9 thoughts on “Caterpillar

  • 1/7/2007 at 7:18 pm
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    1. WHAT?!
    2. I disagree. I suspect caterpillars walk fairly subsconsciously just like you and me. Like, if I give you the hardest calculus problem in the world so solve, you’re not going to stop breathing, your heart isn’t going to stop beating, and even if you are walking you might run into some stuff but you won’t forget HOWto walk. And I doubt having 4-1000 legs is any harder to keep going than 2 because the brain’s gonna take care of all of it behind the scenes no matter what. Brains are cool like that.

    Interesting fact: No species has an odd number of legs. What the heck is up with that? Nothing with 3 legs, but plenty of people who are Kurt…cursed cruel universe!

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  • 1/8/2007 at 12:45 pm
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    Huh?

    Sander, I ammend your previous assertion: no species has an odd number of legs “naturally.” Birth defects excluded because they are a departure from the norm.

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  • 1/8/2007 at 1:16 pm
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    Caterpillars dont think…they pillar

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  • 1/10/2007 at 8:55 am
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    I think you’d be hard-pressed to count the number of “legs” that starfish have.

    Sea stars do not have movable skeletons, but instead possess a hydraulic water vascular system. The water vascular system has many projections called tube feet, located on the ventral face of the sea star’s arms, which function in locomotion and aid with feeding.

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  • 1/10/2007 at 8:42 pm
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    Pillar? Ok Paul. Why don’t you conjugate that verb for us?

    Five bucks says a caterpillar can’t walk and chew gum at the same time.

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