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** A Zerg Rush is the core element of less organized, 'invasion'-style denial-of-service attacks: If you can ram enough people's packet requests into a system, it can't dispatch answers fast enough and crashes.
** Particularly nasty hackers not only launch denial-of-service attacks on a site they want to shut down, they'll hijack your computer to do it for them.
* Non intentional use: Could you imagine this tactic with ''fangirls'' yelling and going [[Squee]] out of the blue? Well, this was actually the reason why [[The Beatles (band)|The Beatles]] stopped giving concerts in 1966...
** Lampshaded in [[A Hard Day's Night]].
* Hunter-gatherer societies tend to have taboos against having many children. Agrarian societies encourage large families. (Think about the ideal Chinese family, pre-Maoism: Three boys and three girls.) Obviously, the agrarian societies won.
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