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minus-squareJax@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up11·1 year agoI think that just results in billions of dog sized bugs being dead no? Isn’t it a lack of available oxygen in the air that keeps their size down? Granted, every flying insect becoming as large as a dog and plummeting to the Earth instantly would be fucking horrifying.
minus-squareDonkter@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up9·1 year agoThe inverse-square law means that most insects lack the body structure to withstand their own weight at that size, which would mean a horrifying moment or all insects growing and then imploding under their own weight.
minus-squareHappenchance@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 year agoYou guys are all ignoring the most fundamental law of physics: Monkey’s Paw Law. “Grant the desired wish in the most unpleasant way possible.” Hidden Effect: Phyics now supports bugs the size of dogs.
I think that just results in billions of dog sized bugs being dead no? Isn’t it a lack of available oxygen in the air that keeps their size down?
Granted, every flying insect becoming as large as a dog and plummeting to the Earth instantly would be fucking horrifying.
The inverse-square law means that most insects lack the body structure to withstand their own weight at that size, which would mean a horrifying moment or all insects growing and then imploding under their own weight.
You guys are all ignoring the most fundamental law of physics: Monkey’s Paw Law.
“Grant the desired wish in the most unpleasant way possible.”
Hidden Effect: Phyics now supports bugs the size of dogs.