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Insects Attack!!
Let's say, sometime in the near future, a genetic marker in all insects suddenly becomes activated, causing them to simultaneously attack us. Forget "The Birds", this would make the ultimate Hitchcock movie.
If the single goal of each mini beast on earth was to kill all humans, would we withstand the attack? (I would be safe in my zombie bunker, but that's another thread). I'm talking bugs coming out of the ground, crawling out of every hole and flying into your cranial orifices. I say we're toast, especially when the insect armies eventually combine forces with the mitochondria...it's inevitable.
We have swats, germ warfare, and Raid - you'd think we'd be able to control the swarms. But, how many of us live by a field, or a forest, or a park? How many of us live in climates that allow for mosquitos and other desease vectors? I've read that dung beetles are like homing pigeons: once they get that familiar aroma, they will follow it into the depths...
Imagine if the little mites living in the shafts of your eyelashes refused to eat your dead skin and sebum, but climbed up yer nostrils and feasted on your brain!
Clearly, this scenario requires a certain amount of magical thinking and the sudden ability to conspire bestowed upon insects, but who knows? Maybe a mind controlling, hostile alien race, will use our own insects against us!
Welcome to my latest conspiracy theory. What do you think?
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