Linespider5ALL HAIL KING KILLMONGERRegistered Userregular
1 billion ants
Look at it this way: If the ants are motivated, I’m fucked.
Mainly because they’d be able to work in shifts to overwhelm any defense I could muster and I’d never have a chance to sleep.
Like, imagine over twelve hours I manage to defeat 500 million ants, and then, at, say, 7 PM, another 500 million roll in.
If it comes down to them or me, they’re gonna get me.
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PwnanObrienHe's right, life sucks.Registered Userregular
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It really depends on the environment. In some sort of narrow featureless sealed room you're fucked. If it's in any sort of setting where tactics beyond "crawl forward pinching" can be applied I'd like to think having opposable thumbs and the ability to use tools would allow any of us to overcome the tedious task of slowly routing the ants into a choke point and killing them with a garden hose or whatever. In fact I once had a giant swarm of ants outside the back door of my childhood home and that's exactly how we handled them. I can say from experience that the one thing this thread isn't mentioning is the smell that comes after killing hundreds of ants. It smelled like rotting meat for days even though it was outdoors where presumably the smell would dissipate. So yeah, I think your biggest obstacles to overcome are, in order:
Not trying to punch or stomp the ants like a big ol' dumbass who's going to get swarmed to death by ants
The sheer tedium of kiting and killing 1 billion ants
The noxious gas that kind of dead ant pile would emit
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Blake TDo you have enemies then?Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.Registered Userregular
Assuming an average ant size of 2mm wide and 10mm long and you're on a flat plane then you'd see ants for about 25 meters in every direction. Like if the scenario is "you're walking through a field and then suddenly 1 billion ants burrow out of the ground and are surrounding you because to each and every single one of them you smell like an enemy that must immediately be attacked" then you'd need to run through 25 meters of ants, hoping that none of the truly dangerous ones manage to get onto you and into your clothes before you escape. I'd think my odds of not getting bit by a single ant that would debilitate me after running through 25 meters worth of ants is very low. I'd probably get bit, trip and fall into the ants from the pain, and that's the ballgame.
Gonna be honest, 25m is not a whole lot. Much less than I expected.
I double checked and it turns out with the Windows 10 calculator, if you put in 20000 / pi, hit enter, hit the square root button, and hit enter again, it actually outputs sqrt(20000 / pi)/pi for some weird reason. Anyway, the correct number is that 25 times pi, which be almost 80 m.
Here I am down in the shit me and the fencers rolling through vehicles and infrastructure while firing bullets the size of my torso at even more of these fucking ants
And the Wing Divers and Air Raiders are just hanging out on a roof chilling like this isn’t their problem too
Not gonna be laughing when we get to the cave missions with all of the sky of a cave and limpet dick
I voted for me but now I think that was just my human bravado speaking. If they were just hanging out that would be one thing, but if a billion ants were motivated to kill me specifically then yeah I'm probably dead.
Assuming an average ant size of 2mm wide and 10mm long and you're on a flat plane then you'd see ants for about 25 meters in every direction. Like if the scenario is "you're walking through a field and then suddenly 1 billion ants burrow out of the ground and are surrounding you because to each and every single one of them you smell like an enemy that must immediately be attacked" then you'd need to run through 25 meters of ants, hoping that none of the truly dangerous ones manage to get onto you and into your clothes before you escape. I'd think my odds of not getting bit by a single ant that would debilitate me after running through 25 meters worth of ants is very low. I'd probably get bit, trip and fall into the ants from the pain, and that's the ballgame.
Well shit when I quoted I thought it was still 25m and I could run 25m in about 4 seconds, I think that’s quick enough to keep me safe enough
It really depends on the environment. In some sort of narrow featureless sealed room you're fucked. If it's in any sort of setting where tactics beyond "crawl forward pinching" can be applied I'd like to think having opposable thumbs and the ability to use tools would allow any of us to overcome the tedious task of slowly routing the ants into a choke point and killing them with a garden hose or whatever. In fact I once had a giant swarm of ants outside the back door of my childhood home and that's exactly how we handled them. I can say from experience that the one thing this thread isn't mentioning is the smell that comes after killing hundreds of ants. It smelled like rotting meat for days even though it was outdoors where presumably the smell would dissipate. So yeah, I think your biggest obstacles to overcome are, in order:
Not trying to punch or stomp the ants like a big ol' dumbass who's going to get swarmed to death by ants
The sheer tedium of kiting and killing 1 billion ants
The noxious gas that kind of dead ant pile would emit
I'd probably try setting them on fire, so for me there'd also be "not killing myself with fire".
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JedocIn the scupperswith the staggers and jagsRegistered Userregular
1 billion ants
How many of the ants are flying males and new queens? Like as a fraction of the whole.
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Mainly because they’d be able to work in shifts to overwhelm any defense I could muster and I’d never have a chance to sleep.
Like, imagine over twelve hours I manage to defeat 500 million ants, and then, at, say, 7 PM, another 500 million roll in.
If it comes down to them or me, they’re gonna get me.
Then I’d use a leaf.
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I double checked and it turns out with the Windows 10 calculator, if you put in 20000 / pi, hit enter, hit the square root button, and hit enter again, it actually outputs sqrt(20000 / pi)/pi for some weird reason. Anyway, the correct number is that 25 times pi, which be almost 80 m.
And the Wing Divers and Air Raiders are just hanging out on a roof chilling like this isn’t their problem too
Not gonna be laughing when we get to the cave missions with all of the sky of a cave and limpet dick
Well shit when I quoted I thought it was still 25m and I could run 25m in about 4 seconds, I think that’s quick enough to keep me safe enough
I cannot run 80m in any amount of time