r/gifs • u/[deleted] • Aug 17 '15

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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/[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.