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[–] [email protected] 117 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)
[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Gotta admit the way the meme crops the rest the face out makes it look metal as hell. That's a great monster design.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

I agree. My first thought was "that's a great hell hound."

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 month ago (1 children)

this ant still looks scary to me

the last two are friend shaped

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

Looks more like a jim henson creation than scary

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago

Extremely cute:

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Agreed but that fourth picture has to be AI slop

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

Yup well spotted that one looks like it’s almost certainly ai generated now that you mention it

[–] 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".

[–] [email protected] 52 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

It's "less" frightening when you realize those red things aren't the eyes, and the “teeth” are more like a mustache for its mandibles; like the other pictures in the comments that show them better

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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 a human nose and saying what an ugly face people have.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month 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."

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

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

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myrmecia_(ant)#interaction%20with%20humans

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

It looks like Josef Fritzl...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Elden Ring ants support this

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month 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?

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

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

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bullant_head_detail.jpg

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