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Posted by judy1 on July 31, 2002, at 17:34:57
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Posted by Dinah on July 31, 2002, at 17:38:41
In reply to Is it safe to return yet?- thanks (nm), posted by judy1 on July 31, 2002, at 17:34:57
Welcome back.
Posted by shar on July 31, 2002, at 18:27:25
In reply to Is it safe to return yet?- thanks (nm), posted by judy1 on July 31, 2002, at 17:34:57
Posted by Ctrlaltndel : ( on July 31, 2002, at 18:53:55
In reply to Re: The water is fine. Come on in. » judy1, posted by Dinah on July 31, 2002, at 17:38:41
does anyone feel like the site is dying?
Posted by judy1 on July 31, 2002, at 22:05:19
In reply to Peek in and keep wearing the full body armor... (nm) » judy1, posted by shar on July 31, 2002, at 18:27:25
the language on the board was frightening to me- I didn't even go to the messages. Maybe with Dr. B back, it will be better.
take care, judy
Posted by Tabi T. Ha :-) on August 1, 2002, at 2:19:31
In reply to is it me or...., posted by Ctrlaltndel : ( on July 31, 2002, at 18:53:55
I hope not. It's too bad so many good people left/got blocked lately, but maybe things go in cycles. People come, people go, etc.
Posted by shar on August 1, 2002, at 12:03:30
In reply to is it me or...., posted by Ctrlaltndel : ( on July 31, 2002, at 18:53:55
> does anyone feel like the site is dying?
yes, everything is dying all the time. Sometimes it's just more pronounced than others.
Shar
Posted by Phil on August 1, 2002, at 12:30:31
In reply to Re: is it me or...., posted by shar on August 1, 2002, at 12:03:30
Posted by Ritch on August 1, 2002, at 22:34:22
In reply to Spring will be back around, it'll be fine. (nm), posted by Phil on August 1, 2002, at 12:30:31
Phil,
Just a followup on the ants and centipedes thread from a couple of months ago.. I was just wondering if you have any "critter" stories you have witnessed or heard about lately. It *is* quite HOT outside and there has been a lot of rain where I live and I KNOW you have had plenty of rain down there! So, there must be a bumper crop of katydids, fireflies, cicadas, ants, centipedes, etc. Are they noticeable around Austin?
Mitch
Posted by Phil on August 2, 2002, at 6:06:54
In reply to How are those Texas ANTS doing? » Phil, posted by Ritch on August 1, 2002, at 22:34:22
I haven't been outside or out to see anyone in so long, I don't know. Shar lives out in critter country and I live by a freeway!
I do 'think' I saw 70,000,000,000,000 ants carrying a Fedders A/C out of Home Depot the other day. I didn't know they carried money?!!
And I'm sure the bug population is thriving. August will fry a lot of them so they'll be breaking into houses all over.
Posted by allisonm on August 2, 2002, at 8:01:01
In reply to Re: How are those Texas ANTS doing?, posted by Phil on August 2, 2002, at 6:06:54
Ugh! I have a biology test today that includes ants (arthropods, which are bilateral coelomate protostomes). Ants have chitin exoskeletons, which is what makes them go crunch when you step on them.
Last night (early this morning) while I was trying to sleep, I had a horrible dream aboout a giant worm two friends lived with in a house. They were going out and I had to watch the apartment upstairs where they lived. This giant worm lived downstairs somewhere and if not avoided/contained would kill/eat its human prey (humans are placental mammals from the vertebrata subphylum of the chordata phylum, which are bilateral coelamate deuterostomes, which means that our anuses formed before our mouths did. People don't like to know that in evolutionary history their anuses formed first.) Anyway, I was supposed to stay and watch the place while they went out, and they were giving me tips on how not to get killed. The giant worm (Kinda like the worms in Dune, as I remember) was outside the door(s) of the apartment writhing around knocking into everything and making loud, hollow screaming noises sort of like an elephant but kinda blood-curdling. It was a little disconcerting.
I would guess that they were from the phylum platyhelmethes, class cestoda (tapeworms), or else they were annelids like from the oligochaetae class (earthworms) but if so they were mean and tough carnivorous bastards and I don't think of earthworms that way. They were probably nematodes (roundworms, parasites), which are bilateral and pseudocoelamate, meaning that their body cavities are not enclosed by mesoderm. My roommate, who is from Kenya, was telling me about the large tapeworm that came out of one of her little brothers years ago when he was defecating in a small hole he'd dug near the house (before their father built a latrine). The story gets worse, but I'll leave it at that.
