Eli5 why no big Insects?

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Okay so I’m sure if you’ve read in history that sometime around Jurassic age that insects were like stupidly big due to O2 saturated environments. why can’t we manufacture an enclosed space with gradually increasing oxygen saturation over a few generations and see how big we can get insects?

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Anonymous 0 Comments

Square the size, cube the mass. Insects have a natural limit to body size because at a certain point they wont be able to support the weight of themselves.

Anonymous 0 Comments

I see that you have not yet been to Australia!

Or maybe big is a relative term?

Anonymous 0 Comments

Australia has some pretty bloody big insects.

Check out the “Giant prickly” and “Goliath” stick insects – pretty deece!