Even in terms of pure mass, the dominant species is actually ants:
The most important result is that plants are the overwhelming winner in the “who weighs the most” contest, coming in at 450 gigatons. Microbes (which include bacteria, archaea, and most protists) come in next at around 81 gigatons. Animals (which includes insects, by the way), barely matter, weighing in at a mere 2 gigatons. It’s also worth noting that these plants are mostly on land. That means that the continents beat the oceans in terms of biospheric mass.
So, you mean that if ants decide to invade us, we are essentially screwed.
EDF! EDF!
Bring it on. The EDF deploys!
I feel like I could fight 1.167 my body mass in ants. We have shoes. And fire. And soap.
Idk… there’s about 150,000 ants per pound. Let’s call it 200 pounds of ants, so 30,000,000 ants attacking you all at once?
Even with an incredibly efficient stomping methodology, you’d let some through, which would start crawling on and in you rather quickly.
After a few thousand ants (a fraction of a fraction of the total mind you) get inside your ears, nose, butthole and urethra, biting, chewing and slicing one micro-cut at a time, I’m fairly sure you’re out of commission, going stark mad and opening the way for the remaining millions of ants to quite systematically kill you and methodically cut you in small carryable pieces to bring back to the nest.
But hey, hopefully shoes and soap will help ;)
True, if both the ants and I are naked and get zero prep time, the ants would probably win. But if I have a few minutes to prepare some buckets of soapy water and tuck my pants into my socks, I think I’d have a decent chance.
What’s becoming more and more clear is that you truly have no grasp of what 30 million ants en masse truly is. 😅🤮
All you’ve got to do is maintain a little distance from them, and I can easily outrun an ant. Step on the closest 500, take a step back. Repeat forever.
Thirty.
Million.
The ambulatory physics of that volume is firmly in the fluid dynamics territory, not a mere creepy crawly carpet. 😳
Someone read Worm
He misunderstood the assignment. Dirt is inert. Soil is living. He sucks as much at talking dirty as I do.
That’s princess Leah
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Dude should get his ears checked. Dirty, not dirt.
Dirty: of, or pertaining to dirt. 🤷🏼♂️
Well, I look quite the fool. Don’t I?
