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robinbloke) wrote2006-07-11 01:20 pm
robinbloke) wrote2006-07-11 01:20 pm
Bug out!
Once again it's thunderbug season; once again thousands of pesky little flying black bugs get everywhere I have three lodged between the layers of my LCD screen monitor at home and I have no idea how to get rid of them.
Every year about the same time, zillions of the pests.
Or how many exactly? Lets see, shall we kids?
With a quick check of the surrounding area I estimate at least one bug per 20 cm3 area, and that's being conservative. Which means in your average 1m3 area thats about 5x5x5 = 125 bugs.
We'll assume these little sods have no more than, say, a flying height of 5 metres - correct me if I'm wrong here. And let's hope I am and it's less or you people in high rise flats will have to worry about them too.
According to the CIA the UK composes approximately 241,590 km2 of land mass, of which 23.23% is arable land.
Now, I'll assume that these little sods are mostly confined to this otherwise I'm going to get nowhere. Plus this gives me something to assume and makes you city-folk feel better.
Where was I?
Right, anyway, this gives us 56,121.357 km2 of land for these little pests to infest; which each km2 having 125x10002 of them, ie. about 125 million.
Spanning this out across the UK this gives us around 7 billion bugs (A UK Billion - that is - that's twelve zeros kids)
Not forgetting, of course, our ceiling limit of 5 metres from earlier which gives us a grand total approximation of 35 billion (35,075,848,125,000) small flying annoying little sods and no doubt growing every year.
Now compare this to the UK population of 60,609,153 (July 2006 est.) this gives us 578,721 bugs per person in the UK.
Bloody hell, let's hope they don't get organised.
Every year about the same time, zillions of the pests.
Or how many exactly? Lets see, shall we kids?
With a quick check of the surrounding area I estimate at least one bug per 20 cm3 area, and that's being conservative. Which means in your average 1m3 area thats about 5x5x5 = 125 bugs.
We'll assume these little sods have no more than, say, a flying height of 5 metres - correct me if I'm wrong here. And let's hope I am and it's less or you people in high rise flats will have to worry about them too.
According to the CIA the UK composes approximately 241,590 km2 of land mass, of which 23.23% is arable land.
Now, I'll assume that these little sods are mostly confined to this otherwise I'm going to get nowhere. Plus this gives me something to assume and makes you city-folk feel better.
Where was I?
Right, anyway, this gives us 56,121.357 km2 of land for these little pests to infest; which each km2 having 125x10002 of them, ie. about 125 million.
Spanning this out across the UK this gives us around 7 billion bugs (A UK Billion - that is - that's twelve zeros kids)
Not forgetting, of course, our ceiling limit of 5 metres from earlier which gives us a grand total approximation of 35 billion (35,075,848,125,000) small flying annoying little sods and no doubt growing every year.
Now compare this to the UK population of 60,609,153 (July 2006 est.) this gives us 578,721 bugs per person in the UK.
Bloody hell, let's hope they don't get organised.
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I think you're right... I've lived in Surrey, London & Manchester, and I have no idea what Robin's going on about ;D
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