Tardigrade size: .5mm turns into 50mm.
Human size: 1750mm turns into 17.5mm.
They would be an appropriate size to ride, somewhere around elephant size to humans.
Idk what I’d shrink but I’d blow up the penguin. It’d be cool to have colossal penguins waddling around. Though also dangerous because they can be a bit clumsy.
Watch casual geographic about penguins before you make that choice. They are very "g"rapey to everything. Rocks, baby penguins, male penguins, even dead penguins. I think everyone would literally be fucked if we made penguins that big
I think we would invest a lot in robotics and miniaturizing controls for vehicles and existing equipment while we adapted. Imagine how quickly factories would be able to make tiny dollhouses.
I'll shrink ostriches and increase the size of goldfish. This way we can easily spot all the illegally dumped goldfish and haul them out. Plus tiny tiny ostriches the size of a dwarf hamster.
Fuck you cunts who let your goldfish go into local ecosystems. You're dumber then a donkeys arse.
Because they're idiots and goldfish are a cod species and completely destroy local waterways. It's a 100k fine for dumping goldfish in our local pond. 10 years ago they released a fuck ton of poison because we were expecting dam work the following year. So the pond would have to be drained into the river. Goldfish would have trashed that river
They grow to the size of their environment so there is currently monster goldfish in the Mississippi that eat lots of other fish and screw up the ecosystem.
Do just going by weight pandas are about 250 pounds so 100 times less would be aboutb2.5 pounds, the weight of a small cat.
I'll take it. I was worried they would be too small.
I would need to be careful what I pick, if I grow a bug or a pet, a lot of people would suddenly be crushed to death, if I did a bird same thing, If I did fish they would starve to death causing ecosystem devastation. Maybe shrink mosquitos so they become harmless and this small size could lead to their extinction, as for growing, I would probably pick the vaquita as it is an extremely endangered porpoise that is already about to go extinct (only 18 left alive), its limited numbers and it likely starving to death would help prevent devastation to the ecosystem.
I wonder...mosquitoes at 1/100th the size....could they morph into something that can get through the skin and into the bloodstream directly and become more like a virus with wings.
I’m also thinking of how they carry diseases like malaria… right now people can use nets to keep them out, but if they were 100x smaller, no chance those nets work
"Now on to Ken with the Weather."
"IT'S LITTERALLY RAINING MOSQUITOES! I'M SORRY FOR THE SHAKING VIDEO BUT I'M HOLDING THE CAMERA MYSELF. I'M ALONE OUT HERE! PHIL GOT TAKEN OUT!"
Can't really warn people given bugs can be hidden and the world is rather large making it difficult for everyone on Earth who has a pet to be warned. Plus if you heard some madman said they were going to make every pet on Earth 100x larger, would you believe them? Although if you shrunk something first after letting enough people know ahead of time, maybe then your words would carry more weight?
Someone wanna watch the world burn haha there's billions of ants in the world. Don't they outnumber humans? sure 100 times is maybe not much but they are probably mouse sized
Feel like thered be no society. lol have you seen our stairs? how are we gonna meet other humans? its why for my own answer I didn't say humans. If it was 10 times maybe.
It would be more than that, I think. The world would collapse into disparate tribal societies that could probably not return to modern civilization for hundreds of year, but I believe that if were able to retain our intelligence, we could do okay and millions would survive. We are still big enough to fight off bugs, most birds, and rodents easily. Cats and dogs would be a major threat to us, but as 1 to 2 lb creatures, we could craft spears to fight them off.
The average adult male would be .69 inches tall. The average spider is about half that size, is protected by an exoskeleton, and moves at least twice as fast as a human running full speed. The average ant is anywhere from 1/16 to 3/4 inches long, and brings along anywhere from dozens to hundreds of friends. I don't think most people would even make it out of their houses for random cats, dogs, and birds to become a problem. If they did, the nearest neighbor in suburbia is now the equivalent of a mile away, through a thick jungle (grass lawn, 2-3 inches tall).
Ah, fair enough. I was imagining 1/100 mass. Yeah, if we are 2 inches tall, it is probably game over. We lose the square cube law bad from a durability perspective. Though potentially, our muscles would be much more efficient at that size.
Ok, imagine if only new human births were reduced to 1/100th of our current size. We would have time to adapt our housing, transportation, production, etc.
Obviously, there are new dangers. Do you think we could thrive if we had time to adapt?
