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One Duck or 1000 Segways
Mar 27 2013, 9:49 pm
By: rayNimagi  
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What would you rather fight?
What would you rather fight?
Answer Votes Percentage % Voters
One segway-sized duck 5
 
46%
1000 duck-sized segways 6
 
55%
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Mar 27 2013, 9:49 pm rayNimagi Post #1



Would you rather fight one segway-sized duck or 1000 duck-sized segways? Assume that the segways can move and navigate on their own like an autonomous robot.

I would rather fight 1000 duck-sized segways because I could probably stomp or kick one, then outrun the rest. Then when they caught up to me I could kick another one, and keep running, much like hellions can micro against zerglings. Plus, the segways would have a hard time climbing up steps.



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Mar 27 2013, 9:53 pm Fire_Kame Post #2

wth is starcraft

1000 duck-sized segways. Because it'd be a cute death.




Mar 27 2013, 9:56 pm ClansAreForGays Post #3



I regret my cowardly choice. A segway sized duck would be a glorious opponent to meet in the field of battle.




Mar 27 2013, 10:28 pm RIVE Post #4

Just Here For The Pie

I hate grinding. I would go for the big kill and take duckzilla down.

I know a good taxidermist too.



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Mar 27 2013, 10:47 pm lil-Inferno Post #5

Just here for the pie

One segway-sized duck so I can claim its head as a trophy and because duck-sized segways no longer give me exp.




Mar 27 2013, 11:48 pm jjf28 Post #6

Cartography Artisan

One segway sized duck, otherwise you run the risk of the segways out-microing you



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Mar 28 2013, 12:05 am Lanthanide Post #7



Definitely 1000 duck-sized segways. Big birds are frikkin' scary. Have you seem emus or ostrichs up close? What about cassowarys?

Segways suffer the same flaw as darleks: can't move up stairs. Also segways don't float whereas ducks do, so a swimming pool wouldn't save you from the duck.



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Mar 28 2013, 12:07 am Moose Post #8

meme

Why not allow the best of both worlds? 1000 Segway-sized ducks. Go big or go home.



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Mar 28 2013, 12:19 am Fire_Kame Post #9

wth is starcraft

LFG 10 MAN SSD HEROIC HEAL/DPS OFF SPEC PST




Mar 28 2013, 2:43 am Raitaki Post #10



kick the duck's legs

PROBLEM SOLVED (but try not to get crushed)



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Mar 28 2013, 4:49 am Aristocrat Post #11



Square-cube law. The segway-sized duck would be unable to stand. Easy prey.



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Mar 31 2013, 3:55 pm EzDay281 Post #12



When I read the poll, I assumed a "segway" was some kind of bus or something, and that a segway-sized duck would just collapse on itself due to a blood circulation and/or respiratory and/or skeletal failure, and die in a matter of minutes to hours on its own anyways.
Then I looked up segways in google image search.
:(
Depending on how you measure "size" of a segway and "size" of a duck, wouldn't a "segway sized duck" just be equivalent to a particularly large goose?



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Mar 31 2013, 7:32 pm Lanthanide Post #13



Quote from Aristocrat
Square-cube law. The segway-sized duck would be unable to stand. Easy prey.
Emus are about the size of a segway.



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Mar 31 2013, 9:59 pm NudeRaider Post #14

We can't explain the universe, just describe it; and we don't know whether our theories are true, we just know they're not wrong. >Harald Lesch

Emus are Not ducks.




Mar 31 2013, 11:12 pm rayNimagi Post #15



The point is that a duck the size of a segway would still be able to stand, and be quite dangerous.



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Mar 31 2013, 11:38 pm NudeRaider Post #16

We can't explain the universe, just describe it; and we don't know whether our theories are true, we just know they're not wrong. >Harald Lesch

I don't know enough about anatomy to confirm it either way, but I do know that emus are built to support high weight while ducks are not. It's anyone's guess if segway size would make a duck's build unstable.




Apr 1 2013, 12:52 am Lanthanide Post #17



Really it depends what we mean by "segway size", because obviously segways are narrow and tall while ducks are the opposite, squat and wide. If you increase the width of a duck until it matches the width of a segway, then I guess it'd probably end up about swan-sized. If you kept the normal duck proportions but made it as tall as a segway, then you'd end up with a bird bigger than any other living birds, and likely it wouldn't be able to walk at all.

Really it depends what "segway sized duck" means.



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Apr 1 2013, 4:41 am Vrael Post #18



Segway sized duck. BECAUSE I WOULD CONQUER IT AND CLAIM IT AS A MOUNT AND RIDE IT INTO MORE GLORIOUS BATTLE



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