Biologists clocked the speed at which the trap-jaw ant closes its mandibles at 78 to 145 miles per hour - with the average duration of a strike about 0.13 milliseconds or 2,300 times faster than the blink of an eye!
The snapping jaws also enables the ants to catapault themselves to escape from enemies!
It's no wonder, then, that O. bauri ants can launch themselves into the air with a mere snap of their jaws, achieving heights up to 8.3 centimeters and horizontal distances up to 39.6 centimeters. That roughly translates, for a 5-foot-6-inch tall human, into a height of 44 feet and a horizontal distance of 132 feet, an aerial trajectory likely to be the envy of circus acrobats and Olympic athletes.
I agree with SenorMysterioso. Very tacky. But then, I think that political bumper stickers are tacky too. And for the record, when I was in the US, I was registered as non-affiliated, and I don't live in the US anymore so it's not an anti-Obama thing.
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Sorry, easy joke :P
Oh The Ironing
the foolish o-voters have been taken.
no we are not leaving iraq anytime soon
no we are not doing completely away with special interrigation techniques completely
no we are not in hurry going to raise taxes on the supposed rich as the one knows their spending employs people
lol .....so easily taken
But the real Obama phones are not funny at all.
And I'm hearring that the free giveaways are continuing and expanding ti]o Virgin Mobile!
I can't belive a hip company like that is going to be giving away free phones to the "unemplyed".
Come on!