This really depends on how you define bugs, and I keep seing different definitions. The most restrictive one: Just the infra-order hemiptera (insects that generally have two pairs of wings, with the anterior wings covering the posterior wings while overlapping with each-other a bit… But some of them lost their wings altogether, like fire bugs). That includes stinkbugs, cicadas, and aphids but excludes other infra-orders of insects (butterflies, wasps, beetles, grasshoppers,flies…)

A broader definition is simply synonimous with insects.

Then, many definitions are polyphyletic (which means some bugs may be more cloaely related to some none-bugs than to each-other). A common one could be “land arthropods” and would include insects, arachnids, myriapods and isopods (which are crustaceans) but that’d still exclude limules, which are mostly aquatic. That would, however, now include some species of hermit crab and not others, which is too counterintuitive, so maybe explicitly ban decapod crustaceans from being bugs? Then again, I saw people refer to shrimps as bugs, and they’re also decapods. You could add a size constraints, but the smallest crabs are smaller than the biggest true bugs (even by the narrowest definition).

Then, you could drop the “land” constraint and go back to a monophyletic definition by making it synonimous with arthropod. That definition would finally include limules.

But then, so are crabs, so are sea-spiders, and so are all the extinct guys like trilobites (which are more related to myriapods, crustaceans and insects), eurypterids (aka sea scorpions, more related to limules and arachnids) and radiodonts anomalocaris (less related to extant arthropods than they are to each-others).

Ok, maybe we can exclude radiodonts by taking the crown arthropod group. But triolobites and eurypterids must definetely stay!

By this broader definition (whether or not you keep radiodonts in it), the biggest bug ever known to have existed would’ve been jaekelopterus, one of the eurypterids, at 2.5 meters long!

AND I WOULD’VE GOTTEN AWAY WITH IT IF IT WEREN’T FOR YOU MEDDLING KIDS!

Don’t blame me, I call them limules. I’d say something about carcinisation, but tbh I don’t think they even look or move enough like crabs for it to apply. Someone just called it that and it stuck I guess.

They’re not crabs! They’re not even crustaceans! They’re not even mandibulates, which means insects and myriapods are more closely related to crabs than they are! They aren’t even antennulata, which means they’re further from crustaceans than trilobites were!

What they are is cheliceriforms, like sea spiders and arachnids.

They can be consumed, but not all of them, and there is a risk of poisoning.

Don’t forget the crackers!

Well, there’s certainly a double entendre in chosing it as the name of a satellite, but it definitely comes from the name of tgat comic book character. Which itself is a play on asterisque (this symbol: *), which, of course, comes in turn from aster as you said.

His compagnon Obélix has a name which works on two levels: It can be seen as a play on obelisk (he is himself a sculptor of menhirs, which are vaguely similar to obelisks), but “obèle” is also the French word for the dagger symbol (†), which is an alternative to the asterisk.

You probably can unleash your special interest again without denying yourself.

I’m not trans (I think), but I do hyperfixate (probably on the spectrum, a shrink even said so but he wasn’t abilitated to do an official diagnosis), and I feel like one of the good things about hyperfixations is how they’re things outside of yourself, and how you feel about them isn’t too affected by how you feel about yourself or your immediate surrounding. I feel if I became a girl, my interest for my hyperfixations, including past ones would be one of the most consistent things about me, I wouldn’t feel the need to change or deny them even as I’d change everything else.

Sorry if my experience isn’t relevant tho, I may not understand every trans issue.

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