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evan_ 11 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Data leak contains 26B records from numerous previ...

are you counting ants as people?

araes 11 months ago | [–]

Super pedantic response, yet current estimate is 20 quadrillion ants on Earth.

https://www.science.org/content/article/how-many-ants-live-e...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orders_of_magnitude_(numbers)

    Humans: 8,000,000,000
    Trees:  3,000,000,000,000
    Ants:  20,000,000,000,000,000

6510 11 months ago | | [–]

I'm not saying aliens....

fuzztester 11 months ago | [–]

at the rate we are going, soon ants will be counting people.

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