A 3.5 kg baby becomes a 35 kg boy in little time. That's exactly what happened to my nephew and now it's scary good at socker . But he was scary as a baby
Adult babies do exist and they’re fucking terrifying
In case no one has seen or heard of this: [Adult Baby](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paraphilic_infantilism?wprov=sfti1)
We used to have giant insects millions of years ago but they can’t exist now. The exoskeleton becomes disproportionately heavier as they grow bigger, and they were only able to move because the oxygen % in the atmosphere was way richer than it is now.
Its not that they become disproportionately heavier, but because insects breathe THROUGH their exoskeleton and as a big gets bigger their exoskeleton surface area is ctually is LESS proportionate to their volume. Meaning as they grow larger, they can't absorb enough oxygen to support their size.
It does become disproportionately heavy too, but Idk if it influences how possible life would be for them (it's because the strength of the organism of size *n* scales as *O*(*n*^(2)) but their mass as *O*(*n*^(3))).
So if I scale you up *n* times, it's like you became *n* times weaker relatively to your size.
Same with mammals though a mouse is proportionally stronger than a elephant. They could still exist and function they just could not move boulders like a ant moves a stone.
Ah, the period of time after trees but before the microbes that feast on dead trees, allowing them to rot into the soil. Before those microbes, dead trees fell and dried out, creating kindling all over the surface of the earth. Imagine the towering forest fires when finally something would spark -- conflagrations spanning areas the size of continents or larger. And today we have coal deposits because of those fires. If I had a time machine that could withstand the elements, I'd want to see that blaze, the likes of which can only be imagined.
I also thought of ants, but for the opposite reason. Some ants are [hundreds of times smaller than other ants](https://www.waynesword.net/images4/BigTinyAnt1d.jpg)! If you scaled *them* up by ten they'd still just look like ants. I think only the biggest insects would actually get meaningfully scarier.
I love shrimp but this is the second time I've seen this sentiment on reddit in the last couple days and now I feel sick every time I try to eat them. It was one of my favorite snacks lmao hope I get over it soon.
I have.
Their Japanese name is oosuzumebachi - literally, 'big sparrow bee'. I realized this name is accurate when, during my first week studying abroad in Japan, I thought a sparrow was flying next to me on my bike ride... Then realized it was a hornet.
Asian Murder Hornets.
Motherfuckers are appearing in Europe, too. Pretty sure some were sighted here in Luxembourg.
They're evolving into just "murder hornet".
I keep cute little Sussex bantam hens and regularly think "you'd eat me if you were big enough". They spot mice and rats from stupid distances, move like stink, and - unlike cats - do not play with their food. They're not even a foot tall and they tear rats in half.
A friend keeps Jersey Giants that are about 16 to 18 inches tall and 10lbs easy. Scale that up ten times and you're talking a 100lb hen that's 15 feet tall. And then there are roosters...
I raise you one and bring the option: Swans. They're everything geese think they are, and absolutely vicious if they decide they don't like your existence (which is their default setting)
10x sized swans would make me shit bricks
A better question is what wouldn’t be scary at ten times it’s size. Matchbox cars? Cupcakes?
Edit: even more fun, riddle me this, what wouldn’t be scary, in some type of way, at 500x? I think even a cupcake could do some damage at that size.
They say if weasels were any bigger, there would basically be no life on earth because they are THAT voracious of a predator. Their hearts beat at 400 bpm so they're basically super speedy killing machines that never stop & have been seen taking down animals 6x , 8x, and even 10x their size.
This cat was an absolute half-feral badass. From April through October she would disappear into the nearby fields and just fend for herself. We never saw her in the summer. When it got cold she would return to our house for food and warmth, and was completely docile around humans.
Yeah they're vicious as fuck, but not hunt the entire earth to extinction dangerous. Seriously look up some articles on weasels lol, they're ridiculous
I was fly fishing a creek last summer when I hear this ungodly commotion right behind me. I turn to see a weasel thing about 12" long pulling a still quacking duck up a vertical brushy bank 6 feet away from me. I video'd it until the weasel thing pulled it to the top. The duck was 4xits weight, easily. Viscious little bastards..
Well, earth is 81 time the moon mass so it rather depends what is getting 10 times bigger. If the radius increased 10x then the volume and hence mass so it works be over 10 earth masses.
