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It wasn't a snake on a plane, but still ...
Category: Humor • Science culture
Posted on: September 21, 2009 9:00 PM, by Sandra Porter
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Is that a cockroach?
Posted by: Greg Laden | September 21, 2009 9:52 PM
Yep. At least it was dead.
Posted by: Sandra Porter | September 21, 2009 9:56 PM
This is the sort of thing that makes it easy to see why people used to believe in spontaneous generation.
Posted by: Greg Laden | September 21, 2009 9:59 PM
Greg: Is that a cockroach?
Sandra: Yep. At least it was dead.
Sandra, how do you know what gender the roach was? Maybe it wasn't a cockroach, maybe it was henroach.
Posted by: Ian | September 22, 2009 7:03 AM
Friend who does environmental work for the Air Force told me the Air Force puts a lot of time and effort into seeing that no brown tree snakes hitch a ride on aircraft flying in the Pacific. They find a stowaway from time to time.
Posted by: Jim Thomerson | September 27, 2009 5:46 PM
Indeed, they keep asking us to "pull the shades down"! Especially on long haul flights, this is damn annoying!
So, this is where the insects come out of?
Where do they live? Oh gosh! I never would have thought that cockroaches even live on airplanes!
I bet NASA shuttles have their own ones! :D
Posted by: Plane Flyer | October 20, 2009 11:30 AM