Wednesday, September 14, 2011

Do You Want to Be A Hexapod?

Hexapod: the clade that include insects, Collembola, Protura, and Diplura, or arthropods that have six legs.

One lecture plus a lab. I had so much entomology today but I wished the class never ended. It was a lesson of insect external anatomy. It felt kind of weird to know so much about bugs, while my English human anatomy knowledge seemed to be a lot poorer.

"Because they're so darn cool!" the professor said again and again, "Do you want to be a Hexapod?"

Why not? I thought, I want to be small, to have exoskeleton, six legs, wings, antennae, and extended mandibles too! So I'll be wearing light armor all the time, great protection. My legs will be firm and skinny, and I can do more things at one time, especially if at least one pair of my legs are specialized. Then I can fly to wherever I want and dig right into a giant pile of food - and my fingers don't even have to move because the antennae are feeling and tasting everything and the mandibles are grabbing stuff into my mouth.

It's just so cool to have multiple appendages ... and I feel like 10-20 will be the perfect range. But the eight-legged Chelicerates can't fly ... so insects rule!

2 comments:

  1. "Because they're so darn cool!" the professor said again and again, "Do you want to be a Hexapod?"
    難道你們的教授也是個從小就想當蟲的人?哈!
    我覺得昆蟲的生活還是有點辛苦,我現在最想當的是虎咪,每天在家裡睡大覺,唯一工作是叫人起床,餐盤空了也可以不爽給主人臉色看,多好呀!

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  2. 如果六隻腳還不夠用,會不會考慮當八隻腳的生物

    像章魚哥那樣子也不錯呦!一次可以煎四個漢堡
    可以一邊打電腦,一邊煮飯,邊炒菜,還可以邊說手機

    哇!太強了

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