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reiper_ t1_itvih4n wrote

Reply to comment by MasterAnything2055 in For us, giants are fiction, for insects they’re a reality by Purple_burglar_alarm

but whales are only times bigger than humans, while humans are 1000x or so bigger than insects

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JustKillinTime69 t1_itvluc9 wrote

Blue whales are 2400x larger than a human on average

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reiper_ t1_itvrszq wrote

that is the weight, a blue whale is the length of 15 grown men lying down

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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.

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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

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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

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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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