What If Giant Bugs Roamed the Earth?

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  • Giant bugs are now roaming the Earth. If these behemoths existed, would humanity become bug food? How could a bird save your life? And why would Grandma’s jewelry come in handy? How strong is their chitin? Can you pierce through their exoskeleton?
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    00:00 What If Giant Bugs Roamed the Earth?
    00:41 Insects of the past
    01:56 Would humans become nocturnal?
    04:19 Could climate change kill the bugs again?
    04:38 How would we fight back?
    06:13 How could you stop a wasp attack?
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Komentáře • 378

  • @aidenracer48nation67
    @aidenracer48nation67 Před rokem +87

    Just woke up and once again great content 👍🏻

  • @kadendookie178
    @kadendookie178 Před rokem +95

    If Giant bugs roamed the Earth, giant bug spray cans would too 💀

  • @GauravGupta-zq3hx
    @GauravGupta-zq3hx Před rokem +28

    0:48 "Just step into the What If time machine"
    *Gets obliterated*

    • @dodo2829
      @dodo2829 Před rokem +3

      No, *Discombobulated*

    • @nava9561
      @nava9561 Před rokem +3

      He got thanos snapped

  • @wronglyright
    @wronglyright Před rokem +195

    Imagine gigantic cockroaches flying around..

  • @noobplayz4720
    @noobplayz4720 Před rokem +37

    "If Mantis were bigger than human , human can't lay one attack" ~ BAKI Hanma

    • @soumi1984
      @soumi1984 Před rokem +3

      If mantis spiders were a quarter of human size, we wouldn't be as populated as we are

    • @ProGamer_69420
      @ProGamer_69420 Před rokem

      mantises will be deadly but not as deadly as a gun

    • @hughjanus2781
      @hughjanus2781 Před rokem +1

      @@ProGamer_69420 You would need belt fead machine guns Or assault rifle with armor piercing rounds

    • @ProGamer_69420
      @ProGamer_69420 Před rokem

      @@hughjanus2781 just use mustard gas, that worked out for the germans in ww1

  • @CrossoversBoxStudios
    @CrossoversBoxStudios Před rokem +17

    Giant bugs: exists
    Coyote Peterson: Today, I'm about to be bitten with the Goliath bird-eater

    • @Xhaled
      @Xhaled Před rokem

      did it get you?

    • @Ggtg34
      @Ggtg34 Před rokem +3

      That will be his last video ☠️💐

    • @LeBaldJames23-
      @LeBaldJames23- Před rokem +2

      Goliath man-eater

  • @SnowConeYT
    @SnowConeYT Před rokem +95

    Welp i would’ve died of a heart attack cuz ill be freaking afraid of giant bugs lol
    Edit 1: thanks for 85 likes lol

    • @jaredpatterson1701
      @jaredpatterson1701 Před rokem +3

      Would be like granny at the beginning of Ratatouille with a shot gun blasting everything in sight!

    • @baljovan
      @baljovan Před rokem

      Youryouryouryout but you still your

    • @PhilipBarron
      @PhilipBarron Před rokem

      So would Blathers, lol

  • @johnwright7782
    @johnwright7782 Před rokem +4

    Where is Godzilla when you need him.😂😉

  • @modyelmolky4748
    @modyelmolky4748 Před rokem +3

    This made me looking for any bugs near me every min

  • @BrokenNoah
    @BrokenNoah Před rokem +8

    That King Kong pit scene to this day traumatizes me

    • @aaronflowers8881
      @aaronflowers8881 Před rokem

      I love that scene! It's so great! I have a fascination with the thought of seeing bugs and insects the size of cars and trucks.

  • @salimullah6383
    @salimullah6383 Před rokem +30

    Scientists should try keeping and breeding bugs in 35 percent or even more oxygen levels in labs and see how do they evolve.

    • @chabangers3337
      @chabangers3337 Před rokem +12

      No ….. no they should not lol

    • @mightychroniclesuraniusvol6449
      @mightychroniclesuraniusvol6449 Před rokem +4

      Unless if they doubled in size, the surface area of the exoskeleton would increase 4 times and their volume and mass would increase 8 times, depending on the arthropod species
      They would also need to add more legs for increased muscle power, having the same agility like its smaller counterpart.
      If they were to a giant size with limited oxygen, the number of trachea would have to be much larger.

