Today we played with millipedes. GGY tried to catch millipedes with a pair of scissors, but he cut one of them cleanly. So the part with the head was crawling away while the part without the head was squirming, maybe in pain.

So I wondered: If the mind resides in its head, then would it be okay to mash its tail end? But the tail end looks like it is squirming in pain. Maybe it has a mind of its own.

Cool, so if you cut off the arm of a person, you did not kill, because the arm does not have a mind of its own and is not conscious. But if you cut a millipede into half, you probably just created life. Then both lives would die on their own.

It is so strange.

Anyway we placed lots of millipedes in a plastic bottle and put the bottle to 7 bars of pressure. Their bodies are meant to withstand 1 bar but we pressurised them to 7 bars. They looked quite agitated as we went above 4 bars then when we reach 7 bars they were slightly more agitated and eager to get out of the bottle. But they can't get out because the bottle is airtight.

Insects breath through airholes at the side of their bodies (called spiroza if I remember correctly), so at 7 bars, those millipedes that look normal have probably gotten used to having 7 bar pressure air in their air holes. We took about 3 minutes to pressurise the bottle, but only 5 seconds to depressurise them. It was depressurised so fast that the air turned cold and fog formed in the bottle. When the fog evaporated (because the surroundings heated the bottle back up), the millipedes looked somewhat larger and kinked.

Someone suggested shooting the bottle instead so that the millipedes get depressurised in less than 0.1 second, and see what happens to the millipedes. I would have liked to witness that, but nobody wanted to voluteer to shoot it. (the millipede juice would fly into his mouth if he goes "WOAH" ::gulp::)

But imagine if we did shoot it.

millipede: "Oh please, let us get out of here... oh, he's picking up the launcher! hurray! we're getting out! oh wait, he's gonna FIRE it! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH" *kaboom* *splat*

Okay but we didn't fire it, so not all the millipedes died. One or two escaped after being rapidly decompressed because we dropped the bottle. I can imagine a Wisely show about some supernatural thing happening to the millipede, transforming it into a person that tries to wipe off all human beings off the face of the earth, then he'll recount his traumatizing expereince of being rapidly decompressed with about 100 other millipedes. Maybe as revenge he'll kill all the human beings he catch by rapidly decompressing them. Then the protagonist would find me and ask me "What exactly did you you do the millipedes in rjc 2006?" Then I'll collapse in my armchair in grief and sob and slowly utter, "I decompressed them."

Okay this is getting very weird. I can picture a lousy film about this.

Scene 1: So this guy gets tricked into entering a chamber of a very rich and handsome and infuential guy to do some big business. Then there is this covered big glass window where someone watches the guy. The chamber gets sealed up and slowly starts to get pressurised, but the guy only notices when his eyes, ears and bladder start to hurt. So he asks the host what is happening, then he realised that the host is a robot. Then he starts to panic. Then the window becomes transparent and reveals a shadowy character. The guy begs for mercy in various ways, but the shadowly character only smirks. Then when the guy mentions something about lowering the pressure, when the pressure is about 10 bars, the shadowly would grant his life and decompress the chamber in 0.1 seconds. Then you'll watch his eyes and middle ear and nose pop out, his lungs explode, and the rest of the body remaining fine. Then the shadowly guy laughs an evil laugh.

Okay I can't really be bother with coming up with anything more. Use some imagination.

Damn. I probably shouldn't have let them out alive.