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Electrostatic charges pull roundworms through air to its insect targets (science.org)
14 points by Gaishan 25 days ago | hide | past | favorite | 5 comments


Really 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).


Yes, 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.


Ticks jump onto their hosts with static electricity too

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S096098222...


If 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.


worms 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




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