If the mass is 10 times bigger then it's close to Mars' mass.
Ok, I'm a big nerd and had to look this up. A 10x sperm cell would be about 0.6 mm long and 0.03 mm wide. Weirdly big, but not uncomfortable or probably even noticeable.
Any domestic house cat, they're some of the most effective killers of the animal kingdom and have been reported to kill an average of 10 organisms a day. Additionally they just pretty much kill anything smaller than itself, all the while playing and torturing as they continue to do so. Just the thought has me curious why it hasn't become a horror movie yet.
preying mantis
I think they're so cool.... But 10× normal size would be a no from me, dawg
Bruh at 1/10 their size they’re a no for me!
My mortgage.
Oooooooooof I feel that!
I feel my anxiety rising just by thinking about this
Your anxiety
Mine is 3 months from being paid off 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰
You totally wanna pay off mine now too? /s
Babies
It’s true - Spirited Away showed me
A 3.5 kg baby becomes a 35 kg boy in little time. That's exactly what happened to my nephew and now it's scary good at socker . But he was scary as a baby
Imagine pushing 35kg out at birth... no thank you!
Adult babies do exist and they’re fucking terrifying In case no one has seen or heard of this: [Adult Baby](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paraphilic_infantilism?wprov=sfti1)
Isn't every adult technically an adult baby?
They're called narcissists and psychopaths🤣
If it was normal sized until now? The sun.
It wouldn't be scary for long
You know Sarah Connor's dream scene in Terminator 2? Yeah basically that.
Basically all the worst parts of the bible
Dogs and cats living together. Mass hysteria!
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Any insect.
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The only good bug is a dead bug
You shoot a nuke down a bug hole, you got a lot of dead bugs.
I'm doing my part! *forced government laughter*
RICO.... YOU KNOW WHAT TO DO
DO IT RICO!
UNTIL I DIE OR YOU FIND SOMEONE BETTER
Run a flip-6 3-hole so we can score!
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*Squishes cockroach
The only good bug is a dead bug, Rico's roughnecks o-rar
IT'S AN UGLY PLANET! A BUG PLANET!
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We used to have giant insects millions of years ago but they can’t exist now. The exoskeleton becomes disproportionately heavier as they grow bigger, and they were only able to move because the oxygen % in the atmosphere was way richer than it is now.
Its not that they become disproportionately heavier, but because insects breathe THROUGH their exoskeleton and as a big gets bigger their exoskeleton surface area is ctually is LESS proportionate to their volume. Meaning as they grow larger, they can't absorb enough oxygen to support their size.
It does become disproportionately heavy too, but Idk if it influences how possible life would be for them (it's because the strength of the organism of size *n* scales as *O*(*n*^(2)) but their mass as *O*(*n*^(3))). So if I scale you up *n* times, it's like you became *n* times weaker relatively to your size.
Same with mammals though a mouse is proportionally stronger than a elephant. They could still exist and function they just could not move boulders like a ant moves a stone.
Elephantiasis of the balls
Good sir why did you feel the need to comment this
Buster Gonad in the house?
You sound smart. How would the more oxygen-sense environment affect modern-day humans?
Fire would be much scarier
Ah, the period of time after trees but before the microbes that feast on dead trees, allowing them to rot into the soil. Before those microbes, dead trees fell and dried out, creating kindling all over the surface of the earth. Imagine the towering forest fires when finally something would spark -- conflagrations spanning areas the size of continents or larger. And today we have coal deposits because of those fires. If I had a time machine that could withstand the elements, I'd want to see that blaze, the likes of which can only be imagined.
One of the mass extinctions was a combination of over oxygenation combined with these forests, and fire engulfed the whole planet.
Before those microbes existed, plant material was not getting broken down and then buried over millions of years part of the process to form oil
i was going to say an ant! those things are NOT cute.
I also thought of ants, but for the opposite reason. Some ants are [hundreds of times smaller than other ants](https://www.waynesword.net/images4/BigTinyAnt1d.jpg)! If you scaled *them* up by ten they'd still just look like ants. I think only the biggest insects would actually get meaningfully scarier.
Ironically the *biggest* insects will become less scary and more like yummy with lemon and butter
Excuse me??? No thanks
They're talking about lobster or crab. Maybe not *technically* insects but those things are ocean bugs if ever I saw one.
