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To: mickeylee
Actually, if you want to see an even more amazing example of an ant's immortality, go to the second story of your house and drop an ant to the ground below. Now to an ant, falling out of the second story of a house is roughly equivalent to a human falling out of an airplane at about 20,000 feet.

Yet each and every time, the ant will survive the fall. In fact, I hasten to add that they would also probably survive a fall from an airplane at 20,000 feet but I have never actually conducted such an experiment for myself.

40 posted on 09/07/2007 7:13:13 PM PDT by SamAdams76 (Today I Officially OUTLIVE Marvin Gaye)
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To: SamAdams76

The ant doesn’t have enough mass to make much of an impact. Dropping one from orbit however would be a different matter altogether.


41 posted on 09/07/2007 7:15:01 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Greed is NOT a conservative ideal.)
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To: SamAdams76

“Yet each and every time, the ant will survive the fall.”

Does it land on its feet like a cat?


62 posted on 09/07/2007 7:45:11 PM PDT by hophead ( "Enjoy Every Sandwich")
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