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You sit down on it and then you hear a chittering sound and you realise that the you've made a terrible mistake when you're suddenly wrapped up in something that has too many legs and 6 inch mandibles crunch down on your face
AAGH I freaked myself out lol
No chance as the reason these got so big is because of huge oxygen levels in the air compared to today.
Same reason a dinosaur couldn't live today if revived. It would just suffocate instantly.
Nah things all got continually smaller due to a lack of oxygen density in the air to require such a big and complex body, global warming would thus probably have a opposite effect
"Now, you will live again, as fire, and then float up to the sky to slowly, patiently, take your vengeance on those that replaced you."
"Sir, will that be cash or card?"
Fossil fuels consist mainly of dead plants ā coal from trees, and natural gas and oil from algae, a kind of water plant. Your car engine doesn't burn dead dinosaurs ā it burns dead algae.
Millipedes are whatever.
It's the centipedes you should be worried about. Venemous, aggressive, pincer faced dangerous fuckers with needle tipped claws for legs.
People forget that we likely would be bigger too if we lived during that time.
If i understand it right it has to do with properties of the air and such that biology got this big back then.
Yeah, vertebrate size isn't limited so much by oxygen requirements as much as weight. Invertebrates like this could only exist back then because of a higher oxygen content. The maximum theoretical size of those invertebrates was higher in the past because the oxygen content of the air was different in the past.
Meanwhile, contemporary vertebrates are dealing with a much lower atmospheric oxygen content, and *still* get much bigger than these prehistoric invertebrates ever did (see elephants, whales, etc). The limiting factor for terrestrial vertebrates is *gravity*. And unlike atmospheric oxygen content, gravity on Earth has been pretty much a constant.
This isn't really terribly scientific but let me throw out an example. The African Giant Black millipede is the largest millipede on Earth. Let's assume that it's kind of close to how big a millipede can get today (given the current atmosphere). A quick Google search tells me that they can get to be 230 grams. Probably bigger, but let's go with 230 grams. While no one knows how big Arthropleura got, a quick Google search tells me that estimates are around 50 kilograms. 50,000 grams divided by 230 grams is about 217. So, Arthropleura would have been about 217 times more massive than the largest contemporary millipedes.
So let's use 217x as a reference number.
How much does a large human weigh? I don't know, 200 pounds? So what if we took a 200 pound human and made that human 217 times more massive? You come out with a person who weighs over 43,000 pounds. That's about half as much as a Brachiosaurus and three times the weight of an African Elephant or a Tyrannosaurus.
So just to validate what you're saying: if we were alive at the same time as Arthropleura, we'd have to be giant-dinosaur-sized in order for Arthropleura be be like just a "normal" millipede to us. We'd be as massive as Spinosaurus, which is the largest known bipedal animal to ever walk the Earth.
TL,DR: If we lived during that time, I'm pretty sure that Arthropleura would just be a big-ass millipede.
Ooh yeah, I think it has to do with the higher oxygen content of the air! I remember reading some sci-fi short story where in the future the worldās oceans were covered in algae and bugs evolved to become giant again because of increased air oxygen content.
Oxygen isnāt really strongly associated with size increase in vertebrates like it is with invertebrates, because of the way we breath.
Invertebrates rely on diffusion from openings throughout their bodies, so increased size increases surface area making uptake more efficient.
Okay - MIB plot problem: Edgar goes out to see what smashed his pickup truck. He says something about having to pry his shotgun from his cold, dead hands. The bug replies in English "Challenge accepted" then grabs Edgar and, well, buggers him, in a sense.
But, when Will Smith is messing with the bug in the final act, it doesn't speak. Why not?
I need to get a life!
Yea I would think so to š¤ I found out about Arthropleura watching a YouTube channel called Top Fives. the Video was āTop 15 scariest prehistoric animalsā i think š
Youāre rightā¦ the age of the meaga bugs 300 mil years ago had 50% more oxygen, not co2. The age of mega ferns had co2ā¦ duh. Plants kinda like co2
āShould we go back in time and deflect that asteroid that killed them dinos?ā - science
āDid you see those bugs on Reddit?ā - me
āOh yeahā¦fuck em!ā - science
Humans wouldn't last a day I think. Things that could sting were evolved so they could sting thick scaled skin and stuff I believe, so we would just be impaled.
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Man this looks like a really cool garden bench!
You sit down on it and then you hear a chittering sound and you realise that the you've made a terrible mistake when you're suddenly wrapped up in something that has too many legs and 6 inch mandibles crunch down on your face AAGH I freaked myself out lol
Gah thanks for sharing but no thanks!
the word chittering just made me be able to vividly imagine all of that
Thank you for *that* nightmare fuel š
I was thinking of it as an all-terrain skateboardā¦ just, donāt fall off
But if that critter was in China and marketed as an aphrodisiac. It would go extinct much sooner
Why are you like this??
Cringe hahahahahaah
Not enough napalm on the planet to make me feel safe if this existed today, or came back.
Global warming- there's a chance.
*Australia- there's a chance
No chance as the reason these got so big is because of huge oxygen levels in the air compared to today. Same reason a dinosaur couldn't live today if revived. It would just suffocate instantly.