    • @fantasy5590
      @fantasy5590 Před rokem +1

      ​@@chabangers3337 even if they escaped, they'll most likely die due to the lack of oxygen outside their enclosure.

    • @ErikAnkan73
      @ErikAnkan73 Před 6 měsíci

      They have done that. And the insects did in fact grow after a few generations.

    • @user-hr3di5od3n
      @user-hr3di5od3n Před 19 dny

      I heared they did this at the University of Arizona but i don't know what happened

  • @jaredpatterson1701
    @jaredpatterson1701 Před rokem +5

    4:09 we needed the chaos emeralds to stop bugs 😂

  • @suvam3489
    @suvam3489 Před rokem +8

    I would just simply leave the earth

  • @aaronflowers8881
    @aaronflowers8881 Před rokem +12

    This is something I think about all the time. I'm fascinated by it. It would be terrifying for bugs to be the size of cars. Probably even more scary if humans were shrunk down to bug size. I love all those old giant bug movies from years ago. I wish they were still made.

    • @OnsideE
      @OnsideE Před rokem +2

      Same

    • @Mikamichae
      @Mikamichae Před 8 měsíci +1

      If we were bug size it would be so much more terrifying, endless jungles of grass, soil, sand, concrete, and you're constantly running into a terrifying monster

    • @aaronflowers8881
      @aaronflowers8881 Před 8 měsíci

      @@Mikamichae Yes! What do you think a cricket, dog, or bird would sound like? I wonder would they eat you and how far you'd be able to see. Imagine running into a giant spider, roach, or bee.

  • @TheMidnightMoons
    @TheMidnightMoons Před rokem +10

    Ticks (the one in the thumbnail) and spiders are not insects (bugs). They’re arachnids.

  • @Temessong
    @Temessong Před rokem +3

    I clicked just to say this.. This tick in the thumbnail horrified me at night on the phone 😶

  • @fabriziobiancucci7702
    @fabriziobiancucci7702 Před rokem +25

    Even if the oxygen level will return the one of the Carboniferous period, insects will not return giants. To became giant you shouldn't have no one that hunt you. In Carboniferous period the insects had no predators, but today birds and animals will eat them all if they tried to became bigger

    • @mightychroniclesuraniusvol6449
      @mightychroniclesuraniusvol6449 Před rokem

      Unless if they doubled in size, the surface area of the exoskeleton would increase 4 times and their volume and mass would increase 8 times, depending on the arthropod species
      They would also need to add more legs for increased muscle power, having the same agility like its smaller counterpart.
      If they were to a giant size with limited oxygen, the number of trachea would have to be much larger.

    • @fabriziobiancucci7702
      @fabriziobiancucci7702 Před rokem

      @@mightychroniclesuraniusvol6449 Arthropods don't have tracheas, they have a respiratory sistem connected to their skin. The more oxygen, the more they grow. But they cannot add too much weight in their exoskeleton because unless they would be crushed by it. And there are anathomical limitations that avoid them to evolve new legs (there is a reason why all the insects have six legs and all the spiders eight, and never happen a mutation that permit them to evolve more legs). More, as I said before, today there are a lot of predators. Even if they were able to evolve a super exoskeleton, it wouldn't be enough to resist to the jaws of cats, dogs, wolves or any other carnivorous animal that wouldn't hesitate to hunt such slow and easy prey. They would became extinct in just few days. During the Carboniferous period the arthropods were the only animal on land, and so they can grow, but today is different

  • @staceyannchevalier8055
    @staceyannchevalier8055 Před rokem +6

    🇺🇸:mama 🥺
    🇦🇺:😭They grow up so fast by baby 😍

  • @amazingkanishq6675
    @amazingkanishq6675 Před rokem +8

    Oh my GOD!! I would die if that happened thanks What If for sharing these videos.

  • @kimbratton9620
    @kimbratton9620 Před rokem +8

    And what if these insects were big enough to put in exhibits like at the zoo!?😄

  • @juanbaez790
    @juanbaez790 Před rokem +2

    A recurring dream I have it starts off the same every time.
    I’m walking in a Forrest when I hear the scuttle sounds. Then it gets foggy and then a black and gold garden spider the size of Prius just drops down in front of me. I run surprisingly fast but when I turn around there are about 100 of these huge monsters chasing me. I legit wake up every single time and it’s right before my alarm. Think it’s symbolizes the day can’t get much worse from here.

