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Posted: 12/7/2023 2:56:36 PM EDT
[#1]
“Would you like to know more?”
I saw the documentary… |
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Posted: 12/7/2023 2:56:42 PM EDT
[#2]
A mantis
Shit your average house cat would probably eat your ass if it was big enough lol |
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Posted: 12/7/2023 2:56:48 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: None of them. Because they don't have lungs and an oxygen circulation system, if they were scaled up they would immediately start suffocating and would be dead within minutes. This Same with exoskeletons. |
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Posted: 12/7/2023 2:57:26 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Equal mass? All of them. I'd imagine punching an 200lbs exoskeleton would hurt 
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Posted: 12/7/2023 2:57:30 PM EDT
[#5]
 What Happens If We Throw an Elephant From a Skyscraper? Life & Size 1  How to Make an Elephant Explode – The Size of Life 2  How Large Can a Bacteria get? Life & Size 3 |
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Posted: 12/7/2023 2:58:15 PM EDT
[#6]
All of them because I'd be freaking the fuck out!
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Posted: 12/7/2023 2:58:25 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Any of them. Humans are a poor match hand to hand with animals half your size. "Your"? 
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Posted: 12/7/2023 2:58:39 PM EDT
[#8]
It would be an ugly planet
a bug planet |
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Posted: 12/7/2023 3:03:28 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Would you like to explain why they can be drowned? |
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Posted: 12/7/2023 3:04:13 PM EDT
[#10]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Any of them. Humans are a poor match hand to hand with animals half your size. Yeah, without our technology/tools we pretty much suck at everything. |
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Posted: 12/7/2023 3:10:04 PM EDT
[#11]
They are never prepared for the leg sweep.
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Posted: 12/7/2023 3:11:05 PM EDT
[#12]
Quote HistoryQuoted: All of them Agree. |
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Posted: 12/7/2023 3:13:36 PM EDT
[#13]
Pretty much all of the first responses. How many nature videos have we seen with ants moving/lifting much larger objects than themselves.
200lb me has stomped on scorpions that take a couple of hits to kill them. OP hasn't seen Ant-Man? |
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Posted: 12/7/2023 3:14:03 PM EDT
[#14]
As mentioned there are reasons insects are not that big already.
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Posted: 12/7/2023 3:15:06 PM EDT
[#15]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Any insect the size of a human could take down any human, assuming the human is not armed. I think I could take a worm. |
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Posted: 12/7/2023 3:15:36 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Praying Mantis would ass rape you and then bite your head off. |
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Posted: 12/7/2023 3:21:14 PM EDT
[#17]
There is an excellent documentary about this.....
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Posted: 12/7/2023 3:22:05 PM EDT
[#18]
Shit, most if not all of them.
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Posted: 12/7/2023 3:22:30 PM EDT
[#19]
It would be easier to try to list the ones that COULDNT take down a person. I can’t think of any.
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Posted: 12/7/2023 3:34:36 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: All of them. They are all way stronger than we are pound for pound. Ever pick up a struggling beetle or watch and ant carry stuff way bigger than itself? IIRC, they don't scale up, well. Their legs would snap, if their ratios were kept the same. Similar to the phenomenon of floating a steel needle on the surface tension of water. Try that with a foot long needle of the same proportion. |
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Posted: 12/7/2023 3:38:32 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: There is an excellent documentary about this..... https://i.ytimg.com/vi/REKqagV79mk/maxresdefault.jpg This. |
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Posted: 12/7/2023 3:38:57 PM EDT
[#22]
Humans are fragile. Probably almost all insects equal in size would destroy a human. Exoskeleton ftw.
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Posted: 12/7/2023 3:42:39 PM EDT
[#23]
A 6' tall praying mantis that wants you dead is what nightmares are made of.
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Posted: 12/7/2023 3:44:28 PM EDT
[#24]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I think I could take a worm. You know a worm is not an insect, right?
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Posted: 12/7/2023 3:44:44 PM EDT
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Posted: 12/7/2023 3:46:48 PM EDT
[#26]
Just growing an insect to human size (same proportions, no unobtanium) would cause their legs to buckle the first step they took.
Take a 1 sq. inch cube that weighs 1 oz., double it and you get 8 sq. inches and 8 oz. There is a reason elephant, Rino, Hippo and Dinosaur legs are so massive, they had to be to support the weight. Willy Ley wrote an excellent explanation on why there could not be any man size or larger insects, in response to the horror movies of the 50's. ETA Beat: Quoted: Scaling is a bitch ya know. Would a 200lb cockroach be able to lift itself off the ground? I am damn sure it wouldn't be able to fly. |
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Posted: 12/7/2023 3:48:49 PM EDT
[#27]
That's it going to get a few cans of this stuff
 Chaindrite | Mosquito |
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Posted: 12/7/2023 3:52:03 PM EDT
[#28]
Prehistoric insects were much larger back then because there was about 30 percent oxygen in the air.
