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0 pointsjw_12y ago0 comments

I suspect he meant "widowmakers" in the "bits of tree that can suddenly fall and kill you" sense, not spider sense: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Widowmaker_(forestry)

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jacquesm12y ago· 4 in thread

Yep. And suddenly fall they do (gust of wind, guy playing around with a chainsaw at the base, random chance).

hnriot12y ago

it's a miracle humans managed to survive the first few million years...

dragonwriter12y ago

> it's a miracle humans managed to survive the first few million years...

They haven't, yet; humans (H. sapiens) have only been around for ~200k years.

saraid21612y ago

Most of them didn't.

mcv12y ago

That's a matter of numbers. Lots of people die in unfortunate ways. I'd just rather not be one of them.

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