  • @fahimredwan
    @fahimredwan Před rokem +3

    Love what if videos

  • @YungCertified318
    @YungCertified318 Před rokem +45

    Giant bugs could equal world peace...instead of nuking eachother we'd be nuking Giant Wasp nests & Fire Ant colonies lol....but realistically we'd probably just use the bugs against eachother in warfare

    • @jaredpatterson1701
      @jaredpatterson1701 Před rokem +1

      Apparently they have mind controlled bugs like roaches 😭 insane!

    • @ProGamer_69420
      @ProGamer_69420 Před rokem +1

      we will definitely release bugs that will stop their offsprings from having babies by editing some dna shit

    • @abdur1300
      @abdur1300 Před rokem

      The army should invent an Anti-Bug gas Bomb then and drop it to the middle of its nest..
      And Civillians fight them with anti-bug spray gun

  • @alparslankorkmaz2964
    @alparslankorkmaz2964 Před rokem +1

    Nice video.

  • @Ragnarok182
    @Ragnarok182 Před rokem +53

    On the subject of giant insects, is it possible to do a "What if" the world had magic and sorcery?
    That might be fun and go well with this "What if". 😉

    • @tommaggi1475
      @tommaggi1475 Před rokem +1

      Agreed

    • @despicableminion3259
      @despicableminion3259 Před rokem +1

      Amazing idea

    • @supernova582
      @supernova582 Před rokem +3

      We would be like Harry Potter and a lot less Muggle technology because we would have magic

    • @madix487
      @madix487 Před rokem +1

      But this idea will clash with his scientific and logical explanations

    • @abdur1300
      @abdur1300 Před rokem

      I dont understand this question,,
      didnt human civilization already exposed to sorcery and dark magic?

  • @ilianasummit4551
    @ilianasummit4551 Před rokem +1

    “There’s something on your back!!” 💀

  • @brandonkejick1545
    @brandonkejick1545 Před rokem +1

    "The only good bug, is a dead bug!"

  • @peterglen8396
    @peterglen8396 Před rokem +2

    Thank you atmosphere…thank you…

  • @guggggggggggggggggg
    @guggggggggggggggggg Před rokem +1

    If that spider on the Empire State Building came at me, I would literally end myself

  • @alecfongy3175
    @alecfongy3175 Před rokem +3

    If this were reality right now, time to leave the planet

  • @Meme_zee2
    @Meme_zee2 Před rokem +2

    *gets bug spray and sprays all bugs*

    • @yumalove7223
      @yumalove7223 Před rokem

      Not all bugs are going to eat you and I'm sure this would not work since we still need some of them

  • @ryanmcclain8200
    @ryanmcclain8200 Před rokem +1

    Terminex employees just got a raise in this world

  • @Naguib55
    @Naguib55 Před rokem +1

    35% Oxygen level is very safe to breath by humans up to 40% oxygen is used for recreational diving, infact 100% oxygen is safe to breath long term in atmospheric pressure. Oxygen toxicity can only happen under pressure more than atmospheric pressure. The risk with such high oxygen concentration is fire hazards and not oxygen toxicity.
    For example 35% oxygen would be come toxic above 4 bar pressure (4 times atmospheric pressure) which would be the case at depth of 30 meters underwater.

  • @rattler_boss1101
    @rattler_boss1101 Před rokem +3

    Dad ! I saw spider in the garden .
    Ok I'll get a shotgun

  • @gihannethusara2726
    @gihannethusara2726 Před rokem +2

    Superb ❤

  • @justincameron9661
    @justincameron9661 Před rokem +2

    Just get Godzilla. He's dealt with this issue several times

  • @andy23r
    @andy23r Před rokem +2

    The bigger the bug the bigger the brain..... so yeah that's terrifying

  • @vizuren
    @vizuren Před rokem +2

    Bugs could become the new dinosaurs

  • @stockvideos5985
    @stockvideos5985 Před rokem +1

    Australia:
    Am i joke to you?!

  • @emag1169
    @emag1169 Před rokem +2

    I'd just curl up and shake like a leave stuck on a tree! Spider's are my phobia 😭

    • @LuckyCharms23
      @LuckyCharms23 Před rokem +2

      I love tarantulas but roaches have me clenching tighter then a newbie in prison.
      My bowels immediately release man😩

  • @ks4139
    @ks4139 Před rokem +2

    Could u do “What if your stomach never stopped growling?”

