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• Ephera@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Even in terms of pure mass, the dominant species is actually ants: Estimates for biomass show humans at 60 megatons and ants at 70 megatons.

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  • Johandea@feddit.nu ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Ants aren’t a species. Ants is a family of insects, containing over 20 000 species. Just, in case anyone was wondering…

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    • Ephera@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I knew typing out the word “species” in a science community would get me into trouble… 🫠

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  • agent_flounder@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The most important result is that plants are the overwhelming winner in the “who weighs the most” contest, coming in at 450 gigatons. Microbes (which include bacteria, archaea, and most protists) come in next at around 81 gigatons. Animals (which includes insects, by the way), barely matter, weighing in at a mere 2 gigatons. It’s also worth noting that these plants are mostly on land. That means that the continents beat the oceans in terms of biospheric mass.

    bigthink.com/13-8/earth-biomass-distribution/

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  • fckreddit@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    So, you mean that if ants decide to invade us, we are essentially screwed.

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    • OpenStars@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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    • threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I feel like I could fight 1.167 my body mass in ants. We have shoes. And fire.

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    • SomeAmateur@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      EDF! EDF!

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    • SkybreakerEngineer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Bring it on. The EDF deploys!

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  • JasonDJ@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    All y’all talking about ants…our livestock weighs more than us. Thats insane to me.

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    • Ephera@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Ah, yeah, I’ve heard similar numbers before, so while it’s still always a bit of a surprise when I see another such number, I kind of expect to be surprised. 🙃

      Another set of numbers from a presentation I watched earlier is that in 2023, Germany (with our ~80 million citizens) slaughtered:

      • 47.9 million pigs, cows, sheep, goats and horses.
      • 702.2 million chicken, turkeys and ducks.

      I don’t know, how much of that is being exported, but it still feels like we’re eating our own weight in meat every year, which probably fits in with that biomass number.

      As source, it lists our Federal Statistical Office, so that should be this data: www-genesis.destatis.de/genesis/online?language=e…

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    • WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      youtu.be/FNUe2Xp6IDw

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• FauxPseudo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  He misunderstood the assignment. Dirt is inert. Soil is living. He sucks as much at talking dirty as I do.

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• Anticorp@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  That’s princess Leah

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• Alexstarfire@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Dude should get his ears checked. Dirty, not dirt.

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  • littlebluespark@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Dirty: of, or pertaining to dirt. 🤷🏼‍♂️

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    • Alexstarfire@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Well, I look quite the fool. Don’t I?

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• threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Meme template source image as best I could find it: ginsburgillustration.com/stranger-in-my-arms/

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