Comment by hmexx
7 years ago
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.
7 years ago
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.
One cm^3 of water is 1g. Ant's a lot smaller.
Alternatively, 1mm^3 of water is 1mg. Imagine the average ant as the sum of three balls, each measuring 1mm^3. That's 3mg.
While a sphere is going to be in the same ballpark, a cube of 1mm³ is presumably easier to imagine.
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Some ants are get pretty sizeable.