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A few years ago in the Mediterranean I observed what initially seemed like an oil spill. Taking a closer look, it turned out to be millions of tiny dead insects. I guess sometimes they do land in the sea?

At the time, I tried to find information about it online, and all I found was an article about it happening on the other side of the Atlantic several years earlier.

There’s a reason most insects have thousands of offspring. Wikipedia states that houseflies have about 5k. Since their population isn’t exponentially exploding, you can assume the chance of reproducing as a fly is something like 1/5000

The text version of the 'airplane with bullet holes' meme lol