Every cockroach overnight in the entire world grows 50 times their current size. How would this scenario play out? With the attack humans and eat them along with their pets? What kind of destruction would they cause?
Assuming that their limbs would not break and they would be just fine how do you think the scenario would play out?
I mean... aside from the destruction their sudden size would cause. They would grow within the walls of buildings/homes etc. That alone could cause... trillions of dollars of damage. Yes... with a T. Because where is there NOT roaches? That would probably be their biggest impact. Just mass... accidental destruction.
There are potential disgusting benefits to starving regions. Look at all that meat. I'm pretty confident we'd still eradicate them... but the world would take quite a while to rebuild. Not to mention the ecological impact. A lot of other creatures needed them for food. With their extinction (by us killing them) who knows what my happen to all kinds of ecosystems.
Roaches are naturally flighty creatures and are only really scavengers since they don’t have any good tools to hunt or kill with. They’re a bit scary looking but would probably just be killed off quickly both in human settlements and the wild since scavengers that big with mobility that awful would never manage
It would be briefly terrifying until we exterminated every singe one - which would now be straightforward since they can't hide.
I would assume that the roach population would be equal to the human population and a can of raid probably wouldn't do the job. Do you think the human race could actually exterminate them or do you think they would take over and kill all the humans?
How could they take over ? They aren't smart or cooperative and nor do they have opposable thumbs or weapons. Every gun toting redneck in the nation would be on a hunt and kill mission - and enjoy it immensly.
They’d die from lack of oxygen. The size of insects is limited by how much oxygen is in the atmosphere because their breathing system is a bit crap and inefficient
Let's say they don't die from lack of oxygen and they are just fine in their current climate then what.
Alot of walls exploding open
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Massive infrastructure damage. And every household now has at least one cockroach sticking out of it.
Houses with infestations would basically just explode.
There would be an immediate worldwide housing crisis - shortage on building supplies.
But let's say the ones who are not inside the walls. That could potentially be hundreds of millions if not billions of roaches.
They'll all die on their own. Their limbs breaking unable to support their weight. Their body is designed specifically because of it's size. Same with any insect really. Ant's and spider's legs would snap at the sudden weight.