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Wait, is this an interview?
I’d be… uh… a t-rex… because, uh… I’m not afraid to… uh… take initiative?
We’ll call you.
That’s a tough one… if I choose T-rex, do I live in the cretaceous, or in the present ? do I roam free, or am I encaged ? am I fed goats, or lawyers ?
Same questions regarding the Tarantula
T-Rex. I’ve always wanted to eat a lemon-lime ford explorer
T rex just for the life expectancy. I wouldn’t appreciate the media attention though, the tarantula would absolutely go unnoticed… Although… Thinking about it… Maybe Trex gets shot immediately.
I need more context information to give a proper answer.
As much as I love spiders (sorry tarantulas! 🥺) I’d love to be a T-Rex just because it’s so much cooler.
Can I be a T-Rex sized tarantula or a tarantula sized T-Rex?
T-Rex sized tarantula would suffocate almost immediately, if it didn’t literally cave in on itself before that happened :(
Bummer.
Fine. We’ll go for the tarantula sized T-Rex.
Tarantula, because if I chose T-Rex I’d be in a cage within the hour
Tarantula are exceedingly, almost comically fragile. If you sneeze toward one they basically explode. God forfend you drop or rattle one.
I’d go for the T-Rex just for reasons of durability. I’m too clumsy to live as a tarantula.
If you woke up tomorrow and you were a t-rex you’d be in a zoo or something by noon
After a night of fitful dreams, Gregor Samsa awoke in his bed transformed entirely into a gigantic Tyrannosaurus rex. His sister had him in a zoo or something by noon.
The end?
If it’s T-Rex in present day no thank you. You would die a painful quick death due to not having enough air to breath even at sea level.
Oxygen levels wouldn’t be a factor. The “need high oxygen levels for large size” only applies to invertebrates with very simple breathing systems.
If trex had similar type of lungs as modern birds, they would do just fine. Bird lungs are super efficient (much better than mammals’ puny blind sack lungs) that enable them to fly at high altitudes.
So what you’re saying is that life…uh… finds a way.
Tarantula, because I have arachnophobia - why be anything other than what scares me the most?
T-Rex, because none end up in a hole devoured alive by wasp larvae
None that you know about
T-Rex because I absolutely hate spiders and don’t care and would 100% expect and hope that someone squishes me to death.