Ants vs. Humans

[samjjones]

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I think some of you are vastly underestimating the number of ants there are in the world. they also have the advantage of being able to evolve MUCH faster.

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[bravos1]

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The ants lose because we will arm ourselves with aerosol hairspray flamethrowers and they will stand no chance Trust me, I caused many an ant genocide when I was 10 years old with some AquaNet and a lighter.

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My exact thought when I read this post... gotta luv crisping up some ants with aqua net and a zippo!

[Yeti]

Who wins?

Um, humans. I own a kettle.

[mmbt0ne]

It'd be a lot closer if they all turned into these assholes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Driver_ant

[Bradyams]

People in some areas will sure have a hell of a fight on their hands though. I've watched that Ants show on the Discovery Channel. There are some crazy, flesh tearing ants out there.

[TheBlueMonster]

Humans. There are few ants that can kill humans alone and they are limited to Tasmania (an island). Most times it takes thousands of ants to kill one large animal (human size). Even though the amount of ants vastly outnumbers the amount of people, it would take too many ants to kill one person to make their victory possible.
Plus we have insecticide. Lots of bug spray.

[Paluka]

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Humans. There are few ants that can kill humans alone and they are limited to Tasmania (an island). Most times it takes thousands of ants to kill one large animal (human size). Even though the amount of ants vastly outnumbers the amount of people, it would take too many ants to kill one person to make their victory possible.
Plus we have insecticide. Lots of bug spray.

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This post is underestimating how many ants there are.

[TheBlueMonster]

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Humans. There are few ants that can kill humans alone and they are limited to Tasmania (an island). Most times it takes thousands of ants to kill one large animal (human size). Even though the amount of ants vastly outnumbers the amount of people, it would take too many ants to kill one person to make their victory possible.
Plus we have insecticide. Lots of bug spray.

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This post is underestimating how many ants there are.

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I was actually thinking of ant colonies. When a colony attacks something they tend to attack as a colony.
Plus not all ants are soldier ants. The OP said to assume that they still act like ants. Therefore only the soldier ants of most species would do the attacking ie. not ever single ant would try to kill us.

[theweatherman]

Humans by far. Just think of the arsenal:

Double sided tape
glue
anteaters

No way theyd get anywhere once we got trained anteaters on our side.

The real question is will humans still die if a large component of the ecosystem is wiped out? If so then the ants have all the cards and the only option is creating robot ant replacements or else face certain doom

[SossMan]

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The real question is will humans still die if a large component of the ecosystem is wiped out? If so then the ants have all the cards and the only option is creating robot ant replacements or else face certain doom


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best answer so far