Insect Conductivity

From: ben franchuk <bfranchuk_at_jetnet.ab.ca>
Date: Mon Jul 26 18:28:05 2004

Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
> On Mon, 26 Jul 2004, John Lawson wrote:
>
>
>> Attracted by something, a stream of medium-sized red ants were ascending
>>the power cord and swarming into the fan grilles on the power supply -
>>turning it on had blown sufficient quantities of them into the HV side to
>>cause hymenopterous formicidae ionization and subsequent zapping of
>>circuits not engineered to tolerate 220V 50Htz - namely the damn
>>power-contoller / standby / 'sleep' chips...
>
>
> What stupid fucking creatures. Good thing too. If they actually had any
> sort of intelligence they could take over the world.
>

They do... They don't trust in computers, we do. :)
Received on Mon Jul 26 2004 - 18:28:05 BST