• Jax@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    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.

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      1 year ago

      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.

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        1 year ago

        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.