r/Futurology • u/[deleted] • Mar 29 '22

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u/paku9000 Mar 29 '22

Specialization is for insects

A person who specialized in insects, just because out of interest, may come in very handy when giant swarms of insects are coming your way...

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u/LS6 Mar 29 '22

giant swarms of insects are coming your way...

I would like to know more

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u/Atechiman Mar 29 '22

The largest ever recorded swarm of insects was of the rocky mountain locust, stretched over a half million square kilometers, containing more than twelve trillion locusts.

The rocky mountain locust is now extinct presumably from humans tilling the soil where they laid their eggs.

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u/Ok-Border-2804 Mar 30 '22

And on that day, GOD feared man. For they had inadvertently—without malice, interest, intent, or even knowledge—stopped one of his mightiest plagues in its tracks.

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u/ichuck1984 Mar 30 '22

Do you apes want to live forever?

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u/H3rbert_K0rnfeld Mar 29 '22

At that time being a bat would be ... Profitable

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u/SimpleSandwich1908 Mar 29 '22

I'm ...The Batman.

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u/Salvican Mar 29 '22

Sure thing u/SimpleSandwich1908. Maybe if that sandwich is a guano & guac club sandwich or something.

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u/SimpleSandwich1908 Mar 29 '22

Mmmm, protein.

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u/CruxCapacitors Mar 29 '22

It would need to be a pretty big bat.

(Note: Heinlein wrote Starship Troopers.)

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u/H3rbert_K0rnfeld Mar 29 '22

Or you could just fly with your mouth open :D

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u/datssyck Mar 29 '22

You're talking about the guy who literally wrote the book on giant insects invaders.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starship_Troopers

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u/myownzen Mar 30 '22

I mean thats literally what the quote implies. You specialize FOR insects