You vs 1 billion ants

DarkPrimus

You versus one billion ants. Who walks away?

What kind of ants are they?
Great question. There are 12,000 species of ants so let's assume that we divide that distribution evenly, giving each species of ant 83334 (rounding up) participants.

What kind of prep time do I have?
What do you mean prep time? You aren't fuckin' Batman, you didn't anticipate this happening today

What so I can't just go to the hardware store and buy the shelf full of RAID?
If you think that's your only path to victory you're welcome to attempt it, but you're going to have to get through one billion ants in order to reach transportation to your local Menards or whatever.

What if I go for their queens? That seems like an easy route to victory.
Ants perform tasks en masse outside the colony while the queen stays safely secluded all the goddamn time. And it's not like ants are robots. They don't just stop and shut down if you kill the queen. If anything that's just gonna drive them into even more of a frenzy.

Aren't ants extremely territorial? Wouldn't each colony be as likely to turn against each other as attack me?
If that were the case it wouldn't be you versus 1 billion ants, now would it. They are united in their goal of your utter annihilation.

Darmak

You

Fuck yeah, I'd kick a billion ant's asses

tynic

I know many ways in which I could triumph over a billion of even the most vicious ants, but in the spirit of 'insects are good, actually'

i'm gonna lie down and let the ants take me. For the planet's sake.

Hacksaw

1 billion ants

Oh the ants would for sure obliterate me

And I'm fine with that

Veldrin

Yeah, ants deserve this world more than I do

Xaquin

You

I win easy.

1 billion ants are still slow as hell compared to me

Nirya

1 billion ants

Now put the ants against the lions.

WiseManTobes

1 billion ants

I think at most everyone would get thru maybe 10k ants at most before the swarm goes locust style on you.

MulysaSempronius

1 billion ants

If a billion different ants decided to unite and that I needed to die, then I guess I must deserve it

Mysst

You

if you keep running you'll squish 'em all eventually

TheStig

You

if I'm trapped in a room, the ants win for sure. If I can sprint to a garden hose or something I win.

Incenjucar

You

As long as I have enough oxygen available they're pretty screwed.

rhylith

1 billion ants

I’m dead!

WiseManTobes

1 billion ants

If they are ants that have Voltroning skills as well, you are extra boned

Styrofoam Sammich

You

I would challenge the ants to a reasoned debate and crush them

#pipe

1 billion ants

If just 5 or 6 bullet ants stung me I would probably go into cardiac arrest.

just 5 or 6.

Mysst

You

Macguyver once fought like a billions ants and won, so, there ya go.

Tallahasseeriel

1 billion ants

Ants are gross

The will win through sheer terror

The Lovely Bastard

You

i have the unfair advantage in that i cannot die

#pipe

1 billion ants

Hey I have a poll for everyone

X vs Y threads
or literally anything else

Xaquin

You

I will agree that if I am asleep and 1 billion fire or bullet ants crawl on me that they will win

I needed anime to post.

i don't see you making the thread coward

Peewi

1 billion ants

That's one big ass ant hill. I would prefer to not be on the same continent as it.

Mysst

You

once when I was 6 I woke up having been chewed on by fire ants, I'm pretty sure I'm immune now

Captain Inertia

1 billion ants

1 billion ants is a little bigger than the truck that delivered a pile of stinky mulch on my driveway

I couldn’t take that

Tallahasseeriel

1 billion ants

What if dragons were real and had to fight one billion ants

Captain Inertia

1 billion ants

#pipe wrote: »

Hey I have a poll for everyone

X vs Y threads
or literally anything else

X vs Y? The Pokémon thread is over there

Xaquin

You

Captain Inertia wrote: »

1 billion ants is a little bigger than the truck that delivered a pile of stinky mulch on my driveway

I couldn’t take that

remember that you can out pace the billion ant truck x a lot

edit: It looks as though saharan silver ants can move nearly a yard a second!

too bad they are as squishable as any other!

Tallahasseeriel

1 billion ants

Tallahasseeriel wrote: »

What if dragons were real and had to fight one billion ants

Hi welcome to my pitch for my antz plus reign of fire crossover fiction

mcp

1 billion ants

I'm not fuckin around with a billion ants

Bluedude152

1 billion ants

Ive watched like, 20 ants total kill a bird

I would be buried alive

Gvzbgul

1 billion ants

Prep time? I win.

No prep time? Ants win.

Captain Inertia

1 billion ants

Xaquin wrote: »

Captain Inertia wrote: »

1 billion ants is a little bigger than the truck that delivered a pile of stinky mulch on my driveway

I couldn’t take that

remember that you can out pace the billion ant truck x a lot

Yeah if I could like get a way to take out small chunks of the 1 billion, like 10 thousand ants at a time, but without being crushed to death by just like 10 million of them, yeah...it’d take me a while, I guess...but I’d have to do this enough times that the chances of them getting me at least once are pretty high

But if all I have to do is evade them indefinitely?

I honestly still don’t trust myself, never been able to evade ants completely my whole life

Munkus Beaver

1 billion ants

What kind of ants

how am i to die

BahamutZERO

1 billion ants

I see an ant, I immediately lie down and die

PiptheFair

like 4 bullet ants would end me by themselves

Olivaw

You

My initial response was, with the element of surprise, the ants would surely defeat me

But I'm tired of having low self-confidence by god, so I say I think I could maneuver my way around the ants and reach a car, in which case I can quickly acquire aid from an exterminator or perhaps my local flamethrower-owner to put these ants down

Have confidence everyone!!

3cl1ps3

You

If the ants are different species divided evenly, they can't all work together as every species uses different pheromones for communication. You're essentially fighting a bunch of much smaller swarms of uncoordinated ants. Some of the swarms will even be fighting each other.

No contest.

BahamutZERO

1 billion ants

the 1 billion ants form another car out of themselves, except it's bigger and it runs you over and crushes you in your car. You're dead.

Poorochondriac

1 billion ants

I'd be in trouble with anything over 10k I reckon

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The ants scare me way less than whoever got eighty three thousand different species of ants to all fight me at once