Current Events > Wouldn't ants actually be flimsy AF if they were our size?

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Everybody thinks that if you blew up an ant's body to be the same mass as a human, then they would be super strong. But I had a biology teacher tell me one time that the materials that make up the body of an ant are super flimsy and only able to support the ant and make it relatively stronger than everything else its size because they're so small. Kind of like how a really small paper sculpture is able to stand and support itself, and maybe even hold something on top of it. But if you enlarged the same paper sculpture, it would just blow over in the wind and not be able to support large objects resting on it.

Yes, but there's a strength in numbers
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Ic3Bullet posted...

Everybody thinks that if you blew up an ant's body to be the same mass as a human, then they would be super strong

Who are these "everybody", and why are they so fucking stupid?

It's like, forth grade science that most bugs would instantly die if they were our size.
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I heard the same thing with spiders
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i'm as strong as an ant... if it were... THIS big

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What would it take for bugs to survive as the size of, say, an elephant?
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ShinigamiSoul posted...

What would it take for bugs to survive as the size of, say, an elephant?

a higher oxygen content in the atmosphere, they existed before dinosaurs, look up arthropleura.

I've seen some bugs since moving to Florida that look like they may have inspired Fallout's mutant bugs >_>
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This is the case for all bugs. They're specifically made to function at their size. If they were our size, then they'd quickly succumb to the forces of gravity.
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