9th February 2006, 10:16 PM
YOU SHOULD BE!
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And yes, that is a perfectly logical thing to say. This never affected you before, no reason to be afraid NOW. However, in the future should a situation occur involving a parasite invading the wrong host (which is almost always worse than when it invades it's intended host), you will know what you are up against. At least this isn't that dreaded fish that digs itself into the gills of larger fish and feeds on gill blood. That has GOT to be painful. What's more painful is this. They track their hosts via the trail of amonia coming out of them (urine basically). The wrong host there leads to one of two places, neither pleasent.
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And yes, that is a perfectly logical thing to say. This never affected you before, no reason to be afraid NOW. However, in the future should a situation occur involving a parasite invading the wrong host (which is almost always worse than when it invades it's intended host), you will know what you are up against. At least this isn't that dreaded fish that digs itself into the gills of larger fish and feeds on gill blood. That has GOT to be painful. What's more painful is this. They track their hosts via the trail of amonia coming out of them (urine basically). The wrong host there leads to one of two places, neither pleasent.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)