That’s where this insect family gets its latin name: Dermaptera, i.e. “skin wing”, as the wings are usually hidden under a leathery flap. They also are super complex in the way they unfold from under these flaps.
Also, earwigs are completely harmless and cool and should be left alone. If anything, they can be beneficial in gardens, as they hunt other, harmful insects.
Harmless in the sense that they aren’t dangerous, but they are capable of biting. Source: one was in my headphones a few years back and was biting my ear. I initially thought my headphones were just really itchy.
In my headphones!
shudders
I still check my headphones every time before putting them on now
I’m always amazed by stuff like this that ancient peoples were able to work out on their own. Like how would they even figure any of this stuff out on their own? Obviously it had to be Aliens. /s
Herodotus made an estimate of the rate of growth of the Nile delta, and used those estimates to challenge some conventional thinking about history and to make some predictions about the future. The ancients had a wealth of knowledge and competency. Probably much of it is lost.
Humans have always been highly intelligent, they were just limited by the tools of their times. And yes much of their knowledge and innovation wasn’t preserved to be built off of.
Lotta old Victorian homes and factories from that Era did the same thing (without water obviously just a big tower to catch the wind). More like an attic fan than an AC in those cases, still a pretty clever way to move air without electricity. Always impressed by how clever people were back in the old times
I cant speak to other parts of the U.S. but where I am from, people would design their farm houses so that when you opened all the windows, the natural wind direction wanted to blow through your house and naturally “cool” it. Coming from a house with AC, it seemed like a shit system lol, but i guess compared to being roasted in your stuffy house, it was probably pretty nice
Frankly, ceasing to design homes and factories that way was a mistake. Stack effect ventilation is no less of an important part of green building technology today than it ever was.
This is not air conditioning. Not to be the “actually” stereotype, but air condioners literally “condition” the air by removing humidity (it was actually designed for this purpose, a side effect of removing the humidity was lowering the air temperature). This is simply good ducting and natural exchange.
Good for the environment, yes! Air conditioning? No
You’re completely correct, I live in an area where you’d never be trying to add humidity lol. I was also thinking in the context of why it was originally invented, which was wrong to do. I removed my comment
I was told that the houses in trinidad, Cuba have a similar cooling effect. Also the round white houses in tunesia have a cooling effect. Any tunesian or Cubans here?
Seeing a lot of contrarians in this thread who just don’t like that the Middle East had literally cool tech before America… pardon, before the people who stole America from the Americas, had literally cool tech.
Probs they are gonna call this thing “weapon of mass destruction” as a pretense for the next Yearly Oil Extraction invasion, conveniently ignoring that from an environmental perspective “”“modern”“” AC is over twelve hundred times the WMD Iranian Air Conditioners ever were.
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