If humans had rather have had their mouths form first, they should have become protostomes instead. Protostomes include the arthropods (arachnids, crustaceans, chilopoda - centipedes, diplopoda - millipedes, and the insects like the ants. I had to get the ants back in here somewhere), the annelids (soil and marine worms and the leeches), bracheopods (lampshells), or the molluscs (bivalve clams and oysters, gastropod snails and slugs or cephalopod octupi or squid. I keep a large snail (apple snail) as a pet with three tetras (osteichthyes/vertebrata/chordata/deuterastome/coelamate/bilateria/eumetazoa/animalia) and sometimes think if I had a home like I have given it, I might not mind being a snail. Too bad that protostomes don't know or care their mouths formed before their anuses. The information is wasted on them. They don't even care. Sponges (porifera/parazoa/animalia) care even less because they don't even have mouths or anuses let alone nervous systems. So if a person says s/he is a sponge (ie, likes to absorb information - something I am having trouble with at the moment), they wouldn't even have a brain (much less a notochord) with which to process it all.
Oh gawd, 3.5 more hours to go.
Posted by Ritch on August 2, 2002, at 9:39:53
In reply to Re: How are those Texas ANTS doing?, posted by Phil on August 2, 2002, at 6:06:54
> I haven't been outside or out to see anyone in so long, I don't know. Shar lives out in critter country and I live by a freeway!
> I do 'think' I saw 70,000,000,000,000 ants carrying a Fedders A/C out of Home Depot the other day. I didn't know they carried money?!!
> And I'm sure the bug population is thriving. August will fry a lot of them so they'll be breaking into houses all over.
Well, the cicadas are creating one hell of a racket here. It sounds like they are setting their phasers to overload and then changing their mind at the last fatal second! Whenever September arrives.. it is the march of the crickets......... ..... ... ....
Posted by Ritch on August 2, 2002, at 9:47:45
In reply to Arthropods! (no need to read this/trying to study), posted by allisonm on August 2, 2002, at 8:01:01
......(osteichthyes/vertebrata/chordata/deuterastome/coelamate/bilateria/eumetazoa/animalia) and sometimes think if I had a home like I have given it, I might not mind being a snail. Too bad that protostomes don't know or care their mouths formed before their anuses. The information is wasted on them. They don't even care. Sponges (porifera/parazoa/animalia) care even less because they don't even have mouths or anuses let alone nervous systems. So if a person says s/he is a sponge (ie, likes to absorb information - something I am having trouble with at the moment), they wouldn't even have a brain (much less a notochord) with which to process it all.
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> Oh gawd, 3.5 more hours to go.
>It would be interesting if there was a website that had *all* of the critters (including us) arranged on an Apache server with all of the genus/species/**/**/**/ and .html documents to show you a picture of the critter. Hmm.
Posted by .tabi.T.ha. on August 2, 2002, at 14:56:49
In reply to Arthropods! (no need to read this/trying to study), posted by allisonm on August 2, 2002, at 8:01:01
Posted by allisonm on August 2, 2002, at 18:56:11
In reply to Arthropods! (no need to read this/trying to study), posted by allisonm on August 2, 2002, at 8:01:01
OK, I got an 89. Just one point short of an A. Damn. I still have to study this stuff, though. The lab practical is Monday...what ARE those things in the jars...liver flukes? Ewwww.
Posted by allisonm on August 3, 2002, at 7:59:38
In reply to Re: bilateral coelomate protostomes.. oh MY! » allisonm, posted by Ritch on August 2, 2002, at 9:47:45
That would be interesting. Trouble is, the experts don't agree about how everything is supposed to be organized. They're even revising the kingdoms...
Posted by Ritch on August 3, 2002, at 10:19:36
In reply to Re: bilateral coelomate protostomes.. oh MY! » Ritch, posted by allisonm on August 3, 2002, at 7:59:38
> That would be interesting. Trouble is, the experts don't agree about how everything is supposed to be organized. They're even revising the kingdoms...
That's interesting. It almost sounds like different types of Bibles :)!
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