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  • The smallest mammal (Etruscan shrew) is about the same size as the largest ant (Driver ant Queen). You probably need to speed up the tiny-lion metabolism, but in general the mammal body plan can work around that size.

    On the other hand, to scale up insects to the size of a lion, you would need to completly redesign the respiratory at least and the entire exoskeleton construct will also be pushed to it’s structural limits.

    Downscaling mammals is much more realistic then upscaling arthropods.













  • tobogganablaze@lemmus.orgtoFunny@sh.itjust.worksMeat?
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    2 months ago

    Yeah the joke doesn’t really work when you flip it around because people don’t actually go around telling other people that they eat meat out of the blue. And why would you? In most western societies that’s just the assumed default anyway and there is no “moral highground” to claim with such a statement.

    This really only happens on the internet and it’s almost always to troll vegans.