Apr 26 2007Plaster mold of anthill

I'd like to pour my plaster in those tunnels.

hahahaha

nerd!

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How did he get all the ants out of there? CAKE?

That looks kinda gross.
I need to know the name of whoever writes this things so i can call him/her a smart ass.

His name is Robert Paulsen.

Papageno thanks!!

Robert Paulsen your a smart ass.
But i love it.

Anytime!

"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?

"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?

That's so freaking cool!

Ant's are amazing.

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

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.

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.

Its a hoax. That's really a kidney stone.

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!"

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.

What's so strange about all this? Have you ever tried to show other people what your aunt's 'tunnels' look like?

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???

Reminds me of SimAnt. I would always build under the water table line and get flooded every game when I was a kid.

that's awesome. i think i'll do that when I get off work monday.

how did they remove the mold from the earth, time team, archealogical dig?

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!

His name is actually Tyler Durden.

Tyler Durden,

Your a smart ass. Oh yeah, so is Papageno. but I love it!

Mort

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.

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.

next time made a internal model of ur wife when she sleeps