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ANTWORKS - ant farm designed by NASA
hitchhiker08
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6-21-2008 3:05 AM
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6-21-2008
1:21 PM
righthand
So, you could spend your life watch your ants perform instead of starring at the computer screen. Like it.
6-24-2008
5:12 AM
falice
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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/538e49ea-14c8-4118-97b3-81f027f9f548/711ACE64-F057-4920-9448-353611928FBD/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.odditycentral.com/pics/antworks-ant-farm-by-nasa.html" href="http://www.odditycentral.com/pics/antworks-ant-farm-by-nasa.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.odditycentral.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.odditycentral.com/pics/antworks-ant-farm-by-nasa.html"><DIV class="titlebg">AntWorks - ant farm by NASA</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.odditycentral.com/pics/antworks-ant-farm-by-nasa.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.odditycentral.com/img/05D2B8F1-2F81-43F6-9654-E2FA34EE8132" alt="ants6.jpg" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.odditycentral.com/pics/antworks-ant-farm-by-nasa.html"><P>That’s right, this is like a <STRONG>NASA-made ant farm</STRONG>.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.odditycentral.com/pics/antworks-ant-farm-by-nasa.html">Actually <STRONG>NASA</STRONG> only came up with the concept of <STRONG>AntWorks</STRONG>, developed so it could test the development of animal life in a 0 gravity environment. 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