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• wolfiesma commented on It's Scutigera Coleoptrata Season!
  Are ya sure its evolutionary instinct at work here? I wonder because my little one spent the better part of an hour today watching a wasp try to fly. (I think its wings were wet.) No fear. Stuff like that makes me think our fear of bugs is more learned than hardwired. I blame the bug spray people. For a lot of things....
• Lugh commented on Excursion to the Center of the Earth
  Well, the bit with the gnome is obvious. He's heading to his job with the transit people. With his uncanny sense of rhythm, he keeps all the subways running on time. That's right, he's a Metro gnome....
• Lugh commented on Excursion to the Center of the Earth
  On a slightly different note, something was bothering me about this whole thing. So, I went and did some math. If the hole is essentially a hemisphere (a likely result of a nuclear blast, though not an efficient way to create a self-burrowing mass), you get: (4 * pi * (300^3)) / 6 = 56,548,667.8 (volume of hole in cubic meters) ((4 * pi * (300^3)) / 6) * 7874 = 4.4526421 × 10^11 (mass of iron in kilograms) (((4 * pi * (300^3)) / 6) * 7874) / 1000 = 445,264,210 tonnes ((((4 * pi * (300^3)) / 6)...
• Super Nate commented on Excursion to the Center of the Earth
  My favorite ludicrous plan is Globus Cassus....
• tammylynwilson commented on It's Scutigera Coleoptrata Season!
  (I posted before but it was anonymous, I hadn't signed up) So I tell the entomologist that we've figured out what it is and he's obviously familiar with them. I ask if they're common around here and he said no. I told him from everything I'd read it looks like they're hard to kill and his response was, "Yeah, get a hammer." He's also a pest control person. This is not comforting, LOL. However, I think it might have died in the jar....