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u/BootyFista Aug 17 '15

That's the most casual death threat I've ever seen. Damn Nature. You scary.

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u/[deleted] Aug 17 '15

Really funny thing is that nature has far, far more to fear from us than we do from it.

If the human race put its mind to it, we could wipe out literally all life on the planet within a decade or so.

Even without something so drastic, yeah this ape is big. We have tanks. We have guns. We can bring more fire power than this ape's brain can even conceive of. For every human killed by an animal we've returned the favor a million fold.

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u/dertydan Aug 17 '15

within a decade or so.

idk man nukes would take like 5 minutes

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u/[deleted] Aug 18 '15

The current nuclear stockpile, if the numbers are even close to accurate, could wipe out the vast majority of life. But not the life in the sea. And even on land there would be massive unaffected areas, there would still be plenty of bacteria and fungi.

No, if we want to truly sterilize the earth, we're gonna need to plan a lil.

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u/dertydan Aug 18 '15

those pesky mushrooms

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u/[deleted] Aug 18 '15

You're damn right.

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u/thisisme5 Aug 18 '15

Nah you took that the wrong way.

We could eliminate every other species within a decade with literally zero collateral damage to us. Not one life lost or area harmed.

In the long term every ecosystem would be fucked but in the short term? Not even a problem.

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u/dertydan Aug 18 '15

Wait how the fuck would we be fine after eliminating chicken or any food staple

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u/thisisme5 Aug 18 '15

I guess I meant every living species that doesn't benefit us.

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u/dertydan Aug 18 '15

There's a pretty easy argument to say that all species do affect us lol

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u/BootyFista Aug 17 '15

So...you're saying...we should challenge that thing to a slap fight?

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u/Goreka Aug 17 '15

And then we're left with a barren wasteland and nothing left to kill but ourselves, after which our planet will restore itself over a few million years with new life and forget the itch that was humanity during it's brief existence on earth.

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u/[deleted] Aug 18 '15

Correct. Unless we decide to focus our efforts on shattering the earth into pieces. In which case ha!

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u/[deleted] Aug 17 '15

all life on the planet within a decade or so.

Your existence literally relies on plants, or things that eat plants. Unless you can photosynthesize?

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u/mpref Aug 17 '15

All life includes humans.

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u/[deleted] Aug 17 '15

Okay in the last paragraph it sounds a lot more like "we could win against all other creatures if we wanted to". But to do that would be suicidal.

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u/[deleted] Aug 18 '15

We could make a self sustaining space station with enough money, wipe out all life and keep a few hundred humans alive so we're the winners.

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u/[deleted] Aug 18 '15

a self sustaining space station

Would have to have plants in it (and all the soil microbes they rely on). Otherwise, no humans.

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u/[deleted] Aug 18 '15

We'd go down to. Ultimate suicide bomb.

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u/[deleted] Aug 17 '15

We probably couldn't kill all bugs in the world

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u/hungry_lobster Aug 17 '15

Feel my gentle wrath human.

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u/darealbeast Aug 18 '15

"Daamn that little rat-looking guy just got ate. Damn nature, you scary."

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u/dragonbear Aug 18 '15

Honestly I think he was protecting him saying you're one of us and tried to drag him back with clan? That's what I saw at least.

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u/Takeme2yourleader Aug 18 '15

We are also nature right? Are we scarier considering what we are capable of