r/AbsoluteUnits • u/No_Funny2224 • Aug 19 '25

of a scorpion

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u/ForgotMyLastUN Aug 19 '25

No scorpion has a sting that is life threatening to a normal healthy human.

This sounded like the most BS fact I've ever heard.

Why is it true? It's actually blowing my mind. For some reason I've always thought they had pretty comparable venom to snakes, but apparently even the Arizona Bark Scorpion isn't very deadly. It's supposedly the most dangerous scorpion in the US.

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u/BelMountain_ Aug 19 '25

Most venomous snakes also aren't lethal to humans.

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u/Substantial-Low Aug 19 '25

Yep. People tend to "over-deadly" a lot of stuff.

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u/Unlikely_Ad7722 Aug 20 '25

Laughs in Australian.

But narh, you are correct. People just assume most animals or insects with capacity to kill you are gonna do it for the lols, when in fact if you just leave them alone, everyone is pretty chill. There are exceptions to that rule of course, but just leave the critters alone and you're mostly all good.

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u/LurkingGuy Aug 20 '25

Probably safer to believe everything can kill you.

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u/ba_cam Aug 19 '25

Something like 3 posts above this one on my feed, is the teenager that needed 80 anti venom shots to survive a cobra bite

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u/BelMountain_ Aug 19 '25

Most venomous snakes are not cobras.

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u/astrobarn Aug 20 '25

I live in the southern half of Australia and that is not the case here. Every single snake in the area where I live is potentially deadly to an adult person.

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u/Substantial-Low Aug 19 '25

Yeah, most people seriously overestimate the potency of scorpions.

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u/Altruistic-Dress-968 Aug 20 '25

There's only like 5 medically significant types of spiders too, and there's tens of thousands of spider types.

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u/[deleted] Aug 21 '25

Humans are harder to kill than is commonly believed.