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Electrostatic charges pull roundworms through air to its insect targets
- Liftyee 1y agoReally interesting find... On the tiny scale of these organisms, it seems the forces that matter are clearly different, because the mass scales down faster than the surface area. Forces proportional to mass (gravity) fall off quicker than others (air resistance, electrostatic charge).
- stubish 1y agoYes, I was thinking that this couldn't possibly work for human scale stuff like leaches, with electrostatic forces completely unnoticeable a meter away and unable to budge the larger mass in any case.
- zoklet-enjoyer 1y agoTicks jump onto their hosts with static electricity too https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982223007728 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S096098222...
- eth0up 1y agoIf folks knew just how many people had pinworms, they'd remain indoors. The nasty fuckers (or their eggs) can stick to dust particles and land on sandwiches and such. A motivated fart can propel them. Denmark comes to mind, with an abnormally high infection rate. Then there be all the other worms. Had I time to consider things before it happened, I might have elected to stay unborn. Just too many worms for me to take this place seriously.
- metalman 1y agoworms and bugs,spiders and shit, have functional levitation technology, while we,fuck, crawl around on the ground it's the general counterintuitive wierdness of reality that in.cases like this looks almost intentional as a, niener, niener!, wrong again!from evolution and whatever constuites our place in it