Yeah but I meant monkeys, chimps and gorillas have conquered the world.

Would you mind throwing a NSFW tag on that? I'm glad nobody was looking over my shoulder.

Mild edit: I know it's not nudity or anything, but it's still not something you'd want as a desktop wallpaper at work, you know?

True but I meant monkeys, chimps and gorillas have conquered the Earth. :)

Go back in time, unbuy Alpha Centauri, enter thread,... eh what am I talking about, great game, not in but +1.

Yes indeed. And I suspect that some spiders feed directly on your dreams. At least, they look like they would.

I noticed this while trying to kill an insect that invaded my apartment. Every time I looked at it with thoughts of killing it, it would run around. Every time I looked at it with happy thoughts, it stayed still. Later, while trying to kill a spider, the same thing. Later when trying to kill another spider, same thing except this spider moved like lightning.

Even more disturbing, WE are the bacteria's world. The human body contains many more bacteria cells than human cells. They also account for around 5 pounds of your adult body mass.

Each one of us is a world for many living things...

I do know, but I couldn't help myself. ;)

That's unlikely. There's a physics law (The Square-Cube Law) which precludes it. ;)

Gonna quote the relevant paragraph, for those of you with TL;DR syndrome:

"If the leg becomes ten times thicker, its cross-sectional area becomes something like 100 times larger. At the same time though, its weight becomes something like 1,000 times greater. If you keep doing this, at some point, long before the ant is large enough to take over even a small town, much less the world, it will collapse under its own weight"

Indeed, we've got a symbiotic relation with many kind of bacteria. Without some of them working in our insides, Mankind would become extinct in no time.

OOOOPS! Sorry about that. :O

Hope I didn't get anyone in trouble.

So in the future, when we can travel through space, it would be very foolish to land on low gravity planets with life?

For fear of huge insects, I guess?

Our skeletal structure and muscles are used to our gravity, so probably we would be able to dismember any insect developed in a low gravity planet with our bare hands. ;)

Makes sense. But those giant insects on low gravity planets can make up for their weakness with powerful poisons... How about that, Mr. Spock!

Well, an insect doesn't need to be huge to be venomous. Indeed, the smaller subespecies of an order are often the most poisonous of all (think of the Mohave rattlesnake versus its big relative, the anaconda).

Evolution tends to focus on one leading edge. Huge insects probably would rely on its size and strenght to kill other animals, to also have lethal venom would be redundant (again, the anaconda example). ;)