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View submission: xkcd 1338: Land Mammals
With an estimate of a world population of 1e16 ants and 7e9 humans, along with an average mass of 0.0003g per ant (answers.com) and 70kg per human (Wolfram Alpha), we find that all humans together weigh about 163 times *more* than all ants together.
So I'm confused...
Comment by StarManta at 06/03/2014 at 02:57 UTC
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The most suspect component of your analysis is the mass of ants, and answers.com doesn't strike me as a super reliable source.
Comment by [deleted] at 06/03/2014 at 03:04 UTC
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0.3mg per ant? that seems way too low