Makes me wonder if we ever do meet intelligent aliens will we instantly try to kill them not because we’re a tribe based war loving species, but if it’s simply because we’re so absolutely and deeply repulsed by something so different than us on an instinctual level.
legs to die for
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WarmSoda@lemm.ee 1 year ago
kautau@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Or, as various sci fi stories have laid out, will they immediately try to kill us, because they are insect based race and we are dealing with drones that only follow basic instinct, and we’s need to commune with the queen or some such to get them to understand that each of our species has a consciousness and free will, and we don’t exist in a hive mind
frezik@midwest.social 1 year ago
It’s fine, we’ll train a ten year old prodigy to kill their entire race.
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
the one huge and quite funny flaw with that idea is that queens have absolutely jackshit power over a colony, if anything the queen of a colony is basically a slave that gets constantly pampered and directed by the workers with no free will whatsoever.
If we met an alien hive-mind species it’d probably be much like interacting with a military, just much more tightly integrated and profoundly devoid of corruption, imagine HAL 9000 but made up of a million people working together to run the computations.
So they’d likely work tirelessly to figure out what precisely we are, if they determine we’re a threat they’d attack without mercy, and if they determine they can benefit from cooperation with us they’d be the best ally we could ever imagine albeit extremely manipulative.
exocrinous@startrek.website 1 year ago
Speak for yourself, I exist in a hive mind.
TheBat@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Bold of you to assume there won’t be humans trying to fuck them.
Notyou@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
Porque no los dos?
WarmSoda@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Didn’t feel the need to state the obvious lol
jeena@jemmy.jeena.net 1 year ago
That’s the plot of Starship Troopers.
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
nah, people work with deep sea creatures all day and just find them cool.
it’d just make international relations with them extremely difficult, honestly district 9 is probably the most realistic take on how we’d treat aliens. We’d be sufficiently unable to empathize with them that we’d treat them like shit, but there’s no real reason to actively try to wipe them out.
DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 1 year ago
The District 9 aliens are a direct and extremely obvious metaphor for apartheid. The lack of empathy had nothing to do with capability, just a cultural hatred of the other, and it will, and did, like all apartheids, end with genocide.
ThrowawayPermanente@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Embrace the framling, study the ramen, kill the varelse.
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Creepiest house bug ever. I let them be because they eat other bugs.
If you ever see a lot of them you’ve got another problem, that means they have a lot to eat. Could be an infestation of other bugs like roaches or a dead animal in the walls.
RecluseRamble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
If you ever see a lot of them you’ve got another problem, that means they have a lot to eat.
But… not for long, so problem solved soon, right? Right?
Landsharkgun@midwest.social 1 year ago
According to a random comment I saw once, these things will happily eat each other if there’s no other bugs to eat. So basically yes… unless your house has a continuous influx of new bugs.
LeroyJenkins@lemmy.world 1 year ago
these mfs are usually a canary in a coal mine. if you start seeing these everywhere in your house, chances are you have roaches.
kureta@lemmy.ml 1 year ago
If you start seeing canaries everywhere in your coal mine, chances are you have a lethal gas leak. wait what?
affiliate@lemmy.world 1 year ago
canaries are gases’ natural predator
watersnipje@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
If you start seeing canaries in your living room, get a CO monitor.
affiliate@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Despite the name, no centipede has exactly 100 pairs of legs; number of legs ranges from 15 pairs to 191 pairs, always an odd number. (wikipedia)
wtf is going on with these guys
klemptor@startrek.website 1 year ago
I mean, I have an odd number of leg pairs. You probably do too?
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
i mean, our arms are just fucked up legs, so technically we have an even pair of legs.
Syd@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Woah
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Four legs good, two legs bad.
AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net 1 year ago
This sentence took me multiple attempts to parse.
affiliate@lemmy.world 1 year ago
yeah but the range of leg pairs for humans is (comparatively) much more tame. this would be like if humans had 1-12.3 leg pairs. and crazier still, humans were named something like “6 legged beings”
mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Even stranger, the OP shows a millipede, not a centipede
ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world 1 year ago
That’s very clearly a house centipede
jaschen@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I got bitten by this hell spawn. I was sleeping and I guess I was stretching my leg and laid my leg on top of this thing.
I have never felt so much pain in my life. It felt like my skin was melting and burning at the same time. For the next few weeks, the bite mark would randomly start to puss and random shots of pain.
I’d rather have roaches. At least with roaches, they don’t bite.
zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Standard house centipedes (I’m pretty sure that’s what’s in this comic) aren’t supposed to have a very painful bite. You may have been bitten by a different kind of centipede, or maybe had an allergic reaction, for your pain to be so severe.
jenny_ball@lemmy.world 1 year ago
yea the other type of centipedes are nearly the worst kind of bite you can get. the giant ones that catch bats and eat mice.