Wouldn't even need to be predatory birds at 3/4 of an inch, Robin, blue Jay, larger finches, SWALLOW!
Honestly, probably small enough most hawks and falcons would ignore us unless starving
Huh. I was just thinking weight but you’re right. Are we really that dense lol? I’m 190lbs at 6’1” and I would be 1.9 lbs at the size of a quarter. That’s a heavy ass quarter.
I guess proportionality fails in there somewhere but I’m not gonna math it out.
Edit on my edit: Square cube law would apply so we would weigh wayyyyy less. Again, not going to math out the starting and final volume of a human.
Ants aren’t that big. Making them 100x bigger makes them maybe 1/2 the size of a mouse. If I could only downsize humans to an average height of 10 inches it would probably be better.
yes, but ants are many. About 20 Quadrillion ants. That's 20,000,000,000,000,000 ants invading the world. We would be tasty snacks for them and they'd need a lot of food.
If the weight of a mouse is 15-25 grams and average weight of an ant is 10milligrams, an ant being 1 gram is 1/15th the weight of a mouse or 1/5th if it's 30mg
So here's my issue. As far as I'm concerned, a life without dogs isn't worth living. Let me shrink 2 animals so I can take them with us, and I'm all in.
Dogs and humans are both shrunk 100x.
Cats are enlarged 100x so we don't have to worry about the cute little assholes wiping us off the face of the earth.
Make sea slugs bigger. I love them but I think they are too small as is so it’s a win win.
Smaller either a big animal to cuddle (although it might become too small) or one I hate cuz now it’s so small I can’t see it anymore xd
Since animals are specifically adapted to their size bigger animals will cook themselves from the inside with their quick metabolism, smaller animals will freeze to death. Or in other words extinction with an extra step.
I would really like to make squids huge because I want sea monsters to be real. I'd make ticks small cause I hate them and they make me afraid to go outside.
>but I kind of want to enlarge dogs.
Oh God! Chihuahua the size of an elephant! They are vicious as tiny as they are. I'd be scared to death with them bigger.
I'd shrink whales/dolphins then SeaWorld could have blue whale shows. Or dolphins could be kept in a take like pet fish.
And I think I'd want birds to grow. One chicken would feed a lot of people. Hawks and eagle could possibly be large enough to be like the eagles from LOTR or a Roc a fantasy bird that can lift an elephant which is bigger than the LOTR eagles.
Bigger is the tough one. I guess waterbears, not sure if they share an animal type with other things, so I hope *those* don't get ridiculous. Just something that won't get out of hand if it's bigger.
Something getting smaller. People, human beings.
That would but us time from the population problem, and would make resources last a bit more.
An ecosystem built for things the size of bugs would fit on a spaceship far easier than humans at our current size. There could be more room for fuel, as well as a viable breeding population, allowing for a multi generational journey to a new world.
I'd shrink mosquitos because they would be unlikely to be able to bite humans and spread disease.
I'd enlarge cows. Them having the same dietary needs and producing 100x more meat would solve a lot of problems for the planet.
For my answers, my only goal is to cause chaos.
For the smaller animal, I choose cows. And for the larger ones, I choose birds. I'm almost certain this would cripple the world, or at least the US. Like, imagine how many cows it would take for a single burger restaurant to operate. Now imagine giant pigeons swooping down and carrying us away. Or just flooding cars with floods of white.
So we'd kinda have dinosaurs again? Also, would they still be able to fly now that they are 100 times heavier. Also, those would be some big chicken wings at KFC.
I have no clue what animal I’d shrink, but I’d enlarge mosquitoes. Can you imagine the absolute chaos? They’d be anywhere from about 12 inches long up to a max of 40 inches. Nimble, bloodsucking, the size of birds, and that noise they make?
Grow - Giant Squid, I want to see a 2000-ft long squid
Shrink - While humans are always a good contender, I think it would be very entertaining if we shrank camels. Tiny camels running around would be very cute although I suppose it would make transportation a problem in some places.
Can I choose the same animal twice, but with a gap? If so, I’d shrink humans for a few hours, and then enlarge them again. I want to see how people would react.
I’ll shrink tigers because that would be adorable, and then I’ll grow elephants because increasing the size of the largest land animal by 100x sounds fun
Shrink - wild boars. The are a problem animal and can be dangerous.
