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If insects were as big as cows, would people feel bad about killing them?

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Dont you remember what happened last time we had gigantic insects?

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potam said:
Wouldn't even be a question we'd have to ask ourselves, because I'm fairly certain most people would kill themselves immediately.
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Wow I came into this thread trying to think of a witty response, but this was all that needed to be said. Thread #dead.
 
I don't feel bad about the killing of actual cows, i sometimes feel bad about how we as a society handle mass market production with animals though.

I would be terrified if i see an insect the size of a shoe... probably heartattack and die if i see some as big as a cow.
 
We're so fucked if that's the case, most of these guy are deadly predator with no fuck given

Imagine these cunts on cow size

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We're so dead.
 
Ant lifting 100 times its body weight:
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A cow is about 750kg..

Pretty sure one colony would destroy a town/village just like that killing us in the process :P.
Pretty cool idea for a movie though.
 
Humanity either wouldn't exist or we'd live in floating barge cities on the ocean, where honing our skills at killing the swimming insects that show up every day during tide would be the only means for our survival. If we ever became smart enough (and with enough resources) to leave the barges, we'd live in impenetrable land fortresses and never ever go outside, at least until we develop personal force fields.
 
Timedog said:
Humanity either wouldn't exist or we'd live in floating barge cities on the ocean, where honing our skills at killing the swimming insects that show up every day during tide would be the only means for our survival. If we ever became smart enough (and with enough resources) to leave the barges, we'd live in impenetrable land fortresses and never ever go outside.
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what about flying insects?
 
soepje said:
Ant lifting 100 times its body weight:
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A cow is about 750kg..

Pretty sure one colony would destroy a town/village just like that killing us in the process :P.
Pretty cool idea for a movie though.
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ants only can lift so much, because they are so small.


and would we even have enough space on earth, for every insect to be as big as a cow?
 
If insects were the size of cows there exoskeletons wouldn't be able to let them move very fast or at all. Also insects don't have lungs so they wouldn't be able to process enough oxygen to make them very active.

Giant insects would be sitting ducks.
 
It would be like the Mist or that scene from King Kong...only worse.

At least with starship troopers the bugs were on other planets. And even then you see how much fun the humans in that were having.
 
Randam said:
ants only can lift so much, because they are so small.
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Fine. Taking that into account, say that instead of a 100 they will only be able to lift 3 times their body weight.. That will still leave them picking up cars from the street like it's nothing.
Face it, we'd be screwed either way :P
 
Why do all insects look so nasty....

I just moved to Malaysia and there's a never ending amount of mosquitoes, giant ladybugs (about the size of my fist), had a massive cockroach fly inside our house the other day. The mosquitoes are a pain in the ass... I killed six in one hour inside the house. I squeeze them with a bit of tissue to check if they've bitten me or the baby. The other day I left our baby in the port-a-cot for half an hour while I was watching sport and yep there was a fucking mosquito with blood in the cot. I only realised the next day that it had bitten the baby on the hand and there's a massive bump there now :( Sometimes the mosquitoes are so fat it can't even fly anymore.

The problem here is fucking stagnant water everywhere. Fucking drives me nuts... as a civil engineer in Australia we build underground pipes but here its open drains plus the slope on the drain is basically flat so the water hardly flows at all. it is absolutely stinking useless. That's what happens in poor countries I suppose, can't afford to pay for pipes with slope. Endless cycle of poverty.

Oh did I mention I've been seeing giant motherfucking wasps around as well. Fuck them. I was walking around on a construction site building and pushed the window open and didn't see the thing trying to get out. The thing was at least 5cm. HUGE. Jumped back like a metre.

And to answer your question OP - Id happily go down fighting these beasts of nature. Can't stand them.
 
Well we kill cows... So I guess not. But I'm guessing you mean personally. I think we would need a team of wizards to take out the cow sized bugs. Would be a good business probably
 
one quadrillion, cow sized ants, equipped with super strength and chemical weapons. I give us a generous week
 
Insects are nature's death machines, driven by pure instinct. They don't have "feelings". They don't need them. We are talking about creatures that can actually move around and survive long after being beheaded (they die either due to the "bleeding" or by not being able to feed anymore).
 
If insects were the size of cows we wouldn't even need to kill them. They'd all be crushed under the weight of their own exoskeletons.
 
M3d10n said:
Insects are nature's death machines, driven by pure instinct. They don't have "feelings". They don't need them. We are talking about creatures that can actually move around and survive long after being beheaded (they die either due to the "bleeding" or by not being able to feed anymore).
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Brains are overrated. I think humans got the bum end of the evolution deal.
 
If onsects where the size of cows, we would empty them and put them together to form playgrounds, vehicles and body armor.

It would be awesome.
 
potam said:
I'm just picturing a breach team of termites tearing down my walls, and then when the dust settles a team of fire ants and mantises and fucking hornets and shit fly in. Fuck thaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat
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This would be an awesome movie.
 
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