Apr 26 2007Plaster mold of anthill
This crazy bastard poured plaster down an anthill so he could get a mold of their tunnels. He claims it was for science but we all know the real truth: disgusting anthill plaster porn. For shame!
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Reader Comments
1. Papageno - April 26, 2007 4:17 PM
I'd like to pour my plaster in those tunnels.
2. evelyn - April 26, 2007 4:37 PM
hahahaha
3. Berzerker - April 26, 2007 5:51 PM
nerd!
4. rob - April 26, 2007 6:06 PM
oh snap comments
5. leels - April 26, 2007 8:52 PM
How did he get all the ants out of there? CAKE?
6. Toni-Maree - April 26, 2007 8:54 PM
That looks kinda gross.
I need to know the name of whoever writes this things so i can call him/her a smart ass.
7. Papageno - April 26, 2007 10:32 PM
His name is Robert Paulsen.
8. Toni-Maree - April 27, 2007 12:05 AM
Papageno thanks!!
Robert Paulsen your a smart ass.
But i love it.
9. Papageno - April 27, 2007 12:07 AM
Anytime!
10. Sambob - April 27, 2007 1:00 AM
"Papageno thanks!!
Robert Paulsen your a smart ass.
But i love it."
HAH! classic.
I wanna know how he got the plaster out of there in one piece?
11. Sambob - April 27, 2007 1:00 AM
"Papageno thanks!!
Robert Paulsen your a smart ass.
But i love it."
HAH! classic.
I wanna know how he got the plaster out of there in one piece?
12. SuperGreen420 - April 27, 2007 1:27 AM
That's so freaking cool!
Ant's are amazing.
13. Thinkhouse - April 27, 2007 3:01 AM
How DID he get the plaster out of there in one piece...frig.....ideas....I say voodoo....anceint mayan voodoo
Robert Paulsen .....the mystery has been reveiled
14. ab - April 27, 2007 3:32 AM
The poor, poor ants. I bet that's the last way they expected to meet their doom: death by plaster. Ha! But I for them. He totally had to break up the entire anthill in order to get the plaster out. Kill the ants, break their home . . . sounds like an Empire taking over some civilization. An ant civilization. But seriously, anyone seen "Antz" the movie? Ants are clearly people too.
15. jillybean - April 27, 2007 6:42 AM
I had a pet anthill once. It was in the field outside my house and I used to feed them scraps every day. But then the ungrateful little bastards decided to bit my ankles and I had to smote them into oblivion with my shovel.
I wasn't very forgiving as a child.
16. Mr Semprini - April 27, 2007 6:55 AM
Its a hoax. That's really a kidney stone.
17. Mike - April 27, 2007 7:20 AM
I think you meant to say "Robert Paulsen you're a smart ass... but I love it!"
Or.... perhaps Mr Paulsen has two rear ends. In that case he might refer to them as his "A" smart ass and "B" smart ass. If that's the case then maybe I am wrong also about your second sentence. Perhaps you were making a general and unrelated statement about your sexual preferences. If that is indeed the case then maybe you should have said "Butt... I love it!"
18. Nick - April 27, 2007 7:59 AM
I don't see what's so strange about all this--I think it's pretty cool. I mean, it is unfortunate that a colony had to be destroyed, but I do believe ants are only one step below cockroaches in species indestructability.
19. Papageno - April 27, 2007 9:05 AM
What's so strange about all this? Have you ever tried to show other people what your aunt's 'tunnels' look like?
20. nerdulon - April 27, 2007 1:43 PM
Don't worry. They got the ants out before injecting the plaster, so no cruelty was involved. Follow the source link to the blinding awesomness of this guy's website--graphs! Pie charts! Can you stand it???
21. Aaron - April 28, 2007 7:44 PM
Reminds me of SimAnt. I would always build under the water table line and get flooded every game when I was a kid.
22. roz - April 29, 2007 9:19 AM
that's awesome. i think i'll do that when I get off work monday.
23. AmridikoN - April 29, 2007 6:04 PM
how did they remove the mold from the earth, time team, archealogical dig?
24. Brownian - April 30, 2007 9:02 AM
More on Walter Tschinkel's work from Discover magazine: http://discovermagazine.com/2003/nov/the-secret-life-of-ants/
At the time of the article, he had been experimenting with molten zinc to make the casts.
Ants rock!
25. mort - May 3, 2007 8:36 AM
His name is actually Tyler Durden.
Tyler Durden,
Your a smart ass. Oh yeah, so is Papageno. but I love it!
Mort
26. ashleigh - May 8, 2007 7:42 AM
There's one of these plaster molds hanging in the Biology department at FSU. The sign in front of it says that the plaster compound was poured down an evacuated ant hill and then removed in pieces and reconstructed.
I don't have anything clever to say...just wanted to let everyone know.
PEACE BITCHES.
27. Greg - May 19, 2007 5:16 PM
Hey, remember that movie "ANTZ" antz really do make huge recking balls out of themselves. Thats what makes them so gnarley. All humans do is post stupid threads in picture forums.
28. lord - April 1, 2008 9:33 AM
next time made a internal model of ur wife when she sleeps
29. nathalie - June 14, 2009 8:31 PM
so, were the ants still in there? Did he kill them?
30. kaylia - June 14, 2009 9:59 PM
the ants can be moved out pretty easily, even if not 'big loss'. to get rid of surrounding junk, they excavated, i saw a discovery show on something similar with a huge excavation of the surrounding areas where they eventually had to stop because there were too many openings and tunnels, something they couldn't keep in one piece but i think it was a different insect? also if this was done within a contained areas (ant habitat x500) then you just remove surrrounding panes and brush off the excess.
31. gabby - January 6, 2010 9:48 PM
ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwww....it looks like stringy blacb heads!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:P