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Neptus. Or Nepnus. But I like Neptus best.

I have decided, after a bit of research, that the bulbs weigh 0.075 lbs which is about 34019.4 mg. The ants weigh 6 mg and can carry 10-15 times their weight which means they can carry 60-90 mg of weight. This means it would take somewhere between 378 ants (who can each carry 90 mg) and 567 ants (who can each carry 60 mg).

There's nothing between 100 ants and 100,000 ants. 100 ants couldn't do it. 100,000 would be too many, but - assuming they understood - could probably do it, and there would be lots of sad ants standing around and doing nothing.

Now, these ants are big enough that even three hundred seventy eight ants can't be touching the floor and the lightbulb at the same time, so we'll assume they use pilfered thread or cheesecloth and add more ants for the extra weight, which I don't care about right now. There's enough margin that it's safe to assume that 100,000 ants can deal with the lightbulb and cheesecloth and still have some sad lonely ants sitting around doing nothing.

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On 6/7/2022 at 0:01 AM, Channelknight Fadran said:

(Spoiler alert: the universe has been around for a long time and doesn't seem like it's gonna blow up anytime soon)

W A O W

That narrows down the time frame a L O T

How big is this lightbulb, how many ants would it take to lift it off the floor, and what kind of ant are we talking about?

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H: Haych.

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