  • @TheTruePlaceholder
    @TheTruePlaceholder Před rokem +4

    My mother could EASILY kill them with her flip flop

  • @abobanger9054
    @abobanger9054 Před rokem +4

    I need the names of the films these bug scenes are from
    I love films with giant bugs
    Great video as usual 👍

  • @rudevalve
    @rudevalve Před rokem +1

    Certified Gold!!!!!

  • @lucifermorningstar8420
    @lucifermorningstar8420 Před rokem +2

    Imagine giant mosquitos 😳😬🙄

  • @existenz_1
    @existenz_1 Před rokem +2

    I'm yeeting myself into space

  • @burtonwilliams5355
    @burtonwilliams5355 Před rokem +1

    2 words . . ''STARSHIP TROOPERS''.

  • @PhilipBarron
    @PhilipBarron Před rokem

    This would be Blathers’s worst nightmare, lol

  • @Zoro-ll3ox
    @Zoro-ll3ox Před rokem +1

    Imagine praying mantis hunting us we'll be eaten alive

  • @cs77smith67
    @cs77smith67 Před rokem +5

    What if bacteria 🦠 were the size of humans?

    • @WhatIfScienceShow
      @WhatIfScienceShow  Před rokem +3

      Interesting idea, thank you for sharing it with us!

    • @cs77smith67
      @cs77smith67 Před rokem +1

      @@WhatIfScienceShow Oh wow 😂😱 I can't believe you reply to me out of thousands of people haha thank you and hopefully you make that video 📸

  • @nitrozconcepts
    @nitrozconcepts Před rokem +1

    What if” the zero point existed” meaning the Fortnite orb that controls everything in existence

  • @Ccyawn123
    @Ccyawn123 Před rokem +1

    We'd all be dead. Bugs are vicious

  • @VaultBoi_Da_Wastelander
    @VaultBoi_Da_Wastelander Před 2 měsíci

    Our fellow HellDivers would truly be tested.

  • @RumorsOfficialChannel

    "call your mom" lol

  • @Humburbur
    @Humburbur Před rokem

    0:07 "Call your mom" 💀

  • @zaidbarakehjr4683
    @zaidbarakehjr4683 Před rokem +1

    Nice

  • @Seraphiru
    @Seraphiru Před rokem

    How can I ever be the same after watching this

  • @Solarwhale32
    @Solarwhale32 Před rokem

    Im already terrified of wasps, but if they were human sized, i would not go outside at all

  • @rupturedduck6981
    @rupturedduck6981 Před rokem +1

    I would suggest a Dragonlance !!!!

  • @ReecedDrawings
    @ReecedDrawings Před rokem +2

    Is that a plane is that a bird
    No its a cockroach

  • @n0vo4
    @n0vo4 Před rokem

    that's dope

  • @SapiTebang
    @SapiTebang Před rokem +1

    There is Manga with this plot.... and there is a lot of gore in it

  • @yesyoucanTellme
    @yesyoucanTellme Před rokem +3

    the intro showing a giant tarantula walking over a man's hand is a big no for me

    • @LuckyCharms23
      @LuckyCharms23 Před rokem

      I had one just like her🥲. Actually I had 20. Gentle giants. So cute when they groom themselves

    • @PhilipBarron
      @PhilipBarron Před rokem

      Fun fact: that’s the goliath birdeater, the world’s largest of spiders.

  • @orangesticker8027
    @orangesticker8027 Před rokem

    Basically every "Earth Defense Force" game

  • @irmadupr
    @irmadupr Před rokem +1

    Looks delicious

  • @jessicaroberts5956
    @jessicaroberts5956 Před rokem +2

    They should make a series where someone releases a quantum wave to make plants grow bigger or something and instead it makes everyone shrink,and none of that talking pet ant bs.

  • @RonnieMyers777
    @RonnieMyers777 Před rokem

    "Additional supply depots required"

  • @HAIRHOLIC_1
    @HAIRHOLIC_1 Před rokem

    It’s giving love and monsters vibes 😭

  • @socialbug1130
    @socialbug1130 Před rokem

    Thanks for the nightmare 😅

  • @mathiasgrim8131
    @mathiasgrim8131 Před rokem

    7:09 i remember that movie clip but i forgot the name of the move

  • @thpain9501
    @thpain9501 Před rokem

    Hahahaha now this makes me wanna play earth defense force

  • @chocolatecornetnothermitcr6159

    Interesting

  • @njtrailfan4106
    @njtrailfan4106 Před rokem

    Oh my

  • @jamezzz0035
    @jamezzz0035 Před rokem +1

    Brothers and Sisters, we wight to the death! May the Force be with us!

