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2022 bingo card: putin invades ukraine, oil tops 130/barrel, giant spiders fall from sky.
by whalesalad 5y ago
2022 bingo card: putin invades ukraine, oil tops 130/barrel, giant spiders fall from sky.
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- MaxfordAndSons 5y agoThe big twist is that we end up nuking ourselves to get rid of the giant sky spiders.
- MikeDelta 5y agoYou'd expect, according to Hollywood logic, that in the aftermath of nuke attacks the arachnids and insects become as big as horses.
- throwanem 5y agoNah. Not enough oxygen in the atmosphere to support terrestrial arthropods much larger than the ones that currently live on Earth, or Jorō spiders would be much less remarkable for their size - there's only so much you can do with the relatively simple means of oxygenation that arthropods have thus far evolved. A shame, if you ask me. Social wasps are already quite smart despite having only a few hundred thousand neurons apiece to work with; I think I'd quite like to live in a world where the largest hornets were perhaps dog-sized, with brains to match, or indeed much larger still. If nothing else, maybe people wouldn't so often look at me funny for how well I get on with wasps and spiders, as if there were some absurd betrayal of essential humanity in the simple act of not being frightened by animals compared to even the largest of which we may as well be so many walking mountains.
- brailsafe 5y agoMoney becomes worthless, housing market crashes again
- rapind 5y agoI wouldn't bet against you on that one.
- buu700 5y agoI mean, winning that bet would be kind of a Pyrrhic victory.
- 1_player 5y agoThe stock market goes up and down and sometimes crashes, the housing market goes up indefinitely. Nothing can stop it apparently.
- jacobsenscott 5y agoI'll refer you to 2008. I suspect my future self will also refer you to 2023, but we shall see!
- fistynuts 5y agoDogs and cats, living together
- ffhhj 5y agoRecommended movie on those topics: Enemy (2013)
- stjohnswarts 5y agoNo one has proven that they got all the 2021 murder hornets yet either, so expect more good news on the horizon. I fully expect to see a murder hornet fly by battling a Joro spider trying to web it up this spring.
- jkhdigital 5y agoFunny thing is, that would probably be a normal sight in Japan, the country of origin for both species. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9zxNLU-ei0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9zxNLU-ei0 (the spider lost this round, apparently)
- jjkaczor 5y agoAlso needs: ancient Japanese demon released from rock imprisonment...