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Largest Insect in the World
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December 6, 2011 at 1:41 pm
(This post was last modified: December 6, 2011 at 1:42 pm by reverendjeremiah.)
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 RE: Largest Insect in the World
December 6, 2011 at 1:52 pm
(This post was last modified: December 6, 2011 at 1:57 pm by Anomalocaris.)
Largest insect ever known to have lived, Meganeuropsis permiana, an extinct order of giant dragon flies, it weighed 450 grams or 1 pound:
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1Z5_frqW26w/Sg...ropsis.jpg The largest creepy crawly ever known to have lived on land, Arthropleura, and extinct species of millipede, the largest of which was 6 feet long and weighted about 20 lbs: http://whirledview.typepad.com/whirledvi...eura_1.jpg 
Now that's just goddamn awesome. I thought the largest insect would be a beetle but this one appears to be more like a grasshopper or a locust than a beetle.
Still - SCIENCE! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlNw5ZuDYsk
If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach in the public schools, tomorrow you can make it a crime to teach it in the private schools and next year you can make it a crime to teach it to the hustings or in the church. At the next session you may ban books and the newspapers...
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925 Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan  (December 6, 2011 at 1:41 pm)reverendjeremiah Wrote: Hands up everybody who would burst into tears and simultaneously shit their pants if that fucker flew into their face? Think I'd have a cardiac arrest.
You are currently experiencing a lucky and very brief window of awareness, sandwiched in between two periods of timeless and utter nothingness. So why not make the most of it, and stop wasting your life away trying to convince other people that there is something else? The reality is obvious.
I would shit myself, even though I am not that afraid of bugs.
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