Comments on: The Truth about the Great Crustacean War on Humanity

By: raincoaster

raincoaster — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 00:11:18 +0000

Hmmm, have you seen the post about Tree Lobsters? Or the one about the Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus? Perhaps if the Giant Freshwater Crawdad looked good on a hat we might have some kind of control mechanism!

By: ashid mapanzigan

ashid mapanzigan — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 18:29:48 +0000

I live in the Pacific Northwest: home of the infamous Giant Freshwater Crawdad of the Northern Cascades. These monsters, much like the sewer gators of urban legend, were a non-native species introduced to mountain lakes and streams by careless animal rights activists. They have, since their introduction, grown abnormally large, feeding primarily on sturgeon and chinook salmon in their native spawning grounds, thus disrupting the local ecosystems. The largest live crawdad on record currently measures 83.2 cm, but carapaces have been found which indicate crawdad lengths of up to 108 cm. That’s nearly 3 1/2 feet! So far, only one human death has been attributed to these pests, but efforts to eradicate them have proved difficult and costly, and any cohesive plan will likely take years to implement…

By: raincoaster

raincoaster — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 00:08:42 +0000

Thanks!

By: Stonehead

Stonehead — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 23:02:16 +0000

By: archiearchive FCD

archiearchive FCD — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 21:51:11 +0000

@ Brian, “To Serve Man” was written by Damon Knight. It appeared first in the November 1950 issue of Galaxy Science Fiction and has been reprinted a number of times, including in “Frontiers in Space” (1955) which was where I first read it.