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[–] ekZepp 116 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

Dude...

Ants are cute.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Gotta admit the way the meme crops the rest the face out makes it look metal as hell. That's a great monster design.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

I agree. My first thought was "that's a great hell hound."

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 month ago (1 children)

this ant still looks scary to me

the last two are friend shaped

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Looks more like a jim henson creation than scary

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago

Extremely cute:

[–] [email protected] 60 points 1 month ago (3 children)

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?

[–] Nikelui 10 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Considering the size of an ant and the picture, I'd say at least 50x

[–] davidgro 7 points 1 month ago

What is this, a magnification for ants?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

400x is more than enough to see and differentiate eukaryotic cells so I feel like 50x might be a slight overshot

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

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

[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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 31 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

I hadn't heard about bulldog ants before and was incredulous about your statement, but damn, yeah, bulldog ants are wild

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myrmecia_(ant)#interaction%20with%20humans

[–] M137 5 points 1 month ago

It looks like Josef Fritzl...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Elden Ring ants support this

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month 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?