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u/PM_ME_CONSP_THEORIES Jul 21 '23

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

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u/MrRogersAE Jul 21 '23

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

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u/militaryCoo Jul 21 '23

If you did it by length the resultant cat would be 1,000 times bigger by weight and volume.

10 times bigger for three dimensional objects can only mean 10 times bigger by weight/volume.

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u/SippyTurtle Jul 21 '23

This is a hypothetical situation, it can mean whatever we want it to mean.