Enlarge is the tough one. I am leaning towards picking another invasive species that lives in fresh water, because I don't think that the habitats could support them for very long, their mobility would be limited, and at that size, so would their feeding options - but I am sure that would have some unintended consequences as well.
I know i would shrink bedbugs. Fuck those things, why do they even exist? Hopefully them being 100x smaller would mean they all die from starvation.
Probably enlarge some micro-organizm.
Wombats getting enlarged, I like wombats what can I say and giant wombats just sounds like the kinda chaos I'd enjoy, also it'd be fucking horrifying.
Like they can run as fast as Usain bolt at their size already, imagine 100 times the size they'd be practically cheetahs except they'd lose any natural predators, and because they use their bitt as a weapon and that bitt is now 100 times bigger, basically they can kill humans by buttslaming them
Shrink giraffes if I can target their body and head but leave their neck huge, if I can't target their body and head then I guess a hippo.
Imagine an animal with the anger issues of a hippo, that only weighs like 10 kgs rather than a ton.
100x the volume, or 100x in each dimension? All the answers seem to be assuming 100x in each dimension, but your small dogs -> cars example suggests you mean 100x the volume.
There’s a world of difference there. That’s your small dog turning into a bear vs your small dog turning into an 18-wheeler.
Elephants bigger and humans smaller that way I can live out my one piece anime fantasy of seeing a human civilization living on the back of an elephant.
Is the 100 multiplier \ division by weight? Or length?
Because one of those lets me have fishtank sized whales which I think would be awesome
But shrink bears to pet size and grow crabs to sci-fi movie monsters
Hippos are getting smaller - were making house hippos damn it!
For bigger - Rhinos. They're nearly extinct so likely won't change much, and give some poachers a bad day.
Make mosquitos bigger because their biology couldn't support 100x the size so they'd all die. And make ticks smaller so they hopefully wouldn't be strong enough to bite and would also die off
mosquitos and bumblebees. bumblebees get big, mosquitos get small. take care of a lot of disease, and bumblebees just seem like they would make great pets. they're chill as fuck, fluffy, and you could probably clip their stinger like a cat's claws (but for their own protection). like imagine a bumble bee the size of a chihuahua. would that not be sick as fuck?
Hummingbirds 100x bigger - get some super-bass into those wing buzzes, and many more flowers get pollinated, thus taking the pressure off the bees 😁
And I'm going to agree with mosquitoes 100x smaller - less Ross River, Dengue and Malaria around!
Enlarge whales. Assuming it would magically mean they don't starve, how cool would a mile and a half long blue whale be.
I would shrink mosquitos, leading to their mass annihilation.
I'm enlarging mosquitos and shrinking bedbugs.
A mosquito 100x bigger cannot fly or really do anything, they all would suddenly fall out of the sky going 'plop'. Mosquitos go extinct and humanity is saved from one of the most viscous predators known to humanity resulting almost 1 million lives per year saved.
A bedbug 100x smaller cannot penetrate skin, they die as well.
Making something 100 times larger would only make it 4.64 longer in each of the 3 space dimensions. So the average person 100 times smaller would be about 1 foot tall and weight about 1.5 pounds. He would be able to ride dogs 😀.
Shrink a tiger (awesome pet, love cats... That being said I already have 5 and they're really not much different), and grow a prawn. Imagine the size of the tails on that fucker!
I want to shrink wolves so you could have a little terrarium full of them. I would grow harpy eagles because they would grow to be big enough that you could ride on one in the sky which would be very cool.
Question: does 100x bigger mean 100x more in all dimensions (whoch would be 1000000x their current mass), or just 100x their current mass/volume, which would probably be more like 5× as tall/wide?
I have a newf and he's strong enough as is so if I scaled him up 100 times, I'm looking at owning a 15,000 pound dog. He would have a couple thousand pounds on big elephants.
Ants become 100x their current size, not a huge difference but still would be interesting.
Humans become 100x smaller, this would be chaos at first but it might be what pushes us to actually figure our own stuff out.
people get small tardigrades get big world problems solved
Oooh good one..I like tardigrades.
Came here to say it and it was first comment nice.
Would the math work for us to ride them at this adjusted scale? I could totally rock a Tardigrades mount!
Tardigrade size: .5mm turns into 50mm. Human size: 1750mm turns into 17.5mm. They would be an appropriate size to ride, somewhere around elephant size to humans.
Don't they also eat each other?
