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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    10 months ago

    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.

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      10 months ago

      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.

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        9 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.