So bugs used to be bigg af back in the day when vi had a higher oxygen % in the air so could i basicly make an ant colony start creating bigger ants by jeeping them in a high oxygen enviroment? Or am i retarded?
Ants have already adapted to low oxygen environment so unless you do it for a million years, your ants likely will have a small increase in size.
>>16472451I see so should i use another bug? Or is it just a case of: yeah it could work but you would have to wait for evolution
>>16472443>>16472455If the genes to utilize higher oxygen exist in a given species then they can be brought out by selective breeding. It could just require several generations of queens.
>>16472460So we are talking 5 or 50 years cus if it is just a few years i might think about doing it, you can make oxygen at home whit batteries(manganese dioxide) and hydrogen peroxide?
Why do you want big ants so badly?
>>16472443Could you make them big enough to eat niggers?
>>16472451i disagree. evolution doesn't take a million years, unlike how the science jew hints. i don't know why people think like this when evolution is right in front of you. changes in height versus parents when better nutrition is introduced, dog breeding, birds changing beak shape in few generations in changed habitat, etc. i reckon he could observe noticeable differences in a decade at the latest.
>>16472451>so unless you do it for a million yearsQI alarm sound. Evolution doesn't take that long. Have enough variance in a population and strong enough selection pressure, evolution happens very quickly.
>>16474991i am author of >>16474978 and agree with you on the skewed time frame, but not the requirements.>enough variance in a population and strong enough selection pressureevolution isn't conditioned by variance in population. the math would not have added up if variance was the key factor. which in reality is change in the germ cells of parents, producing adapted progeny. we don't know fully which exact excretions of somatic cells carry the info to the germ cells, but we know it does happen, it had even been predicted by darwin.>>16472460>selective breedingyou don't need any human induced selective breeding. they will evolve by themselves just as fast.btw, op anon, i forgot to mention that once this btc bull run is over, i'd help you financially with this experiment cuz i was thinking the same thing for a while man.
>>16475241But what ants should one use? There is certainly a diffrence. https://www.antshq.co.uk/
>>16475255i'd say srap the ants and use dragonflies, they have the largest breathing tubes & would probably benefit the most.
>>16474978>evolution is right in front of you. changes in heightthat's not evolution....
>>16475288Harder to house and nymph stage requires water area. But might be wort looking into. Im not really sure if one would need to increase the oxygenation of the water as well and also does higher oxygen levels change how they fly becous of "air density" idk ants seemed simpler but as said ill keep it in mind.
>>16472443>antsThe size of invertebrates might be limited to some extent by oxygen concentration, but ants are nowhere near that limit. If oxygen was the only thing limiting their size then the biggest ants wouldn’t be tiny compared to the largest insects. Maybe try with goliath beetles or elephant beetles
>>16472443the oxygen thing is a meme, they could always evolve better breathing. the problem is that larger insects and just excellent snacks and get outcompeted hard by everything else.
>>16475450>excellent snacksi get your point but there won't be any predators in our chamber. also, centipedes could evolve to be poisonous first falling prey to avoid birds and small mammals and then gain their size.
>>16475513look at that thing. a giant chicken finger for any bear
>>16475357this, do the beetles or dragonflies or maybe scolopendras>>16475450lol go and try to snack a scolopendra. fuck it, send a leopard to do that and watch it die faster than it can comprehend what happened
>>16477510>lol go and try to snack a scolopendra.their poison isnt even deadly to a human.
>>16477709>Natural predators to the giant centipedes include large birds, spiders, and arthropod-hunting mammals, including coati, kinkajou, and opossum.lol. wow so dangerous. >>16477510see they are just walking chicken fingers
>>16477711To be fair that’s only because they’re small. If they were >>16475513 size they’d be able to eat just about anything
>>16478168if they had that advantage we would be ruled by giant bugs right now. but we arent. makes you think
>>16478238Thats because of bio-mechanical and respiratory constraints, not necessarily because they’d all be eaten by modern animals. Being outcompeted and being eaten to extinction aren’t the same thing
