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Escaped cloned female mutant crayfish take over Belgian cemetery
- archgoon 6y ago> "It's impossible to round up all of them. It's like trying to empty the ocean with a thimble," said Kevin Scheers, of the Flemish Institute for Nature and Woodland Research. What? why don't they just... > Belgian law prohibits the poisoning of the crayfish, which was a method of control used in Spain. Ah.
- sam_lowry_ 6y agoNZ newssite used as source for belgian news. Mad-mad world.
- h2odragon 6y agoGeese, perhaps? I think there's a canadian species thats numerous and hardy... That is the best headline I've seen in a while. All it lacks is celebrity nudity.
- inetsee 6y agoAnd we have a new winner for the most unusual headline on Hacker News!
- knifepatrol 6y ago“Purdue University Scientists Drive Tiny Robot Around Inside Living Butthole” was also pretty odd
- inetsee 6y agoI don't know how I missed that one. We could call it a tie?
- vinhboy 6y agoVietnamese Americans will gladly eat them out existence if you want. We love that stuff!
- ragingrobot 6y agoOne million, seven hundred seventy-one thousand, five hundred sixty-one. That's assuming one crayfish, multiplying with an average litter of ten, producing a new generation every 12 hours, over a period of three days.
- mcswell 6y agoI bet they taste good
- zeristor 6y agoWith no diversity wouldn't these be vulnerable to a well tailored disease? I thought that was one of the benefits of sexual reproduction.
- kjs3 6y agoBy what delusion do you think we can tailor a disease that well? That's some serious hubris right there.
- pillefitz 6y agoFor a layperson like me it doesn't seem that far-fetched, and I'm clearly not delusional.
- kjs3 6y agoSilly me...we can just take this "well tailored disease" down off the shelf. It's next to the disease that takes out invasive rats, kudzu and cockroaches with no potential side effects. Couldn't be simpler. Nope...no delusion here.