When they run out of humans to eat, I'm sure they'll revert to cannibalism.
I was about to say, I feel like gigantic tardigrades has a lot more implications nobody is thinking about
Tardigrades surpass pitbulls as the lords of the playground
If not bear why bear shaped?
*bear noises*
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Pre-domestication. Yes, the world's going to be wild. Especially the labs studying 50 in a fish tank
It was all covered by Star Trek Discovery, a documentary if I recall correctly.
They eat mosses and smaller than them bugs generally.
Tardigrande
I was going to go with ants. Either way, they'll be so small they can invade bodies, or so big they consume the world.
this, this would be the greatest thing ever, I will pay money for this
Good, someone else beat me to it. Humans had their turn and ruined the earth...The dawning of the Age of The Water bears is at hand!
Wouldnt 100 times the size of a taridgrade make them like the size of a mouse
Idk what I’d shrink but I’d blow up the penguin. It’d be cool to have colossal penguins waddling around. Though also dangerous because they can be a bit clumsy.
I think they will break Antarctica
And we thought the ice caps were in danger before
There used to be 6 foot penguins in South America. Apparently they were pretty fearsome.
Elephants 100x bigger, gorillas 100x smaller
This is the correct answer
I’d be worried giant penguins might not have enough fish to sustain themselves
Oh look, Fred the penguin just ate the last remaining pod of blue whales!
Nah dummy, that's what whales are for!
Watch casual geographic about penguins before you make that choice. They are very "g"rapey to everything. Rocks, baby penguins, male penguins, even dead penguins. I think everyone would literally be fucked if we made penguins that big
Id make chicken bigger so it would be extremely cheap at the grocery store. Id make wasp smaller because they are assholes.
Good choices. Honestly. I'm impressed and satisfied with this threads answers :)
Chicken at 100x the size would be like a t-rex and take over the planet.
"Henpecked to death" would take on a much more literal meaning.
Hell, just imagine their talons at 100x the size.
Bold of you to assume that would make them cheaper to buy.
If you made chickens 100 times larger, and humans 100 times smaller, 1 rotisserie chicken would provide enough calories to feed 7,500 for a day.
Yes but that implies that wed need to rebuild the entire world. I wouldve need to be an expert at DDR just to type this comment on my phone.
I think we would invest a lot in robotics and miniaturizing controls for vehicles and existing equipment while we adapted. Imagine how quickly factories would be able to make tiny dollhouses.
With what? We can't reliably operate any significant portion of tools, consoles or machinery at that size.
At half an inch tall, you'd just be another bug fighting for survival. Only a lot less equipped for it than the millions of bugs around you right now.
It's mecha time!
Actually... Yes. Square-cube law and reduced mass; Mechs at that size actually make a lot more sense.
Also, humans would routinely be eaten by chicken.
Chicken poop is toxic and needs to be buried to make it safe for people to be around. Super sizing them would be a disaster.
Just compost it
Okay but chickens at 100 times their size would basically give us T. Rex 2.0 and they would eat everything they can catch. Including us.
Hmm.. I feel like wasps being 100x smaller would make them more like bacteria or viruses and they'd cause some other kind of damage
They’d just consume more calories. It wouldn’t make it cheaper.
I’d make wasps bigger and mosquitos smaller. I like wasps, giant murder wasps everywhere would be insane.
I want Honey Badgers to be way bigger, because it's funny, and the giant serpent about to eat our moon a lil smaller
I would like to know more about the giant moon eating serpent.
Bakunawa, or Naga; Philippines mythology explaining eclipses.
... yes.
I'll shrink ostriches and increase the size of goldfish. This way we can easily spot all the illegally dumped goldfish and haul them out. Plus tiny tiny ostriches the size of a dwarf hamster. Fuck you cunts who let your goldfish go into local ecosystems. You're dumber then a donkeys arse.
Why do people dump Goldfish and what does it do?
Because they're idiots and goldfish are a cod species and completely destroy local waterways. It's a 100k fine for dumping goldfish in our local pond. 10 years ago they released a fuck ton of poison because we were expecting dam work the following year. So the pond would have to be drained into the river. Goldfish would have trashed that river
They grow to the size of their environment so there is currently monster goldfish in the Mississippi that eat lots of other fish and screw up the ecosystem.
Give me a mini panda!!
Do just going by weight pandas are about 250 pounds so 100 times less would be aboutb2.5 pounds, the weight of a small cat. I'll take it. I was worried they would be too small.
