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MatPat (The Game Theorists)

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Game Theory
The Detail Everyone Missed from Kindergarten 3

One, alligators have this

Game Theory
The Detail Everyone Missed from Kindergarten 3

flap at the back of their mouths known as the palatal valve that sort of acts like a fleshy barrier.

Game Theory
The Detail Everyone Missed from Kindergarten 3

It's there to make sure that gators don't accidentally swallow water while they're hunting underwater.

Game Theory
The Detail Everyone Missed from Kindergarten 3

And given we are using Linda to traverse underwater, I doubt she's going to be opening hers to let any children through.

Game Theory
The Detail Everyone Missed from Kindergarten 3

Even if she did, they'd run into reason number two, which is that getting stuck inside a gator's stomach might be among the worst deaths they could face.

Game Theory
The Detail Everyone Missed from Kindergarten 3

And that's saying something given this game.

Game Theory
The Detail Everyone Missed from Kindergarten 3

A gator's stomach is super inhospitable.

Game Theory
The Detail Everyone Missed from Kindergarten 3

When they're digesting a particularly large morsel of food, like, say, a child, they actually shuttle blood away from their lungs and towards their stomachs so they can pump it with more carbon dioxide and make their stomachs even more acidic.

Game Theory
The Detail Everyone Missed from Kindergarten 3

As a result, some estimates say that gators have stomachs that are as much as 10 times more acidic than any mammal.

Game Theory
The Detail Everyone Missed from Kindergarten 3

So, yeah, these kids ain't surviving that, which means we're gonna stick to them staying firmly inside Linda's big old mouth.

Game Theory
The Detail Everyone Missed from Kindergarten 3

But before we can measure that mouth, we first need to figure out the size of our would-be crocodile hunter.

Game Theory
The Detail Everyone Missed from Kindergarten 3

Sorry, alligator.

Game Theory
The Detail Everyone Missed from Kindergarten 3

Now, while most of the children in kindergarten appear to be around the same size, that doesn't tell us exactly how big they are.

Game Theory
The Detail Everyone Missed from Kindergarten 3

I mean, their school is leaking radioactive goo, for all we know, they could be mutant children.

Game Theory
The Detail Everyone Missed from Kindergarten 3

Normally, this is where I would bust out the pixel measurements and look around the school to find something with a standardized set of measurements that we could use.

Game Theory
The Detail Everyone Missed from Kindergarten 3

You know, something like the height of a door or the spacing of bricks.

Game Theory
The Detail Everyone Missed from Kindergarten 3

Something we know has a fixed measurement.

Game Theory
The Detail Everyone Missed from Kindergarten 3

And actually, the school has a bunch of those things available to us.

Game Theory
The Detail Everyone Missed from Kindergarten 3

The only problem is...

Game Theory
The Detail Everyone Missed from Kindergarten 3

How do I put this?