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I like how their experiment was literally pitting ants against each other.
by zrkrlc 6y ago
I like how their experiment was literally pitting ants against each other.
- _Microft 6y agoI can't help empathizing with animals in such a situation. It must be like getting teleported into an otherwise empty room with a tiger in it. (Turns out that humans with chainmail fare a lot better than those without!)
- emerged 6y agoAnts individually are just happy to be of service to the queen. They should put a picture of the queen nearby as motivation.
- Razengan 6y agoPheromones of the queen you mean.
- CompuHacker 6y agoWe'll make it scratch and sniff.
- MaximumYComb 6y agoEven wearing chain mail I doubt you'd have a chance much higher than zero against a full grown tiger.
- bigbubba 6y agoI think the tiger would easily crush your neck, even if their teeth couldn't pierce the mail. I'd give better odds to a knight wearing a lot of plate armor. Still not very good odds though.
- inawarminister 6y agoI don't know, properly made chainmail suit is bite and scratchproof. Might be able to wrestle the tiger into submission. Though the weight of the tiger is going to be a VERY HUGE issue. Give me a spear and I'll be willing though.
- chordalkeyboard 6y agonot bite proof, this is why they use cages to protect against really big sharks.
- freshpots 6y agoSharks are larger and have larger teeth though. Plus, they have an advantage b/c they live in water and we don't. Bring them to land and we can debate a cage-less shark fight. The tiger situation seems more possible but I wouldn't try it.
- chordalkeyboard 6y agoI'm just saying that there's a limit to the amount of bite protection provided by chain mail.
- kingbirdy 6y agoChainmail is bite proof in that it will likely prevent the tiger's teeth from puncturing your skin, but a tiger's jaw is strong enough to snap almost any bone in your body through the chainmail, so it's ultimately not going to do you much good.
- WalterBright 6y agoMany cats kill by crushing the throat, choking the prey. I doubt mail would stop that.
- edgyquant 6y agoYou aren’t gonna be able to wrestle a full grown tiger it’s hard enough wrestling a Pitbull or Rottweiler.
- jacquesm 6y agoI've seen a grown man turned into Filet American by an ordinary housecat with a grudge. A tiger is off the scale in terms of the damage that it will be able to do and no matter what body protection you wear short of a full body armor you will likely end up slightly dead.
- _Microft 6y agoSigh I should have seen it coming. This or Miles O'Brien himself chiming in and telling us that trace amounts of exotic substances in medieval chain armour would have interfered with the transporter's Heisenberg compensators.
- baobabKoodaa 6y agoImagine an alien species that studies humans and a researcher discovers that some humans are wearing chainmail armor to battles. The researcher hypothesizes that wearing armor improves humans' odds in said battles. Of course this calls for a n=5000 study on human gladiator battles where some participants are provided chainmail armor and others are not. Ahh, science. Meanwhile, all the humans are like: uhh, yeah, 5000 of us died for this Sherlock?
- skc 6y agoI did this a lot as a child. Find some random insect (beetle, spider, earthworm), pop it into an ant colony and spend hours watching the ensuing battle. Never thought of it as cruel, which is unsettling when I imagine what an alien species with superior intelligence might choose to do with us.