• gjoel@programming.devEnglish
    60·
    20 days ago

    Is no one going to comment on the “magnified five times under a microscope”? Five times? What kind of weak, low refraction plastic lens, cost of bubblegum microscope are you using to magnify your enormous monster ants?

    • agamemnonymousEnglish
      7·
      20 days ago

      At first I thought 5 orders of magnitude, but 10,000x is way off. The closest I can reckon is they mean “magnified 100% five times”, i.e. 2⁵, or 32x, which seems like it could be right.

    • DrDystopia@lemy.lolEnglish
      1·
      20 days ago

      Browsing on a 32" monitor, “I wonder how they handle cat-sized ants where ever that’s from”.

  • edric@lemm.eeEnglish
    53·
    20 days ago

    It’s “less” frightening when you realize those red things aren’t the eyes, and the “teeth” are more like a mustache for its mandibles; like the other pictures in the comments that show them better

  • angrystego@lemmy.worldEnglish
    32·
    10 days ago

    This picture has no right to say it shows a face when it omits the eyes and jaws. It’s like posting a picture of a human nose and saying what an ugly face people have.

  • stupidcasey@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    20 days ago

    Given a single bulldog ant can kill a full grown adult and we are several orders of magnitude larger than them and there are 20 quadrillion of them each able to lift 50 times their own weight yeah, I would say it’s a good thing we are bigger than them.

    Nothing to do with the picture of this ants antennas though.

  • Annoyed_🦀 @monyet.ccEnglish
    3·
    20 days ago

    Thanking nature because of the ant face and not how it will gank up on you, inject you with paralysing venom, and tear you apart?