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BONE DOG
Jun 7, 2009

by Fluffdaddy
there has to be a lot of ants out there in this crazy world. Let's try to get a count going to maybe find an answer to this age old question. So far I've counted three so I know there's at least three but there are sure to be more. Let me know how many ants you see and I'll crunch the numbers. Thank you and God bless

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mannerup
Jan 11, 2004

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more than a dozen

maybeadracula
Sep 9, 2022

by sebmojo
There's actually just one ant but there's a lot of it

BONE DOG
Jun 7, 2009

by Fluffdaddy

mannerup posted:

more than a dozen

I mean probably yes this a popular theory but we need visual confirmation. This is serious.

Lil Swamp Booger Baby
Aug 1, 1981

I count every one of them I eat, I'll eventually eat them all and I can tell you the total.

Aishlinn
Mar 31, 2011

This might hurt a bit..


several orders of magnitude more than all the stars in our galaxy

sure okay
Apr 7, 2006





maybe ask the Census Bureau, op? think they go hill to hill

Cubone
May 26, 2011

Because it never leaves its bedroom, no one has ever seen this poster's real face.

BONE DOG posted:

Let me know how many ants you see and I'll crunch the numbers. Thank you and God bless
zero at the moment. will keep you updated

BONE DOG
Jun 7, 2009

by Fluffdaddy

Aishlinn posted:

several orders of magnitude more than all the stars in our galaxy


Cubone posted:

zero at the moment. will keep you updated

Like I said. At least three

Loden Taylor
Aug 11, 2003

like it's mostly all just ants, it's just ants

Loden Taylor
Aug 11, 2003

all the stuff you see is mostly ants, it's hosed up

Ratios and Tendency
Apr 23, 2010

:swoon: MURALI :swoon:


Fire ants
Leafcutter ants
Normal black ants

Poster who said 3 is correct.

Aishlinn
Mar 31, 2011

This might hurt a bit..


more importantly, how many of those incredibly teeny tiny red dot bugs are there?

BONE DOG
Jun 7, 2009

by Fluffdaddy

Ratios and Tendency posted:

Fire ants
Leafcutter ants
Normal black ants

Poster who said 3 is correct.

Your missing those ants that you see sometimes in the liminal interstitial spaces between states of being that vibrate in and out of existence and when you finally manage to catch and eat one you gain a small fragment of forbidden knowledge

Those are easily my second least favourite kind of ant behind fire ant

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Jan 11, 2004

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I saw an anteater at a zoo once, who im guessing is fed ants. where the gently caress are they getting those ants from?

maths at university
Oct 26, 2010

mannerup posted:

I saw an anteater at a zoo once, who im guessing is fed ants. where the gently caress are they getting those ants from?

Me. I run a lucrative ant smuggling business. Don't let the feds know.

BONE DOG
Jun 7, 2009

by Fluffdaddy

maths at university posted:

Me. I run a lucrative ant smuggling business. Don't let the feds know.

How many you got?

Wifi Toilet
Oct 1, 2004

Toilet Rascal

mannerup
Jan 11, 2004

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extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence Mr. Sagan

mailorder bees
Nov 4, 2011

FLUFFERNUTTER
im trying to count but some long nosed dipshit keeps eating them

The Wiggly Wizard
Aug 21, 2008


It’s ants all the way down

BigBadSteve
Apr 29, 2009

Over 20 quadrillion (2x10^16).
https://news.mongabay.com/2022/12/how-many-ants-live-on-earth-at-least-20-quadrillion-scientists-say

BONE DOG
Jun 7, 2009

by Fluffdaddy

mannerup posted:

extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence Mr. Sagan

I agree. Cite your sources mr. Sagat

Ratios and Tendency
Apr 23, 2010

:swoon: MURALI :swoon:



I doubt that.

flubber nuts
Oct 5, 2005



sorry bud, but the math checks out on this one.

PokeJoe
Aug 24, 2004

hail cgatan


A bunch

PokeJoe
Aug 24, 2004

hail cgatan


Once I saw 3 ants at once, so definitely more than that

R.L. Stine
Oct 19, 2007

welcome to dead gay house
i want to see a hydraulic press video with 5 million ants

PokeJoe
Aug 24, 2004

hail cgatan


R.L. Stine posted:

i want to see a hydraulic press video with 5 million ants

I'm not sure that many ants are available to be hydraulic pressed

neato burrito
Aug 25, 2002

bitch better have my chex mix

I seen a documentary with that British dude talking and there was easily like over two hundred ants in one scene this was a couple of years ago so they might be dead by now

The ants not the British

neato burrito
Aug 25, 2002

bitch better have my chex mix

Does anyone know how long ants live?

R.L. Stine
Oct 19, 2007

welcome to dead gay house
not even they know

PokeJoe
Aug 24, 2004

hail cgatan


I like the Ants Canada YouTube guy

PokeJoe
Aug 24, 2004

hail cgatan


He has control over at least 30 ants :anttony:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pzbBAT9G5g

PokeJoe
Aug 24, 2004

hail cgatan


neato burrito posted:

Does anyone know how long ants live?

Some of them can live up to 5 days or even more

R.L. Stine
Oct 19, 2007

welcome to dead gay house

PokeJoe posted:

He has control over at least 30 ants :anttony:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pzbBAT9G5g

this guy is the most serial killer a person can be

Turdo
Jun 15, 2012

I haven't seen any in awhile. In fact I don't know the last time I saw one. This is disturbing and I'll keep looking but there might not be any ants.

Flora Finching
Sep 10, 2009

Look at this guy who never read an E.O. Wilson book. One of the things I remember from "The Ants" is that if you weigh all the people on earth and all the ants, the ants would weigh more.

Caesar Saladin
Aug 15, 2004


Its just the intro and the abstract but

https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.2201550119

But I mean, scientists can be wrong. I can log into uni and get the full paper if someone really wants.

Surprisingly all of those ants equal about 20% of human biomass in the world.

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PokeJoe
Aug 24, 2004

hail cgatan


R.L. Stine posted:

this guy is the most serial killer a person can be

The ants satiate his bloodlust imo

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