Since I was having a day off, I spent my last $15 bucks today on a DVD copy of the Movie "Tarantula". It was directed by Jack Arnold way back in 1955 and stars John agar and Mara Corday. It also has a brief cameo from a very young Clint Eastwood. A Tarantula grows really big. Panic ensues.
I just watched a scene where they were trying to offer some sort of explanation of why the tarantula got so big. I always loved this part of those movies. At some point they would talk about some actual science theory, combine it with a few other theories that are actually plausible, then mix it all together into a big crock of shit that at least sounds good.
The whit coat guy in this movie was talking about population explosion. HE estimated, given the figures at the time, that the planetary population could swell to 3 and a half billion by the year 2000. Keep in mind that this was a movie, so that estimate probably wouldn't have been conservative. I just checked on Wikipedia, which means it's gotta be true, that earths population by the year 2000 was over 6 B billion. As of July 8 2008, the world's population is believed to be approximately 6,708,700,100. So their estimates were more than 3 billion out.
Next time you go looking for a place to live, might be a good idea to get up real early!!
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Tell us a story Shannon.
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