathize with that image of suffering or who might see this as some kind of waste of valuable life, or the whole would Buddha kill the mosquito or the fire ant, or whatever. And so you have basically a surprising amount of people posting negatively about this, perhaps viscerally imagining the pain and confusion instead of instant vaporization.

It makes you wonder what other possible thread titles would have mitigated the responses or even gotten the opposite response.

Yeah, if it was titled "Artist uses ant colony as mold for aluminum structure" I'd imagine it would have different responses.

 

[Mully]

Because protracted trolling is such a noble contribution to the community.

It kind of is. Look at all of the "greatest threads," threads and you'll realize that trolling is a major part of the community. Having said that, I had no idea it was going to get that far, including a cross post in the NHL thread.

 

[Suburban_Nooblet]

It could actually be seen as a social experiment. The framing of the thread title was that the ants would be drowning in molten metal, which obviously creates a particular mindset for people. Some of whom might empathize with that image of suffering or who might see this as some kind of waste of valuable life, or the whole would Buddha kill the mosquito or the fire ant, or whatever. And so you have basically a surprising amount of people posting negatively about this, perhaps viscerally imagining the pain and confusion instead of instant vaporization.

It makes you wonder what other possible thread titles would have mitigated the responses or even gotten the opposite response.

Pretty thoughtful posts... what was your undergraduate degree in?

 

[Trick_GSF]

Slightly concerning that this thread has more heartbreak and outrage than this one.

Interesting, though. Not a criticism, just an observation.

 

[Toxi]

Slightly concerning that this thread has more heartbreak and outrage than this one.

Interesting, though. Not a criticism, just an observation.

It's because there's push-back in this thread and not that much in the other thread.

People are more likely to respond to a thread with an argument than a thread where most posters say the same thing.

Gaffers are attracted to controversy like flies to a corpse.

 

[Turin Turambar]

Faster death than with an insecticide, I suppose.

 

[Kinyou]

Ok, now imagine this.

You take a dead body and pour the hot aluminum through the mouth. You wait until it's solid and then carve it out of the body. Voila, the digestive tract

Some crazy guy like Gunter von Hagens would probably do it

 

[Toxi]

Ok, now imagine this.

You take a dead body and pour the hot aluminum through the mouth. You wait until it's solid and then carve it out of the body. Voila, the digestive tract

Some crazy guy like Gunter von Hagens would probably do it

Wouldn't it burn through the tissue surrounding the digestive tract?

 

[leng jai]

1000 posts on this? Time to read back I guess.

 

[Kinyou]

Wouldn't it burn through the tissue surrounding the digestive tract?

Good point. I guess you'd have to use something different than hot aluminium.

 

[Extra Sauce]

This thread has more than three times the amount of posts of people complaining about ant murdering than the thread about a US drone killing 15 innocent civilians in Yemen.

Nice attempt to use a tragedy to insinuate people care more about ants than humans, but the only reason more people are posting here is that the morality of the act is actually being debated. No gaffer is going to defend killing innocent civilians. People are more inclined to speak out on an issue when the ones on the opposing side of said issue are actually hearing them.

 

[Hilbert]

Ok, now imagine this.

You take a dead body and pour the hot aluminum through the mouth. You wait until it's solid and then carve it out of the body. Voila, the digestive tract

Some crazy guy like Gunter von Hagens would probably do it

Have you seen those Body exhibits? they do something similar with blood vessels.

edit: whew, image is bigger than I expected...

 

[pikachu Lv 5]

That would make a beautiful chandelier. I'd do it. If it doesn't upset the balance of nature then I don't care.

 

[Vilix]

That would make a beautiful chandelier. I'd do it. If it doesn't upset the balance of nature then I don't care.

Yeah, that ship has sailed.

 

[jchap]

That would make a beautiful chandelier. I'd do it. If it doesn't upset the balance of nature then I don't care.

Real ballers pour gold down the ant hills

 

[GraveHorizon]

How does GAF feel about this?

 

[SquiddyCracker]

Have you seen those Body exhibits? they do something similar with blood vessels.

This is pretty cool.

 

[Sorian]

How does GAF feel about this?

It reminds me how beta fire ants are. Won't even go 1v1.

 

[Moaradin]

Holy shit this thread went in some interesting directions.

 

[OrlanisWorks]

Ok, now imagine this.

You take a dead body and pour the hot aluminum through the mouth. You wait until it's solid and then carve it out of the body. Voila, the digestive tract

Some crazy guy like Gunter von Hagens would probably do it

If an artist had permission of the deceased, written and in person, I would have no issue with that. Doesn't sound "crazy."

 

[Brian Fellows]

One of you guys can do that to my dead body. I don't give a shit.

 

[Ekdrm2d1]

http://imgur.com/gallery/wj21JU4

 

[phxxBullet]

http://imgur.com/gallery/wj21JU4

Thx for pulling out this old topic, it's awesome to see all that ant cities

 

[kehs]

http://imgur.com/gallery/wj21JU4

"See if you fuckers ever get on my picnic basket uninvited ever again now, will ya."

 

[TheOMan]

http://imgur.com/gallery/wj21JU4

Ant 1: Hey, Ant 2, Ant Queen wants you to go get the canned picnic food from last year.
Ant 2: Where is it?
Ant 1: The basement.
Ant 2: The basement basement?
Ant 1: Yup.
And 2: , see you in a month.

 

[Rest]

Not so much art as "art," if he was doing it for scientific purposes instead of to have some white metal piece of crap to sell to some moron I'd be happier about it. At the end of the day though, killing one ant colony is not the end of the world, I don't see what the big deal for some people is.

Man that is a really compact colony. I thought they would stretch out further than that.

I was surprised too, I expected it to be deeper as well.

 

[CaptainSlow]

Geeze, I used to get lost just walking around my university sometimes. If I was an ant and had to live in that I'd be lost forever trying to reach the top.

Also, fuck fire ants.