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Originally Posted by kazbates
They are OUTRAGEOUSLY loud! Imagine the sound of crickets amplified by MILLIONS.
I wish the videographers had left of the Enya music so you could actually hear the cicadas!  |
TRILLIONS ?????? sweet fuzzy squirrels on a cracker, that's a LOT of bugs !!!!! that's a really weird life-cycle though, only a few weeks above ground every 17 years...
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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
Cicadas? Little?
Crickets are little. Cicadas are another larger matter.
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Dennis
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and is it just me, or are the adults about 3 times larger than the exoskeletons they come out of ??? that's just weird.
so how big are these things ?
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Originally Posted by pilotbob
Can't you go to some charming Parisian sidewalk café with internet access to do your work?
BOb
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don't i wish.
i don't have a portable computer. i want to get one, but 1. i can't decide whether it's more important to have something small and light enough that i would actually want to carry it around when i need it vs. something with a big enough screen / keyboard to make it actually useable for work (i'm more inclined towards the latter, since that way i could use it as a backup computer in case my desktop ever dies in the middle of a huge project. because you know they always choose the worst possible time to die...) and 2. if i get one big and powerful enough to make it practical for work, it will cost a LOT of money, and i just can't quite justify spending that much dosh on something i might only need a few times a year. i'm frequently tempted to get a netbook because they're small and light and cheap, but if they're small and light and cheap but useless for what i actually spend most of my time doing, there doesn't seem to be much point. i don't really need something that wouldn't be good for much more than checking my email, i can do that from my desktop pc much more comfortably and i'm here most of the time anyway.