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[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Must be a dupe. Brain controlling parasites are real.

Posted: 9/19/2005 8:24:44 PM EDT

news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/09/0901_050901_wormparasite.html

Suicide Grasshoppers Brainwashed by Parasite Worms
James Owen
for National Geographic News
September 1, 2005

Parasites were the inspiration behind the creature that terrified moviegoers in Alien. Now sci-fi screenwriters may have a new role model—parasitic worms that brainwash their victims.

Scientists say hairworms, which live inside grasshoppers, pump the insects with a cocktail of chemicals that makes them commit suicide by leaping into water. The parasites then swim away from their drowning hosts to continue their life cycle...

Posted: 9/19/2005 8:30:13 PM EDT

[#1]

OK ... Yeah .... um.... read the article... that is just fucking sick!!!

Posted: 9/19/2005 8:32:45 PM EDT

[#2]

Khaaaaaaaaaan!

Posted: 9/19/2005 8:33:56 PM EDT

[#3]

EAAAAHHH...

Kill It!! Kill It!!

Posted: 9/19/2005 8:34:35 PM EDT

[#4]

Quoted:
img.photobucket.com/albums/v218/matt.mccall/Kirk.jpg
Khaaaaaaaaaan!

YeS!

Posted: 9/19/2005 8:38:54 PM EDT

[#5]

Saw a show where some work infested a snails eyestalk and possesed it to climb the highest branch to get eaten by a bird on purpose.

Posted: 9/19/2005 8:40:21 PM EDT

[#6]

Can we implant them in child molestors and drug dealers and gang bangers?

Posted: 9/19/2005 8:42:01 PM EDT

[#7]

Posted: 9/19/2005 8:42:41 PM EDT

[#8]

Quoted:
Saw a show where some work infested a snails eyestalk and possesed it to climb the highest branch to get eaten by a bird on purpose.

And some of them sign up with DU and vote Democrats.

Posted: 9/19/2005 8:46:22 PM EDT

[#9]

Dayum...

Posted: 9/19/2005 8:54:25 PM EDT

[#10]

Quoted:
Can we implant them in child molestors and drug dealers and gang bangers?

Good idea. That "crack" plan has yet to wipe them out.

Posted: 9/19/2005 9:07:51 PM EDT

[#11]

I'm not looking at water the same way again.

That parasite makes the aliens chest burster seem nice.

Posted: 9/20/2005 3:24:14 AM EDT

[#12]

Quoted:
Quoted:
Can we implant them in child molestors and drug dealers and gang bangers?

Good idea. That "crack" plan has yet to wipe them out.

I'm not even going there dude..................however neither has the HIV/AIDS plan

Posted: 9/20/2005 3:52:18 AM EDT

[#13]

Captain Murdock wasn't lying all those years. BA owes him an apology.

[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Must be a dupe. Brain controlling parasites are real.

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