Combine this with an ant weight of, say, 2 milligrams. Let’s assume we are on Earth and have a “second Earth”, E2, that we want our ants to lift. The average human is much lighter than this!Follow all the topics you care about, and we’ll deliver the best stories for you to your homepage and inbox.
Right?Well, first of all, we need to decide where we are going to lift Earth in our little thought experiment. Now, the total amount of ants on this planet has been estimated at 10¹⁶, so we don’t have nearly enough ants to lift our planet. And many of the species I will work on this summer will be larger than that (haven't started doing weighing them yet, but they are larger to begin with). Being able to carry 50 times their body mass, that results in 100 kilograms. How many ants does it take to lift Earth? (An average ant weighs up to 5 mg, so that means the average ant can lift 25,000 milligrams.I decided to convert this to pounds, as that is how I measure myself. An article as recent as 2014 states that ants can lift 5,000 times their own body weight. Once you take that surface area into account they would probably be able to lift a child - but not a full grown adult. Being able to carry 50 times their body mass, that results in 100 kilograms. Combine this with an ant weight of, say, 2 milligrams. To find how many ants it would take to lift the average adult male, I would divide the average weight of an adult male (136.7 lb) by how many pounds an ant can lift (.055 lb). Jesse Schoell Jesse Schoell. E2, however, is much heavier than this. Ants can lift 10-50 (maybe 100 in certain circumstances) times their body weight, so OP's estimate is off by a factor of 100-500. With our muscles supporting our body weight, we don’t have as much strength left over to lift other objects. The average ant weights approximately .1 milligrams and can typically lift 10 times their weight as a conservative figure. In such a situation, we can easily calculate the force Earth has on an object by multiplying the mass in kilograms of the object with 9.81 to get a force in Newtons. I’m finding wildy different numbers on how much an ant can lift, but I’m going to use the number of 50 times their own body weight.

Now, the total amount of ants on this planet has been estimated at 10¹⁶, so we don’t have nearly enough ants to lift our planet. Let’s assume we are on Earth and have a “second Earth”, E2, that we want our ants to lift.

This may seem like a very straightforward question. You could not-crush 2800 ants, but they won't be carrying you anywhere.The average male weighs 136.7 pounds? Source?A 150 pound human being would weight 68,038,855.5 milligrams.I'm not a stickler for significant figures or anything, but that just looks silly.3.4M ants. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts Ants are the strongest animals (if you consider them to be animals) because they can lift up 20 to 50 times their weight. 8 comments. The average human is much lighter than this!Follow all the topics you care about, and we’ll deliver the best stories for you to your homepage and inbox. 10¹⁶ ants and 7.73 * 10⁹ humans, we have more than a million ants for each human. E2, however, is too heavy for this.What we need to know is the force keeping our hypothetical E2 against Earth.What we need to know is the force keeping our hypothetical E2 against Earth. But otherwise, good job! My friend asked me this on the way home from work today and it got me thinking... How many would it take?
level 1 Assuming that we had 1 mg ants that could only lift 50 mg, we would simply multiply our answer by 5 leaving us with 1,240,000 ants. share. Wow, that makes me sad.well, the average United States male weighs 194.7 lb.I can't even lift light things as an ant. Also, how big would a single ant have to be to lift a (human) adult above its head? The answer I found was 2 485.4 ants. Not really. The force keeping E2 down can be calculated with the following formula, calculating the force F between two masses (both denoted with an m) with a distance of r between them:Alright, back to our original question. u/Cobzy. How many ants are there per colony, on average? Not really. Usually when we ask questions of the type “How much X does it take to lift Y”, we mean “on Earth”. 8 years ago. Basically, we would need to know two things: 1, how much mass can one ant lift, and 2, how much mass the Earth has. Divide the second number by the first and you get the desired answer. The force keeping E2 down can be calculated with the following formula, calculating the force F between two masses (both denoted with an m) with a distance of r between them:Alright, back to our original question. Here's the source of the above paragraph, and another interesting study, which I am currently reading.If someone were to create an experiment to answer this, could the ants be trained to cooperate with the researchers?You can't train ants. Close.

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