/sci/ - Science & Math

[Anonymous No.14507368]

Why people scared of spiders and bug but not lobster and crab?

[Anonymous No.14507376]

>>14507368
Crabs and lobsters are bulky/meaty, spiders are thin and wiry. Plus some, albeit very few, spiders are venomous while no lobsters/crabs are.

[Anonymous No.14507379]

>>14507368
For me it's centipedes, the creepiest invertebrates.

[Anonymous No.14507408]

Lobsters have the courtesy of remaining under water, and not generally where people are wading. Land crabs can be unnerving.

[Anonymous No.14507449]

Crabs trigger my arachnophobia a little bit. The main thing that makes me feel comfortable with them is that they're delicious. It's hard to be afraid of something you know is going to be your poop soon

[Anonymous No.14507489]

>>14507368
you can't eat bugs, no evolutionary incentive not to run away from them

[Anonymous No.14507568]

>>14507489
>you can't eat bugs

[Anonymous No.14507590]

>>14507368
I think the main issue is that spiders and bugs are erratic and like to go fast. Snabs are gross, but they're very sluggish and they won't come at you.

[Anonymous No.14507886]

>>14507368
Lobsters don't randomly show up in my bathroom and crabs don't suddenly drop down from the ceiling.

[Anonymous No.14507894]

>>14507886
>Lobsters don't randomly show up in my bathroom and crabs don't suddenly drop down from the ceiling.
Landlubber.

[Anonymous No.14507910]

>>14507368
Did you try to think about your question first?
Because the answer is obvious: there's no venomous crabs, and they cannot get into your earholes either.

[Anonymous No.14507932]

>>14507910
>t. gay retard pop-evolution fan

[Anonymous No.14507955]

>>14507368
Normally I am not scared of crabs, but as a kid I was scared of going into the sea because one snibbed my toe

[Anonymous No.14508205]

>>14507368
Size. The tinier something is the more options is has to sneak up on you or hide or evade your attacks. Plus tiny things tend to come in numbers. I'd rather fight a cougar than find out there was a hive of wasps in my house.

[Anonymous No.14508212]

>>14507368
Spiders and bugs were more likely to be dangerous and threaten our survival than lobsters and crabs. There's only a limited amount of space in the brain for information so we have species-typical behaviours towards a specific set of creatures that were most likely to significantly threaten our survival at a recent-enough point in our evolutionary history. Both being afraid of creatures that humans have an insignificant amount of exposure to as well as having phobiae for every creature out there are inefficient uses of brain capacity and attentional capacity and are traits that are unlikely to be preserved alongside traits that allow for more optimal engagement with threats while saving brain capacity and attentional workspace for more salient stimuli conductive to survival and procreation. Due to to this, the threshold in modern humans for a phobia of snakes, spiders, mice, etc. is much much lower than the threshold for a phobia of cows, crabs or hummingbirds.

[Anonymous No.14508220]

>>14508212
>t. gay retard pop-evolution fan

[Anonymous No.14508236]

>>14508220
>>14507932
>t. full-on retard without any substantive arguments

[Anonymous No.14508250]

>>14507368
spiders and bugs are too small

if bugs were as big as cows, bugburgers would be your favorite food and bugboys driving herds of bugs across the plains would be Hollywood heroes

[Anonymous No.14508252]

>>14508250
if bugs were as big as cows, they wouldn't have exoskeletons and would functionally be mammals. in other words, they wouldn't be bugs anymore. moron.

[Anonymous No.14508271]

>if bugs were as big as cows, they wouldn't have exoskeletons

[Anonymous No.14508275]

>>14508271
can you name one animal the size of cows with an exoskeleton? just one.

[Anonymous No.14508281]

>>14508275
What exactly is preventing a large animal from having an exoskeleton, and why in the fuck are you claiming that every large animal is a mammal? Just fuck off back to /r/science, you popsoi midwit. Imagine responding to an obvious shitpost with an ackchually-tier post that happens to be wrong in every aspect. lol

[Anonymous No.14508285]

>>14508281
>What exactly is preventing a large animal from having an exoskeleton
Too energy expensive. The energy required to maintain the large exoskeleton is more energy than the animal is capable of consuming. That's why you find literally ZERO large animals with exoskeletons. Not in fossil records, not today. They never existed, and never will.

Not every large animal is a mammal. Perhaps they could be reptiles instead. But they won't have exoskeletons and hence won't be "bug-like".

[Anonymous No.14508291]

>>14508285
>Too energy expensive. The energy required to maintain the large exoskeleton is more energy than the animal is capable of consuming.
Prove it.

>Not every large animal is a mammal. Perhaps they could be reptiles instead.
Well at least you concede that embarrassing mistake.

[Anonymous No.14508984]

>>14507590
>Snabs are gross
(you) are gross.

[Anonymous No.14509600]

>>14507489

[Anonymous No.14509620]

I don't liver in the ocean

[Anonymous No.14509784]

>>14509600
I will not eat the fucking bugs
I won't eat them sitting on rugs
I won't eat bugs atop a chair
I will not eat them anywhere

I will not eat fake basedbean meat
I will not kiss a migrant's feet
I won't eat impossible trash
Not even for a load of cash

I will not stream my videos
From Amazon or George Soros
Instead I will by DVDs
I don't care if it makes (((them))) reee

I will not eat the bugs, I said
Get it through your bloody head
I will eat beans and toast instead
Try and force it, you'll wind up dead

[Anonymous No.14509797]

>>14507379
I second this. They are extremeley aggressive and predatory. Demonic bugs. Scorpions are up there for me too. Spiders are a meme, on the other hand.

[Anonymous No.14511517]

>>14507590

[Anonymous No.14511535]

>lobster
rarely encountered, easy to spot, snip-snip is a small issue.
>crab
rarely encountered, easy to spot, snip-snip is a small issue.
>spiders
commonly encountered, hard to spot, the right spider could kill you
>why people scare
the people who weren't scared of spiders died more often and reproduced at lower rates

[Anonymous No.14511772]

Sea bugs are DELICIOUS

[Anonymous No.14511828]

>>14507376
Tarantulas?

[Anonymous No.14511967]

>>14507368
Most were introduced to lobster and crab as meat and not something to be feared.

You can do the same to kids if you intervene at an early age with insects such as spiders.

[Anonymous No.14512002]

>>14507368

Threat evaluation of small things is more difficult than big things. Also, small things can potentially move with much greater accelerations

[Anonymous No.14512091]

>>14507379
>>14509797
http://caribjsci.org/aug05/41_340-346.pdf
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2648276/

[Anonymous No.14512158]

>>14507379
>>14509797
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scolopendra_cataracta
>in 2000, while on honeymoon in Thailand. Beccaloni described the centipede as "pretty horrific-looking: very big with long legs and a horrible dark, greenish-black colour" but what caught his attention was that it scurried into a stream rather than the forest when he turned over the stone it was hiding under on the stream bank
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plutonium_(centipede)
>That fucking name
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scolopendra_gigantea#Venom
>At least one human death has been attributed to the venom. In 2014, a four-year-old child in Venezuela died after being bitten by a giant centipede which was hidden inside an open soda can. Researchers at Universidad de Oriente later confirmed the specimen to be S. gigantea.
Enjoy your fear

[Anonymous No.14512176]

>>14512158
Stop it anon, I JUST found this thread after I discovered a centipede infestation near my shower.