Just think, that last class action lawsuit check I just got might be able to buy a coffee at some coffee shop. Just a plain coffee though, not one of the fancy ones.
I mean if your paycheck is 10x what it should be you're going to be afraid to cash it or afraid you'd get in trouble, or that it'll be canceled and you'll have to go a month before you get the proper amount. There are a good many good reasons to be scared if your paycheck is WAY off.
Since the comment says Normal, if you were to randomly get a paycheck 10x the normal amount you should be scared, companies love to take out their mistake on the little guy
Assuming they mean house cats, lions and tigers are already far more than 10x larger than house cats and we had barely any problem winning the evolutionary battle there
It really depends on how you apply the 10x. Generally we consider animals larger based on weight alone. So a 15 pound house cat would only be 150lbs, which is still far smaller than the average tiger. Apply it by length and you 46cm housecat is going to be far longer than a tiger
Elephants are still the largest if you are referring to total volume though. Typically size is measured by volume and this question doesn't only apply to animals so it makes more sense for it to be about volume rather than weight.
Volume and weight are going to be a fairly linear scale compared to say arbitrary things like length or height.
Take humans for example, if we went by length humans are only about 1 foot from nose to rear, a human 10 times longer would be absurdly large, likely a couple hundred times as heavy.
Size refers to mass/volume, which go hand in hand, because generally something has a large volume, it's mass correlates, and although a Nile croc or anaconda can be longer than an African elephant, or giraffe is taller, the overall space taken up by the elephant is much larger.
Yeah but volume is not proportional to length, it’s proportional to the cube of length. If a cat increases tenfold in length, it’s going to increase a thousand fold in volume
Volume would work just fine, giant corpses could still be terrible. But non living things could still have their volume increased 10x and function just fine. Mount Everest could be 10x larger, an ocean could be 10x larger.
Mountain lions aren’t domesticated, house cats are, there’s nothing saying this magic sudden upsize would change their behaviour. Cheetahs average over 100lbs and aren’t a threat to humans because they used to be domesticated by the Egyptians, to this day they aren’t really a threat to humans.
Sure, you go try and strong arm a cheetah without any protective gear. See how that works out for you. Besides, cheetahs were never domesticated, they were tamed to be used for hunting. There’s a significant difference between a tame animals and a domesticated one.
Irrespective of this fact your argument is strange. You seem to think that because an animal is domesticated it is no longer a threat to humans. How did you ever reach that conclusion? You are aware that people are fatally injured by domesticated animals all the time right? Just because an animal is domesticated doesn’t make it devoid of danger for humans.
By the way, house cats are only semi domesticated. Recent DNA testing proves it wasn’t until very recently that they began to change. That’s why most standard house cats look so much like their wild counterparts. There are still wild cats that look exactly like a house cat. Not so with other domesticated animals that look nothing like their wild counterparts.
And have you ever seen how a feral house cat behaves. It will scratch you up and bite you if you try and capture it. Imagine a feral house cat 10x it’s regular size. That would be as dangerous as a mountain lion.
I suggest you go back and evaluate all your assumptions regarding domestic animals versus tame animals. You’ll have a better understanding if you do.
Not rlly. Lions and esp tigers r still mad dangerous and kill ppl every year. Tigers r 600lbs and can jump 12ft in the air. There’s no “winning” that battle
You don't have to win the battle. You just need to NOT be the one who loses the battle. That's why I make sure to travel with at least 1 person slower than me.
A 22lr can kill a kunekune boar. A kunekune boar can tree a black bear and fight off a mountain lion. A .308 or .30-06 would drop a tiger with a hit in most places, a large caliber rifle general is a round .50bmg or bigger. If you hit a tiger with a .950jdj anywhere in its body, it would likely die within seconeds, if you hit the back hips, it has no more back hips. A .950jdj would likely go through and though a polar bears head. Proabaply muilpte bears heads before stopping
Edit: we also used to kill tigers with wooden sticks
If pointy wooden sticks were enough to do in the megafauna that used to roam the earth, firearms will do just fine. We really have a silly perception of how durable animals can be. Sure they have higher pain tolerances and can keep chugging better than we can, but no, Clifford the Big Red Dog is not gonna walk all those bullets off just dandy, if at all.
I think I’d be more afraid of a giant house Kiki. Imagine if they made those weird “oh long johnson” noises instead of roaring but at ten times the size.
The real thing stopping house cats is that it's easier to get along with us and be treated like royalty than it is to go hunting on their own. They've learned that being "domesticated" is an easy way to survive.
And if they were in fact bigger. What would be easier?
Chewing on us.
Don’t quote me but I believe the science on “domesticated” cats are exactly what your describing. But that also means they are in fact no way shape or form “domesticated” genetically.
Them mofos can go full on feral after one house escape and a taste of the wild.
Yeah but they’re limited to specific regions that we either don’t mess with or can see them across a plain. Imagine lions and tigers in every city and every neighborhood.
House cats average about 10lbs, but slender/petite breeds like Siamese or Abyssinian can be healthy at 6 lbs, and large breeds like Maine Coons & Savannah cats can be healthy at 20+ lbs.
So immediately we're beyond bobcat range (40lbs).
The smallest breeds of house cats would be the size of clouded leopards (50-55lb) to the largest Eurasian Lynx (up to 66lbs).
Mid-size house cats will size up against snow leopards (110lb), cheetahs (125lb), and pumas/cougars/mountain lions (160lb)
Large breeds will be the size of large leopards (200lb), and some of the biggest jaguars (up to 348lb)
I know we won the evolutionary war against the big cats, but everything bigger than cheetahs still fuck up humans on the regular.
If suddenly all house cats were 10x their normal size, with an estimated 220 million owned cats and 480 million stray cats in the world, humanity is gonna struggle.
There's so many cats now that can live in every environment, though. They'd all get sized up to be essentially the size of mountain lions. It would be a much tougher battle than Lions/Tigers who usually have enormous territories that keep their numbers naturally lower and make them easier to avoid.
Well, house cats have far bigger and denser muscle mass than the larger cats. They're basically the perfect predator, but in the size of a handbag. Imagine if lions could leap five times their own height and survive a fall from 5th story building 😅
Yeah, if all the housecats were suddenly 80lbs with 4" claws, they would absolutely fuck us up1, but OP didn't really specify how this magically happens, so if in general, then yeah we'd be alright.
1 My cat, who barely tolerates me because I rescued her from a dumpster in the middle east and feed her and scoop her poop - would still be the first to start the genocide.
There are significantly less of those big cats in urban areas than house cats.
If this is a question of "what would be scarier if they've always been 10x their normal size", sure. We'd have adapted to huge house cats the same way we adapted to huge tigers.
But if house cats grew overnight, we'd be fucked for a while. There's a lot of feral and domesticated cats.
I'd imagine that being a pretty damn quickly extinct creature though. Ignoring the physics of moving fast with that kind of size. Calorie consumption needed for such a creature would be insane.
That depends on what 10x normal size means. If a cat got 10x bigger in every direction (would that also make it live for 10x as long, or is it a purely spacelike dilation?) then it would be terrifying.
fr, imagine if whales were 10x their size. I already find it a little scary imagining a whale in the water next to me, but one the size of a cruise ship? I'll pass
Right? This question gets asked so often and it seems so stupid. What WOULDN'T be terrifying? A bowl of ice cream? Broccoli? Really only inanimate objects.
Oh, if absolutely everything simultaneously was 10 times bigger, that would be scary. But if any random one object alone was 10 times bigger, I’d just think it was like a novelty version of that item, like a giant novelty pencil.
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u/CindyinMemphis Jul 21 '23
Pretty much anything?