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Despite everything the bug scuttles on

everyone shut the fuck up and look at this snake named barcode

shooo

just give me 20 to 40 minutes to think on it and i can come up with the most passably human sentences you've ever heard so help me god

Fun fact: The diabolical ironclad beetle traded away the ability to fly in order to become essentially unsquishable.

Driving a car over them would just push them down into the dirt, still whole. Trying to stick a pin through wouldn't be successful without a drill. These guys are tough.

Every part of the beetle's exoskeleton seems to enhance its armor. The flattened body shape distributes pressure to even the load, the multilayered material is strong yet flexible enough not to crack, and the unique interlocking seams between wing cases function better than most joins designed by humans:

It'll be exciting to see what new materials might be possible using these concepts!

Sources: Jesse Rorabaugh, Po-Yu Chen, & Jesus Rivera et al.

makin a fruit salad

I'm thinking of Symphony of the Sixth Blast Furnace by Evgeny Sedukhin again...

Oh sunk-cost fallacy, we're really in it now. We are in fact so really in it that if we quit now then everything we did would have all been for nothing and so we have to keep going in

Flamingos huddled together in the bathroom at Miami Zoo during Hurricane Andrew on August 24, 1992.