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minus-squareaffiliate@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up57·1 year ago Despite the name, no centipede has exactly 100 pairs of legs; number of legs ranges from 15 pairs to 191 pairs, always an odd number. (wikipedia) wtf is going on with these guys
minus-squareklemptor@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up55·1 year agoI mean, I have an odd number of leg pairs. You probably do too?
minus-squareSwedneck@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·1 year agoi mean, our arms are just fucked up legs, so technically we have an even pair of legs.
minus-squareWhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·1 year agoFour legs good, two legs bad.
minus-squareAnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·1 year agoThis sentence took me multiple attempts to parse.
minus-squareaffiliate@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 year agoyeah but the range of leg pairs for humans is (comparatively) much more tame. this would be like if humans had 1-12.3 leg pairs. and crazier still, humans were named something like “6 legged beings”
minus-squaremnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down15·1 year agoEven stranger, the OP shows a millipede, not a centipede
minus-squareThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18arrow-down1·1 year agoThat’s very clearly a house centipede
wtf is going on with these guys
I mean, I have an odd number of leg pairs. You probably do too?
Woah
i mean, our arms are just fucked up legs, so technically we have an even pair of legs.
Four legs good, two legs bad.
This sentence took me multiple attempts to parse.
yeah but the range of leg pairs for humans is (comparatively) much more tame. this would be like if humans had 1-12.3 leg pairs. and crazier still, humans were named something like “6 legged beings”
Even stranger, the OP shows a millipede, not a centipede
That’s very clearly a house centipede