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1 posted on 09/21/2022 1:22:49 PM PDT by Red Badger
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and tasty too


2 posted on 09/21/2022 1:24:10 PM PDT by joshua c (to disrupt the system, we must disrupt our lives, cut the cable tv)
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> estimate of the number of ants in the world: 20 quadrillion <

Aw, hell. I had 19 quadrillion in the office pool.


4 posted on 09/21/2022 1:25:58 PM PDT by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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Good. Now, do termites. Their farts emit more ‘ghg’ than all human autos and trucks combined.


5 posted on 09/21/2022 1:26:02 PM PDT by rfp1234 (Comitia asinorum et rhinocerum delenda sunt.)
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Just wait until they can register as Democrats!


7 posted on 09/21/2022 1:27:13 PM PDT by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.......)
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“That’s 12 megatons of biomass—more than all the wild birds and mammals taken together.”

Hm. Humans add up to what? Maybe 400 megatons? And to maintain that weight, there must be lots of megatons of domesticated animals, far more than wild ones.


9 posted on 09/21/2022 1:28:11 PM PDT by rightwingcrazy (;-,)
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11 posted on 09/21/2022 1:28:52 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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12 posted on 09/21/2022 1:29:17 PM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /Sarc tag really necessary? Pray for President Biden: Psalm 109:8)
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Is this counting the Biden voters?

13 posted on 09/21/2022 1:30:04 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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But six researchers have come up with the latest—and most comprehensive—estimate of the number of ants in the world: 20 quadrillion.

Which, coincidentally enough, is the same number of tax dollars that was spent on the research. Give or take a quadrillion.

15 posted on 09/21/2022 1:31:58 PM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all.)
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Has anybody seen this guy? He owes me some candy.


16 posted on 09/21/2022 1:32:53 PM PDT by DannyTN
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So if they ban together and demand equal rights we are screwed.


17 posted on 09/21/2022 1:36:18 PM PDT by circlecity
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https://canyouactually.com/researchers-poured-10-tons-of-cement-into-this-ant-metropolis-then-dug-it-up/

When mankind is gone, ants will still rule the planet


18 posted on 09/21/2022 1:37:04 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco (Don't walk thru the watermelon patch)
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And that is just the ants the responded to the Census.


20 posted on 09/21/2022 1:40:58 PM PDT by Round Earther
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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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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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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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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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Now do uncles!


26 posted on 09/21/2022 2:01:08 PM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion (Fraud vitiates everything. )
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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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“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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