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minus-squareSigilos@ttrpg.networklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·6 months agoOh, my. I hadn’t even noticed how much less I’ve had to clean my Windshield lately. That is a very bad sign…
minus-squarehenfredemars@infosec.publinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·6 months agoIt’s been a couple years since I’ve had to scrape the bugs from my windows.
minus-squaresnooggums@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·6 months agoI had to last week. It was the first time in years.
minus-squareKingJalopy @lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·6 months agoIn Sacramento I clean mine almost daily. Just depends where you are really. Lots of farm land will always have lots of bugs.
minus-squarehessenjunge@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-26 months agoLet me give another example: Traveling from Central Europe to Southern Europe to spend your holiday. In 1980/1990 you had to clean your windshield a couple of times when driving there. Not any more.
minus-squareHonytawk@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·6 months agoCouldn’t that also be new improvements in car aerodynamics where bugs simply glide off instead of getting squished?
minus-squareEphera@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·6 months agoApparently, 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
Oh, my. I hadn’t even noticed how much less I’ve had to clean my Windshield lately. That is a very bad sign…
It’s been a couple years since I’ve had to scrape the bugs from my windows.
I had to last week. It was the first time in years.
In Sacramento I clean mine almost daily. Just depends where you are really. Lots of farm land will always have lots of bugs.
Let me give another example:
Traveling from Central Europe to Southern Europe to spend your holiday. In 1980/1990 you had to clean your windshield a couple of times when driving there.
Not any more.
Couldn’t that also be new improvements in car aerodynamics where bugs simply glide off instead of getting squished?
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