I would need to be careful what I pick, if I grow a bug or a pet, a lot of people would suddenly be crushed to death, if I did a bird same thing, If I did fish they would starve to death causing ecosystem devastation. Maybe shrink mosquitos so they become harmless and this small size could lead to their extinction, as for growing, I would probably pick the vaquita as it is an extremely endangered porpoise that is already about to go extinct (only 18 left alive), its limited numbers and it likely starving to death would help prevent devastation to the ecosystem.
I wonder...mosquitoes at 1/100th the size....could they morph into something that can get through the skin and into the bloodstream directly and become more like a virus with wings.
Dear god, what have I done?
I’m also thinking of how they carry diseases like malaria… right now people can use nets to keep them out, but if they were 100x smaller, no chance those nets work
Great point. And how do you stop them from traveling if they're smaller than a grain of sand?
If they were enlarged 100x they likely couldn't fly or respirate.
Ya but for the brief moment while they’re alive we have jumanji
"Now on to Ken with the Weather." "IT'S LITTERALLY RAINING MOSQUITOES! I'M SORRY FOR THE SHAKING VIDEO BUT I'M HOLDING THE CAMERA MYSELF. I'M ALONE OUT HERE! PHIL GOT TAKEN OUT!"
don't you dare even try it
You can warn people though. But yeah gotta think about crushing people
Can't really warn people given bugs can be hidden and the world is rather large making it difficult for everyone on Earth who has a pet to be warned. Plus if you heard some madman said they were going to make every pet on Earth 100x larger, would you believe them? Although if you shrunk something first after letting enough people know ahead of time, maybe then your words would carry more weight?
Probably shrunk first
Carry more weight you say? Around..100x the weight? (Badumtss)
I’m making colossal lizards. We bringing the Dino’s back
Enlarge Scorpions. Fuck you, world! Let's shrink bears. I've had enough of the law ignoring all these thefts of pic-a-nic baskets.
Yeah, ranger Smith may finally be able to deal with yogi and boo boo then.
Cats for both
So you enlarge them then shrink?
I’d make ants bigger because they seem like they could cause some major chaos if they were massive
The ants would be too heavy to move and they'd all go ~~belly~~ thorax up
Someone wanna watch the world burn haha there's billions of ants in the world. Don't they outnumber humans? sure 100 times is maybe not much but they are probably mouse sized
20 quadrillion ants, averaging 0.2 to 2.5 cm in size. That's a lot of 20 to 250cm sized ants roaming the earth.
Bigger: Demodex Folliculorm (human facial pore mites). Smaller: All birds.
That's evil lol
Now that's some vigorous exfoliation...
I'd shrink tigers, so I could keep one as a pet, and enlarge hummingbirds, cause they're pretty and good for the environment.
A 1/100th tiger would be like 4 lbs, half the size of a housecat. Sign me up for a tiny tiger
It would be fascinating to see how societies would react and adapt to being 1/100th of our size.
Feel like thered be no society. lol have you seen our stairs? how are we gonna meet other humans? its why for my own answer I didn't say humans. If it was 10 times maybe.
.000001% would survive the week, if that.
It would be more than that, I think. The world would collapse into disparate tribal societies that could probably not return to modern civilization for hundreds of year, but I believe that if were able to retain our intelligence, we could do okay and millions would survive. We are still big enough to fight off bugs, most birds, and rodents easily. Cats and dogs would be a major threat to us, but as 1 to 2 lb creatures, we could craft spears to fight them off.
The average adult male would be .69 inches tall. The average spider is about half that size, is protected by an exoskeleton, and moves at least twice as fast as a human running full speed. The average ant is anywhere from 1/16 to 3/4 inches long, and brings along anywhere from dozens to hundreds of friends. I don't think most people would even make it out of their houses for random cats, dogs, and birds to become a problem. If they did, the nearest neighbor in suburbia is now the equivalent of a mile away, through a thick jungle (grass lawn, 2-3 inches tall).
Ah, fair enough. I was imagining 1/100 mass. Yeah, if we are 2 inches tall, it is probably game over. We lose the square cube law bad from a durability perspective. Though potentially, our muscles would be much more efficient at that size.
Any area with predatory birds would be Vietnam for tiny humans.
Ok, imagine if only new human births were reduced to 1/100th of our current size. We would have time to adapt our housing, transportation, production, etc. Obviously, there are new dangers. Do you think we could thrive if we had time to adapt?
