Ant mega-colony takes over world

if ants were the size of even MOUSE or RAT, humans would number only a few million in the world because humans are soft-bodied, have no natural defences (like exoskeleton or claws, sharp teeth or skin colorings to warn predator or chemical defences), and humans need to eat and eat and eat. ants would find us to be the easiest of prey. if ants were the size of MOUSE or RAT we would never have developed technology because the ants would overrun most of the planet's surface in huge numbers, building massive underground networks that stretch all across the continents. i have always loved ants beca... [More]

If they were bigger, the government would twittle their thumbs and threaten to jail anyone who killed one so we would have to count on the people who make a good living on us. The teflon bullets of the drug dealers and gang members would save our butts. Bring " them " on.

Hmm, if ants went hostile on humans, what chance would we have? seriously? My good sir, have you heard of a fly swat?

Exaclty, but what makes us so great is that we have technology, they don't! ants don't need technology. they are evolved to develop into distinct castes in society, they are all a part of a hive mind and so work together as a single entity, and they are able to construct their own habitats using things from the environment and even form bridges with their bodies.

My good sir, have you heard of a fly swat? And I'm talking about 1 million ants coming towards you .

ants don't need technology. they are evolved to develop into distinct castes in society, they are all a part of a hive mind and so work together as a single entity, and they are able to construct their own habitats using things from the environment and even form bridges with their bodies. Nothing is any more or less evolved than anything else. Everything on Earth has undergone 4 billion years of evolution, whether ant or human. I don't see how ants are 'superior' just because they have complex social structures and are very adaptive. We, also, are very adaptive... and if you haven't noticed, h... [More]

And I'm talking about 1 million ants coming towards you . American indians sentenced people to a slow, painful death by burying them up to their necks in red ant hills.

American indians sentenced people to a slow, painful death by burying them up to their necks in red ant hills. Thanks, you make me feel so much better about the whole if ants went hostile thing.

Flamethrower would be most effective I think.

Nothing is any more or less evolved than anything else. Really? Because I would imagine that faster breeding creatures would have to be "more evolved" than other much less fecund species. Simply by virtue of the fact that their ancestors had caused more actual selection to occur by breeding at a faster rate. There is no denying that primate genes are subjected to less mutation, or change (evolution), than, say, mice genes, or insect genes, over time. We breed slow, and, thus, are less evolved, though quite technologically advanced.