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What do you think would be a more compelling sight to behold from the scale of an ant?

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[–] Lath@kbin.social 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

There are some very interesting and thoughtful replies in this thread. And yet i'm gonna go ahead and say tiddies.

[–] afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

I thought about it but you know the experience probably would just ruin it for you. Human skin isn't very smooth way up close and I imagine the odor would be something else at that scale.

[–] FawkesGil@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 year ago

I see you're a man of culture

[–] russjr08@outpost.zeuslink.net 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Traversing a motherboard sounds like it would be interesting!

[–] Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone 6 points 1 year ago

Yeah i have always imagined them as little cities

[–] Gamers_Mate@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

Just make sure it is turned off first.

[–] Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The scene from Honey I Shrunk the Kids where they find the giant oreo is still something I want to experience for myself

[–] Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Fwiw, the recipe for the white stuff in an Oreo is just shortening and powdered sugar.

Make some of that, and a batch of chocolate cookies, and live your best life.

And if you're into videogames, buy Grounded - HEAVILY inspired by Honey I Shrunk the Kids, and also just an overall really well made and fun game.

[–] mangosloth@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Beware of spiders though

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[–] chunkystyles@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 year ago

I thought it was an oatmeal cream pie, but it's been a long time since I've seen that movie.

[–] Usernameblankface@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

The inside of a mechanical watch, or walking across the display of a computer laid flat

[–] Housecarl@ttrpg.network 11 points 1 year ago

The Derek Zoolander Center For Kids Who Can't Read Good And Who Wanna Lean To Do Other Stuff Good Too

[–] spittingimage@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

I want to walk along the groove of an LP. Explore a human fingerprint. Juggle sugar crystals. Explore a water drop.

[–] Extrasvhx9he@lemmy.today 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'd probably die but I would like to be in a garden

[–] kamenlady@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It will be a great sight, while a ladybug sucks the fluids out of your body

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Personally, I plan on being taken over by the cordyceps fungus, which will instruct me to go to a warm, wet place in order to grow its spores, then burst through me and kill me as the fungus eats my body.

[–] Extrasvhx9he@lemmy.today 5 points 1 year ago

A hell of a way to go out

[–] kamenlady@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

The first time i saw a documentary about this as a kid, with plenty of footage of poor Insects seeking high places, climbing to the top and burst those spores in the air in order to disperse them as far as possible, i was unable to sleep.

I just couldn't wrap my head around the whole ordeal and the kind of power such a fungus has.

I know, they are unable to do this to bigger animals ( for reasons i don't remember ), but for how long? If evolution taught me something, it's that it finds a fucking way or/and a way to fuck.

[–] SgtAStrawberry@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A truck, like they are huge if you are humansize, imagine how absolutely gigantic it would be from an ants perspective.

Other stuff includes, motherbords, insids of mechanical watches, really small toys, eyes of different needles, sand, oil paintings, small syringes, a water droplet on a flat surface, microscope samples, Lego sets and a movie at the cinema.

[–] JTheDoc@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How people get downvoted for expressing their ant choices is beyond me.

I'll save you with an upvote.

Do people forget it's only non-constructive / offensive things you downvote? Not things you simply disagree with lol.

[–] SgtAStrawberry@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

I would like to know which one of my ant choices they disagreed with, we could have had a discussion about why.

[–] MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago
[–] livus@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

An ant nest, if they will let me.

[–] Gamers_Mate@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

Good luck Ants don't trust Ants from other Colonies that look the same but have a slightly different scent. If you have a good Ant Disguise laying around you might be able to find what perfume they use and blend in with your fellow Ants.

[–] Bunnylux@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] livus@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@Bunnylux okay here's one: ants have hospitals where they treat wounded ants.

[–] livus@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@Gamers_Mate I've been pretty good to ants over the years so I was hoping they would recognise me from that. :)

[–] Gamers_Mate@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@livus I see you are going for the Diplomatic approach.

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 2 points 1 year ago

Just crush up some ants from that colony and rub the resulting paste over your body before you shrink down.

[–] OceanSoap@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

I traumatized myself by learning how brutal ant colonies are by reading Animorphs in 5th grade. Fucking brutal. I had nightmares about it.

[–] Gamers_Mate@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago

Do you start off the size of an Ant or do you get time to prepare before being shrunk?

I would build a food garden first and maybe a mini treehouse on a bonsai plant.

Giant Cherry tomatoes would be great.

[–] xkforce@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Mica, sand, cds, other bugs, anything that has intricate fine structure.

[–] shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

Being the size of an ant would make riding small helium balloons fun.

[–] youRFate@feddit.de 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Play Grounded, it’s great, especially in coop.

[–] Cyfress@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Just discovered it after the big patch came out in November. Fun game. The OP can just find out lol

[–] Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone 4 points 1 year ago

A pizza and a beer.

My two great loves

The Grand Canyon! Must seem even grander to an ant

[–] bestusername@aussie.zone 3 points 1 year ago

An open bag of sugar!

[–] Presi300@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

The inside of a fluffy carpet

[–] afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

The inside of a Russian nuclear weapon launch facility. I would love to just gaze at it for a moment knowing that as long as I proceed slowly and carefully I can end civilization.

[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

You should watch "Honey I shrunk the kids".

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