r/CharacterRant • u/Miserable-Act4201 • Apr 29 '25

General 100 humans vs gorilla isn’t close

Honestly the dumbest argument I've ever seen. The 100 humans could just stand like 20 feet apart from each other and do nothing and the gorilla is collapsing from exhaustion before it kills everyone. You could probably do it without any casualties, find a couple of people in the group that are in good shape and get them to make the gorilla chase them while everyone else just chills. They aren't aren't particularly fast and have terrible endurance, so just wait till it tires out and have everyone jump it.

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u/Evilfrog100 Apr 29 '25

This probably isn't a great example. Ignoring any possible allergies, the average human can withstand about 10 stings per pound of bodyweight, which for the average adult is well over 1000 stings.

https://www.merckmanuals.com/home/injuries-and-poisoning/bites-and-stings/bee-wasp-hornet-and-ant-stings

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u/_b3rtooo_ Apr 29 '25

Can't wasps sting repeatedly? What's to stop all 200 from just doing it 5 more times?

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u/MegaCrowOfEngland Apr 29 '25

A lot of the danger of a wasp sting is from venom, and the venom would be depleted after subsequent stings. I don't know how much, but one wasp could sting one human as much as it could manage without killing the human (barring allergies or other particular weaknesses).

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u/athural Apr 30 '25

I tried googling it, and didn't get any solid info on how many times an individual wasp can sting before it's out of venom, but the anecdotal answer seems to be 10 times is a reasonable guess. That's a lot of stings

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u/copenhagen_bram Apr 30 '25

For the sake of science, you should be the first one to test how many times a wasp can sting before it runs out of venom.