http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/12/leaproach-knee-jumping/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnuExrjOjfM
― tumblr whine-y (dayo), Tuesday, 13 December 2011 13:07 (twelve years ago) link
I feel better knowing they're In Africa.
― sir thermo of thinwall, Tuesday, 13 December 2011 13:57 (twelve years ago) link
Not for long!
― Jilted John and Marsha (MarkG oo la showaddywaddy), Tuesday, 13 December 2011 14:02 (twelve years ago) link
Not very good, not very good at all.
― ᶘ ᵒᴥᵒᶅ (~curious orange~), Tuesday, 13 December 2011 14:20 (twelve years ago) link
you may think "oh there's no way that cockroach can get to me" and then
― tumblr whine-y (dayo), Tuesday, 13 December 2011 14:21 (twelve years ago) link
it's latched onto your face eating your nose
I didn't think I'd ever use the word 'majestic' to describe a cockroach
― iatee, Tuesday, 13 December 2011 14:25 (twelve years ago) link
In order to jump 50 times its body length, it has to jump 25 times its body length. In order to jump 25 times its body length, it has to jump 12.5 times its body length. Etc ad infinitum therefore it can never jump 50 times its own body length, so I feel ok about it.
― ledge, Tuesday, 13 December 2011 14:26 (twelve years ago) link
that's where you're wrong, ledge. it teleports.
― tumblr whine-y (dayo), Tuesday, 13 December 2011 14:31 (twelve years ago) link
Star Trekroach
― ledge, Tuesday, 13 December 2011 14:34 (twelve years ago) link
Zeno's cockroach achieves impossibility with consummate ease.
― Aimless, Tuesday, 13 December 2011 19:32 (twelve years ago) link
miss zeno, RIP
― nuhnuhnuh, Tuesday, 13 December 2011 21:50 (twelve years ago) link