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Controversy After Viral Video Shows What Happens When You Pour Molten Aluminum Down Ant Hill
The Blaze ^ | 12-12-13 | Oliver Darcy

Posted on 12/13/2013 9:43:47 AM PST by bigbob

A viral video showing an individual “casting a fire ant colony with molten aluminum” stirred controversy on the Internet this week.

The video, originally uploaded in November, but only gained widespread attention on Dec. 9, shows an individual pour molten aluminum down an ant hill.

The result? An aluminum casting of the ant colony weighing nearly 18 pounds.

But, the artist seems to have come under fire from critics who argue the process is barbaric.

“I disabled comments because I’m sick of your bickering,” the individual wrote in the video’s YouTube description. “Also, I couldn’t get YouTube to stop sending me an email every time someone posted ‘What if I poured aluminum in your house’ for the 100th time.”

At the time of publication, the video had just over 3 million views

(Excerpt) Read more at theblaze.com ...


TOPICS: Arts/Photography; Science
KEYWORDS: aluminum; ants; casting; fireants
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Video at link - fascinating!

If you live in fire ant country, you gotta try this at home ;-)

If not, the PC nonsense might be entertaining...

1 posted on 12/13/2013 9:43:47 AM PST by bigbob
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To: bigbob

Sounds like the complainees are the same ones that protect rats.


2 posted on 12/13/2013 9:47:16 AM PST by SkyDancer (Live your life in such a way that the Westboro church will want to picket your funeral.)
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To: bigbob

THEY ARE ANTS......sheesh. Fire ants kill people all the time. Mainly Young children but adults who have a reaction to the bite.
These tree huggers are really insane. Well and truly nuts.


3 posted on 12/13/2013 9:48:41 AM PST by Yorlik803 ( Church/Caboose in 2016)
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To: bigbob

I can’t believe people are complaining about the impact to fire ants.


4 posted on 12/13/2013 9:49:04 AM PST by Oberon (John 12:5-6)
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To: bigbob

I wonder if a single one of those complaints came from anyone with any personal experience with the non-native invasive species, fire ants?


5 posted on 12/13/2013 9:50:03 AM PST by null and void (I'm betting on an Obama Trifecta: A Nobel Peace Prize, an Impeachment, AND a War Crimes Trial...)
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To: bigbob

Much more creative than using gasoline and a match.


6 posted on 12/13/2013 9:50:52 AM PST by Rebelbase (Tagline: optional, printed after your name on post)
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To: SkyDancer

well you know, ants to have a “hive mentality” and just blindly follow orders and the rear-end of the ant ahead of them, so I can understand how liberals would feel some empathy


7 posted on 12/13/2013 9:51:22 AM PST by bigbob (The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
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To: SkyDancer
The same LibTARDS offended by this are the one who want unfettered access to abortion on demand. The hypocrisy is stunning, but not surprising.
8 posted on 12/13/2013 9:51:36 AM PST by IllumiNaughtyByNature ($1.84 - The price of a gallon of gas on Jan. 20th, 2009.)
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To: bigbob
Beautiful.

He is selling it on Ebay. Current price $4,550..wow

9 posted on 12/13/2013 9:51:42 AM PST by Theoria (Obama lied. My health care died.)
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To: Oberon

How is this worse than nuking them with insecticide?


10 posted on 12/13/2013 9:53:38 AM PST by randita
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To: bigbob

If the libs are so outraged then why don’t they adopt a shelter ant ?


11 posted on 12/13/2013 9:53:39 AM PST by Col Frank Slade
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To: bigbob

Death to ants! Make them suffer!


12 posted on 12/13/2013 9:54:47 AM PST by Fresh Wind (The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept away.)
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To: bigbob

I see nothing wrong with that video.Besides that that ant hill looked like a fireant mound and I couldn’t think of a better way to totally eliminate that threat.

Fireants are dangerous.


13 posted on 12/13/2013 9:54:47 AM PST by puppypusher ( The World is going to the dogs.)
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To: bigbob
I'm surprised the aluminum made it that far down before solidifying.
14 posted on 12/13/2013 9:56:35 AM PST by CrazyIvan (Obama phones= Bread and circuits.)
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To: Rebelbase

Back at the farm, I would just drink a four pack of G Stout, and pee on the anthill. They were always gone the next morning. No “Art” involved though.


15 posted on 12/13/2013 9:57:19 AM PST by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ( Ya can't pick up a turd by the clean end!)
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To: bigbob
Ants!!!
They have the neurological system of a garage door opener.
16 posted on 12/13/2013 9:58:17 AM PST by HereInTheHeartland (Obama lied; our healthcare died.)
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To: bigbob

Now this guy is going to have to travel throughout the universe to atone for this act.


17 posted on 12/13/2013 9:59:35 AM PST by Stentor
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To: bigbob

Anyone who has been on the receiving end of Fire Ant love (me) will have no problem with this. Kill ‘em all and let Peta sort ‘em out.


18 posted on 12/13/2013 9:59:53 AM PST by W.Lee (After the first one, the rest are free.)
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19 posted on 12/13/2013 10:00:26 AM PST by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: bigbob

I guess this would be OK if he poured a bottle of insecticide down the hole to nerve gas the little bastards before he poured the aluminum down the hole.


20 posted on 12/13/2013 10:02:03 AM PST by KarlInOhio (Everyone get online for Obamacare on 10/1. Overload the system and crash it hard!)
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