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Did you ever wonder what would happen if there were no life on Earth smaller than a hamster?
First of all everything else would die because micro-organisms in the ocean do most of the world's photosynthesis, and without that we'd suffocate. Plus, there would be no food for baleen-feeding whales, which are pretty cool too.
So lets narrow it down to nothing smaller than a hamster on land. That takes out most fungi and a lot of pretty useful plants, so that isn't an improvement either.
No animals smaller than hamster on land. We could get rid of all the small sea animals too, but they don't bother me quite as much as land things that small do (in fact, not at all). Sure, there are some symbiotic bacteria that make life a bit easier for humans, but 99.99% of things you can't see are a pain in the ass, and those symbiotes aren't even necessary to live (otherwise antibiotics would kill us -- would that be ironic?). We'd have to keep yeast, but it's not viable in the wild so it's okay. Insects in particular are high on my dislike list. Ants. Cockroaches. Mosquitoes. Ticks. Flies, of the moving-feces-in-to-your-food kind and the vampiric kind. All of these things suck - some quite literally. Other shitty things include mice and rats. A fucking mouse ate THROUGH a plastic bag to fuck up my brand-spanking-new dinner rolls. I almost shat. Spiders: a lot of people hate them; I don't mind them (since they eat the really bad insects), except when they land in mouth in my sleep and I can't figure out why my mouth is crunchy and funny tasting. Don't get me started on slugs.
What would anyone really miss? Butterflies maybe. They're pretty. Anyone else have anything?
Everything smaller than a hamster that lives on land would make my life better off (or at least no worse) if it didn't exist, except for yeast and possibly butterflies. I think major irradiation is in order. That makes most life sorta like Palestine, a la my previous rant.
First of all everything else would die because micro-organisms in the ocean do most of the world's photosynthesis, and without that we'd suffocate. Plus, there would be no food for baleen-feeding whales, which are pretty cool too.
So lets narrow it down to nothing smaller than a hamster on land. That takes out most fungi and a lot of pretty useful plants, so that isn't an improvement either.
No animals smaller than hamster on land. We could get rid of all the small sea animals too, but they don't bother me quite as much as land things that small do (in fact, not at all). Sure, there are some symbiotic bacteria that make life a bit easier for humans, but 99.99% of things you can't see are a pain in the ass, and those symbiotes aren't even necessary to live (otherwise antibiotics would kill us -- would that be ironic?). We'd have to keep yeast, but it's not viable in the wild so it's okay. Insects in particular are high on my dislike list. Ants. Cockroaches. Mosquitoes. Ticks. Flies, of the moving-feces-in-to-your-food kind and the vampiric kind. All of these things suck - some quite literally. Other shitty things include mice and rats. A fucking mouse ate THROUGH a plastic bag to fuck up my brand-spanking-new dinner rolls. I almost shat. Spiders: a lot of people hate them; I don't mind them (since they eat the really bad insects), except when they land in mouth in my sleep and I can't figure out why my mouth is crunchy and funny tasting. Don't get me started on slugs.
What would anyone really miss? Butterflies maybe. They're pretty. Anyone else have anything?
Everything smaller than a hamster that lives on land would make my life better off (or at least no worse) if it didn't exist, except for yeast and possibly butterflies. I think major irradiation is in order. That makes most life sorta like Palestine, a la my previous rant.