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Yvettep
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Username: Yvettep
Post Number: 3060
Registered: 01-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, July 09, 2008 - 04:28 pm: | 
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Not sure if this is supposed to make us feel better, or vindicated or what. They'd still out-survive us humans...
Pixar's post-apocalyptic love story Wall-E finished No. 2 at the box office over the Fourth of July weekend after hauling in $65 million the weekend before. The film depicts a future Earth abandoned by humans, blanketed in garbage, and nearly devoid of life. At the outset, Wall-E, a robot, has but one companion: a friendly cockroach. How did we come to believe that cockroaches will outlive everything else on Earth?
The cockroach survival myth seems to have originated with the development of the atom bomb. In The Cockroach Papers: A Compendium of History and Lore, journalist Richard Schweid notes that roaches were reported to have survived the blasts at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, leading some to believe that they would inherit the Earth after a nuclear war....
But studies over the last half-decade, such as those conducted by the United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation, have found that these "other insects" are more likely to reign in the age after humans; the cockroach might, in fact, be one of the first bugs to go. More recently, the television show MythBusters tested the effects of radiation on several kinds of insects and discovered that tiny flour beetles were the hardiest—with some surviving a dose of 100,000 rads....
Full article: http://www.slate.com/id/2195019/?GT1=38001 |
Cynique
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Username: Cynique
Post Number: 12406
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, July 09, 2008 - 08:35 pm: |
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And we all know when it comes to Roach Motels, that when these critters check in, - they don't check out.... |
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