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• Jax@sh.itjust.works ⁨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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  • Donkter@lemmy.world ⁨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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    • Happenchance@lemmy.world ⁨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.

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• ryathal@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  All yards become massive piles of dead dogs erupting everywhere from the ground.

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• RIPandTERROR@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  “I’ma boutta singlehandedly bring the worldwide prices for gasoline and ammo up a cent.”

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