10-09-2003, 02:05 PM | #1 (permalink) |
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If ants were the size of dogs...
If ants were the size of dogs, would they take over the world? Most likely, i mean, at their size they can basically do anything, they are strong as hell, and have great organization skills. What's your take?
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10-09-2003, 02:10 PM | #3 (permalink) |
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Small animals are stronger proportionally to their size, but an ant the size of a dog wouldnt necessarly be stronger than a dog. In fact, I dont even know if their legs could hold their weight.
Say for example you take a muscle and make it 2 time bigger. The muscle is going to be 4 times as powerful. BUT, its weight is going to increase by a factor of 8. So bigger animals are very impressive, but most bigger animals would have a very hard time lifting something of their own weight. Dont expect ants to be able to lift 50 times their own weight (like they can now) if they were as big as dogs. |
10-09-2003, 02:10 PM | #4 (permalink) |
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Not to mention that it's the most populous animal on the planet and they can carry up to 50x their weight
EDIT: ah, interesting point Orodinn
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10-09-2003, 02:23 PM | #5 (permalink) |
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when i say 'size of dogs' i just mean an estimation of something around that, the ant would keep it's proportions perfectly, just scale it up to something that resembles the average size of a dog.
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10-09-2003, 02:33 PM | #6 (permalink) |
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however strong the ants are i'd be scared shitless of them, espically those bitching ants that fly..i hate those little (well not so little if dog sized!) ants!
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10-09-2003, 03:34 PM | #11 (permalink) |
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If I recall correctly, they also get oxygen by absorption.
If the ant was that large, it couldn't get enough oxygen via absorption to live (its volume has increased by a cubic while it's surface area has only squared).
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10-09-2003, 04:06 PM | #12 (permalink) | |
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Without getting into all of the problems with big ant's specificly the general idea doesn't work. Ants are succsessfull because they are small. They gain a lot of advantages from being small, like low food requiremtns and great relitive strength. If big ants were very effective creatures we would already have something along that line, the evolutionary nitch would be more or less filled. Wow, I'm just dictating rather than making an argument. how un-me like. well why don't I leave the argument as an exsersize for the reader.
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10-09-2003, 04:20 PM | #15 (permalink) |
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someone's been watching too much Food of the Gods.
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10-09-2003, 04:23 PM | #16 (permalink) |
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Giants ants . . . now that would freak me out! I already hate bugs enough as it is.
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10-09-2003, 04:58 PM | #17 (permalink) | |
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Isn't a lobster just a big insect ? really? Kinda makes you think twice about eating one doesn't it. |
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10-09-2003, 05:22 PM | #18 (permalink) |
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What if gorillas bred and acted like ants?
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10-09-2003, 05:23 PM | #19 (permalink) | |
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there used to some game i had on my old Amiga which was all about giant ants invading... so if we go by that game... we´ll be ok if we just shoot at their antennae.
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if giant ants turned out to be as delicious as lobster, i´d have no problem with them... but i think the sheer number of them would be dangerous (we´d all have to eat heaps of them to keep numbers down!)
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10-09-2003, 05:35 PM | #20 (permalink) |
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Speaking of big bugs, did you know that long time ago, there used to be 1 meter long scorpions? Yea, these creatures've been on earth for the longest time. 200 millions years before the dinosaurs. Even today, some 21 cm scorpions can be found in Africa I think.
Theyve also found fossil of ancient dragonfly with 28 inches wingspans!!! God, that must have been scary. I wonder what their diet was... Last edited by Orodinn; 10-09-2003 at 05:37 PM.. |
10-10-2003, 01:18 AM | #25 (permalink) |
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lets put it this way,....
IF ants were the size of dogs.... ... Then guns would be legal. See? it'd solve one problem
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10-10-2003, 06:03 AM | #26 (permalink) | |
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10-10-2003, 06:27 AM | #27 (permalink) |
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it would be fun picking them off as they tried to get onto my property
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10-10-2003, 06:27 AM | #28 (permalink) |
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ALL the scientific responces are swell and all and they make lots of good points (like the oxygen absorption thing) But,I'm not sure about any of that stuff but I do know....................................
They would be alot harder to stomp on!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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10-11-2003, 01:32 AM | #34 (permalink) |
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hahahahahahahahahah! Nice one GStrider!
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10-11-2003, 11:58 AM | #36 (permalink) |
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If ants were the size of dogs id regret stepping on their small counterparts.
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10-13-2003, 11:42 AM | #40 (permalink) |
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What if worms had machine guns?
Birds wouldn't fuck with 'em. That's my favorite response to "What if..." questions.
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