2015-09-23 at 2:38 AM UTC
"It took just two to three hours for timid grasshoppers in a lab to morph into gregarious locusts after they were injected with serotonin. Conversely, if they were given serotonin blockers, they stayed solitary even in swarm-inducing conditions.
"These little guys changed from a shy creature that actively avoided making contact with other grasshoppers [into a creature] actively seeking out other insects and joining a gang,"
2015-09-23 at 2:41 AM UTC
Like, what if this explains both human nature and geopolitics::
"In the wild, swarms usually appear after a rainy period followed by a time of drought. After rains, populations of grasshoppers explode, Burrows says, because there is food aplenty. But when the land becomes parched and grass scarce, the populations get pushed into smaller and smaller areas, becoming more packed as desirable pasture diminishes, he says. At a certain point of density, the swarm-inducing serotonin gets triggered and the locusts set off en masse to find greener pastures. After that, few things — other than an end to the food supply or an ocean — can stop them.
Burrows says that locusts can switch out of swarm mode, though it takes days rather than hours. He notes, however, that the about-face rarely happens in the wild, because the offspring of locusts that breed while swarming are born swarmers. "
2015-09-23 at 2:50 AM UTC
I don't mean that we would have the same behavior as the grasshoppers do, but that under certain conditions that human brain chemistry might change under certain environmental or population conditions, reminiscent of quorum sensing but with human minds instead of bacteria, or something like that. We might even physically change, into niggers.
2015-09-25 at 1:09 AM UTC
when I look at grasshoppers now, all I see is niggers
2015-09-25 at 5:55 PM UTC
I see a lack of anything worthwhile in this thread
xcept the OP, it was pretty good
