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John1956PA

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3. "The Hellstrom Chronicle" (1971)

Reply to Rhiannon12866 (Original post)

Mon Jun 3, 2024, 04:38 AM

Jun 2024

That movie was a pseudo-documentary designed to shock the audience as to the threat of insects destroying humanity. It seemed to be serious, but it was done for the sake of entertainment and giving the audience a harmless scare.

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Will Insects Go Extinct & Take Us With Them? - Thom Hartmann [View all] Rhiannon12866 Jun 2024 OP

i am on my way to the garden right now rampartc Jun 2024 #1

I certainly hope that he's not the very last one! Rhiannon12866 Jun 2024 #2

i only found 1 rampartc Jun 2024 #4

When we were kids, my brother and I saved caterpillars, put them in jars with leaves and watched them build cocoons Rhiannon12866 Jun 2024 #6

i did that as a kid, in a gallon pickle jar rampartc Jun 2024 #7

I remember in first grade some kids brought in caterpillars like we had and one of got loose and I found it Rhiannon12866 Jun 2024 #8

"The Hellstrom Chronicle" (1971) John1956PA Jun 2024 #3

Looks like it's now the other way around, but we need each other Rhiannon12866 Jun 2024 #5

It's a great topic for light banter. Personally, I hope mosquitoes and fleas go first. Magoo48 Jun 2024 #9

I am pretty amazed Lulu KC Jun 2024 #10

Sadly, what you say is true. We appear intent on taking them all with us into dystopian wasteland. Magoo48 Jun 2024 #11