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• gjoel@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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?

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  • agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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  • DrDystopia@lemy.lol ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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• scytale@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It’s “less” frightening when you realize those red things aren’t the eyes, like the other pictures in the comments that show them better

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• angrystego@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 human nose and saying what an ugly face people have.

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• luciole@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  This picture is kind of misleading though. Much of the photo’s creepiness comes from mistakenly assimilating the red dots to its eyes. Ants have those big familiar insect eyes we are familiar with. Quote from Snopes:

  This is a closeup of a section of the ant’s face but not the full face. In a text message, Kavaliauskas [the photographer] told us, “This is just the front part of the portrait […] the eyes are already in the shadow area. […] if the eyes are illuminated, all the mystery disappears and the photograph appears ordinary and uninteresting.”

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• stupidcasey@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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.

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  • AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

    en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myrmecia_(ant)#interactio…

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• rockerface@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Elden Ring ants support this

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• M137@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It looks like Josef Fritzl…

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• Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?

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• jlow@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  And it’s not like a giant ant would not be still terrifying:

  …wikimedia.org/…/File:Bullant_head_detail.jpg

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• belated_frog_pants@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  https://beehaw.org/pictrs/image/06eee195-2f76-42da-97e7-4aed8de93785.webp

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