• gjoel@programming.dev
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    17 days ago

    Is no one going to comment on the “magnified five times under a microscope”? Five times? What kind of weak, low refraction plastic lens, cost of bubblegum microscope are you using to magnify your enormous monster ants?

    • agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works
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      16 days ago

      At first I thought 5 orders of magnitude, but 10,000x is way off. The closest I can reckon is they mean “magnified 100% five times”, i.e. 2⁵, or 32x, which seems like it could be right.

    • DrDystopia@lemy.lol
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      16 days ago

      Browsing on a 32" monitor, “I wonder how they handle cat-sized ants where ever that’s from”.