Lets keep these far, far away from Scp-914.
Would they do anything to SCP-882, or would they see it as one huge metal… mess?
They'dlikely get crushed into the gears before they could really do anything to it.
Have you pondered on using SCP-480 to sew together two objects and see if the ants can take apart that object? That would be a interesting experiment.
They would probably fail if they tried to undo them, which they are unlikely to attempt anyway.
All things considered, wouldn't it be much simpler to just enter their enclosure naked?
Requesting permission to do a grammar-and-phrasing edit.
Shut up, Yoric. :P
Bright, I'd just like to correct some grammar and nudge the tone towards clinical. Sentences like "Fabric are flayed thread by thread" don't seem quite right.
that was pretty good, Photosynthetic. *thumbs up*
what would happen if victims of 217 were exposed to these guys i wonder….or, worse, if the colony was infected with 217, would they essentially self destruct?
217 describes the end result as "organic metal", which might not actually be considered artificial. Also, it's a virus, so that might make it count as "natural". In that case, they wouldn't react at all to anything infected with it. Otherwise, they would try to disassemble any available infectees.
I suspect they would convert before they could do too much damage (they take each piece off separately), at which point they would lose their special ability.
Upvoting this one almost solely because it includes an incident (and only one) that does NOT result in fatalities or serious injuries. Well, and because it's curious and well-written. Nothing earth-shattering, but still weird and interesting.
the motor of a running tanker truck, resulting in [DATA EXPUNGED].
Can the [DATA EXPUNGED] just be replaced with "The death of six (6) individuals."?
Other than that I liked the entire article.
That part is a not-so-veiled reference to the Los Alfaques Disaster. I didn't want to be too explicit about it, but I'm not hung on obscuring the reference.
I'm very much proverbially on the fence regarding whether this one could even be considered "anomalous" or just "fascinating new species of ant/new ant behavior discovered"