How much could a human-sized ant lift?

[Mr. Bones]

?????

[Ad Bot]

[JumboMuffin]

ants can lift up to 10, 100, no, 1000 times their own weight right

so your weight x 1000

[Tactical Nuke]

so about 200000 lbs

[hootaloo]

it would collapse under its own weight so 0

[Master Matthew²]

about 25 Frisbees.

[PhantOS]

the only reason why ants are able to lift up 100x their weight is because they are tiny forgets and because they weigh less so the cells in their muscles have less mass to hold together.

if they were human size they'd probably be able to lift like 3x their weight. the larger you are as a species the harder it is for you to hold your own weight. this is because molecules and the forces between them can't be scaled with the size of animals

[Gock.]

does that make me an ant

[Juncoph]

when im home im gonna take a scientific crack at this

[Super Suit 12]

oh no we've been scienced

[The Resonte!]

thank you science side of tumblr


pretty sure the square root law (whatever that is) has something to do with it

it'd also end up much more fragile

[e-maxx]

at least 7

[Køtt]

this question is weird and vague, how hard of a concept is that to grasp
don't ants have somewhat strong jaws in their real size depending on the species

if so then i guess my theory is that they'd probably lift at least 2 big dumbells using their jaws

[King Tøny]

How much does an ant weigh? Like nothing.

How much do leaves weigh? Like nothing.

So what's nothing times nothing? It's nothing.

[Zloff]

not as much as me

[Refticus]

How much does an ant weigh? Like nothing.

How much do leaves weigh? Like nothing.

So what's nothing times nothing? It's nothing.

flawless logic.