Modern day insects are small today because the amount of oxygen in the air is about 20 percent. 
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Posted: 12/7/2023 3:52:03 PM EDT
[#29]
My kitty is 12 lbs and kicks my ass
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Posted: 12/7/2023 3:52:06 PM EDT
[#30]
Any bug.
Bugs have retard strength and no capacity for fear. You ladies won’t even answer a knock on the door. |
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Posted: 12/7/2023 3:52:33 PM EDT
[#31]
The bugs from Mimic.
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Posted: 12/7/2023 3:54:15 PM EDT
[#32]
Maybe a millipede might trip on his feet and I could take it to the ground him and put it on a chokehold. Boom. Asleep.
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Posted: 12/7/2023 4:03:31 PM EDT
[#33]
Wonder how much a fly swatter would weight to swat that big of a fly.
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Posted: 12/7/2023 4:04:47 PM EDT
[#34]
It would be a slaughter.
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Posted: 12/7/2023 4:06:12 PM EDT
[#35]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Insect doesnt even have to be the size of a human to take a human out. Look at damn ticks, right one can fuck your world up. Sting from a hornet. Black widow or Brown recluse (yea not an insect) BUT. Scorpion (are these bastard insect or aracnids...) Black widows and brown recluses aren't nearly as bad as people think. Most "brown recluse bites" are actually staph infections. |
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Posted: 12/7/2023 4:08:12 PM EDT
[#36]
ALL OF THEM
THEY LITERALLY HAVE AN EXOSKELETON. WOULD BE UNSTOPPABLE |
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Posted: 12/7/2023 4:08:16 PM EDT
[#37]
Might be able to kick a slug or snail's ass.
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Posted: 12/7/2023 4:08:48 PM EDT
[#38]
Quote HistoryQuoted: They are never prepared for the leg sweep. Thanks, good to know 
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Posted: 12/7/2023 4:09:04 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Prehistoric insects were much larger back then because there was about 30 percent oxygen in the air. Modern day insects are small today because the amount of oxygen in the air is about 20 percent. https://c1.staticflickr.com/8/7553/15289389113_4c558384ae_b.jpg Yeah, their direct to the cells o2 respiratory system is extremely inefficient. O2 content is their major limiting factor. |
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Posted: 12/7/2023 4:10:11 PM EDT
[#40]
Quote HistoryQuoted: A praying mantis would rip off your head and eat your skull like a peanut M&M then slurp the rest of you down like Top Ramen. |
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Posted: 12/7/2023 4:16:01 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Insects rely on oxygen in the atmosphere to continue living. Cut off their ability to acquire oxygen and the die. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Would you like to explain why they can be drowned? Thanks for proving my point. No lungs needed. |
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Posted: 12/7/2023 4:17:16 PM EDT
[#42]
In this mythological scenario, do I have access to a mithril chain shirt and an Elven-smithed sword?
Because then the answer would be, All Giant Bugs Die. |
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Posted: 12/7/2023 4:17:34 PM EDT
[#43]
If I had to pick one to go up against, I'm going with a woolly aphid.
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Posted: 12/7/2023 4:17:35 PM EDT
[#44]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Praying Mantis would ass rape you and then bite your head off. Even if it was the size of a Corgi. |
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Posted: 12/7/2023 4:18:48 PM EDT
[#45]
Given the strength and performance of insects relative to their body weight, I would be surprised if there’s an insect that couldn’t take down a man if the insect were scaled up to human size/body weight.
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Posted: 12/7/2023 4:21:22 PM EDT
[#46]
If fire ants were the size of chihuahua’s nothing else would exist on this planet.
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Posted: 12/7/2023 4:21:43 PM EDT
[#47]
Quote HistoryQuoted: None of them. Because they don't have lungs and an oxygen circulation system, if they were scaled up they would immediately start suffocating and would be dead within minutes. This is the correct answer. |
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Posted: 12/7/2023 4:21:57 PM EDT
[#48]
Any of them.
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Posted: 12/7/2023 4:22:05 PM EDT
[#49]
Quote HistoryQuoted: A 6' tall praying mantis that wants you dead is what nightmares are made of. This. Those are some seriously creepy bugs. |
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Posted: 12/7/2023 4:23:55 PM EDT
[#50]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Thanks for proving my point. No lungs needed. I'm not sure what point you were trying to make. |
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