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forgotmylogin

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3. Insects will be fine!
Sat Sep 12, 2020, 11:12 AM
Sep 2020

Even if it somehow fell all the way to the ground without deploying wings to catch the air and slow itself, the mass of an insect isn't enough to cause it to impact with enough force to cause damage. Especially with its organic exoskeleton armor. It would be like a human clad in padded metal plating falling a great distance to the low-gravity surface of the moon.

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