1024_Kibibytes@lemm.ee 1 year ago
What kind of insect is that? I can’t think of anything with that many legs that eats cockroaches.
survivalmachine@beehaw.org 1 year ago
Fedizen@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Insects have 6 legs. If I had to guess its a centipede drawn with too many legs per segment.
Cypher@lemmy.world 1 year ago
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scutigera_coleoptrata
Commonly known as a house or carpet centipede.
The drawing is mostly accurate.
HootinNHollerin@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Silverfish?
kautau@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Nope, house centipede, as they’re commonly known
Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Are there silverfish big enough to eat roaches?
roguetrick@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I got stung/bit by one of those little bastards once in the shower. Usually they don’t bother humans and their mouth singers can’t really go deep enough, but I guess this one got motivated once he started drowning and crawled up my leg.
Thcdenton@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
There should be a fifth panel that’s says:
“I’m probably gonna kill you cause of how you look, so if you want to live…”
Sylvartas@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Then there should also be a sixth panel with the “I’m fast as fuck boyyy” meme
KinglyWeevil@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
I developed a theory because of these fuckers, which is that the scale of a things creepiness is based on how many legs it has and how fast they are.
I used to get them in my last apartment and when I saw one I literally couldn’t sleep until I knew it was dead
Socsa@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
The reality is that these guys won’t actually make a big dent in a roach infestation. They are pretty territorial and their population will always scale in proportion to the food supply, so if you have a lot of centipedes, you’ll have a fuck ton of roaches.
3volver@lemmy.world 1 year ago
They also eat jumping spiders, which is why I kill them.
cordlesslamp@lemmy.today 1 year ago
Spider is arguably less effective in terms of big-bug-eating, but I would choose spiders over that nightmare fuel any day.
Have you ever seen that thing dead in your sink, all soaked wet? I swear that’s can’t be something originate from earth.
grrgyle@slrpnk.net 1 year ago
My theory is that when you have too many nightmares in one night and the horror doesn’t have anywhere to go, the nightmare takes shape and one of these crawls out of you
Socsa@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Neither of them will actually put a dent in a serious infestation.
RIP_Cheems@lemmy.world 1 year ago
"If it’s more than 8, it’s has sealed it’s fate.
degen@midwest.social 1 year ago
I swear one of my cats can smell these fuckers
kyden@lemmy.world 1 year ago
You can hear them run on tile.
I wish I didn’t learn this information first hand while trying to be nice and catch one to put it outside.
grrgyle@slrpnk.net 1 year ago
You’re a nice person. You’d probably do great in a first contact situation
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 1 year ago
I wish I had a couple of these guys. Nothing else I’ve done has gotten rid of the roaches in this shit-ass apartment.
SirDankbud@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Do you like reptiles? One of the reasons I got a lizard was so the occasional escaped feeder cricket could ravage the cockroach population in my shitty apartment. That mixed with diatomaceous earth has nearly elimated all roach sightings.
ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
Continuously use the roach gel.
That’s stuff (of any brand, really) will help a ton, but since you live in an apartment, you’ll never be able to keep all the roaches away unless everyone in the complex starts doing something about it.
samus12345@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Yup, even if you have the place sprayed, unless they do every apartment at the same time they’ll just run to a non-sprayed one and wait it out.
ModsAreCopsACAB@lemm.ee 1 year ago
You might need a toad for the bigger bugs eventually
walter_wiggles@lemmy.nz 1 year ago
Leggy boi
Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml 1 year ago
How could anyone look at that cute fucker and say such a thing?
Hirom@beehaw.org 1 year ago
I resist the urge to kill spiders because I hate mosquito even more.
reverendz@hexbear.net 1 year ago
What kind of bug?
Squirrel@thelemmy.club 1 year ago
House centipede. It may, possibly, be hellspawn.
FatTony@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Shouldn’t it be “Can you at least be more …” instead of “Can’t you at least be more …”?
AlternatePersonMan@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Creepy. And I learned something. Reminds me of another comic strip that cracked me up. The gist:
God said to the insects “you may each pick three traits.” The millipede said, “I want legs!” The centipede agreed. God nodded. “And for your second trait?” The millipede smiled brightly and said “More legs!” The centipede request the same. God asked for their final request. “More legs!” The millipede shouted smiling even brighter The centipede gave a sinister grin and growled. “Teeth.”
Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml 1 year ago
Millipedes speced all their stat points into beauty
grrgyle@slrpnk.net 1 year ago
Same with pill bugs but smol
AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net 1 year ago
That’s a great joke. The millipede’s enthusiasm is oddly endearing
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Neither centipedes nor millipedes are insects.
mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
You have them backwards. Centipedes are the ones with more legs
btr_fan87@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Some quick googling tells me you’re the one who has them backwards.
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
it’s extremely obvious that you’re incorrect if you simply look at the words, “centi” means “hundred” and is smaller than “milli” which means “thousand”.
centipedes look like they have a hundred legs, millipedes look like they have a thousand legs.
samus12345@lemmy.world 1 year ago
“Centipede” means 100 legs.
“Millipede” means 1000 legs.