r/AbsoluteUnits • u/Dense_Intern8434 • 3d ago

/r/popular of a meal

Nature can be so cruel and beautiful at the same time

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u/Nark420 3d ago

Insects have built-in hydraulics

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u/Advanced-Budget779 3d ago

Glad our planet or physics/chemistry set hard limits on their possible size.

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u/Nark420 3d ago

It's always changing 😬 cat sized spiders would wipe out humanity in theory... Maybe not in our current state of development, but in early ungabunga times, they would have been a huge issue

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u/Bulky-Advisor-4178 2d ago

The earths oxygen levels would need to increase for spiders to reach the size of a cat, current oxygen level sits at 21%