Skeptics Debunk This: Insane Cockroach Horror

[qwrty]

SOmebody wrote this really scary 'Reality Horror' story. It's about some truly scary incidents with cockroaches (covered upby Indonesian military) in the aftermath of the 2005 tsunami. It's heavily backed with facts and all that. More convincing than Michael crichton.

interested people can go to www.the-z.org and look up 'Global Horror Serials'. It's free.

If not for the fact that these guys call themselves The Z Organization, Global Storytellers (i.e. fiction), I'd have believed it!

However, the stuff they say about cockroaches is still very convincing... any skeptics to counter?

[Freethinker]

Michael Crichton is a writer of FICTION.

[thisninjascrazy]

Michael Crichton is a writer of FICTION.

That can't be! I've seen video footage - with my own two eyes - of Jeff Goldblum being attacked by Dinosaurs. I know Michael Crichton had something to do with it.

[kerikiwi]

Right after I've finished countering the da vinci code.

[thisninjascrazy]

Another New Zealander? Damn... we're multiplying. Welcome to the forum!

[qwrty]

Came across a pretty interesting fact-fiction horror tale about cockroaches. The writer is some reality-host who takes a lot of publicly available facts and I'm at a loss where the fiction begins.

For example, I didn't know roaches were meat-eating. Or that they grow up to 4 inches long. But it turns out that they are, and he's got hungry roaches eating human bodies.

You can find the yarn at www.the-z.org. Go for Global Horror Serials.

[EeneyMinnieMoe]

The idea of someone actually researching cockaroaches to write about them and of people who study them and become experts on them is the creepiest thing imaginable.

I can see how it would be fascinating, though. I heard that a roach can survive a nuclear explosion and is predicted to survive all othe species, including humans. Think of that. In a million years, the Pantheon and the Mayan temples are gonna be long gone but the same roach species that was scurrying in them is still gonna be around.

[Causality]

The idea of someone actually researching cockaroaches to write about them and of people who study them and become experts on them is the creepiest thing imaginable.

I can see how it would be fascinating, though. I heard that a roach can survive a nuclear explosion and is predicted to survive all othe species, including humans. Think of that. In a million years, the Pantheon and the Mayan temples are gonna be long gone but the same roach species that was scurrying in them is still gonna be around.

You may have heard that a roach can survive a nuclear explosion, but that doesn't make it so. Once every molecule in its body is reduced to basic elements it will cease to exist.

This whole cockroach thing is urban legend. Sure, it's a hardy animal that's been around awhile. But since we don't know the future of the planet, we can't say that it's any more able to survive the next million years as humans or horses.

[Goshawk]

There's nothing to debunk on the linked website; it's a fiction website, right up front. It says right there:

We are an organization of writers. Our mission is to bring traditional storytelling online for global readers like you!


It's like asking us to debunk a Stephen King or H.P. Lovecraft story.

Was this thread intended as satire?

[BenK]

Advertising is my guess.

[thisninjascrazy]

It's like asking us to debunk a Stephen King or H.P. Lovecraft story.

You'd be amazed how many ignorant people there are out there who refuse to believe that "The Necronomicron" is a fictional device. Despite the fact that Lovecraft (a stauch athiest, by the way) and his circle of writer friends such as Clark Ashton Smith and Robert E. Howard went to great lengths to create bogus histories for their fictional tomes, there's tons of evidence of its ficticious nature by way of letters and admissions by Lovecraft himself. But there's no telling that to some people. :)

All you goth 'occultniks' out there, I'm talking to you...

[Axiom_Blade]

You'd be amazed how many ignorant people there are out there who refuse to believe that "The Necronomicron" is a fictional device. Despite the fact that Lovecraft (a stauch athiest, by the way) and his circle of writer friends such as Clark Ashton Smith and Robert E. Howard went to great lengths to create bogus histories for their fictional tomes, there's tons of evidence of its ficticious nature by way of letters and admissions by Lovecraft himself. But there's no telling that to some people. :)

All you goth 'occultniks' out there, I'm talking to you...

But...but...I have a copy of the Necronomicon! (http://www.amazon.com/Necronomicon-Simon/dp/0380751925/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/103-7662582-2132669?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1177222881&sr=8-1)

This "Simon" guy is making bucks off occult noobs, who think they're actually finding a copy of a powerful, ancient grimoire in Barnes & Noble. Fun and trippy if you're 16. But you should just save your $5, and use it to buy some of HPL's stories.

