Comments on: Bugs in the Arroyo: sf podcast about metal-eating bug apocalypse http://boingboing.net/2010/01/10/bugs-in-the-arroyo-s.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Thu, 23 May 2013 05:54:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2010/01/10/bugs-in-the-arroyo-s.html#comment-684071 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-684071 Meh, it's been done on Rocky and Bullwinkle. The Metal Munching Moon Mice, led by "The Big Cheese", Boris Badenov. Meh, it’s been done on Rocky and Bullwinkle. The Metal Munching Moon Mice, led by “The Big Cheese”, Boris Badenov.

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2010/01/10/bugs-in-the-arroyo-s.html#comment-683849 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-683849 Didn't Greg Bear or someone write a novel based on a similar conceit? Maybe it was a bacteria, instead. I recall there being a rather lightweight romance about someone who develops metal and petrochemical eating bugs of some sort that sends us all back into pre-industrial modes. Didn’t Greg Bear or someone write a novel based on a similar conceit? Maybe it was a bacteria, instead. I recall there being a rather lightweight romance about someone who develops metal and petrochemical eating bugs of some sort that sends us all back into pre-industrial modes.

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2010/01/10/bugs-in-the-arroyo-s.html#comment-683871 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-683871 It's really hard to imagine how metal eating bugs would prevent people from living in a modern or even post-modern way; and certainly it's hard to imagine pioneers without their iron axes, knives, rifles, pots and pans. Anything that can be made out of metal, we've got other stuff we can make it out of now. Plastics, ceramics, carbon fiber... As for electronics, well, you can encase the metal in something the bugs don't eat, right? Well, maybe they explain it better in the book itself. ^.^;; It’s really hard to imagine how metal eating bugs would prevent people from living in a modern or even post-modern way; and certainly it’s hard to imagine pioneers without their iron axes, knives, rifles, pots and pans.

Anything that can be made out of metal, we’ve got other stuff we can make it out of now. Plastics, ceramics, carbon fiber… As for electronics, well, you can encase the metal in something the bugs don’t eat, right?

Well, maybe they explain it better in the book itself. ^.^;;

]]> By: Daemon http://boingboing.net/2010/01/10/bugs-in-the-arroyo-s.html#comment-683647 Daemon Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-683647 Just going by your introduction... the pioneers didn't have metal? Just going by your introduction… the pioneers didn’t have metal?

]]> By: bugmaker http://boingboing.net/2010/01/10/bugs-in-the-arroyo-s.html#comment-683660 bugmaker Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-683660 They only had folk and bluegrass. They only had folk and bluegrass.

]]> By: spocko http://boingboing.net/2010/01/10/bugs-in-the-arroyo-s.html#comment-683661 spocko Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-683661 I will check it out. Jumper is one of my favorite books. Sadly it was turned into a terrible movie. My only joy is knowing that at least he made some money on the rights so he can keep writing. I will check it out. Jumper is one of my favorite books. Sadly it was turned into a terrible movie. My only joy is knowing that at least he made some money on the rights so he can keep writing.

]]> By: Cory Doctorow http://boingboing.net/2010/01/10/bugs-in-the-arroyo-s.html#comment-683686 Cory Doctorow Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-683686 @3 I think he and Laura paid off the mortgage and put away enough for both kids' university education off that deal. @3 I think he and Laura paid off the mortgage and put away enough for both kids’ university education off that deal.

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2010/01/10/bugs-in-the-arroyo-s.html#comment-683710 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-683710 The story is also available in html (and other formats) at http://www.tor.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=story&id=22775 . The story is also available in html (and other formats) at http://www.tor.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=story&id=22775 .

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2010/01/10/bugs-in-the-arroyo-s.html#comment-683769 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-683769 Doctor Who, Planet of the Dead http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planet_of_the_Dead :) Doctor Who, Planet of the Dead

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planet_of_the_Dead

:)

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