The Great Cicada Menace
May 28th, 2004
It’s fun to think that a few centuries from now, we’ll be smart enough to realize that cicadas are more than the bumbling idiots we make them out to be. We’ll have the technology, resources, and general awareness that will enable us to discover that their odd cyclical lives actually form part of some encoded message that contains all the answers to all the questions we’ve ever asked or will need to ask. It’s all very Douglas Adams.
In the meantime, though, I think they’re actually just out to get us. Stepping of the elevator on my way to lunch, there was one sitting there in the lobby. He looked as if he were waiting for the elevator…trying to pass himself off as a human, I suppose. Yesterday, one made it all the way to the fourth-floor reception area.
Makes you want to call in an air strike.