“ONE MILLION CANNIBAL ANTS TRAPPED IN SOVIET NUCLEAR BUNKER HAVE ESCAPED”

[david ellwood]

Favourite 50’s sci-fi!

well ‘this island Earth’ ‘forbidden planet’ and ‘the day the earth stood still’ are my top three.

michael Rennie is laid to rest not far away.

 

[Philim]

Ants that eat other ants.


So what?

You won't be laughing if you get ants in your pants.....they will have to eat something!

 

[Sue Pertwee-Tyr]

You won't be laughing if you get ants in your pants...

Lodgers near your todger?

 

[Mike Reed]

They must be crap cannibals if there’s a million left.

Or maybe they've found an ANTidote to cannibalism.

 

[Pete MB&D]

Favourite 50’s sci-fi!

well ‘this island Earth’ ‘forbidden planet’ and ‘the day the earth stood still’ are my top three.

michael Rennie is laid to rest not far away.

Got all three on DVD!

Pete

 

[Joe]

Before this thread gets lost I would like someone to clarify something that bothers me about the story.

The ants have been, according to the 'scientists' studying them , cut off from any food source and have resorted to eating each other and the colony has grown. How ?

Thats like discovering true perpetual motion .

They also state that there is no queen and yet the colony has survived and grown . How ?

That too is like discovering perpetual motion.

Scientists ? I wonder.

 

[deebster]

Overunity ants?

 

[Sue Pertwee-Tyr]

Before this thread gets lost I would like someone to clarify something that bothers me about the story.

The ants have been, according to the 'scientists' studying them , cut off from any food source and have resorted to eating each other and the colony has grown. How ?

Thats like discovering true perpetual motion .

They also state that there is no queen and yet the colony has survived and grown . How ?

That too is like discovering perpetual motion.

Scientists ? I wonder.

The suggestion in the piece seems to be that more ants continued to get in via the same route the original colony used (falling down a vent, I think). Seems a bit speculative to me.

 

[Mike Reed]

Hermaphrodite ants? Cannibalism incites species' self reliance by rapacious reproduction.

 

[Hook]

There is only one solution for this horrible problem.

 

[foxwelljsly]

Got all three on DVD!

Pete

I would have thought the most apposite film for this thread would be Saul Bass's only venture into directing; "Phase IV", about a cosmic event which leads all the ants in the world to coalesce into a single super organism with a hive mind.

 

[Whaleblue]

The posters above suggest these things target ladies with large breasts, luckily for most of the pfm contingent.

 

[Tigerjones]

Ants that eat other ants.


So what?

I don’t think many types of ant eat their own species - except larvae- and even less their own colony.

 

[Mike Reed]

The posters above suggest these things target ladies with large breasts, luckily for most of the pfm contingent.

Also laddies with large breasts, maybe, and contingent upon how many nipplese belong to pfm.?

 

[Bob McC]

I don’t think many types of ant eat their own species - except larvae- and even less their own colony.

did you read the OP?