Re: 150 new species found in Singapore


Wakalukong wrote:
The Straits Times of 6 Feb carried a report that a Belgian scientist
had discovered 150 new species of long-legged flies in a single year of
research in Singapore. Before his discoveries, there were only 44
known species of such flies.

I thought we have scientists, A* scholars, gifted students, world
champion science and mathematics students, this hub and that hub. The
150 new species were a free gift to us and no Singaporean discovered
them -- not even 1 out of 150. And they're located at popular and
easily accessible places, like the Central Catchment Area, Sungei Buloh
and Chek Java. A Singaporean could have easily become the world's
number one authority on long-legged flies, but it didn't happen.

Makes me wonder what happened.

Wakalukong

Most likely this Ang Moh was sitting around with nothing to do, despite
being paid a fat salary and housing perks because of his foreign talent
status, so he started to swat the pesky flies hovering about his smelly
***. Before he knew it, there was this humongous pile of dead flies.
He had to produce something for his "research", so he brought the pile
into the lab and started labelling them (actually he got the poor
students on subsidy to do the manual work of cataloguing). The rest is
history.
BTW, flies are the most useless living creatures on this planet. What
benefit can possibly come about of this "discovery"?

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