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Where's your God, now?
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Sun Nov 23, 2008 9:38 pmby Mitera Nikkou
An ant that can carry a hundred times its own weight.Now imagine that ant comparable in size to an adult human. With a colony.
Re: Where's your God, now?
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Mon Nov 24, 2008 9:05 amby Haylie
German ants. Sweet. That looked like a sizable ant, though.
Re: Where's your God, now?
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Mon Nov 24, 2008 10:15 amby Mitera Nikkou
Looks, yeah. But if it's carrying 500mg, then it must only weigh 5mg.
I wonder what I would do if I were that strong. I'd be able to carry 20,000 pounds. XD
HULK SMASH! U_U
Re: Where's your God, now?
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Wed Nov 26, 2008 7:23 pmby Flannery
Yeah...something like that...
Re: Where's your God, now?
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Wed Nov 26, 2008 7:28 pmby Mitera Nikkou
Starship troopers, right? I can't believe I remember that movie. ;/
I guess that's close enough. Except they're bigger than humans and don't seem to have the strength to carry one-hundred times their own weight.
Re: Where's your God, now?
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Wed Nov 26, 2008 8:05 pmby Flannery
If they have the power to rip a person in half and throw them 15 feet into the air, then I could see it. But according to scientist, finding a ant of that size is impossible.
Re: Where's your God, now?
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Wed Nov 26, 2008 9:04 pmby Selena Aninikkou
The insect respiratory system only works at small sizes; in fact, the large tarantulas and scorpions out there are pushing the limit of maximum size (and yes, they aren't insects, but both species happen to use the same respiratory system).
Re: Where's your God, now?
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Wed Nov 26, 2008 10:07 pmby Mitera Nikkou
If I understand stuff correctly, I think it depends on the concentration of oxygen in the air, on how the size works with the respiratory system. I don't know if it's physical fact (finding fossils), or theory, but a long time ago there had been higher concentrations of oxygen in the atmosphere, which allowed for the growth of giant bugs. Like mosquitoes the size of your head.
Re: Where's your God, now?
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Wed Sep 02, 2009 2:22 pmby Kris_Roth
During the Carboniferous period, insects were really huge due to larger quantities of oxygen. They had giant dragonflies who feasted on small reptiles, Giant amphibians, Proto-Alligators, and Mesotheolae, the giant tarantula. I saw that on the Discovery channel documentary "Before the Dinosaurs", which you can get on DVD on discovery.com, where other fine Discovery channel documentaries are sold.