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Swarms of things that could wipe out humanity
electricitylikesme
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The zombie thread isn't very interesting. Chiefly because our best defense against zombie's is that zombie's are rather biologically improbable. And anyway, it's really asking the wrong question - the real question is, given a massive swarm of X, how would you/we/humanity survive it?
Hence, in this thread we discuss not zombie's, but general swarms of things which would either wipe out humanity, or enslave us, and how we can defeat them.
Some initial suggestions are: army ants, killer bees, ordinary citizens reprogrammed en masse into customized serial killers.
In the case of the army ants and killer bees, we are assuming either: they gain enough group cognizance to realize they can exterminate the homo sapien, or that someone deliberately breeds them en masse and then releases them onto an unsuspecting world.
Personally, I'm scared of the army ants. Organized attack and defense formations, massive numbers, build temporary nests and bridges out of themselves. Now imagine that we suddenly release trillions into New York. Yeah...we'd be fucked.
Hence, in this thread we discuss not zombie's, but general swarms of things which would either wipe out humanity, or enslave us, and how we can defeat them.
Some initial suggestions are: army ants, killer bees, ordinary citizens reprogrammed en masse into customized serial killers.
In the case of the army ants and killer bees, we are assuming either: they gain enough group cognizance to realize they can exterminate the homo sapien, or that someone deliberately breeds them en masse and then releases them onto an unsuspecting world.
Personally, I'm scared of the army ants. Organized attack and defense formations, massive numbers, build temporary nests and bridges out of themselves. Now imagine that we suddenly release trillions into New York. Yeah...we'd be fucked.
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Because of their large colony size, army ants migrate in order to find food. They may raid other colonies and capture slaves. During the nomadic phase, army ants march at night and stop to camp in daylight. The colony starts its stationary phase when the need for food decreases. Then they make temporary nests, and change the nest everyday. Each of these rampages lasts for about seventeen days. Some say that army ants may have a collective intelligence
Army ants kill and eat up to 100,000 animals in a day. Together they can kill lizards, snakes, chickens, pigs, goats, scorpions, and many other animals. They also climb trees and eat birds plus insects that may live in trees.[/quote]
I'm basically saying, if they upped and decided humanity had to go...
Now the only thing I am worried about wiping out humanity is the normal person under mob mentality. I’m just waiting till a major plague scare or something causes anarchy on a global scale. People hear new out break of killer virus A, or heck even zombie out break and people who don’t know that they are carriers say to themselves "crap on that" and run for another country deemed safe.
They could be considered a swarm type enemy, right? They also spread like a wildire
EDIT: Anything with a backup mouth has to be awesomely apocalyptic.
Gibbons.
A swarm of gibbons could take out Indonesia's 200 mil in under a week. And then we'd be next.
They have wrists like shoulders
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There ya go. Good god, I'm peddling literature now.
They have amazing singing voices
They would use their voices to lull lonley soildiers to their doom. Then they would use there Superior Simian intelligencetm. To learn how to use or most deadly weapons.
I think that although some kind of human eating ant might be dangerous it could be beaten, simply because of our ability to coordinate with each other and evacuate areas where the Ants attacked leaving them to starve. Also anti-ant battlesuits could be produced, allowing soldiers to attack the ants in safety, killing queens and disrupting the search for food.
Perhaps more realistically some kind of out of control Algae bloom might smother the worlds oceans wiping out all life there, I dont know what we could do about that.
I once went on a tour of a Monkey Sanctuary on a visit to South Africa. We were in a group of about 15-20 people, walking through the forest.
All throughout, this Gibbon that I am told is called Bruno is following our "party" through the forest. Then, suddenly, dude swings down from the tree he's in, runs up to ME, grabs my trousers with his little hands and bites me on the outside thigh.
Luckily where he bit was protected by my wallet.
It's a really odd scenario now that I think about it.
My idea would be like what can happen in a river with huge amounts of fertiliser runoff. Algae blooms like mad, bacteria arive and kill it all, rotting algae combined with the sunlight being blocked out exterminates pretty much all life.
Quoteworthy comments right there.
Didn't Richard Dead Anderson end up fighting off a swarm of army ants attacking a plantation? Lets start showing it in school as a training video.
I was going to say stupid humans, terrorists, and foreigners.
I do not think we need to worry about, however, a swarm of foreigner:
Earth is already swarming with violent humans! AHAAAAAAAA! It's already started!
I'd be terrified if there were an explosion in the baboon population and they started overrunning cities. Those fuckers are MEAN.
If they used the Foreigner belt...we'd all be doomed.
Are we talking about bees? Ants too? Hahahaha oh no! watch out! better take cover! Not ants!
This thread wins.
To come into their lives.
*looks around*
*Pushes Shoggoth into a swarm of army ants*
*Watches as Shoggoth dies*
Oh no! Not ants! I mean they can only kill just about any animal/human in their path! Why would you be afraid of that?
umm... they can't really. If backward ass tribes with no technology can live with army and driver ants, I don't think they would be too much of a threat.
Course, they are almost totally controled by pheromones, so if you were to MG up some nasty ants that are attracted to pheromones that humans give off, then they could be a bit more of a threat.
Did any one see the episode of Macguyver where a swarm of army ants attacks some village? I'm pretty sure if Macguyver ever faced it, it's probably not a real threat.
If that ever happens, I say we take off and nuke the place from orbit.