  • @mightychroniclesuraniusvol6449

    Unless if they doubled in size, the surface area of the exoskeleton would increase 4 times and their volume and mass would increase 8 times, depending on the arthropod species
    They would also need to add more legs for increased muscle power, having the same agility like its smaller counterpart.
    If they were to a giant size with limited oxygen, the number of trachea would have to be much larger.

  • @cassandrasophiaestanislao6659

    Imagine a giant centipede..

  • @blindthief
    @blindthief Před rokem +2

    Funny, I had just watched The Mist the other day. Giant bugs are a nuisance but think I'd be more afraid of Mrs. Carmody because our laws won't allow us to shoot her with a flamethrower.

    • @roystondaniel2849
      @roystondaniel2849 Před rokem

      Funny huh didn't watch it is it about bugs

    • @blindthief
      @blindthief Před rokem

      @@roystondaniel2849 Yeah, the title of the movie is a bit misleading. But it's about giant bugs that attack humans lol

    • @conanhighwoods4304
      @conanhighwoods4304 Před rokem

      The Mist?

  • @dodo2829
    @dodo2829 Před rokem +5

    I'ma go ahead and suggest : "What if women were faster than men in dressing?"

  • @vid5506
    @vid5506 Před rokem

    Thank god for birds

  • @JJ-wk8zd
    @JJ-wk8zd Před 15 dny

    We would already be dead and extinct if all bugs were even size of a tiny dog.

  • @mochouz4171
    @mochouz4171 Před rokem

    Please take this video more serious watchers. We love you all.

  • @49HEALTH
    @49HEALTH Před rokem

    I literally can’t watch this. I can only listen to it.

  • @mmmbjnw
    @mmmbjnw Před rokem

    I need a ebook

  • @norahernandez2811
    @norahernandez2811 Před rokem

    At 0:01 I saw the Goliath birdeater tarantula

  • @juanbaez790
    @juanbaez790 Před rokem

    .50 cal mounted turret sales 📈📈📈📈

  • @Dreamclaychamp
    @Dreamclaychamp Před rokem

    imagine being next to a million ants, oh god

  • @francisco_2024
    @francisco_2024 Před rokem

    YIKES!!! Imagine little CHILDREN seeing these GINORMOUS CREATURES!!! 😬

  • @LuckyCharms23
    @LuckyCharms23 Před rokem

    I walked into work today at 1230am and saw a GIANT water bug in the locker room. Needless to say, I did not wear my lab coat for my 16hr shift😩😩😩.

  • @trenaebowers1968
    @trenaebowers1968 Před rokem

    I wouldn't be scared of the giant bugs but the frogs that would be eating them

  • @christopherhoneycutt5523
    @christopherhoneycutt5523 Před 11 měsíci

    i would cry

  • @SilentIncognito
    @SilentIncognito Před rokem +1

    Brooo is he the same what if narrator? He sounds different

  • @si-fu5994
    @si-fu5994 Před rokem

    Just remembered "The Mist" movie and felt .....uhhh crap..!!

  • @Venting655
    @Venting655 Před rokem +1

    U rlly wanna know I would scream with my phobia of bugs in insects 👹😭😭😭I scream when I see a tiny one

  • @skimson069
    @skimson069 Před rokem

    What if people started riding mantises like horses

  • @imbackwiththmilk
    @imbackwiththmilk Před rokem

    oh so this is how animals feel huh?

  • @danielgriffin8213
    @danielgriffin8213 Před rokem

    Well, maybe we could have been bigger also. Surely we would all be relative. We didn't make mosquitoes small, but I am glad that they are.

  • @neharex2341
    @neharex2341 Před rokem +1

    flamethrower will do the job to make them back to extinction

  • @sanyogitanegi3881
    @sanyogitanegi3881 Před rokem

    Nah, we just need mom' slippers.

  • @richardkutsera4992
    @richardkutsera4992 Před 4 měsíci

    0:11 what movie this is from?

  • @KiwithecockatielOffical

    These bugs are scary but don't see bugs like spider