Medical Marvels

  

With all of the warnings about tobacco and its various uses, you’d think the grasshopper would have been extinct years ago.  Although I don’t recall there ever being an autopsy on a grasshopper.  Even as a child, I remember them spitting tobacco at me.  Nasty little creatures, and yet they survive.

Maybe the medical community should take a much closer look at the insect world.  Their immune system could reveal important factors that may be adaptable to humans.  I’ve never heard a roach sneeze.  Are all bugs immune to Man’s afflictions?  No centipede polio, no ant arthritis?  Perhaps this is a size thing.  We stand upright, with our heads in an entirely different layer of atmosphere than our friends on the ground.

Just as the ocean has various layers of temperatures running through it, our air must have streams of catchy diseases that never make it to ground level.   If we were even taller, the bird flu might be more prevalent.

Entomology should be the highest priority within our space exploration program.  Searching for intelligent life needs to start at ground level.  Listening for sneezes would be a good place to start.