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They couldn't think of using beekeeper suits?


Or really just the head pieces? I could understand not thinking of it in time to save the first victim they were with but there's absolutely no excuse to have sent those military guys on their operation without some simple protection. Pretty unrealistic I'm sad to say.

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More to the point, teaching millions of drone bees how to correctly compromise human anatomy isn't logistically possible

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Even more to the point. It's not a factually correct documentary. You do know what fiction is right?

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Yes but this is a fiction based on reality, not Lord of the Rings. Surely you understand the difference?

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teaching millions of drone bees how to correctly compromise human anatomy isn't logistically possible


My understanding was that they direct the bees to the victim as being a Hive, bees go into Hives thru the openings.

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Correct, but all the bee has to go on is a face, so how would any of the bees know exactly where the person is, or how would the hacker have any kind of confidence that the bee would somehow make it into the brain and cause a death?

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how is it not logistically possible?

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These are highly intelligent metal bees. So, for one thing, beekeeper suits wouldn't have stopped them, and for another, I wonder how much you thought this question through prior to posting it?? I mean, suppose the beekeeper suits actually worked in this situation - what exactly are you proposing? That everybody wears them 24-7 and never takes them off for the rest of their lives?

I mean, you do realize that now even the perpetrator of that genocide has to keep altering his appearance indefinitely, right?


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These are highly intelligent metal bees. So, for one thing, beekeeper suits wouldn't have stopped them


Intelligence has nothing to do with their ability to rip through materials. They are tiny... if you protect your head well enough there's no way they could get in. Stop making assumptions and talking out of your ass please.

and for another, I wonder how much you thought this question through prior to posting it?


Far less than you appear to have thought about your reply, which is tragic since you're wrong on every single point.

I mean, suppose the beekeeper suits actually worked in this situation - what exactly are you proposing?


It's outlined in the OP, did you even read it? I said they should have sent the military guys who tried to destroy the hive with some form of facial protection. Knowing how the bees kill people and sending them out with their heads totally unprotected is about the dumbest thing imaginable. They could give them gas masks for example... ANYTHING.

That everybody wears them 24-7 and never takes them off for the rest of their lives?


Are you literally retarded? Nobody here said anything about that.

I mean, you do realize that now even the perpetrator of that genocide has to keep altering his appearance indefinitely, right?


Thanks for pointing out that obvious bit of information that has NOTHING to do with the topic at hand.

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Right, nice try with all the insults, but it doesn't mean you are suddenly making sense. For one thing, that you think a head piece would have somehow made a hermetic seal with the body is ridiculous.
For another, these bees would have easily penetrated such a barrier, rendering your whole silly point here moot. And three: who is to say the bees can't enter a human body through another orifice, or simply burrow through skin if they need to?



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For one thing, that you think a head piece would have somehow made a hermetic seal with the body is ridiculous.


Did you even watch the episode? They went in through their ears and nostrils. There are no other holes big enough for those bees to get into, and certainly none that would lead to the brain.

For another, these bees would have easily penetrated such a barrier, rendering your whole silly point here moot.


You think tiny metalic bees could break through a metal gas mask? Please stop embarrassing yourself.

And three: who is to say the bees can't enter a human body through another orifice, or simply burrow through skin if they need to?


Who's to say they can? Not the show, only you it seems.

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My take on this that even if they did not know the capabilities of the bees their CO should have issued some head protection like gas masks (or even biohazard suits, etc) even if they proved to be ineffective since they knew that those bee's could kill people.

But i also understand that for the sake of that scene it was kind of necessary to kill the soldiers (but we could have had it both ways, with them burrowing trough masks or something like that)

..:: DARKKi / NZTi! ::..

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They weren't real bees. They managed to go all the way into a human skull and shatter glass. I'm pretty sure they could handle a little cotton and polyester.

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I agree, given that they were metal bees they could penetrate a bee keeper suit. We saw them break glass with no problem. These bees were nothing they had ever dealt with before and therefore they didn't have means developed to protect against them, which made them so deadly. It seemed as though they could penetrate anything.

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