[thisninjascrazy]

How about that... debunked in its own Amazon reviews, no less!

[kmortis]

Pfft! Well, of COURSE Lovecraft is going to say that. He was under a geas from the Great Cthulhu to say that stuff. I mean, there's the GC and he's trying to get a nap in after his long flight, and all these people keep bothering him with these incantations. It was such a bother to eat all those cultists, it was making him grumpy. So, he has Howard say that it's all fiction and >POOF!< it all stops.

My source is Baseless Claims Quarterly, vol 5, issue 23, look it up

[thisninjascrazy]

Pfft! Well, of COURSE Lovecraft is going to say that. He was under a geas from the Great Cthulhu to say that stuff. I mean, there's the GC and he's trying to get a nap in after his long flight, and all these people keep bothering him with these incantations. It was such a bother to eat all those cultists, it was making him grumpy. So, he has Howard say that it's all fiction and >POOF!< it all stops.

My source is Baseless Claims Quarterly, vol 5, issue 23, look it up

A Cthulhu denial conspiracy? This one's going straight to the CT forums.

"We're through the looking glass, people..." - Bart Simpson

[DangerousBeliefs]

I'm not much of one for banning people, but reviewing this posters posts.... yeah, qwrty is just fishing for readers.

[kmortis]

A Cthulhu denial conspiracy? This one's going straight to the CT forums.

"We're through the looking glass, people..." - Bart Simpson

No....NO...NO!! not the CTs! I'll recant! Anything but that. I'm sorry...:cry1

[Warge]

Ok, I know I'm new here and everything, but what's the point with this IMO BS?

[Bob Klase]

You may have heard that a roach can survive a nuclear explosion, but that doesn't make it so. Once every molecule in its body is reduced to basic elements it will cease to exist.

This whole cockroach thing is urban legend.

Not entirely, although it is usually misstated. Based on everything I remember reading about it over the years, such as this: http://www.ipm.iastate.edu/ipm/hortnews/1996/12-13-1996/bomb.htm

cockroaches can withstand many more times the amount of radiation than humans and other life. The damage (and death) caused by a nuclear bomb are caused by the blast, the heat and the radiation. Obviously roaches can be killed by blast and heat, and by enough radiation.

[Ladewig]

I'm not much of one for banning people, but reviewing this posters posts.... yeah, qwrty is just fishing for readers.

Given that qwrty already acknowleged that it is a fiction site that deserves more readers in this post:
Came across a free site that I like, so I’d like to spread the word a bit. The name is catchy too!

(The Z Organization, www.the-z.org)

They have a whole new storytelling approach.
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I think a short suspension is called for.

Very lame, qwrty, very lame indeed.

[Elizabeth I]

Oh, yeah? Well, somebody brought a DVD they'd checked out back to one of our branch libraries and when the clerk opened it to be sure the disc really WAS in the case and it was the right one, THOUSANDS of little teeny roaches ran out of it. So there.

Sneer if you want but your laughter will sound pretty hollow when giant roaches are carrying off pieces of you. Then what will you think of these prophets who tried to tell you of your danger? You'll be laughing out of the other side of your face - if you still have one - I betcha.

[fuelair]

Ok, I know I'm new here and everything, but what's the point with this IMO BS?
Do you mean "What do you mean by IMO?" (in my opinion) (akaIMHO - humble), or "Why do you use IMO?" (because it is not fact, but my opinion is.....).:confused:

[DangerousBeliefs]

Do you mean "What do you mean by IMO?" (in my opinion) (akaIMHO - humble), or "Why do you use IMO?" (because it is not fact, but my opinion is.....).:confused:

IMO, it's no wonder you have 4,000+ posts. :rolleyes:

[Slimething]

Sneer if you want but your laughter will sound pretty hollow when giant roaches are carrying off pieces of you. Then what will you think of these prophets who tried to tell you of your danger? You'll be laughing out of the other side of your face - if you still have one - I betcha.

Let me be the first to welcome our new roachy overlords! (as I dab honey on anyone who gets too close) :D

[Warge]

Do you mean "What do you mean by IMO?" (in my opinion) (akaIMHO - humble), or "Why do you use IMO?" (because it is not fact, but my opinion is.....).:confused:

Actually, I was referring to the OP and the link - I'm well aware of the web abbreviations so lets not get technical... :D