Submitted by Purple_burglar_alarm t3_ydt0g3 in Showerthoughts
MasterAnything2055 t1_ittzy0m wrote
Mostly we imagine giants as giant humanoids.
If it can be any species then whales are pretty giant.
PantaReiNapalmm t1_itudjoo wrote
Wait, no stupid joke on some moms giant ass?
Impressed
consw50 t1_ituek4j wrote
We’ll I’ve been trying to not to speak ill of your mother on the internet but if you insist…
PantaReiNapalmm t1_ituf38y wrote
She asked me if someone wrote something on her again...
Dejavue
consw50 t1_itugc8t wrote
Yeah somebody definitely wrote some thing on her it just says “wide load”
PantaReiNapalmm t1_ituhn6r wrote
Danger: wide load, better run for your life
boxingdude t1_itv38up wrote
Yo momma so fat, she beeps when she backs up!
AcidBathVampire t1_itvp9t6 wrote
Yo momma so fat, she sat on a quarter and squeezed a booger out of Washington's nose
Purple_burglar_alarm OP t1_ittzzyh wrote
That’s a very good point!
JJwdp1 t1_itv97ln wrote
OP's point is still valid, think of the woodlouse and the giant isopod
MasterAnything2055 t1_itv9bkq wrote
My argument wasn’t against insects seeing giants. But that we also do.
sygnathid t1_itvndjp wrote
I think that commenter's point is that those two creatures have very similar forms but one is giant compared to the other, while us and whales have relatively different forms.
If Gigantopithecus was still around, I feel like they'd meet this sort of qualification, being very similar to humans in form but much greater in size.
JJwdp1 t1_itw5nyx wrote
Yep
reiper_ t1_itvih4n wrote
but whales are only times bigger than humans, while humans are 1000x or so bigger than insects
JustKillinTime69 t1_itvluc9 wrote
Blue whales are 2400x larger than a human on average
reiper_ t1_itvrszq wrote
that is the weight, a blue whale is the length of 15 grown men lying down
JustKillinTime69 t1_itvz7uo wrote
Well if you go by length you can't say humans are thousands of times larger than insects.
Even for small insects like ants humans are only like 300-400 times longer.
reiper_ t1_itw191j wrote
i used length because if you go by height blue whales are definitely not enough to be considered giants (one blue whale should be what? 5 humans standing up) specially if you compare the height of a human and an insect
JustKillinTime69 t1_itwbukz wrote
Well that would just be cherry picking using the whales smallest dimension vs the humans largest dimension.
Most appropriate comparison is probably volume
reiper_ t1_itwiq61 wrote
yeah but if we talking about giants then I'd say height is what determines it right?
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