If you dropped an ant off a really tall building....

[Shane]

If you dropped an ant off a really tall building would it die??

This is something i have always wondered about small insects, because of ther small body mass i dont think they could build up enough speed yet they dont have a great enough surface area to really slow them down either! :S

[Mamfy]

you know, i reckon the only way your gonna find out is if you do it!....only problem is, how ya gonna know if it was your ant that was crawling around the floor at the end or someone elses?! my solution is, you paint it pink:D

[Shane]

Or i couls just go somewhere with no ants and have someone waiting at the bottom! :P

[Scotty Walds]

Scientific expermient needed....

[Mamfy]

ill supply the lab coats....

[Shane]

I might actually try and find some info on this! its not just ants i want to know about but things like spiders and beetles etc...

[Drunk_druid]

apparently spiders survive if you drop them off tall buildings etc but im not sure about beetles or ants...depends how tall the building is. I know they can survive further falls than we can, in proportion, but im not sure...i think we need to test this out

[Entice]

I think its already been proven, and yeah they like did somethin diff to the ant they tested.

[DJDanny2020]

ive always wondered this, you drop spiders, ladybirds or whatever and they just survive :S think about the height u drop them from and size of them. If that was us and we was dropped from that height we would die! lol

[Wandering Soul]

well i do live in San antonio which has.... i dunno the Tower of Americashttp://hotx.com/hot/hillcountry/sa/tours/hemisfair/tower.jpeg
YA think thats tall enough. i got a vid cam that i could use...!

[HunnyBunches]

i think it would die because bugs do go splat on a car windshield which would probably about the same amount of force as a tall building.

[Bob!]

Yeah but what bout if the world (and everything else except us) was really huger then it is now.

And one of us jumped off a mega ass size buildin, we would die wunt we?

Itd just be the same, in a huger place, itd be us that were ant size.

[~*~ shefbabe ~*~]

weired debate lol id say it depends on the height of the building

[~sexy_biatch~]

depends on the height of the building and the surface where it lands. otherwise i recon they would survive..unless they landed on their backs!

[Oxide]

A spider wouldn't die because it would release a web and manage to get back to the wall of the bulding. A beetle probably wouldn't die because it's exoskeleton is really strong. As for ants, I have no idea but my guess is that they would die because they don't have enough surface area to slow them down.

[HunnyBunches]

i agree with oxide

[*fender.chiq*]

Yeah, I was thinkign the same as Oxide.

Surface area had a reasonably.. large influence on the rate it falls through the air, therefore it would have greater impact with less surface area.

[Bob!]

aye i was thinkin bout the impact, not the fall.
True sumthing heavier would fall faster, but an ants not exactly gunna float now is it. its still fallin.

An as to the impact, a large flat object would suffer less impact and damage then a small one, surface inpact and presssure ya? the small ones got less area to spread out the impact, so its all concentrated on one small place, increasin the damage.

[*fender.chiq*]

That's true.

[Drunk_druid]

ay, about bugs on the windscreen its different, because when they hit a windscreen they have the wind behind them pushin hard and then they suddenly hit an opposing force that does not yield, this compacts the poor creature and turns them into...well, mush

[Drunk_druid]

And i just found this, "a cat is more likely to survive dropping from an eight storey building then a five storey one, as thecat takes about seven floors to correct itself and prepare for the landing."

[Stormydayz]

i really dont think so... cause it is so small and heck that is a really good question....*thinks really hard* well, i dunno why dont we go grab an ant and find out?

[Andrew]

I think this is where Myth Busters is needed...