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I remember one late night I was at a large USPS center for work, and there were a bunch of packages sitting nearby. I was talking to the USPS official about the work that needed to be done, and suddenly... one of the packages moved! I nearly jumped out of my skin and told him that the package moved! He was very calm, and said "yep, those are geese". And then proceeded to tell me all the different types of animals (and bees) they routinely ship.



Imagine receiving a box of live scorpions by accident.


Honestly, I'd more fear opening a box of pissed-off geese.


A box full of scorpion sized geese would be kinda cute, however a goose sized scorpion would pretty much be the worst of all scenarios.


Naw, a goose sized-scorpion would probably collapse under its own weight. Exoskeletons just don't work for large animals. Respiration would also fail, as would the open circulatory system they have. The square-cube law is quite unforgiving of arbitrarily scaling animals.


I'm thankful that physics prevents many nightmare scenarios like goose-sized scorpions


Yeah, well Geese don't look like crabs designed by satan.


They'd definitely cause more damage, however.




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