[Noisebridge-discuss] [Build] Fauna for 2169

[Tom Longson (nym)]

Common guys, we figured this out a while back.

Roomba mounted with a BB gun hooked up to the web. Croudsourcing the
rat problem, so to speak.

Geez... robo snake?!?! That's just crazy.
nym





On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 10:40 AM, deleTed<arbzed at gmail.com> wrote:
> Jenkies!
> So it turns out that rats are indeed innately afraid of cat pee, unless they
> are infected with a brain parasite called Toxoplasma gondii, whose primary
> host is cats...  Nothing is ever simple, is it?
> http://www.livescience.com/animals/070402_cat_urine.html
>
> On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 10:32 AM, deleTed <arbzed at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I don't think it is going to be possible to physically prevent rodents
>> from entering the space.
>> In my experience poison and traps, though they do result in reduced
>> numbers of rats and pungent smells behind walls, aren't very effective as
>> deterrents.
>> I like the robot idea.  What about something that just patrols the space
>> smelling like cat pee?
>> On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 10:05 AM, Christie Dudley <longobord at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Yeah, I've seen rats in the new space, as have a number of other
>>> people.  They're pretty ballsy too.  One of the concerns is that they
>>> use stairwells to come up from lower levels.  We'd have to have good
>>> doors on all the ingress points, including the elevator shaft, if I'm
>>> figuring correctly.  I think this is the concern most people have.
>>>
>>> Christie
>>>
>>> ---
>>> Pigs can fly given sufficient thrust.
>>>     - RFC 1925
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 10:01 AM, dpc<weasel at meer.net> wrote:
>>> > Quinn Norton <quinn at quinnnorton.com> writes:
>>> >
>>> >> Did I miss something? Is there a rat problem?
>>> >
>>> > i've heard things scurrying around when i was coming up, but there were
>>> > definitely nests/poo in the walls that we took apart.
>>> >
>>> > \p
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