• jaybone@lemmy.zip
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    10 days ago

    I’m with you on this. But I wonder at what point you draw the line. A spider the size of a watch? A spider the size of a car? At what point do we prefer the smaller spider?

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      10 days ago

      I’ve read dinner plate is the metric when shoes no longer work and so that’s the standard

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      10 days ago

      With increased size comes a reduction in mobility, increased difficulty in reproduction and maintenance of life. And an increased perception in them being a threat.

      A car sized spider would be pretty much immobile, and by that size, a tactical target that would be fairly easy to hunt to extinction.

      The bigger the better.

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        9 days ago

        Yeah but not in video game or movie physics, which I assume is what we are talking about in this theoretical scenario.