Hate Bugs? Well, you'd better not travel back in Time.
I'm in school making this post. Yup, taking a short break from my research project to do a little posting. Haven't actually started my IA report yet and, actually, I have no idea what to write in the report. Wonder why the school cannot live without reports. I mean, we are at the company for 5+ months and we show them our "completed" projects, so why do they still need a report? Ok ok, I know I'm whining again, but I just really don't like having to type reports...
Another thing I don't like is bugs, especially the big ones, like large cockroaches, giant bettles and such. Well, lucky for me and all those out there who don't like bugs, we don't live 300 million years ago. Why? Cos back then, 8-foot-long (2.4384 m) millipedes (called Arthropleura) were in control of the landscape. Scientists guessed the bug's size when they found fossilized tracks of such a creature in remote canyon in New Mexico.
These bugs existed in the Pennsylvanian period, which was before the dinosaurs. According to paleontologists guesses, these bugs were "probably out patrolling the forest floor eating smaller bugs - which were still pretty big by today's standards - and maybe eating small vertebrates". However, what killed them of was climate change. The air back then consisted of 30% oxygen, which is much more than the 21% now. So the Arthropleura probably died from "suffocation".
Well, whatever the reasons for its demise, I'm glad that giant bugs the size of humans (or larger) are no longer around. Otherwise, I think, our NS days would probably resemble a scene from the movie Starship Troopers...
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Another thing I don't like is bugs, especially the big ones, like large cockroaches, giant bettles and such. Well, lucky for me and all those out there who don't like bugs, we don't live 300 million years ago. Why? Cos back then, 8-foot-long (2.4384 m) millipedes (called Arthropleura) were in control of the landscape. Scientists guessed the bug's size when they found fossilized tracks of such a creature in remote canyon in New Mexico.
These bugs existed in the Pennsylvanian period, which was before the dinosaurs. According to paleontologists guesses, these bugs were "probably out patrolling the forest floor eating smaller bugs - which were still pretty big by today's standards - and maybe eating small vertebrates". However, what killed them of was climate change. The air back then consisted of 30% oxygen, which is much more than the 21% now. So the Arthropleura probably died from "suffocation".
Well, whatever the reasons for its demise, I'm glad that giant bugs the size of humans (or larger) are no longer around. Otherwise, I think, our NS days would probably resemble a scene from the movie Starship Troopers...
Think mosquitoes and millipedes are nasty?
Then don't look too deeply into New Mexico's past.
Today, you can squish the tiny bugs, but 300 million years ago, 8-foot-long millipedes were in control of the landscape, and humans weren't even a gleam in evolution's eye.
New Mexico is now a world record holder of such "exquisitely grotesque creatures," as one worker at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science calls them. Evidence of the largest arthropleura - its technical name - ever found was recovered by the museum on Friday.
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posted by CS at 7:45 PM
2 Comments:
i oso tot u r mentioning about programming bugs...
haha, i hate both kinds of bugs programming and real bugs.
sighz i oso havent start on my report. been idling away today outside... went out with my fren for a break but end up raining all day.
wah so late liao tink u better go home soon too.
Oh, yah forgot abt programming bugs. Totally hate them too, especially the big ones...
Well, my saturdays are normally spent in school. I left school around 9:30pm, which is about the normal time. No life hor...
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