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Post by Deleted on Aug 18, 2009 21:39:32 GMT 1
As the title says an ant can lift ten times its own weight and an ants weight is about 0.003 grams that time ten is 0.03 grams so from this how many ant's would it take to lift me ! I'm 10 stone which is 63.502931800000006 KG recurring lets round to 63.5 or 63500 grams. 63500 divided by 0.03 = 2116666.666666667 recuring or 211667 ants to lift me what do you think of that.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 18, 2009 21:56:15 GMT 1
That depends on what type of ant
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Post by Deleted on Aug 18, 2009 21:57:01 GMT 1
And how big it is
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Post by Deleted on Aug 18, 2009 22:45:51 GMT 1
True ah well back to the drawing board.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 18, 2009 22:46:02 GMT 1
In theory they can - but that's like saying a billion people can lift a planet or something, they would just get crushed
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Post by Deleted on Aug 18, 2009 22:56:56 GMT 1
In theory they can - but that's like saying a billion people can lift a planet or something, they would just get crushed They wouldn't get crushed but the gravity of the planet would not allow such a thing to be done
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Post by Deleted on Aug 18, 2009 22:57:34 GMT 1
And anyway thats not a billion its two-hundred-thousand
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Post by Deleted on Aug 18, 2009 23:27:20 GMT 1
I know. But what i'm saying is the weight would have to be un-naturaly spread out for those people/ants to lift a such a heavy object...it's hard to explain.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 18, 2009 23:34:12 GMT 1
What I mean is you couldn't fit over 200,000 ants under a person - they weight of the person would have to be spread out so that all the ants could take some weight.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 18, 2009 23:37:43 GMT 1
What if the person lay down ?
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Post by Deleted on Aug 18, 2009 23:39:23 GMT 1
That's the scenario I was talking about
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Post by Deleted on Aug 20, 2009 0:10:10 GMT 1
That's the scenario I was talking about Let me do some more maths and then we'll see first I need to know the length and width of an average ant then the length and breath of me at the smallest point
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Post by Deleted on Aug 20, 2009 1:34:28 GMT 1
Smarty! ;D
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Post by Deleted on Aug 20, 2009 2:45:00 GMT 1
Someone likes math wanna do my homework this year :}
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Post by Deleted on Aug 20, 2009 3:32:31 GMT 1
Well say you can fit 10 ants per square centimeter, and it requires 211,667 ants to lift someone. That would mean that the surface area of the underside of the person would have to be 21,166.7cm squared...that's big
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