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JaneLovesDotNet
on Nov 11, 2019
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Ants trapped for years in an old bunker
That's actually surprising. I would have guessed around 0.25-0.50g or so. I'm usually pretty good at guesstimations, and yet I'm off by a factor of 100 here.
asteli
on Nov 11, 2019
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One cm^3 of water is 1g. Ant's a lot smaller.
kijin
on Nov 11, 2019
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Alternatively, 1mm^3 of water is 1mg. Imagine the average ant as the sum of three balls, each measuring 1mm^3. That's 3mg.
MauranKilom
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While a sphere is going to be in the same ballpark, a cube of 1mm³ is presumably easier to imagine.
projektfu
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Except an ant looks like 3 spheres
asteli
on Nov 11, 2019
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For the purpose of this exercise, assume a rectilinear ant.
SiempreViernes
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The commenter was pointing out that a sphere of volume 1 mm^3 has a diameter of 1.24 mm, while a sphere of diameter 1 mm has a volume of 0.52 mm^3.
Meanwhile a cube of side 1 mm has a volume of 1 mm^3.
tempguy9999
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Some ants are get pretty sizeable.
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