The locusts are moving toward the Emergency Lab?? Oh no, save that poor dog!! #Monsterdon #BeginningOfTheEnd

Hm, I wonder if it was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Evans_(actor) who worked at WABC for many years.

@moira @Taweret

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@goinfawr Really hard to tell, right? I totally understand this. I hear that sound constantly and loudly.

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Wacker Drive shown

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Scientist guy would have been more effective if they used this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_DV9b0x7v4

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The locusts are fans of public transportation! ONE OF US. ONE OF US. ONE OF US!

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@jonny is this the first #Monsterdon post that references a DOI?

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I love how the grassy hoppies are just walking slowly now

Crank it up to 11!! #Monsterdon

Oh Hi Grasshopper.... #Monsterdon

The narration from the spotters has a War of the Worlds vibe.

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Grasshoppers crawling around in front of postcards. Top-notch.

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Do you think the locusts said to each other: "Shit, we're huge now. What the fuck?"

Aww, they're so eager they're climbing on top of each other! How precious!

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Mine mine mine mine!

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Fun fact: The budget of this movie was $170,000. You can't buy a single family home most places for that now.

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"Here they come. Coming down the street."

Gettin' the funniest looks from everyone they meet.

Bug bus. Bug bus. Bug bus. Bug bus. Bug bus. #Monsterdon

@CactuarJoe 70 degree E.D. Damnit! I'm not going to be able to eat carrots for a month! #monsterdon

Later some aliens will pop in: "you called?"

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We're not quite ready yet. The sound guy says something is off with the reverb.

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so body size affects the audiogram - larger animals have larger ~ everything ~ so the natural range of tuning is lower. the mammalian auditory system has had several evolutionary novelties that allows it to maintain high sensitivity over a broad range of frequencies, but insect auditory systems are usually simple tympanate systems. grasshoppers have an audiogram that is tuned for their social communication range, 6-9kHz, though interestingly enough some of them have multiple different sets of ears. so anyway no, giant grasshoppers probably cannot hear ultrasound.

https://doi.org/10.1002/(SICI)1097-0029(19991215)47:6%3C380::AID-JEMT3%3E3.0.CO;2-P

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@SnoopJ Earlier, he mentioned that they slow down and stop moving when it gets cold, but 70 degrees seems to me like it should be well above that “cold” threshold.

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@kstatz12 I knew you'd have an answer

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@wohali yeah me too - Paul thinks it's Paul Frees

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is that my tinnitus or the score?

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Fire up the amp! Pump up the volume!! #Monsterdon #BeginningOfTheEnd

You didn't already have your speaker plugged in, man?

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I don't think this is gonna work, friends

Soldier radios in sit-rep

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I want to fly the bubblecopter 😲✨

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The Locusts seem to be White Sox fans.

Over.

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what sort of rube-goldberg-ass plan is this?
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Observation post one. I’m at gramma’s house repeat I’m at gramma’s house!

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Considering we've already established that these locusts are undetectable from 10 feet away, I question the reliance on observation posts

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That's quite the view across the street from the Art Institute.

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That announcer voice is awfully familiar. Who is it? :think_bread:

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“Thick thighs save lives”

Locusts, probably.

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"I don't see any grasshoppers here but the South side is seeing some action"

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Heretheycome!

Coming down the street!

heyhey!

the monkees

wait,

err

not yet

This store is giving me *feelings*, sir!

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Man, the south side is getting *all* th eaction

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The announcer also flies a helicopter, apparently.

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#monsterdon timestamp: 1:01:00 for crazed '50s scientists firing a mobster gun at a giant chitin bnuy inside an office building in downtown Chicago

The first Disaster Area concert...

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You really don't need to explain it. Time is sort of important. #monsterdon

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Peter Graves is left handed. Nice.

Oh yeah, you’re right, I should have put the oscilloscope in the boat. Shit.

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Well, I had to check: the highest building in Chicago in 1957 was the Prudential Building, at 601 feet/183 meters.

"aww, but me and the boys were really looking forward to nuking Chicago!"
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Handy that you already had a big speaker mounted on the top of your building (as you just said it was already there).

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@amyfou These guys? open topped shoeboxes!? #monsterdon

This sounds complicated. Couldn't they just use one of the helicopters hovering above?

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Make sure that under no circumstances do you show us the map to help us understand what’s going on

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They need 7.1 surround sound, at least

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I feel like she had an ensemble exactly like this one earlier, except the eariler one didn't have large decorative buttons on the skirt

The show is yours…I’m the pied piper. #Monsterdon #BeginningOfTheEnd1957

It's a 30' long grasshopper, how is one guy going to "get that thing out of there"?
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"Here's a map, but the audience doesn't need to see it."

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When did they get on snuggling terms?

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actually quite liked the tousled look on graves there

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The nerds are in charge now!

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Double B Pilot: "Want to pretend we didn't hear him and drop it anyway?"
Double B Copilot: "You know it!" #Monsterdon #BeginningOfTheEnd

@RobynGoodfellow it's a mad mad mad mad mad world?! #WrongMovie #monsterdon

@jonny@neuromatch.social Only on the juveniles, which is a good sign for the cleanup!

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Peter Graves action hero! For like 30 seconds.
He looks better with his tie all fucked up and hair a mess.
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Giant locust loose in the lab! It's OK, doc has a rifle.

Oops, random MP got it.

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man, they had to get up real early to get b-roll of Chicago with no one on the street.
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wait

what?

location of "the" locust?

or the locusts?

why? what? who?

Quick!

Call the grammarican!

Oh, you just gotta shootem in the old cebeza.

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"He gave his life to protect Comiskey Park." #Monsterdon

Wait ... whatever happened to "got it"s flying around?

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This is kinda meta, but...

Okay, I recognize the style guide of these captions. I used to work for the company that did them. Whoever did these ones got sloppy (as did whoever did the QA). Either that or they've started leaning into AI like everyone else. #monsterdon

Wait the sounds make them pervious to machine gun fire?

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We have BIG SCRIBBLES!

Which I accidentally typed as BUG scribbles

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oh, ok, cool, machine guns work so we're all set #monsterdon

They've got it.
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oops. hope his life flashing before his eyes earlier was a good show.

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We found the Brown Note for locusts!

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By jove, I think we've got it!

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I think it's interesting that George Pal's The War Of The Worlds has almost exactly the same plot as this movie #Monsterdon #BeginningOfTheEnd

Loving this sound design. #monsterdon

Audio terrorism, the movie.

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he'd have to leave a lot earlier than 5:45 to beat morning rush.
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"Like a lie-detector test!"

YES HONEY THAT'S WHAT A POLYGRAPH IS

JFC

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Wait, so that thing is supposed to detect psychos?

You're using the wrong instrument!

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@Violinknitter It was the 50's, there was no such thing as a reason

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Moby Dick is showing at the theatre.

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They're just lucky this guy is an experienced sound engineer too

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OMG please stop that goddam noise!

Wait! Am I a giant locust?

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The university. The downtown hotel. How small do they think this town is? #Monsterdon

#monsterdon The kettle drum guy finally feels his oats.

So that grasshopper is probably screaming it's fool head off.

Couldn't you try listening to that to get some frequency ideas?

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what do you think they made the grasshoppy prison out of?

@faithisleaping Listen, we put in an incredible amount of effort 🙃 #Monsterdon #BeginningOfTheEnd1957

Also how can you evacuate Chicago in a few hours‽
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woo woo woo woo woo woo intensifies

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you can HEAR it! surely you can tell you need a higher frequency?!

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Is this bugging you? Is this bugging you? #monsterdon #BeginningOfTheEnd