[gore3000]

This is an excerpt because the article is quite long but well worth reading.

[merrin]

The bugs are talking to each other. And plotting against us.

I knew it! I KNEW it!

[Libertarianize the GOP]

bump

[gore3000]

Let's call a few guys in.

[rintense]

The bugs are talking to each other. And plotting against us.

And the French have already surrendered. Yet, Chirac and Blix are reluctant to approve antibiotics, as they don't see an eminent threat.

[lizma]

highly social, intricately networked, and teeming with interactions.

So now PETA will defend these guys?

All in all, these guys are nasty. Living 100,000 plus years on the planet teaches you something. Survival.

Look on the bright side. 70,000 years from now, the Rats will understand it too.

[bwteim]

It is interesting article. Certainly with enough bumps we will achieve "quorum sensing"!

[Alain2112]

Ho Hum. This kind of signaling has been known for fifty years. It's really embarassing what the gene-sequencing people will shout about.

[185JHP]

Picturing one of these beastie-weasties in a T-shirt that says "If you can't run with the big 'crobes, stay in the Petri dish!"

[Duke Nukum]

I read this book in high school, or maybe jr. high called The Hephaestus Plague (which was turned into the William Castle classic Bug! starring the immortal Brad Dillman) and in that novel, these bugs who light fires and eat the ashes, come to the surfaces, but it turns out that its really the bacteria inside them that are controlling them.

The bugs are having trouble reproducing which will mean death for the bacteria so they come to the surface and do terrorism until Bradford Dillman can get them to breed with some other roach, then, their survival ensured, they go back under the earth and I think they take Bradford Dillman with them.

The novel was way better then the movie but the film was alright in a mid-seventies, nostolgic kind of way. If the novel had a fault it would be the title, who can remember it, let alone pronounce it? That's probably why they simplified it to Bug! for the major motion picture release. People can remember and pronounce Bug!

Which just goes to show you that, if art isn't dead, it probably should be.

[af_vet_rr]

Paging Michael Crichton.

[Ahban]

WOnders of Creation bump

[rustbucket]

Interesting article

[RnMomof7]

just one more thing to worry about...

[mel]

Extremely interesting, I am working on paper on antibiotic resistance and will certainly include this information in my paper

[CathyRyan]

Something to keep you up at night.

[Alas Babylon!]

Regardless of when this was discovered, the possiblities are endless. Perhaps we could "learn" this language of pheremones, and "teach" the bacteria to not be so deadly, or not produce certain toxins. This could lead to a whole new way to fight deadly diseases and illnesses.