• Ulvain@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    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 ;)

    • threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      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.

      • littleblue✨@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        What’s becoming more and more clear is that you truly have no grasp of what 30 million ants en masse truly is. 😅🤮

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          1 year ago

          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.

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            1 year ago

            Thirty.

            Million.

            The ambulatory physics of that volume is firmly in the fluid dynamics territory, not a mere creepy crawly carpet. 😳