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nature's most successful franchise, outnumbering you ten quintillion to one and counting.
means An insect or other small crawling creature; also, by extension, a flaw in a machine or program, a hidden listening device, or a contagious illness.
from The word surfaces in Middle English as 'bugge,' meaning a frightening thing or hobgoblin — the same nervous spirit that survives in 'bugbear' and the older 'bugaboo,' and possibly a cousin of the Welsh 'bwg,' a ghost. Over time the bogeyman shrank into the small crawling things that startle us. The 'flaw in a machine' sense is genuinely old engineering slang — Edison used it in the 1870s — though the famous tale of a literal moth taped into a 1940s computer log is a charming true footnote, not the origin of the meaning.
- head count
- Insects outnumber humans 1.4 billion to one
- oldest model
- Cockroaches predate dinosaurs by 100 million years
- code origin
- First computer bug was a literal moth, 1947
- super strength
- A dung beetle hauls 1,000 times its weight
- flavor file
- Two billion people eat insects on purpose
volkswagen beetle — car model produced since 1938, over 21 million units sold
stuxnet — computer worm discovered 2010, targeted iranian nuclear facilities
millennium bug — y2k software issue feared to crash systems on january 1, 2000