Originally published at: What if chickens were as tall as buildings? | Boing Boing
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(and from Key West):
Square-Cube Law, it’s not just a good idea.
Replace those chickens with (even giant) cats and you’d get Istanbul.
Chickens are voracious gluttons.
It would be a massacre.
And a lot of poop.
Cassowary are deadly enough. The only thing that allows chickens to remember they’re our food rather than the other way round is their reasonably accurate perception of size. They’ve run the calculations over and over trying to make them work out in the chickens’ favor.
It looks like we are no longer the top of the pecking order.
Indeed, a chicken that size could not move around. I am excited to say there is an actual citation from Nature.
oh dear!
don’t get me started!
DEATH TO STREET CHICKENS!!!1!
I lived there for four years and can confirm that story.
Dirty Steve Stephens…shooting off his gun…, “Did you guys see the size of that chicken? Did you see the size of that cock-a-doodle goddamned doo?”
Knock knock motherfucker
Source. Never, ever be drinking anything while reading her stuff.
What if the buildings were teeny tiny? The future is now!