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Why haven't we developed large rice? (lemmy.eco.br)
submitted 7 months ago by caboclo@lemmy.eco.br to c/shitposting@lemmy.ml
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Rice is very small. Wouldn't it make more sense if each grain was like 8 oz? Then you'd only have to eat a couple rice

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[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

You're both conflating two different things. First, a meteor wiped out the giant rice letting the smaller and meeker rice inherit the Earth. Second, Oxygen levels were always at 20%, but back then there was a lot more of it.

[–] hydrospanner@lemmy.world 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Woah I had no idea...I always just assumed that the size of the grains decreased proportionally with the retreat of the polar rice caps at the end of the last rice age.

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 3 points 7 months ago

Indeed, but a larger factor was the plate tectonics which over the millennia become smaller and more fragmented, resulting in smaller plates and reduced food portion sizes.