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[Closed] What height would an ant have to fall from for it to die due to the impact

 yoda
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My uncle shoved my ant down the stairs, she's dead!


 
Posted : 31/10/2011 3:27 pm
 DezB
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Don't drop an ant. It's done nothing to you. There might come a day when it's dropping you.


 
Posted : 31/10/2011 3:54 pm
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... if it turns into a gi-ant?

IGMC.


 
Posted : 31/10/2011 3:55 pm
 DezB
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Sorry, I was misquoting:
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antmusic hur hur hur etc


 
Posted : 31/10/2011 4:08 pm
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"she"? Aren't all ants male apart from the queen?

No, they're all female apart from the winged ones that come out at this time of year.


 
Posted : 31/10/2011 5:34 pm
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if said ant was on a conveyer belt, would this not squash it?


 
Posted : 31/10/2011 5:50 pm
 5lab
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pretty sure you can kill a snail by dropping it out a window?


 
Posted : 31/10/2011 5:53 pm
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You can kill a snail by dropping it out of a window into a bowl of salt. I don't know if dropping an ant out of a very high window into a bowl of salt would work, but you'd need a good aim and factor in cross winds and stuff.


 
Posted : 31/10/2011 6:24 pm
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if you could fit a small ant into The Large Hadron Collider and fire it around and around Geneva at speeds approaching the speed of light, do you reckon it would die? or would you have to fire another small ant the other way so they collide?


 
Posted : 31/10/2011 6:29 pm
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I think you'd need the ant to actually reach the speed of light to sufficiently up the ante.


 
Posted : 31/10/2011 6:31 pm
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......into a bowl of salt would work, but you'd need a good aim and factor in cross winds and stuff.

You also need to factor in whether it's a Gliding Ant :

(The first one is a control ant btw - it doesn't glide)

Pushing a drugged ant out of a plane which is flying over the sea should do it - Gliding Ant or not Gliding Ant.


 
Posted : 31/10/2011 6:49 pm
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do you have to drug it? can't you put it in the freezer for a bit like they do with flies?


 
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