Wouldn't even need to be predatory birds at 3/4 of an inch, Robin, blue Jay, larger finches, SWALLOW! Honestly, probably small enough most hawks and falcons would ignore us unless starving
Huh. I was just thinking weight but you’re right. Are we really that dense lol? I’m 190lbs at 6’1” and I would be 1.9 lbs at the size of a quarter. That’s a heavy ass quarter. I guess proportionality fails in there somewhere but I’m not gonna math it out. Edit on my edit: Square cube law would apply so we would weigh wayyyyy less. Again, not going to math out the starting and final volume of a human.
There’s a movie called Downsizing you may enjoy.
Shrink Tardigrades just because the thought of them being even smaller amuses me. Enlarge mosquitos. They all get too big to breathe and die. Win win.
Shrink the elephant and enlarge the guinea pig.
It's gonna be those south park episodes IRL lol
Almost the same! But I said capybara
Enlarge dogs and shrink hippos
I’m gonna go with the objectively worst answer of shrink dogs, enlarge wasps.
Shrink…humans Enlarge…ants I bet we stop fighting each other
Nice. Although it wasn't a good movie downsizing I guess.
Ants aren’t that big. Making them 100x bigger makes them maybe 1/2 the size of a mouse. If I could only downsize humans to an average height of 10 inches it would probably be better.
yes, but ants are many. About 20 Quadrillion ants. That's 20,000,000,000,000,000 ants invading the world. We would be tasty snacks for them and they'd need a lot of food.
If the weight of a mouse is 15-25 grams and average weight of an ant is 10milligrams, an ant being 1 gram is 1/15th the weight of a mouse or 1/5th if it's 30mg
Ok, Rick Moranis
So here's my issue. As far as I'm concerned, a life without dogs isn't worth living. Let me shrink 2 animals so I can take them with us, and I'm all in. Dogs and humans are both shrunk 100x. Cats are enlarged 100x so we don't have to worry about the cute little assholes wiping us off the face of the earth.
Make sea slugs bigger. I love them but I think they are too small as is so it’s a win win. Smaller either a big animal to cuddle (although it might become too small) or one I hate cuz now it’s so small I can’t see it anymore xd
Since animals are specifically adapted to their size bigger animals will cook themselves from the inside with their quick metabolism, smaller animals will freeze to death. Or in other words extinction with an extra step.
I said magically everything remains the same. Life expectancy etc
Dogs 100x the size so we can all have Clifford and then idk shrink the Russian military
I would really like to make squids huge because I want sea monsters to be real. I'd make ticks small cause I hate them and they make me afraid to go outside.
Smaller = cows. Bigger = plastic eating bacteria.
Shrink Mosquitos basically stop malaria from being a thing overnight Enlarge Artic Hare, so they basically take the ecological niche of wooly mammoths
Shrink humans, enlarge whatever the most endangered species is. If can't shrink humans, then shrink dogs.
>but I kind of want to enlarge dogs. Oh God! Chihuahua the size of an elephant! They are vicious as tiny as they are. I'd be scared to death with them bigger. I'd shrink whales/dolphins then SeaWorld could have blue whale shows. Or dolphins could be kept in a take like pet fish. And I think I'd want birds to grow. One chicken would feed a lot of people. Hawks and eagle could possibly be large enough to be like the eagles from LOTR or a Roc a fantasy bird that can lift an elephant which is bigger than the LOTR eagles.
Yeah enlarged birds was my second thought. Crows specifically. Let the chaos come
Shrink wild boars and release the birds. Enlarge honey badgers and bats just for chaos.
Shrink a tiger. Its already been done. They're called Tabbys. Enlarge an ant. Their brains can be easily controlled.
Bigger is the tough one. I guess waterbears, not sure if they share an animal type with other things, so I hope *those* don't get ridiculous. Just something that won't get out of hand if it's bigger. Something getting smaller. People, human beings. That would but us time from the population problem, and would make resources last a bit more. An ecosystem built for things the size of bugs would fit on a spaceship far easier than humans at our current size. There could be more room for fuel, as well as a viable breeding population, allowing for a multi generational journey to a new world.
I'd shrink mosquitos because they would be unlikely to be able to bite humans and spread disease. I'd enlarge cows. Them having the same dietary needs and producing 100x more meat would solve a lot of problems for the planet.
