Will it kill an ant?

[Northy]

Is it possible to kill an ant by dropping it from a great height?

[Wraggy]

Someone's bored !!!!

[Southwell]

Dunno, but i wish to god that spider that crawled on the sofa last night was dead before it came in my house. Bloody thing was like a mini tarantula.

[VintageRacer]

Originally Posted by Northy

Is it possible to kill an ant by dropping it from a great height?

Doubt it, their terminal velocity would be too low I expect (besides that, some of them can fly).

[RLGfx]

depnds what you drop it into...

[super__dan]

I think it would in a vacuum

[RLGfx]

dropped in to a vacuum cleaner? now that's just mean...

[DCM]

they could build a colony in the dust of the vacum bag, unless you got one of them compacting ones.....

I know they don't survive a brake cleaner induced nest inferno..... but they don't come out on fire....

[VintageRacer]

Originally Posted by super__dan

I think it would in a vacuum

You'd have problems stopping it exploding first though.

[Northy]

I don't think any of you are taking this seriously

[antnee]

well a six legged ant as in an insect, or a human 'ant' like me?

[Yoda]

Believe me, an ant cannot be killed by falling, from any height.

The force of impact required to invalidate the life force of such a small and indestructible life form cannot be produced from any combination of the laws formulated by the main man, Mr Newton.

E = 1/2 M x V x V

F = M x A

E = M x C x C (Mr Einstein's)

[telboy]

NO.

There you go. well the ones that I brushed off my wheelie bin didn't die.....not until I walked on them that is.

[c0sie]

Do we know what the weight of the ant is?

[RLGfx]

what sort of ant are we discussing?