over the years i have come up with quite a few would you rather this is my favorite
Would you rather have control over all birds in the world or all insects?
some rules of this question
- you can control them from anywhere anytime and as many as you want at a time
- you can make them do whatever you want either by general commands like “attack them” or “Go get me a bag of chips from the nearest gas station”
- you could also control them like they were a drone or some sort of remote control thing like your guiding them with your mind
- all birds are included not just the flying ones example: ostrich and penguin
- for bugs, you get the Insecta class which includes things like bees, mosquitos, all flys, fleas, and many more
- A common misconception when asking this question is that things like spiders are included in the insects the answer is no.
- Now the original question was to control all birds or all bugs however I changed it to insects because if we said all bugs then that might be considered part of the Arthropod which includes things like spiders which is close however it also has things like crabs and crawfish so i felt it was best to just use insects.
Some interesting facts for both sides
- the biomass(the total quantity or weight of organisms in a given area or volume) of birds is about .008 of all animals while insects is about 1/3 of all animals
- there are about 80 billion birds and roughly 10 quintillion insects
- the fastest insect is the dragonfly clocking in at ~33 mph the fastest bird is the
The peregrine falcon at ~186 mph - the biggest insect is the giant weta(I wouldn’t recommend googling) at about 3.9 inches while the biggest bird is the Common Ostrich at about 9 feet tall
For my decisions I choose to control the birds
please let me know what would you choose and why!
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