Them! (APOD 2008 Nov 10)

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Them! (APOD 2008 Nov 10)

Post by neufer » Mon Nov 10, 2008 1:46 pm

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap081110.html

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Dr. Harold Medford: The antennae! Shoot the antennae!

<<A young girl is found wandering in shock in the New Mexico desert near White Sands by two state troopers. When they investigate they find that the trailer that she was staying in with her parents and sibling had been destroyed. They also find that kindly old Gramps Johnson who ran the local store was also killed in a mysterious way. A lone print fround in front of the little girl's trailer is sent to the FBI in Washington for identification. Dr. Medford and his daughter Dr. Pat Medford come to New Mexico after identifying the print as belonging to a species of ant that had mutated after the first atomic bombing 9 years before in 1945. They find and destroy the New Mexico nest but not in time to prevent two young queen ants from escaping. One of the ants starts a nest on a military ship at sea. After the ants kill the entire crew the ship is sunk and the invading ants are killed. Another ant makes her way to the drain system of Los Angeles. A father and his two young boys accidently come upon one off the ants. The father is killed and then a hunt is on to see if they are in time to save the two young boys and also destroy the nest before any other ant can escape and destroy the world as we know it.>>

Dr. Harold Medford: When Man entered the atomic age, he opened a door into a new world. What we'll eventually find in that new world, nobody can predict.
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Re: Them! (APOD 2008 Nov 10)

Post by orin stepanek » Wed Nov 26, 2008 2:17 pm

It's esthetic beauty won first prize this year in the AUI/NRAO Image Contest.

Beautiful; yes! But I don't think it's a very safe place to go. bidy, bidy, bidy, :P

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