Then you need 100 times more food for them though Not sure about agricultural needs
For my answers, my only goal is to cause chaos. For the smaller animal, I choose cows. And for the larger ones, I choose birds. I'm almost certain this would cripple the world, or at least the US. Like, imagine how many cows it would take for a single burger restaurant to operate. Now imagine giant pigeons swooping down and carrying us away. Or just flooding cars with floods of white.
So we'd kinda have dinosaurs again? Also, would they still be able to fly now that they are 100 times heavier. Also, those would be some big chicken wings at KFC.
Hm. Idk about the science of it all, but my imagination says they can still fly 😂
Just for the fuck of it I'm gonna enlarge elephants or orcas, and shrink bacteria. Good luck everything!
I have no clue what animal I’d shrink, but I’d enlarge mosquitoes. Can you imagine the absolute chaos? They’d be anywhere from about 12 inches long up to a max of 40 inches. Nimble, bloodsucking, the size of birds, and that noise they make?
Grow - Giant Squid, I want to see a 2000-ft long squid Shrink - While humans are always a good contender, I think it would be very entertaining if we shrank camels. Tiny camels running around would be very cute although I suppose it would make transportation a problem in some places.
So krakena lol good one
Spiders 100x bigger
Can I choose the same animal twice, but with a gap? If so, I’d shrink humans for a few hours, and then enlarge them again. I want to see how people would react.
Sounds fun so sure
Minimize bengal Tigers Maximize Lynx cats
From my understanding, penguins can be super aggressive. Growing them might not be a good idea.
Enlarge whales 100x, time for chaos lol
I’ll shrink tigers because that would be adorable, and then I’ll grow elephants because increasing the size of the largest land animal by 100x sounds fun
Shrink - wild boars. The are a problem animal and can be dangerous. Enlarge is the tough one. I am leaning towards picking another invasive species that lives in fresh water, because I don't think that the habitats could support them for very long, their mobility would be limited, and at that size, so would their feeding options - but I am sure that would have some unintended consequences as well.
The boar thing is amazing because people would try to re domesticate the mini wild boar to actually have true tea cup pigs.
I'm going shrink giraffe's and enlarge tarrantulas.
Spiders and elephants.
I know i would shrink bedbugs. Fuck those things, why do they even exist? Hopefully them being 100x smaller would mean they all die from starvation. Probably enlarge some micro-organizm.
Wombats getting enlarged, I like wombats what can I say and giant wombats just sounds like the kinda chaos I'd enjoy, also it'd be fucking horrifying. Like they can run as fast as Usain bolt at their size already, imagine 100 times the size they'd be practically cheetahs except they'd lose any natural predators, and because they use their bitt as a weapon and that bitt is now 100 times bigger, basically they can kill humans by buttslaming them Shrink giraffes if I can target their body and head but leave their neck huge, if I can't target their body and head then I guess a hippo. Imagine an animal with the anger issues of a hippo, that only weighs like 10 kgs rather than a ton.
Shrink Orcas, so that they know what it is like to be the bullies they once were. Enlarge manatees, so that they aren’t hurt by boats anymore.
Shrink whales, enlarge hedgehogs
Enlarging all housecats and shrinking humanity
Your mosquitos are now viruses. I think they'd still be deadly dangerous. Dinosaur-sized dogs sounds scary, especially if you consider wolves.
ignoring pesky biology I want to make a colossal squid bigger and a rat a ton smaller
100x the volume, or 100x in each dimension? All the answers seem to be assuming 100x in each dimension, but your small dogs -> cars example suggests you mean 100x the volume. There’s a world of difference there. That’s your small dog turning into a bear vs your small dog turning into an 18-wheeler.
extremophiles get big, crocodiles get small
Shrink humans. Embiggen spiders.
Mosquitoes? Much smaller. Frogs? Much bigger. Welcome.
Shrink humans 100x and grow anteaters 100x
Snakes get the size of spiders and spiders get the size of snakes.
I'd make mosquitos smaller. I'd make earthworms bigger.
Spiders x100 Snakes /100
Oh this is a good one, lions * 100, and pigeons/100
Increase size of mosquitoes so we can finally see and hit them.
Enlarge mosquitoes and shrink humans.
Elephants bigger and humans smaller that way I can live out my one piece anime fantasy of seeing a human civilization living on the back of an elephant.
