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The future of bed bug destruction
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I was reading some of the other threads where people said we need venture capitalists funding research into bed bugs. But I don't think we need "this is their life cycle" research, we know enough of that.
What we need is something similar to what pharmaceutical companies do when a new virus is discovered - they test all their existing drugs against it to see if there's any reaction, and if so they carry out more tests to see how they can exploit patents they own.
So what would be cool is to fund collection of millions of these buggers, and start exposing them to every drug, plant extract, chemical cleaner, and other substance known to man.
We'll start with what what some of our fellow bed bug haters are affected by: pollen, shellfish, peanuts, and other bed bugs. Then we'll get more exotic: bathing them in juices from vines that only grow deep in the jungle; spraying them with a mixture of milk and ground up unicorn horns; and sprinkling them with starfish poo.
They have never had to deal with starfish poo before. Who knows. Maybe it's effective?
That's phase one. Phase two is finding other things that might kill bed bugs ... a bed bug version of the rabbit disease myxomatosis, a new kids on the block album played day and night, a man in a dinosaur costume, or the colour pink. Yes, the cure may be worse than the disease, but I don't like to lose.
I'll gladly donate my bugs to science of this kind.
I'm almost tempted to grab a few dozen of them, stick them under shot glasses, buy half a dozen cans of insect spray and repellant, test them out, and put the results on the net. But one it's too expensive, two people would think I'm crazy, and three - I already have plans to go collect some starfish poo.
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lil_bit_obsessed
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Posted 1 year ago
Sat Jun 7 2008 22:23:21
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lol. this made me laugh. my money is on the new kids on the block album. maybe a few replays of "hangin tough"????
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fightorflight
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Posted 1 year ago
Sun Jun 8 2008 19:16:52
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> ... two, people would think I'm crazy,
Huh??
Look, bedbug sufferers already think and behave in ways that are far outside the bounds of "normal" life (one of the most vexing elements of this ordeal, actually), as if you hadn't clued into that already. You're sleeping under your desk at work and are worried people will think you're batty if you post bedbug experiments on the web? I've got my money on the other reasons.
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