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[–] gjoel 62 points 1 month ago (3 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Considering the size of an ant and the picture, I'd say at least 50x

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

What is this, a magnification for ants?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

400x is more than enough to see and differentiate eukaryotic cells so I feel like 50x might be a slight overshot

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

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