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I remember one late night I was at a large USPS center for work, and there were a bunch of packages sitting nearby. I was talking to the USPS official about the
by 1024core 9y ago
I remember one late night I was at a large USPS center for work, and there were a bunch of packages sitting nearby. I was talking to the USPS official about the work that needed to be done, and suddenly... one of the packages moved! I nearly jumped out of my skin and told him that the package moved! He was very calm, and said "yep, those are geese". And then proceeded to tell me all the different types of animals (and bees) they routinely ship.
- danek 9y agoImagine receiving a box of live scorpions by accident.
- detritus 9y agoHonestly, I'd more fear opening a box of pissed-off geese.
- fhood 9y agoYeah, well Geese don't look like crabs designed by satan.
- westbywest 9y agoThey'd definitely cause more damage, however.
- djrogers 9y agoA box full of scorpion sized geese would be kinda cute, however a goose sized scorpion would pretty much be the worst of all scenarios.
- SAI_Peregrinus 9y agoNaw, a goose sized-scorpion would probably collapse under its own weight. Exoskeletons just don't work for large animals. Respiration would also fail, as would the open circulatory system they have. The square-cube law is quite unforgiving of arbitrarily scaling animals.
- danek 9y agoI'm thankful that physics prevents many nightmare scenarios like goose-sized scorpions