mind controlling parasite

[quote]dontburstmychestman Member Send PM REPORT DELETE POST› Posted May-01-2012 5:49 AM | Moderate hahaha....nope, i just have no brain to take over. on a good day anyway.[/quote] I like your sense of humor dude :-D you wouldn't happen to be Australian would you?

BEST screenname on the forum so far, lol...Luvit! and to answer ur ?: definitely there's real (potentially) biology going on in this movie...

thanks Otto.... yes, i remember reading ( prolly on here) that the production was referencing real behaviours from the natural world. And some of the nasty stuff critters do to eat and reproduce is very gnarly. Truth is stranger than fiction.

/ | | | is till the best name I've seen. No offense to dontburstmychestman, that is pretty sweet, but not the bestest :-P

@Cypher. That is very cool. how do you pronounce that ? :-)

This sort of thing is more common than you might think. You can check out two more examples [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMG-LWyNcAs]here[/url] and [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entomophthora_muscae]here[/url]. The wasp one is especially cool, because the wasps have developed a symbiotic relationship with a virus that they inject into the caterpillar along with their eggs, and that virus is believed to alter the host behavior. There's even some evidence that the common human parasite [i]toxoplasma gondii[/i] can somewhat alter the behavior of its hosts to a degree, although what purpose that serves is not yet clear. Nature is pretty fuckin scary, when you really look at it. Scary but cool.

yup. amazing how techniques have evolved. really glad i am not a caterpillar. cool avatar btw organic life....would make a great t shirt design.

Haha..actually it is a t-shirt design. I think that's the website there in the bottom of the pic (teefury.com), and I think they still sell the shirt.

I've seen people wearing that shirt. I nearly rolled them for it :-P / | | | is pronounced ALIEN I'm pretty sure, they are lurking around here somewheres........

@cypher, it's alien for sure. @dontburst, nasty worm there, thanks for sharing! I'm thinking we should see some stuff like this in Prometheus, very likely

Beware, this really is mind-boggling stuff, disgusting and pretty scary. So here's my take on fungus-controlled ants and fly larvae growing inside ant's heads only to burst out. Scale this up a bit and you're there! Life cycles and all... I remembered this from a stunning documentary about the ancient Tepui's (Table Mountains) of Venezuela and Guyana. So I found this article on National Geographic, make sure you read all of it and browse through the disturbing photo gallery. [i]"The fungus species can infect an ant, take over its brain, and then kill the insect once it moves to a location ideal for the fungi to grow and spread their spores."[/i] [url=http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/03/pictures/110303-zombie-ants-fungus-new-species-fungi-bugs-science-brazil/]"Zombie" Ants Found With New Mind-Control Fungi[/url] So far so good, but when I thought things cannot get much nastier and horrid, I found this related article: [i]"In South America, female phorid flies have developed a bizarre reproductive strategy: They hover over fire ants, then inject their eggs into the ants with a needle-like appendage... Finally, the baby fly decapitates its host and hatches, exiting through the ant's head, as shown in the pictures in this gallery."[/i] [url=http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/05/photogalleries/zombie-ants/]"Zombie" Ants Controlled, Decapitated by Flies[/url] Enjoy the ride, sweet dreams for ya all! HAL 9000 - going on standby

I name the new alien worm as the COBRALIEN...

@HAL 9000, lol yummy!

*uses Jedi mind tricks on you all* You all want to put 10 dollars in this box I am holding here........... You will enjoy putting your 10 dollars in this box.............. :-D *let's see....... 5015 members @ 10 bucks a pop equals.......Carry the one......... Maybe I should make it 20?.....Nah that might be pushing it.......... Equals A NEW CAR!!!*

@ hal9000. that has made me rather hungry. in lieu of worms for tea i will have kangaroo steak. oh yes....here skippy mate, just jump up on this griddle. @kronnang dunn...i reckon it should be called Christopher. Christopher the pussy faced snake. @cypher...your jedi mind tricks will not work here.

QUIET YOU! IT DOES WORK! You obviously just have a strong will :-P

hahaha....nope, i just have no brain to take over. on a good day anyway.

I do think that the Cobraxeno what ever, not only change the hosts DNA but they also controll their minds. I made a comment a few days back and a while before that about this Organism maybe being like the Star Trek Trill Organism but one that also mutates its host. Or maybe by the swelling of the Hosts head/Brain what we could be seeing is maybe the Organism actually gets into and attaches itself to the Hosts Brain and maybe thats why the Mutants Head Grow and maybe that explains how one bursts out of the Space Jockey Head/Helmet they find.

i reckon big dave is onto something there. but i guess it is all conjecture until the film drops. @cypher....i'm a brit resident in 'stralia, for the record

@Cypher: What gave it away for you?