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Humanity making progress like it always does (mbin.grits.dev)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Couldn't that also be new improvements in car aerodynamics where bugs simply glide off instead of getting squished?

[โ€“] [email protected] 39 points 5 months ago

Apparently, it's the other way around, presumably because unaerodynamic cars pushed around a big air cone, which deflected the insects.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/feb/12/car-splatometer-tests-reveal-huge-decline-number-insects