• @angrystego
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    205 hours ago

    This picture has no right to say it shows a face when it omits the eyes and jaws. It’s like posting a picture of human nose and saying what an ugly face people have.

  • @stupidcasey
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    913 hours ago

    Given a single bulldog ant can kill a full grown adult and we are several orders of magnitude larger than them and there are 20 quadrillion of them each able to lift 50 times their own weight yeah, I would say it’s a good thing we are bigger than them.

    Nothing to do with the picture of this ants antennas though.

  • ekZepp
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    22 hours ago

    Dude…

    Ants are cute.

  • @[email protected]
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    4820 hours ago

    Is no one going to comment on the “magnified five times under a microscope”? Five times? What kind of weak, low refraction plastic lens, cost of bubblegum microscope are you using to magnify your enormous monster ants?

    • @[email protected]
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      312 hours ago

      At first I thought 5 orders of magnitude, but 10,000x is way off. The closest I can reckon is they mean “magnified 100% five times”, i.e. 2⁵, or 32x, which seems like it could be right.

    • @[email protected]
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      111 hours ago

      Browsing on a 32" monitor, “I wonder how they handle cat-sized ants where ever that’s from”.

    • @Nikelui
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      820 hours ago

      Considering the size of an ant and the picture, I’d say at least 50x

      • @[email protected]
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        14 hours ago

        400x is more than enough to see and differentiate eukaryotic cells so I feel like 50x might be a slight overshot

      • @davidgro
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        49 hours ago

        What is this, a magnification for ants?

  • edric
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    19 hours ago

    It’s “less” frightening when you realize those red things aren’t the eyes, and the “teeth” are more like a mustache for its mandibles; like the other pictures in the comments that show them better

  • M137
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    515 hours ago

    It looks like Josef Fritzl…

  • Annoyed_🦀
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    315 hours ago

    Thanking nature because of the ant face and not how it will gank up on you, inject you with paralysing venom, and tear you apart?