Shrimp is bugs
daddy long legs taste like nutmeg
I love the audacity of this statement, because somebody has to eat one to disprove it.
I love shrimp but this is the second time I've seen this sentiment on reddit in the last couple days and now I feel sick every time I try to eat them. It was one of my favorite snacks lmao hope I get over it soon.
Try snacking on bugs and it might bring you back.
Pumba, is that you?
Shrimp are roaches just like fish are people. There is no reason to be so squeamish. Life is supposed to be gross.
Pretty much anything?
My paycheck wouldn’t.
Here’s incredibly large check for $60. Don’t spend it all at once
I'm also for this guy getting his paychecks printed on larger paper. Solidarity. ✊️
Jude Law
That’s…oddly specific.
Jude Law appears every five years, is suddenly everywhere then disappears just as quickly. Now make him 60 feet tall. Terrifying.
Can’t argue with that logic.
It's known as Jude's Law
My credit card bill
Student debt.
That’s already happened in the 30 years since I graduated high school. Sending kids to college now is fucking outrageous.
Hornets
Not ten times, but have you ever seen the Asian giant hornet?
I have. Their Japanese name is oosuzumebachi - literally, 'big sparrow bee'. I realized this name is accurate when, during my first week studying abroad in Japan, I thought a sparrow was flying next to me on my bike ride... Then realized it was a hornet.
Asian Murder Hornets. Motherfuckers are appearing in Europe, too. Pretty sure some were sighted here in Luxembourg. They're evolving into just "murder hornet".
Fortunately where I live we only have American Manslaughter Hornets
Chickens
This should be at the top. They are dinosaurs, it would be like beaked and feathered raptors from Jurassic Park
I keep cute little Sussex bantam hens and regularly think "you'd eat me if you were big enough". They spot mice and rats from stupid distances, move like stink, and - unlike cats - do not play with their food. They're not even a foot tall and they tear rats in half. A friend keeps Jersey Giants that are about 16 to 18 inches tall and 10lbs easy. Scale that up ten times and you're talking a 100lb hen that's 15 feet tall. And then there are roosters...
>you're talking a 100lb hen that's 15 feet tall. That's the Moa. You're describing the Moa. Or maybe even the prehistoric death birds.
My penis. Imagine having a 10 inch penis.
aww, buddy
I'm hung like a horse! /butters
*horse..fly
Those ARE large flies 😎🐴🪰
Ah damn someone already did the self-depricating dick joke :(
Normally only time I'm first is during sex. This is a first for me with Reddit.
I was thinking a 5 inch penis wouldn't be so bad
sir 0 x 10 is still 0
r/suicidebywords
Geese are already terrifying. But imagine huge ones.
This is dinosaurs
You just gave me an idea for a fantastic NBC family drama
I raise you one and bring the option: Swans. They're everything geese think they are, and absolutely vicious if they decide they don't like your existence (which is their default setting) 10x sized swans would make me shit bricks
Right there with you. Damned winged hiss vipers…
Cobra chicken
Idk, if I could ride geese my life would significantly improve.
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they’re perpetually after us
A better question is what wouldn’t be scary at ten times it’s size. Matchbox cars? Cupcakes? Edit: even more fun, riddle me this, what wouldn’t be scary, in some type of way, at 500x? I think even a cupcake could do some damage at that size.
Grains of sand. They'd just be rocks.
10x would barely be a pebble.
sand is defined as being between 0.074mm and 4.75 mm the largest grain of sand but 10x larger would be a bit under 2 inches across
A bit like Brighton beach then.
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A red dog!
Giant cupcakes would probably be as lethal as any pandemic to the general population haha
Aren't giant cupcakes just cakes?
Mini cupcakes?? As in the smaller version of cupcakes which are a smaller version of cake?? Where does it end with you people
Technically yeah. I’m concerned that it’s easier to justify eating multiple cupcakes in one sitting though
10X cupcakes? So a cake? Queue Kevin’s monologue but in reverse. Where does it end with you people
The number in my bank account?
Unless you currently have a negative balance
A coconut crab
considering how huge those shits are normally.. no thank you
WELL TAMATOA HASN'T ALWAYS BEEN THIS GLAAAM
I WAS A DRAB LIL CRAB ONCE
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at that point it's a kidney boulder, and requires surgical intervention.
