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A production rate of 32 locusts per person per 16-hour workday isn't enough to matter unless you have a small army of people rubbing grasshopper legs together a
by baroomba 7y ago
A production rate of 32 locusts per person per 16-hour workday isn't enough to matter unless you have a small army of people rubbing grasshopper legs together all day, I'd think. Though it is a pretty funny image.
- phkahler 7y agoJust keep enough of them in a small enclosure. Be prepared to increase enclosure size rapidly for a few days or weeks.
- baroomba 7y agoLooks like grasshoppers generally live 50ish days as an adult. That's gonna put some serious limits on your max per-grasshopper-leg-rubber total accumulated grasshoppers.
- imtringued 7y agoThe grasshoppers rub each other.
- dredmorbius 7y agoThe grasshoppers self-activate as locusts under crowded conditions. Once they enter the swarming phase, the behaviour is self-perpetuating, generally until foid supplies are exhausted. With high mobility, this can take time and strip tremendous areas of land. By stocking a sufficient population early on, in sufficient confinement,, it might be possible to create a perpetuating, expanding, swarm.
- grogenaut 7y agoMost humans have two hands so you're off by at least a factor of 2.
- shard972 7y agoI took this as a Silicon valley joke.
- oddsockmachine 7y agoIf you implement "middle out" grasshopper rubbing, you can triple production