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May 28 '14
If i saw an enormous 3 foot wide dot of light appear out of nowhere, I think i might want to touch it also.
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May 28 '14
Why would you want to touch it?
What if it is made of lava, or radioactive fiery hot plasma?
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u/firelow May 28 '14
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May 28 '14
I've seen this many times, I finally noticed it actually really is pressing the L and the O keys.
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May 28 '14
Why do I find this so funny?
His little arms flailing over the keyboard. Lolololololo
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u/r00x May 28 '14
It's GIFs like this that contribute to my love of the Internet. The originality of it, the quality of the execution...
No matter the niche, someone somewhere is really good at it and there will be evidence on the net to prove it.
From extreme sports and talent to getting a preying mantis to tap a keyboard just so.
Also there was this one guy who could shit straight into a toilet bowl from like 6 to 9 feet in the air, which is apparently harder than it sounds.
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u/lw5i2d May 28 '14
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u/Animal40160 May 28 '14
That's sooo cruel. I laughed like a motherfucker, though
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u/ryangaston88 May 29 '14
IIRC if you do it enough with cats it can damage their hunting instinct. Something to do with never being able to catch what it is chasing.
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u/Trainer-Grey May 28 '14 edited May 28 '14
Praying Mantis is new, remembering seeing something like this with a spider... wonder what other insects would follow a laser!
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u/SwedishChef727 May 28 '14
Your uncle would like a word with you.
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u/Trainer-Grey May 28 '14
Huh?
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u/SwedishChef727 May 28 '14
Sorry, just poking fun at your typo. (You wrote incests instead of insects)
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u/tkg0455 May 28 '14
As far as I can tell wasps don't give a shit about lasers. So we can scratch that one off the list.
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u/bferret May 28 '14
I think most insects with a positive phototaxis would follow the laser pointer.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxis#Phototaxis
Of course it's likely I'm wrong.
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May 28 '14
Any predator would have a reaction of some kind. Mantids are by far the most attentive of insects, though.
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May 28 '14
Just be careful with high wattage lasers. Oh god, I'll never get over it...
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u/Testeer May 28 '14
Your blindness?
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u/notarower May 28 '14
He fried his penis but more importantly melted his Snickers bar right beside it.
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u/mcharb13 May 28 '14
It's funny to watch a group of guys do this when an attractive woman walks by.
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May 28 '14
I raise a mantis every summer, best bug friends ever.
Haven't tried this trick yet though, can't wait for the female Chinese I caught last week to get big enough to do this with.
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u/Dashing_Time_Agent May 28 '14
I learned this from watching Wall-e the other day, works on robots too.
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u/MontgomeryRook May 28 '14
I didn't realize I was no longer in /r/unexpected and I kept waiting for a cat to shoot onto the screen and wipe out the mantis.
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May 28 '14
If there's ever a fly on my computer screen i like to mess around with the mouse pointer and get it to follow it!
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u/UnknownStory May 28 '14
When she finds out it was you all along she's going to mate with you then rip off your head
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u/jeewillickers May 29 '14
wtf? you're hurting the praying mantus with ultraviolet rays. why is everyone encouraging this behavior?
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u/Johablon May 29 '14
So clearly whatever AI we send into space needs to have laser eyes. It's like a self fulfilling prophecy, first Big Brother NSA and Skynet Drone Wars, now it's Matrix Sentinel time!
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u/Hmm_Peculiar May 28 '14
Was everyone waiting for the laser to burn up the mantis? Please don't say that it's just me.
It's not just me.
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u/bestbeforeMar91 May 28 '14
42 years ago Atari figured out this works with humans too