| Dr. Strangelove |
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| 01/24/05 08:20 AM |
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Re: How many 5 year-olds.....
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I think the number is a lot less than people think, and definitely less than 30.
I agree. I heard about an 800 pound tiger getting killed by a pack of 30-40 wild dogs. I think the five year olds would have you on the ground pretty quick and that's the ballgame.
there's NO WAY you can analogize a room full of 5 year-olds to a pack of wild dogs. the dogs will be MUCH BETTER at working as a team, both instinctually and from their life experiences. also, the dogs would know where to attack to take the prey/opponent down and incapacitate it fastest, and they would strike quickly and effectively. one day of training could not bring 5 year-olds up to this level.
We are talking about a huge tiger (even for a tiger 800 pounds is huge) and while five year olds are not wild dogs, you are not a tiger. Wild dogs are small and incredibly weak in comparison to a large tiger. In fact, I think most 2+2ers could take a wild dog in hand to hand combat; we outweigh them by a lot, are stronger, and most of us are smarter.
Yet the difference between an 800 pound tiger and a grown human is greater than a grown human and a 5 year old human. I think most of you are underestimating the problem that being vastly outnumbered poses, regardless of the strength of the individuals.
So given this difference, I think you will get an upper bound on the number of 5 year olds a 2+2er can take by figuring out how many unarmed 2+2ers it would take to kill an 800 pound tiger.
I think this number is somewhere between 15 and 40.
A related question would be, how many ants can you take? The answer is not all of them.