Wait, is this an interview?
I'd be... uh... a t-rex... because, uh... I'm not afraid to... uh... take initiative?
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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
Tarantula are exceedingly, almost comically fragile. If you sneeze toward one they basically explode. God forfend you drop or rattle one.
Iβd go for the T-Rex just for reasons of durability. Iβm too clumsy to live as a tarantula.
If you woke up tomorrow and you were a t-rex youβd 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?
Pretty much
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Thatβs not great but the guy above you reckons youβd die quickly, due to not having enough air.
T-Rex. Iβve always wanted to eat a lemon-lime ford explorer
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.
So assuming I keep the same intelligence, totally the T-Rex. I'd be a gentle wonder paraded around the world wearing old-timey tailored suits, devouring the finest food, a fixture at every major world event.
It'd be the 2036 Olympic jetpack competitions and the camera would pan over, "an amazing day for the sport Jim, and look at that there's Terry the T-Rex sucking down chili dogs with his gorgeous partner, and the president of Earth 2" Yeah, that'd be the life alright.
A t-rex that is the only one of its kind and will be treated as a commodity like King Kong and will definitely be killed by humans, or a spider who can mate and live life and be ignored by humans? Hmmm, I wonder.
Can I be a T-Rex sized tarantula or a tarantula sized T-Rex?
T-Rex sized tarantula would suffocate almost immediately, if it didnβt literally cave in on itself before that happened :(
Bummer.
Fine. We'll go for the tarantula sized T-Rex.
As much as I love spiders (sorry tarantulas! π₯Ί) I'd love to be a T-Rex just because it's so much cooler.
Tarantula, because if I chose T-Rex I'd be in a cage within the hour
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.
T-Rex, because none end up in a hole devoured alive by wasp larvae
None that you know about
Tarantula, assuming I don't keep current intelligence. I think eat bug would be good life.
I am tyrannosaurus wrecked
Tarantula, because I have arachnophobia - why be anything other than what scares me the most?
T-Rex because I absolutely hate spiders and don't care and would 100% expect and hope that someone squishes me to death.