[Noisebridge-discuss] [Build] Fauna for 2169

[Christie Dudley]

I was thinking about the ultrasound myself, considering
electrical/electronic means to be the superior problem-solving method
for the lot of us.  However, it didn't take much research to find that
there's absolutely no research supporting the effectiveness of these
things and some indication to the contrary.  In other words, pretty
much everything I read from a neutral source said that they don't
work, and furthermore there's no reason they should.

Christie
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Pigs can fly given sufficient thrust.
     - RFC 1925



On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 2:06 AM, mediapathic<mediapathic at gmail.com> wrote:
> (Hey, cool, Thunderbird has a Reply To List button. When did that happen?)
>
> So, I didn't bother reading all the way back on this, but has anyone
> suggested, and further does anyone have any evidence to suggest the
> viability of, those ultrasound pain field generators to drive away
> rodentia? If, in fact, they actually work, I'm a bit wary because I have
> a history of being able to hear supposed 'ultrasound', and it's entirely
> possibly they might drive me bugnuts. But I'm willing and in fact
> interested in trying them, since it seems like an efficient solution. If
> they are not in fact bullshit.
>
> --esc
>
> On 8/18/09 11:23 AM, Tom Longson (nym) wrote:
>> 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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