05 Dec 2017, 4:31 pm
05 Dec 2017, 4:36 pm
How big is your mouth relative to the size of a car windshield?
How often do bugs get squashed on your windshield?
Take the surface area of your car windshield, and then divide it by the area of your mouth, then take that number and multiply it by the frequency of bug squashment upon your car windshield. That will yield the likely frequency of bugs just randomly blundering into your mouth. 
If your car windshield is 150 cm by 50 cm it would have a surface area of 7500 square cm.
If your mouth has an area of about five cm then it would be 1/1500 the size of your car windshield.
So if your windshield squashes a bug every month then a bug should blunder into your mouth about once every 1500 months (or about 12 years).
Last edited by naturalplastic on 05 Dec 2017, 4:42 pm, edited 2 times in total.
05 Dec 2017, 4:41 pm
06 Dec 2017, 12:36 am
06 Dec 2017, 7:39 am
How often do bugs get squashed on your windshield?
Take the surface area of your car windshield, and then divide it by the area of your mouth, then take that number and multiply it by the frequency of bug squashment upon your car windshield. That will yield the likely frequency of bugs just randomly blundering into your mouth.
If your car windshield is 150 cm by 50 cm it would have a surface area of 7500 square cm.
If your mouth has an area of about five cm then it would be 1/1500 the size of your car windshield.
So if your windshield squashes a bug every month then a bug should blunder into your mouth about once every 1500 months (or about 12 years).
- How do you recognize a cheerful motorcyclist?
- By bugs in his teeth.
- How do you recognize a cheerful truck driver?
- By motorcyclists on his windshield.
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25 Dec 2022, 2:06 pm
I read somewhere that spiders generally avoid the warm, moist, smelly breath of mammals, so they don't just crawl into your mouth while you sleep.
I don't think spiders would be very good to eat on purpose. I read that in some cultures people eat fried tarantulas, but the legs have very little meat and the abdomen is often not eaten because of a brown paste inside that is probably eggs or excrement. 
25 Dec 2022, 3:50 pm
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27 Dec 2022, 3:42 pm
I'm reminded of this scene from the 90s Nickelodeon cartoon, Rocko's Modern Life. Unfortunately the vid is age restricted so you have to watch on YouTube & it's not quite the full scene I'd like to show 
Rocko's breathing sucked the fly's glass eye into his nose 
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