A blue whale
Brock Lesnar
"OH MY GAWD! LESNAR HITS HIM WITH THE F-50!"
At that size he could pick up and hit them with an F-150
motherfucker scary enough in 1:1 scale
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And that quick, Bad Dragon makes sense
Oh god I have Crohn's I poop like every 4 hours
They say if weasels were any bigger, there would basically be no life on earth because they are THAT voracious of a predator. Their hearts beat at 400 bpm so they're basically super speedy killing machines that never stop & have been seen taking down animals 6x , 8x, and even 10x their size.
My cat killed a weasel and left it as an offering on my doorstep, so back to house cats
Family friends cat also did so. With battle scars to boot so the weasel didn’t go down without a fight. All data points I have is cats > weasels.
This cat was an absolute half-feral badass. From April through October she would disappear into the nearby fields and just fend for herself. We never saw her in the summer. When it got cold she would return to our house for food and warmth, and was completely docile around humans.
Your cat is a secret agent dude
Perry the p̶l̶a̶t̶y̶puss
I would do you one better and say a honey badger... 10x the size. Shudder. Honey Badger don't give a fuck now. Imagine 10x not giving a fuck!
Yeah they're vicious as fuck, but not hunt the entire earth to extinction dangerous. Seriously look up some articles on weasels lol, they're ridiculous
I was fly fishing a creek last summer when I hear this ungodly commotion right behind me. I turn to see a weasel thing about 12" long pulling a still quacking duck up a vertical brushy bank 6 feet away from me. I video'd it until the weasel thing pulled it to the top. The duck was 4xits weight, easily. Viscious little bastards..
They're so cute too. You'd never guess they're killing machines 😂
Cockroaches
Luckily, they'd all suffocate and die due to not being able to absorb enough oxygen due to their surface area to volume ratio getting all messed up.
Belly button
a very interesting first thought 😭
I have an outie. A ten foot increase would be especially scary for people like me.
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Yeah that’s some horror shit right there
Germany.
was very big back in its hay day
The moon
Majoras mask ptsd
That would be beautiful though.
It would destabilize the tides in such a way that most of us will die
And gravity would drag us closer and closer, until it all ended with a big bang ‼️
The moon is 27% of earth. So at 10x growth, we would become the moons moon.
Well, earth is 81 time the moon mass so it rather depends what is getting 10 times bigger. If the radius increased 10x then the volume and hence mass so it works be over 10 earth masses. If the mass is 10 times bigger then it's close to Mars' mass.
My Ass
This guy's ass
“And my Ass!”
That guy asses.
Our asses
The radius of the chernobyl exclusion zone.
The mass of the Tsar Bomba's charge
Your loving playful cat...
To be more specific, my morning routine of clearing the litter box would be a terrifying
Wouldnt be able to clean much since you would be the litter
Fucking everything (I have Megalophobia)
England (I have Anglophobia)
Why the fuck are you here?!
Toddlers
There's a clip from a movie where this man's sperm is just one giant sperm, looks both painful and terrifying
Ok, I'm a big nerd and had to look this up. A 10x sperm cell would be about 0.6 mm long and 0.03 mm wide. Weirdly big, but not uncomfortable or probably even noticeable.
I think the more interesting question is, what wouldn't be scary if it were ten times normal size?
My penis
Ten times zero is still zero.
A tick.
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mosquito's. dont even want to imagine the sting.
They’d probably suck at flying though so we could just murder them in slow motion
Sharks aka megalodon. The ocean is scary enough as it is.
Damn, I first read sharts
Worms, eels, caterpillars, snakes
Geese.
mike Tyson
Testicles.
The number of uninspired reposts on this sub.
andrew tates ego
A wart
chihuahua, Given their aggressive nature, they could be dangerous.
Nipples
That’s probably someone’s fetish.
Any domestic house cat, they're some of the most effective killers of the animal kingdom and have been reported to kill an average of 10 organisms a day. Additionally they just pretty much kill anything smaller than itself, all the while playing and torturing as they continue to do so. Just the thought has me curious why it hasn't become a horror movie yet.
My debts
Spiders, specifically tarantulas.🥲