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How many ants live on Earth? Scientists finally have an answer...Study comes to astronomical figure
Science.Org ^ | 19 SEP 2022 | ELIZABETH PENNISI

Posted on 09/21/2022 1:22:49 PM PDT by Red Badger

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To: Hot Tabasco

They’ll have to fight the roaches and rats for it.


21 posted on 09/21/2022 1:42:46 PM PDT by kaktuskid
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To: Red Badger

I have a billion fire ants of my own in my yard.


22 posted on 09/21/2022 1:44:24 PM PDT by crusty old prospector
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To: Red Badger

Did they count all the ants inhabiting the garments of all those people who have "ants in their pants"?

23 posted on 09/21/2022 1:47:51 PM PDT by Songcraft
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To: Red Badger

Don’t be greedy… everyone having a pic nic will receive their own allotment.


24 posted on 09/21/2022 1:50:31 PM PDT by Coffee... Black... No Sugar (“Salute the Marines.” - Joe )
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To: Red Badger

Meh. This is just an evil government plot. They are using this to bring the word, “quadrillion” into the common vernacular so we won’t be so paralyzed by its upcoming use in articles regarding the economy, national debt and taxes.

😉


25 posted on 09/21/2022 1:57:51 PM PDT by cuban leaf (My prediction: Harris is Spiro Agnew. We'll soon see who becomes Gerald Ford, and our next prez.)
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To: Red Badger

Now do uncles!


26 posted on 09/21/2022 2:01:08 PM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion (Fraud vitiates everything. )
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To: Red Badger
I made recent forays into large numbers and so a quadrillion doesn't sound like a lot to me.

It helps to learn that the number of possible, unique games of chess possible exceeds the number of atoms in the observable universe.

27 posted on 09/21/2022 2:01:57 PM PDT by fwdude (Racism is not dead, but it is on life support - kept alive by politicians….” — Thomas Sowell)
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To: Red Badger

“Scientists estimate that Earth contains 7.5 sextillion sand grains. That is 75 followed by 17 zeros. That’s a lot of sand.”

‘More stars than grains of sand on Earth? You bet’
https://www.oklahoman.com/story/lifestyle/2019/02/05/more-stars-than-grains-of-sand-on-earth-you-bet/60474645007/


28 posted on 09/21/2022 2:22:10 PM PDT by cranked
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To: kaktuskid

Roaches and rats would be extinct shortly after humans are extinct, since both roaches and rats are species that have adapted to live as parasites to human civilization. Once we are gone, they lose their ‘free lunch’.

Ants would continue blissfully unaware that anything has changed.


29 posted on 09/21/2022 2:23:05 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Red Badger

How much methane and carbon dioxide does this huge biomass emit in the process of living and dying? Bet it greatly exceeds all the carbon dioxide and methane emitted by all the cattle herds, sheep flocks, confinement-housed swine and even humanity put together.

Yet apparently there is no call for the regulation of ants and their numbers.


30 posted on 09/21/2022 2:42:27 PM PDT by alloysteel (A born skeptic is now living in a target-rich environment. SO many beliefs to challenge...)
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To: Red Badger

Well, that explains why the fire ants and others in the yard are such a nuisance, like Mongol hordes constantly moving or on the attack. The little SOBs have an even greater advantage in numbers than I had realized.


31 posted on 09/21/2022 3:15:25 PM PDT by Rockingham
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To: Red Badger

12 million tons. How many greenies will that feed for a year?


32 posted on 09/21/2022 3:17:50 PM PDT by Sequoyah101 (Politicians are only marginally good at one thing, being politicians. Otherwise they are fools.)
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To: Red Badger

Q. How many ants live on Earth?
A. None. Ants live in the earth.


33 posted on 09/21/2022 4:31:48 PM PDT by bunkerhill7 (t)
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To: Red Badger
Did they include:
34 posted on 09/21/2022 4:59:41 PM PDT by DannyTN
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To: DannyTN

Cant.....................


35 posted on 09/22/2022 6:07:53 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Red Badger

LOL


36 posted on 09/22/2022 6:26:49 AM PDT by DannyTN
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To: Red Badger

Until we learn to communicate with bees and ants and colonial insects, we can forget about communicating with extra planetary aliens


37 posted on 09/22/2022 6:28:37 AM PDT by bert ( (KWE. NP. N.C. +12) Juneteenth is inequality day)
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To: bert

I’ve had that same thought.

We can’t even talk to chimpanzees, gorillas, dolphins and whales, that are supposedly as intelligent as we are, beyond a few simple commands and phrases.

If we can’t have a ‘talk’ to these creatures, how will we ever ‘talk’ to ones from another planet?.................


38 posted on 09/22/2022 6:31:55 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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