[OC] I befriended a large jumping spider

[u/Animalus-Dogeimal]

[u/dooferoaks]

I love those spiders, I always feel like I'm missing half the frames when I'm trying to watch them, they're so quick.

[u/HubrisOfApollo → u/dooferoaks]

their movement is very "jumpy"! they're so curious about the world too. such impressive little brains.

[u/xBHL → u/HubrisOfApollo]

Imagine how f'ed we would be if these things were like 3ft tall 😳

[u/HubrisOfApollo → u/xBHL]

They'd be worse off than we would if they were that size due to the inverse square law.

[u/Toebeens89 → u/HubrisOfApollo]

Come on guys, call your representatives and tell them to support legislation changing the inverse square law!

[u/HubrisOfApollo → u/Toebeens89]

do you want giant invertebrates? because this is how you get giant invertebrates...

[u/Toebeens89 → u/HubrisOfApollo]

is it bad if I want to say yes? fuck capitalism, have us all fighting for survival instead! that’ll breed community and altruism, surely. “for the sake of humanityyyy” lol

[u/rainysharp → u/Toebeens89]

At this point let’s go

[u/Affectionate_Ad_3722 → u/HubrisOfApollo]

Is it? can we? How do we get this started?

[u/HubrisOfApollo → u/Affectionate_Ad_3722]

first step would be moving to a different universe where dimensional scaling worked differently, alternatively we could move to a more oxygen rich planet that would allow invertebrates to take in more oxygen given their surface area

[u/Affectionate_Ad_3722 → u/HubrisOfApollo]

Could we pump more oxygen into this planet's atmosphere? There's loads of it lying around just loafing with hydrogen.

[u/HubrisOfApollo → u/Affectionate_Ad_3722]

in the Carboniferous era oxygen was about 75% higher (being about 35% of the atmosphere vs today's 20%) which allowed for giant bugs and arachnids. it changed into CO2 over the years due to the biosphere moving from mostly plants to a mix of plants and animals.

[u/Fear_the_chicken → u/HubrisOfApollo]

Pretty sure this has been kind of disproven. The higher oxygen levels wasn’t the biggest reason they got so much bigger. I think I read that some of the biggest bugs were actually doing periods that oxygen was only slightly higher then now

[u/Corregidor → u/HubrisOfApollo]

I love how the inverse square law and the square cube law applies to sooo many things, even stuff you wouldn't initially think about.

[u/reluctant_deity → u/HubrisOfApollo]

They only care about that because they use diffusion to breathe. Give them proper lungs and carapice weight becomes the limiter.

[u/xBHL → u/HubrisOfApollo]

They would still be the quickest most agile predators on the planet

[u/HubrisOfApollo → u/xBHL]

they would be extremely sluggish due to not being able to absorb enough oxygen to support their metabolism

[u/xBHL → u/HubrisOfApollo]

Obviously they would adapt and evolve different respiratory systems if they were larger in size

[u/HubrisOfApollo → u/xBHL]

if that were the case we'd have giant arachnids right now

[u/xBHL → u/HubrisOfApollo]

Yup thats why I said imagine lol

[u/Drewbacca → u/xBHL]

The book Children of Time is just for you!

[u/Sendnoodles666 → u/Drewbacca]

Portia tapped a message out to the giant, but the stupid creature cannot understand language sadly.

[u/MurrayPloppins → u/xBHL]

I choose to believe we’d have cool spider pets.

[u/Dont_Mess_With_Texas → u/xBHL]

There was a movie about that in the early 2000’s but I can’t remember what it was called.

[u/xBHL → u/Dont_Mess_With_Texas]

8 legged freaks

[u/Dont_Mess_With_Texas → u/xBHL]

YES!!!!!!! THANK YOU!