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Because ants are small... And lightweight, I can’t remember right now the term for volume vs mass when compared, but you can throw an ant from the Empire State
by quakeguy 7y ago
Because ants are small... And lightweight, I can’t remember right now the term for volume vs mass when compared, but you can throw an ant from the Empire State Building, and it will land like dropped from 2 inch height.
- zentiggr 7y agoI imagine an ant's drag coefficient is fairly high... and combined with the relative strength of the exoskeleton, they may as well be a powered armor trooper equivalent.
- scott_s 7y agoTaken from the Wikipedia page on terminal velocity, and quoted from the biologist J. B. S. Haldane: "To the mouse and any smaller animal [gravity] presents practically no dangers. You can drop a mouse down a thousand-yard mine shaft; and, on arriving at the bottom, it gets a slight shock and walks away. A rat is killed, a man is broken, a horse splashes. For the resistance presented to movement by the air is proportional to the surface of the moving object."
- quakeguy 7y agoThx, that was the quote i was looking for.