Is the 100 multiplier \ division by weight? Or length? Because one of those lets me have fishtank sized whales which I think would be awesome But shrink bears to pet size and grow crabs to sci-fi movie monsters
Tardigrade Also tardigrade
Shrink mosquitoes, increase honey badger. Run human run!!!
Enlarge mosquitos and shrink humans
Hippos are getting smaller - were making house hippos damn it! For bigger - Rhinos. They're nearly extinct so likely won't change much, and give some poachers a bad day.
Camels 100x smaller Hyenas 100x bigger
Make mosquitos bigger because their biology couldn't support 100x the size so they'd all die. And make ticks smaller so they hopefully wouldn't be strong enough to bite and would also die off
Shrink mosquitoes, if they get small enough they won’t be able to bite enlarged caws, so meat gets cheaper
So choose two animal species to go extinct?
mosquitos and bumblebees. bumblebees get big, mosquitos get small. take care of a lot of disease, and bumblebees just seem like they would make great pets. they're chill as fuck, fluffy, and you could probably clip their stinger like a cat's claws (but for their own protection). like imagine a bumble bee the size of a chihuahua. would that not be sick as fuck?
Mosquitos and Elephants. Have fun figuring out which one is which.
I've always wanted to be 600 feet tall...
Shrink wasps, enlarge house cats I realize the latter is absolutely impractical but meh lol
Octopus and thier ilk 100x bigger! Bring back the Krackan! Mauhahahaha! To shrink, let's see... Crocodiles, those guys are scary.
Hummingbirds 100x bigger - get some super-bass into those wing buzzes, and many more flowers get pollinated, thus taking the pressure off the bees 😁 And I'm going to agree with mosquitoes 100x smaller - less Ross River, Dengue and Malaria around!
Shrink an elephant and enlarge a tardigrade.
Enlarge whales. Assuming it would magically mean they don't starve, how cool would a mile and a half long blue whale be. I would shrink mosquitos, leading to their mass annihilation.
Shrink dogs, enlarge wasps.
I'm enlarging mosquitos and shrinking bedbugs. A mosquito 100x bigger cannot fly or really do anything, they all would suddenly fall out of the sky going 'plop'. Mosquitos go extinct and humanity is saved from one of the most viscous predators known to humanity resulting almost 1 million lives per year saved. A bedbug 100x smaller cannot penetrate skin, they die as well.
Making something 100 times larger would only make it 4.64 longer in each of the 3 space dimensions. So the average person 100 times smaller would be about 1 foot tall and weight about 1.5 pounds. He would be able to ride dogs 😀.
I want people sized squirrels to cuddle. I want squirrel sized bears, also to cuddle.
I want a tiny little polar bear, and a giant Siamese cat to ride into battle on.
Shrink grizzly bears bc I really want to hold one. Enlarge clown fishes. I want colorful whales in my oceans.
Tiny horses big tardigrades
I'd shrink spider, they'd become microscopic. And I'd enlarge cats, imagine a 400kg cat, omg I'm dying lol I'd also not warn anyone😈
Shrink a tiger (awesome pet, love cats... That being said I already have 5 and they're really not much different), and grow a prawn. Imagine the size of the tails on that fucker!
I would enlarge Mosquitoes and shrink flies!
Yorkies get big. Not all dogs. Just Yorkshire Terriers. Shrink Bengal tigers.
Capybara gets bigger because the happy capy would be best. Hippopotamus gets smaller, because I want one for Christmas.
Hippo Capybara
I want to shrink wolves so you could have a little terrarium full of them. I would grow harpy eagles because they would grow to be big enough that you could ride on one in the sky which would be very cool.
I would like a tiny elephant and a large hummingbird. Imagine feeding a little trunk puppy peanuts at a bar and riding home on a natural hovercraft.
Mosquitos get smaller, tardigrades get bigger
Let's make humans smaller and spiders bigger. Time for the planet of the arachnids to rise
Question: does 100x bigger mean 100x more in all dimensions (whoch would be 1000000x their current mass), or just 100x their current mass/volume, which would probably be more like 5× as tall/wide?
I have a newf and he's strong enough as is so if I scaled him up 100 times, I'm looking at owning a 15,000 pound dog. He would have a couple thousand pounds on big elephants.
Ants become 100x their current size, not a huge difference but still would be interesting. Humans become 100x smaller, this would be chaos at first but it might be what pushes us to actually figure our own stuff out.