@Mitch OK, so I'm thinking since most of the life on earth is domesticated animals (80%? more?) and these animals are for the most part clueless about survival in the wild, things will be looking up for a while for those who pray on them, although a lot of them will die in enclosed areas, to the benefit of worms and insects and rats.
Then after the feast is over, the huge number of predators (wolves, cats, etc) will gradually turn to other species (if they can run after them, 'cause they must have gotten quite fat by then) and then finally to each other.
In the final round, I would bet on mmm cats. Or those who work collectively, like wolves, or rather hyenas. Yeah, frigging hyenas.
Monkeys have little chance against large predators swarming the place. I don't have much idea about raccoons.
And finally since noöne comes even close to us in enslaving other species, I reckon the rule of the rulers will gradually moderate and diminish and some sort of new equilibrium will be reached.
And if monkeys have saved their asses from extinction by then, they may eventually evolve into smarter beings and run the earth again.
So yeah, let's everyone stop having any more children and take a short leave and come back later and see how the story went.
And why I'm leaving the sea and the plant kingdom entirely out of the scenario is because I have no idea what I'm talking about.
> Estimates for the global biomass of species and higher level groups are not always consistent across the literature. Apart from bacteria, the total global biomass has been estimated at about 560 billion tonnes C.[1] Most of this biomass is found on land, with only 5 to 10 billion tonnes C found in the oceans.[1] On land, there is about 1,000 times more plant biomass (phytomass) than animal biomass (zoomass). About 18% of this plant biomass is eaten by the land animals.[15] However, in the ocean, the animal biomass is nearly 30 times larger than the plant biomass.[16] Most ocean plant biom…
@Cerberus I don't know. Let's say vertebrates only. Others are just too dumb to compete with them. We might as well let plants in if we're willing to include worms.
@Cerberus That's so interesting. I totally underestimated those earthworms.
Irrespective of all such debates on the limitations for rationally,
one may consider a decision rational when it satisfy condition X.
______ in this paper a decision is considered rational when it satisfy condition X.
What is the best choice for the blank above? The first sentence talks ...
I'm looking for an adjective that is similar to eponymous as in:
He is playing a role of Terminator in the eponymous movie.
But it should be possible to use this adjective as a substitute for the phrase "with the same name" as in:
Shengen area got its name from the ______ village locate...
@Abcd also, the usual idiom for this is 'with wild abandon', meaning figuratively she abandoned all restraint, she gave up an inhibition and cried a lot.
@Cerberus Well, people go for fake internet badges all the time. It is only human nature, not "usual" I guess. That's just a cynic in me talking, perhaps they really wanted to help build the main site and make money for SE?
When I was in KG, I'd to study lists like these ones—
0+5=5 || 5-0=5
1+4=5 || 6-1=5
2+3=5 || 7-2=5
3+2=5 || 8-3=5
4+1=5 || 9-4=5
5+0=5 || . . .
My (non-native) math teacher at that time labeled them as something like "Addition X table" or "Subtraction ...
@Tonepoet No such word in common use I know of. It's really weird to even have this kind of word request. Too specific and useless to have such a word.
Also, that is not strictly true. The method of making money has an opportunity cost. If you make minimum wage working at McDonalds, when you could be making a six digit salary as a Lawyer, Doctor or Rocket Scientist, that's not quite winning, even though you are being paid. Well, that is, unless flipping leather strips is a much more personally satisfying activitiy, but that is another matter entirely. The point is, you can make money and still lose. =P
I was wondering if there is a word to describe a person who always is really quick at looking things up on etc. his phone.
E.g when you just can't remember the characters name in the film you just saw and this guy quickly pulls his phone out and looks it up.
I am looking for an adjective to fi...
When I listen to a song on Youtube it sounds fine and when I play the same downloaded song on VLC it sounds meh and kind of sucks. Although my VLC settings are default.
And my headphones are pretty good as well. Dunno what's wrong.
@Tonepoet At least they don't give the wrong term if you post it there, lol. But I don't think this question is even suitable to be posted there. Very often, some users on Eng ask the asker to post there when all they want is a non-technical everyday word for some common thing. One should really not post on Math either.
@Tonepoet If I want the number of fingers on my hand, and the answer is five, I don't post it on Math just because it involves numbers. It still fits Eng SE better than Math.
@Tonepoet As usual, there is an answer with 2 upvotes which does not answer the question, and as usual there is a comment saying it should be on Math, both of which I disagree, LOL.
@Tonepoet And the above is one of the reasons I no longer like this site. =D
@Ahmed Did you download the same version of the song, from youtube itself? If so, tell me how it sucks and how it is different. Also, what operating system are you using?
I'm looking for one single word that would describe something as valuable (or invaluable) as life or the ability to breathe any help?
Irrespective of all such debates on the limitations for rationally,
one may consider a decision rational when it satisfy condition X.
______ in this paper a decision is considered rational when it satisfy condition X.
What is the best choice for the blank above? The first sentence talks ...
I'm looking for an adjective that is similar to eponymous as in:
He is playing a role of Terminator in the eponymous movie.
But it should be possible to use this adjective as a substitute for the phrase "with the same name" as in:
Shengen area got its name from the ______ village locate...
When I was in KG, I'd to study lists like these ones—
0+5=5 || 5-0=5
1+4=5 || 6-1=5
2+3=5 || 7-2=5
3+2=5 || 8-3=5
4+1=5 || 9-4=5
5+0=5 || . . .
My (non-native) math teacher at that time labeled them as something like "Addition X table" or "Subtraction ...
I was wondering if there is a word to describe a person who always is really quick at looking things up on etc. his phone.
E.g when you just can't remember the characters name in the film you just saw and this guy quickly pulls his phone out and looks it up.
I am looking for an adjective to fi...
...they do talk but they talk slowly and quietly and not very often and say, not only what is SIGNIFICANT (???), but what is PRIME (???).
English Language & Usage: Multi-Layer…
English Language & Usage: Multi-Layer…