SPLATOMETER

[Jim Taylor]

Heartily agree on the bug-zappers. They kill a helluva lot more beneficial insects (ground beetles, etc.) than they do mosquitoes. If someone would invent one for those big, green-headed, horse flies...

Jim Taylor
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Ron Gatrelle 
  To: LEPS-L at lists.yale.edu 
  Sent: Friday, September 03, 2004 2:49 PM
  Subject: Re: SPLATOMETER



  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Alan Wormington 
  Subject: Re: SPLATOMETER


  However, from a bug's point-of-view is there any difference between
  getting hit by a car doing 50 m.p.h. versus one doing 75 m.p.h.?


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  Correct, there is no difference, but bugs don't care, notice or complain.  Their number one function on earth is as FOOD.  Most are eaten alive - slow gruesome (anthropomorphically), so a sudden splat would be a "mercy killing".    Me, I'm for tape worm rights.  Millions are killed each year for simply doing what they are supposed to do - live in human guts.  Turn the bug zappers off in the parks (seriously on this one). 

  I'm interested in how many billions of insects have killed and habitat destroyed by the homes the 40,000 observes live in.  Now THERE is some carnage.  Are they all gonna stop driving when the study is done?   I mean how can they live with themselves, knowing that every few miles death is being wrought at their hands - the vehicles don't move by themselves.   Buy bicycles and revert to non-mechanized Amish lifestyles.    

  Ron Gatrelle

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