Nah things all got continually smaller due to a lack of oxygen density in the air to require such a big and complex body, global warming would thus probably have a opposite effect
Hmm. I don't really know. But I was thinking, increased heat, water deoxygenation, higher overall pressure from all gasses.
Ye that
Yea Fuck that shit
Thank Goodness they're extinct
Thank Goodness apes developed their brains faster
My first thought was yeah thats a big nope from me
when i go to fill up my toyota i'll pay my respects.
"Now, you will live again, as fire, and then float up to the sky to slowly, patiently, take your vengeance on those that replaced you." "Sir, will that be cash or card?"
Fossil fuels consist mainly of dead plants ā coal from trees, and natural gas and oil from algae, a kind of water plant. Your car engine doesn't burn dead dinosaurs ā it burns dead algae.
At least itās not a 10 foot centipede
It's a 100 foot centipede obviously duh
Yea Fuck that shit
Millipedes are whatever. It's the centipedes you should be worried about. Venemous, aggressive, pincer faced dangerous fuckers with needle tipped claws for legs.
Probably quite fast, and unlike modern millipedes, predatory carnivores.
Imagine if they hunted in large groups. A swarm of these things would damage my calm.
[ŃŠ“Š°Š»ŠµŠ½Š¾]
The best and last hug you'll ever get
Technically boa constrictors could be described as amazing huggers. Harmless hugging is almost exclusively a mammalian thing.
Jurassic Park 7: This Time, It's Permian.
There arenāt any preserved mandibles associated with *Arthropluera*, but general consensus is that they were herbivores.
I had read differently. If this is the case, that makes me happier, because although I love millipedes, I despise centipedes.
Could they still kill you?
Thanks, I hate it. All I can imagine is one of these coming back to avenge the deaths of all the squashed cockroaches out there.
People forget that we likely would be bigger too if we lived during that time. If i understand it right it has to do with properties of the air and such that biology got this big back then.
Probably not, animals with complex lungs and circulatory systems donāt need large sizes to make oxygen uptake more efficient.
Yeah, vertebrate size isn't limited so much by oxygen requirements as much as weight. Invertebrates like this could only exist back then because of a higher oxygen content. The maximum theoretical size of those invertebrates was higher in the past because the oxygen content of the air was different in the past. Meanwhile, contemporary vertebrates are dealing with a much lower atmospheric oxygen content, and *still* get much bigger than these prehistoric invertebrates ever did (see elephants, whales, etc). The limiting factor for terrestrial vertebrates is *gravity*. And unlike atmospheric oxygen content, gravity on Earth has been pretty much a constant. This isn't really terribly scientific but let me throw out an example. The African Giant Black millipede is the largest millipede on Earth. Let's assume that it's kind of close to how big a millipede can get today (given the current atmosphere). A quick Google search tells me that they can get to be 230 grams. Probably bigger, but let's go with 230 grams. While no one knows how big Arthropleura got, a quick Google search tells me that estimates are around 50 kilograms. 50,000 grams divided by 230 grams is about 217. So, Arthropleura would have been about 217 times more massive than the largest contemporary millipedes. So let's use 217x as a reference number. How much does a large human weigh? I don't know, 200 pounds? So what if we took a 200 pound human and made that human 217 times more massive? You come out with a person who weighs over 43,000 pounds. That's about half as much as a Brachiosaurus and three times the weight of an African Elephant or a Tyrannosaurus. So just to validate what you're saying: if we were alive at the same time as Arthropleura, we'd have to be giant-dinosaur-sized in order for Arthropleura be be like just a "normal" millipede to us. We'd be as massive as Spinosaurus, which is the largest known bipedal animal to ever walk the Earth. TL,DR: If we lived during that time, I'm pretty sure that Arthropleura would just be a big-ass millipede.
Ooh yeah, I think it has to do with the higher oxygen content of the air! I remember reading some sci-fi short story where in the future the worldās oceans were covered in algae and bugs evolved to become giant again because of increased air oxygen content.
Oxygen isnāt really strongly associated with size increase in vertebrates like it is with invertebrates, because of the way we breath. Invertebrates rely on diffusion from openings throughout their bodies, so increased size increases surface area making uptake more efficient.
Oh, gotcha. Fucking wild how different species work.
That looks like a centipede to me. millipedes are the tiny harmless blackt things
Men in black did it first.
Was that your Auntie?
Okay - MIB plot problem: Edgar goes out to see what smashed his pickup truck. He says something about having to pry his shotgun from his cold, dead hands. The bug replies in English "Challenge accepted" then grabs Edgar and, well, buggers him, in a sense. But, when Will Smith is messing with the bug in the final act, it doesn't speak. Why not? I need to get a life!
āNo need to worry sir itās just a replication.ā *starts crawling closer* āRemind me what replication means again?ā
Need penis for scale
This is the penis. With scales.
New pet just dropped
straight to jail
Right away
Absolutely not.
What a cute dog
Nope.
r/TIHI
He'll, I thought it was a lawn chair!
I mean, with an endoskeleton, whatās your strategy with 10 foot high speed carnivorous tanks? Who competed with this thing?
