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Frank Petrexa said:
Indonesia is a hotbed of biological diversity. It's also a place (like the United States in the 19th and early 20th centuriues) with a growing population and a natural resources economy that is wiping things out. You wonder how big insects (with no internal skeleton) can get. Apparently there were huge dragon flies millions of years ago. You also wonder what the venom (if any) of this bee is like.
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Insects can't get very big. The reason is the square-cube law. This states that as an object increase in size, its volume increase at a greater rate. If you square an insect's size, you cube its internal volume, which means you cube its mass.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Square–cube_law
This has two negative effects. The first is that the increased mass would crush the insect. Large animals like elephants and the giant dinosaurs coped by having large bones. An insect doesn't have bones, so, in order to support the increased mass, it would have to have a thicker exoskeleton. The large the exoskeleton becomes, the thicker and heavier it becomes. Beyond a certain point, the exoskeleton would become so thick, the insect couldn't move. Those giant bugs from50s movies; they'd wouldn't be much threat to anyone, even to B-movie actors
The second problem is breathing. Insects don't have lungs. They "breath" by a passive diffusion system. Air comes into their bodies through tubes that extend from pores in their exoskeletons and branch out throughout their bodies where it diffuses to their organs. Insect blood doesn't carry oxygen, only nutrients and waste. Since there is no pumping system, if an insect gets too large, the tubes to the internal organs will be too long to allow sufficient oxygen to reach them.
The giant dragonflies you refer to existed in the late Paleozoic Era (359 to 252 million years ago). at that time the oxygen levels were much greater than today. This allowed more oxygen to diffuse within the insects body. Such a large insect would suffocate in today's atmosphere.
 
Naraku said:
The giant dragonflies you refer to existed in the late Paleozoic Era (359 to 252 million years ago). at that time the oxygen levels were much greater than today. This allowed more oxygen to diffuse within the insects body. Such a large insect would suffocate in today's atmosphere.
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Particularly during the Upper Carboniferous, when today's coal fields were formed. The fern trees then consisted of a large portion of bark, which hardly decomposed, preserving it for hundreds of million years as coal. So relatively little oxygen from the atmosphere was used to bind biological carbon to CO2, explaining the increase to 35% of the atmosphere (today : 21%).:hydrogen::icon_writing::idea::idea:
 
I don't know how big these ancient ones were, or what one might meet today in tropical jungles,
but the biggest we have in Britain are quite impressive, and very beautiful -
I've only ever seen Emperor Dragonflies once, and said "Wow!"
they were darting about over still water on a warm day -
if one flew in my living-room I don't think I'd panic like these women,
I'd be more fascinated, like the 3-year-old was -
birds quite often fly in, even the occasional bat, I just open the windows wide and they fly out again!

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...g-round-living-room-like-mini-helicopter.html
 
A large version of this poster was featured on Ralphus' Bring Out the Gimp site.
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I love the poster, for obvious reasons, but, I was surprised that I'd recognize the title. So I did some research, and that's when things got confusing.
"The Sword and the Cross" is the English title of a 1958 Italian film "La spada e la croce". This film starred Yvonne De Carlo as Mary Magdalene, who is torn between her love of a Roman soldier and Jesus. I must have missed that story in the Bible.
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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052229/?ref_=rvi_tt
But, it is also the American title of a 1956 film "Le schiave di Cartagine" which actually translate as "The Slaves of Carthage".
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049723/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_36
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Based on the plot description, I think I have seen that one. And, if I'm right, its not nearly as good as the posters.
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I'll see if I can find it on Youtube or somewhere and let you know.
 
There's a thread here for forced stripping.
What about voluntary stripping?

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A thought on Archery

I’ve enjoyed the Archery thread very much but of late there hasn’t been much activity. On the other hand, sometime last fall I discovered a video on You Tube; a troop of bear chested female ballet dancers with bows and arrows shooting arrows at a graphic moon to the Overture to Tannhäuser.
I was completely taken with the video, it had everything a man could want, Archery, women with their boobs showing and shooting bows and arrows to a bit of music I enjoy, Wagner’s Tannhäuser.
I attached a few stills I took from the video and the URL so you can watch it.

Archery can be aesthetically beautiful Wagner Tannhäuser overture_Moment(2).jpg Archery can be aesthetically beautiful Wagner Tannhäuser overture_Moment(3).jpg Archery can be aesthetically beautiful Wagner Tannhäuser overture_Moment.jpg


I put it here simply to assure someone won’t think I’m trying to hijack the Archery thread. If our group of moderators agrees one of you can move it into the Archery Thread.
In any case…, Enjoy,
Helmut
 
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helmut said:
A thought on Archery

I’ve enjoyed the Archery thread very much but of late there hasn’t been much activity. On the other hand, sometime last fall I discovered a video on You Tube; a troop of bear chested female ballet dancers with bows and arrows shooting arrows at a graphic moon to the Overture to Tannhäuser.
I was completely taken with the video, it had everything a man could want, Archery, women with their boobs showing and shooting bows and arrows to a bit of music I enjoy, Wagner’s Tannhäuser.
I attached a few stills I took from the video and the URL so you can watch it.

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I put it here simply to assure someone won’t think I’m trying to hijack the Archery thread. If our group of moderators agrees one of you can move it into the Archery Thread.
In any case…, Enjoy,
Helmut
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Archery can be aesthetically beautiful

Of course. Archery is already aesthetically beautiful, and when performed gracefully by ranks of attractive topless women, well, it begins to approach perfection!

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Synchronised, topless archery, who would have thought it? Olympic sport?

Love the diaphanous skirts, with the little hip split.

And watch the orchestra, when not playing the men's eyes seem to be up on stage, rather than to the conductor.
 
Actually I think archery is aesthetically beautiful - well, it should be, done well.
And the Tannhäuser Overture is the one and only piece of Wagner I can enjoy.
And for some reason Wagner seems to make men think of topless women ...
 
I was just reminded of a favorite food from childhood. I might have mentioned that my mother as an outstanding cook and had a fair number of family recipes that were Pennsylvania Dutch (which was her origin - Grandfather Frank and Grandmother Schaeffer.)

There is a joke told of an English (not Dutch) school teacher going over fractions with her elementary class.
If I cut this apple once, what to I get?
Halves! - they all say.
Good. And if I cut the halves?
Quarters!
And if I cut the quarters?
Schnitz!!!

Apples cut in eighths and dried are one of the two eponymous ingredients in the wonderful dish, Schnitz un knepp.
From Wikipedia:
It is basically a dish of ham or pork shoulder with dried apples and dumplings. Apple snitz are dried slices of apples, and knepp (German for "buttons") are rivels (dumplings)

Wonderfully sweet and savory!:hambre:
 
connoisseurs said:
Dumplings are "Klöße" in German. Knepp may be a friesian idiom. Friesian are spoken in parts of Netherlands and Germany.
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also gnepp. Pennsylvania Dutch is corrupted from German, most were Franconian or Palatinate refugees from the Thirty Years War.
 
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