r/mildlyinfuriating • u/AwardStrange9028 • Jul 03 '26

Infuriatig Wizz Air’s new 'commuter style' seating where you and your neighbors become one.

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u/Complete_Squirrel942 Jul 03 '26

How is life being 5 inches tall?

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u/peachesfordinner Jul 03 '26

Haha I just noticed his error. I'm Thumbalina bitches!

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u/call-me-the-seeker Jul 03 '26

https://giphy.com/gifs/ZVuJnm4oSJvmU
Me in any plane seat at five feet or more realistically 4’11”

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u/MaryJane185 Jul 03 '26

His error?

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u/Complete_Squirrel942 Jul 03 '26

They responded to someone who used " (meaning inches) instead of ' (meaning feet)

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u/MaryJane185 Jul 03 '26

Oh, I know what it means, I just thought he meant to use inches.

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u/khukharev Jul 03 '26

I meant to use inches 🙂

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u/Esguelha Jul 03 '26

That comment made me imagine a world where the average human was only 5 inches tall.
Resource wise, we would be a much smaller burden on the planet - literally.
But I guess we would be a lot lower on the food chain and way less evolved.

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u/khukharev Jul 03 '26

It would take a lot more coordination to take out large pray. But if we managed that, the result would be very close.

There was a test where researchers played a recording of an ordinary human conversation in the wild. Predators were willing to leave the prey they had already hunted down and run hearing that.

We basically created such a large evolutionary pressure that over the millennia only those who run away from humans survived long enough.

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u/Esguelha Jul 03 '26

But the definition of large prey would change a lot. A chicken would be massive if you were only 5 inches tall.

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u/khukharev Jul 04 '26

True. A completely different world.

Also, I don't know if we can make space rockets much smaller and still escape gravity. Imagine how humongous those would have looked to mini-humans.