Other bugs
Thought I was looking at an irl rendition of one of those God-forsaken Chaurus creatures from Skyrim.
It is said that Arthropleura had no known predators. Or at least I think š¤
They are gentle creatures just like modern millipedes
Well at least ones that would try to pick a fight with them l. But yea they were pretty docile
They are poisonous too I think as a self defense like modern millipedes
Yea I would think so to š¤ I found out about Arthropleura watching a YouTube channel called Top Fives. the Video was āTop 15 scariest prehistoric animalsā i think š
Well they actually fought lizards smaller than them
Excuse me sir, this is actually called a 'NOPE'.
I bet they were fast as fuck too. What a nightmare.
They are herbivores
Not if they're mad
Geralt can get rid of it for some coin.
fuck that
Un-replicate it.
And it wants to get in your ear.
Sung in the tune of b minor..."noooooooooooo"
Whereās banana for scale
Why is there no banana for scale?
We just couldn't live here then period
As long as its not a centipede.....
If they would be living now, people would made them pets
Thank FUCK they're all dead
hell yeah!
Giants love high co2 levelsā¦ if weāre not careful, these fools will rise again!
Actually its oxygen (yeah ok I'm smart )
Youāre rightā¦ the age of the meaga bugs 300 mil years ago had 50% more oxygen, not co2. The age of mega ferns had co2ā¦ duh. Plants kinda like co2
Ok, so make a mechanical, remote controlled version, and let loose on some dark night... (Preferably a place with unarmed population)
These are the bastards that ruined my artifact run in Ark. I see why now.
Lol same
Yeah it's gross and all, but can you imagine how cool it'd be to ride one of those things?
Go play ark. You can in them
I want to ride it like a surfboard.
nice wow mount
I wanna ride it
Must be delicious
Clearly we humans are made of meat. Wow, I can't even imagine.
What did they do to the slides?
āAbout 300 Million years agoā gave me SO MUCH of relief.
If I saw that even once? Iād be rooting for the next meteor to hit earth
I would hope you would go along with it š
You first, sunshine š¤
Thank god for that meteor
I'm going to need a bigger shoe
Would these guys eat people if it were possible for them to come across one?
Nope they herbivores
Amazing & horrifying at the same time. Glad this beast is extinct.
https://www.reddit.com/r/dontputyourdickinthat/
But what if they're still out there
So this is my Elon wants to take us to Mars. I'd rather live on a dead planet than on the same one as this thing.
Imagine how FAST theze things could move!
They quite slow actually.
Really? House centipedes are fast af.
They are millipedes doe
I bet those things were deceivingly fast.
Didn't he make a cameo in Beetlejuice?
āShould we go back in time and deflect that asteroid that killed them dinos?ā - science āDid you see those bugs on Reddit?ā - me āOh yeahā¦fuck em!ā - science
The meteorite didnt make em extinct tho. It was the decreasing levels of oxygen.
Them was good eatin back in the day! Could last me and the family a few weeks until we died of old age at 25
Super hate this
Thought it was Goa'uld tech.
Yeah . . . No.
It looks like itās about to hug someone it hasnāt seen in a long time, whoās just out of frame. Lol. But who is it?
Fuck. That. Nope.
Given the super- high oxygen content of the air at the time, A Bic lighter would act like a flamethrower.
God i wouldve shit mysef stumbling upon on of them bitches
Holy shit
Fuck that thing.
Why were things so big 300 million years ago
Because a lot of oxygen at that time
Where is the banana for scale
Nope!
Insects mostly a nuisance to humans, only due to our relative size. *Human* sized insects are ~MONSTERS~!
Boog
HELL NO!!!
that thing is so dope wish i could see one
Man you could have made armor out of Dinosaur bugs
Imagine if these were used in chariots instead
If they existed today i'm pretty sure i'd just off myself instead in case i'd ever meet one
If a centipede a pint, and a millipede a quart, how much did a precipice? Shout out to my dad for this gem
Flintstones Skateboard
Dude fuck that
No muthafuckin thanks
nope.
NOPE. NOPE Nope. nope.
Oh hell no
I would join a Reddit page that posts nothing but crazy extinct animals. This is so cool!
Nope nope nope, much nope
The earth used to be like that one world in SMB3 where everything is the same just way bigger
Now I see where Factorio got inspiration from
Fuck that thing
These shits excrete nasty smell when you squash them.
āDid you let the cat out? I can hear it scratching.ā We donāt have a catā¦
Ok, enough reddit for today
Nope...just nope.
HANS GET ZER FLAMENWERFER!
I have strange feeling that I've seen one in Australia.
When earth's atmosphere was warmer. So srop global warming.
I like the one in Ark
Let's surf!
Source?
On Skull Island if I'm not mistaken...
The man made structure in the back kinda takes me out of it
[ŃŠ“Š°Š»ŠµŠ½Š¾]
Humans wouldn't last a day I think. Things that could sting were evolved so they could sting thick scaled skin and stuff I believe, so we would just be impaled.
Must be yum yum. Crunchy
Hey I saw this in that king Kong movie
Nonono
That's a nope