Tomorrow morning, you wake up and all insects/arachnids have drastically increased in size.

[MasterYoshi]

Common ants are now the size of small dogs. All other insects and arachnids scale equivalently with the ants' increase.

How fucked are we? Can humans adapt and overcome this new hellscape?

 

[The_Iceman2288]

Guess I'll die.

 

[Pop-O-Matic]

 

[jackie daytona]

I blow my brains out assuming I haven't been killed on the way to the gun store.

 

[Helix]

no.

 

[SquirrelSr]

Rough estimate on the insect population is about 10 quintillion. So no.

 

[Rosebud]

If common ants are this big most houses would go down, killing everyone inside

 

[Akira86]

we'd literally either adapt or die.

probably the latter since the bug balance is already kind of evened out by their numbering in the trillions.

 

[Nugnip]

They'll all get crushed under the weight of their own exosqueleton, so I'll laugh.

 

[Melhadf]

Time to put my EDF skills to good use.

 

[Mekanos]

Humanity is dead by Christmas.

 

[Garjon]

They'll all die in a minute as their respiratory systems aren't strong enough to sustain something that big, easy.

Failing that, yeah we're dead

 

[deimosmasque]

I have been trained for this moment

 

[yoonshik]

They would be dead. See square cube law.

 

[mbpm]

Square cube law, etc means they implode and die immediately

The real problem is what happens now that a relatively large species of animal is now mush

 

[sph3re]

All the worlds insects grew 40x their size and got a taste for man flesh - would we survive? Weekend Era

All insects in the world just got larger due to failure at a CERN sent out a quantum change creating these monsters with added suffix "desires man flesh". While they are not actively hunting us, they will if they see us. Would we survive? Also for some reason this changed some fundamental...

www.resetera.com

Though, I guess this thread is missing the "taste for flesh" part.

Considering there are supposedly over a quintillion individual insects in the world, and provided they don't collapse under their own weight, I imagine we would simply all die.

 

[Lulu]

There's probably enough insects in your house right now that'll make it collapse if they grew that fast.

That said I don't think size would be beneficial to them at all.

 

[L Thammy]

I'm sure some species of ant will evolve to kidnap our children and raise them as their own workers.

 

[L Thammy]

The mosquitos are the ones that will fuck everyone over. They already kill more people than any other animal, imagine if they can run you through like a sword.

 

[Pirate Bae]

Time to move to mars

 

[Lari]

Considering the size of the insect population, if that happened would we even have room for every being on the planet?

 

[Soundscream]

All the worlds insects grew 40x their size and got a taste for man flesh - would we survive? Weekend Era

All insects in the world just got larger due to failure at a CERN sent out a quantum change creating these monsters with added suffix "desires man flesh". While they are not actively hunting us, they will if they see us. Would we survive? Also for some reason this changed some fundamental...

www.resetera.com

Though, I guess this thread is missing the "taste for flesh" part.

Considering there are supposedly over a quintillion individual insects in the world, and provided they don't collapse under their own weight, I imagine we would simply all die.

Click to shrink...

Just about to post this

 

[UnluckyKate]

Time to do my part.

I'm joining the EDF or Mobile Infantry.

Would you like to know more ?

 

[Disco Infernal]

Did someone knock me out and put me on a flight to Australia again?

 

[Kyuuji]

I'd start heavily investing in flamethrowers.

 

[Stygian]

We go into hiding until they exhaust their food supply and die from starvation. There's a reason there are many more prey animals than predators in the animal kingdom.

 

[Slackerchan]

EDF in real life was not something I wanted to do on my Sunday.

 

[Akira86]

Though, I guess this thread is missing the "taste for flesh" part.

Click to shrink...

they don't even need to develop a taste for flesh, just keep their current need for food. they'll discover we taste kind of alright, eventually. half them fuckers carnivorous anyway.

 

[Kinthey]

I'll tell those damn insects that the oxygen in our atmosphere isn't sufficient enough to support their size. That ant gnawing me in half shouldn't even be able to stand!

 

[Antrax]

I blow my brains out assuming I haven't been killed on the way to the gun store.

Click to shrink...

 

[Aaronrules380]

They all die immediately due to square cube law, but we're probably still fucked due to the loss of all the critical environmental functions fulfilled by insects being vacant and all the huge insect corpses taking Up a ton of space could be an issue too, especially if they damaged infrastructure while expanding

 

[SeanShards]

 

[Ashes of Dreams]

They'd no longer being serving their functions in nature correctly at that size, right? So it's okay to just start killing them, right?

 

[Primal Sage]

I leave Earth.

 

[idonteven]

100% doomed

 

[Siggy-P]

They couldn't survive at that scale, however given how many bugs are in an average bedroom with you at any one time, likely the sudden crap ton of mass appearing out of nowhere would crush us all to death.

I mean there's gotta be minimum 10 spiders in my room right now that I can't see? Them suddenly growing the size of a large person up to a tank into he room I sleep in would squash me into gooey paste.

 

[Ultimate Bear Cub]

 

[Aaronrules380]

They'd no longer being serving their functions in nature correctly at that size, right? So it's okay to just start killing them, right?

Click to shrink...

They'd die without you doing anything since their bodies can no longer support their weight or adequately transfer oxygen when scaled up. Square-cube law be a bitch like that

 

[Javier]

First thing i'd do is nuke Australia, then i'd think about the rest.

 

[RiOrius]

I go back to bed.

 

[hordak]

1. They would all suffocate very fast
2. A lot of humans would be crushed instantly
3. There would be piles of dead insects everywhere multiple stories high.
4. The planet would go to shit because there are no more insects pollinating the flowers and clearing up dead bodies and rotten wood and other important functions. A lot of animals would starve.

 

[Culex]

The carboniferous period always fascinates me. Dragonfly with 2 foot wingspans, scorpian-like things such as Pulmonoscorpius Kirktonensis, which were up to 2 feet long, massive insectoids like Arthropleura Armata that grew to EIGHT feet long.

 

[mnk]

Pretty sure the giant spider eating me will be the reason I wake up.

 

[SilkySm00th]

Uhm just ants would be so devastating. Can you imagine colonies of millions all of a sudden exploding put of the ground everywhere? Now trees and people and cars and cows and literally everything is fair game?

You'd have HubSpire sized colonies in like fucking days.

If it was ALL bugs we'd literally just be buried under bodies instantly lol

 

[julia crawford]

ants? nevermind the ants, what about the spiders that got inside you through your mouth while you slept? remember that movie aliens? yeah we're going belly up, or should i say belly burst open

like SPLAT

 

[Nexus2049]

Now I wanna watch Eight Legged Freaks.

 

[Landawng]

Fucking terrifying

 

[carlsojo]

This would probably end world hunger lol so much food to go around suddenly. Time to go hunting!

 

[Ultimate Bear Cub]

Just your room would be a battlefield. Fruit flies, roaches, silverfish, cheeks, boney bob, cliff! I could go on forever baby.

 

[j7vikes]

I beat EDF 5 on inferno difficulty with all 4 classes. I'll have the world saved within 24 hours.