Quick question about bugs

[Utsanomiko]

If you were just sitting around and a bunch of insects and spiders somehow got inside your skull (without you noticing or something), and started crawling around...

Would you be able to hear them?

[RogueIce]

If you were just sitting around and a bunch of insects and spiders somehow got inside your skull (without you noticing or something), and started crawling around...

Would you be able to hear them?

Wouldn't you sort of be dead if that happened? I mean, so far as I know, there isn't a lot of free space in the skull between your brain. Unless you're one of the trolls, I guess. *e-mails Darkstar to find out his answer*

[Anarchist Bunny]

I want to know how a spider is suppost to get into your brain cavity with out blinding/killing you.

[Batman]

*adds Darth Utsanimoko to the list for providing a mental image I REALLY REALLY could have done without*

[Dalton]

I read something once about a man who had maggots living inside his brain.

[Zaia]

*adds Darth Utsanimoko to the list for providing a mental image I REALLY REALLY could have done without*

Oh, Utsa, baby, you don't want to be on that list. *shakes head* No, no, no.

[Batman]

*adds Dalton too*

[RedImperator]

I read something once about a man who had maggots living inside his brain.

I read that too. He let an infection get out of control, to the point some of the bone in his skull rotted away. There were maggots living in his braincase, and they were keeping him alive by eating dead tissue. There have been cases where people have come into hospitals with horrible unhealed wounds brimming with maggots, and when the doctors do the first thing that comes natural to them (kill the maggots), the patent dies of blood poisoning within hours.

As to the original question, if they were making sounds that were loud enough to vibrate the three small bones in the ear, you'd hear them. Otherwise, no--the brain processes electro-chemical signals from the nerves coming from the ear, not the actual soundwaves.

[Shinova]

If you were just sitting around and a bunch of insects and spiders somehow got inside your skull (without you noticing or something), and started crawling around...

Would you be able to hear them?

I think you could probably hear them if they drummed on the inside of your skull enough. I don't think you'd feel it though.

Also, if they started touching your brain itself at certain places...everyone would start staring at you.

[RogueIce]

I read something once about a man who had maggots living inside his brain.

But why bring Darkstar into this?

[Batman]

*adds Darth Utsanimoko to the list for providing a mental image I REALLY REALLY could have done without*

Oh, Utsa, baby, you don't want to be on that list. *shakes head* No, no, no.

Too bad you didn't think of that before you did what got you on that list...

[Rye]

I heard a story once about an ant colony in a guy's ear. he went deaf in the ear after hearing lots of popping sounds the week before, he got it checked out ankd loads of ants had hatched in his ear canal.

When they removed the ants, the queen was the last one and was covered in inner ear fluid.

yum.

[Batman]

*and on the list Rye goes*

You're getting lots of company these days, Zaia...

[Darth Yoshi]

I heard a story once about an ant colony in a guy's ear. he went deaf in the ear after hearing lots of popping sounds the week before, he got it checked out ankd loads of ants had hatched in his ear canal.

When they removed the ants, the queen was the last one and was covered in inner ear fluid.

yum.

I suppose that better than that variety of mosquito/fly-related insect that lays its egg in your nose and whose larvae burrow out through you eyes, but not by much.

The ear canal's a little small for a colony of ants though, isn't it?

[Admiral Valdemar]

There have been instances when a moth or wasp got into the inner ear of a person and caused immense pain and sleep deprivation due to the noise, infection would also occur.

There are certain larvae of worms out there in third world countries that home in on CO2 emissions by a person sleeping on the ground, they then go up your nostril and drill into the nasal cavity and sometimes, cranial cavity. Loss of blood or brain damage can occur.

[Rye]

I suppose that better than that variety of mosquito/fly-related insect that lays its egg in your nose and whose larvae burrow out through you eyes, but not by much.

The ear canal's a little small for a colony of ants though, isn't it?

Not really, one presumes it was a small colony, and some ants are pretty tiny anyway, and they were only about a week old.

*and on the list Rye goes*

You're getting lots of company these days, Zaia...

Cool im on a list with zaia

I'm all blushy and bashful

[Zaia]

*and on the list Rye goes*

You're getting lots of company these days, Zaia...

Cool im on a list with zaia

I'm all blushy and bashful

*chuckles*

Do you know what the list is for, darlin'? It's the list of people that Batman will heartlessly walk past if he ever sees us lying on the ground, beaten and bleeding... *scowls at Batman*

Glad I'm in good company, though. *puts arm around Rye, smiles at Batman, and then walks off with Rye in tow*

[Batman]

The original terminology was, I believe, 'battered and bleeding'.
Make light of it now all you want-but when you're in that dark backalley one night, remember the list

[Darth Gojira]

*adds Darth Utsanimoko to the list for providing a mental image I REALLY REALLY could have done without*

Just how long is that list now, anyway?

[Batman]

*adds Darth Utsanimoko to the list for providing a mental image I REALLY REALLY could have done without*

Just how long is that list now, anyway?

47 millimetres in 10pt Arial with normal Linebreaks. Why?

[Darth Gojira]

*adds Darth Utsanimoko to the list for providing a mental image I REALLY REALLY could have done without*

Just how long is that list now, anyway?

47 millimetres in 10pt Arial with normal Linebreaks. Why?

Just wondering.....

[Zaia]

The original terminology was, I believe, 'battered and bleeding'.

A thousand apologies for butchering your poetic line, dear sir.

Make light of it now all you want-but when you're in that dark backalley one night, remember the list

Oh, I will. Never you fear.

[Batman]

The original terminology was, I believe, 'battered and bleeding'.

A thousand apologies for butchering your poetic line, dear sir.

It was just a nitpicky aside actually, so no apologies necces...nessec... needed.Especially not so many of them.

Make light of it now all you want-but when you're in that dark backalley one night, remember the list

Oh, I will. Never you fear.

My statement stands.

[Boba Fett]

I read something once about a man who had maggots living inside his brain.

I read that too. He let an infection get out of control, to the point some of the bone in his skull rotted away. There were maggots living in his braincase, and they were keeping him alive by eating dead tissue. There have been cases where people have come into hospitals with horrible unhealed wounds brimming with maggots, and when the doctors do the first thing that comes natural to them (kill the maggots), the patent dies of blood poisoning within hours.

That's true.

Furthermore it became a normal treatment in some hospitals in England to put fly ovums (I don't know the correct english word... ) to the open wound, under a bandage. The maggots "cleanse" the wound by eating away the rotten parts. The whole treatment must finish in a couple of hours before the maggots turns to flies. Before that the nurse have to pick them out from the wound manually.

That was on National Geographic or Discovery a couple of months ago.

[Frank Hipper]

I've seen a photograph of a spider in a woman's ear, but in your brain?