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.
One problem in the logic flow: There is no actual solution for: IF the paper is out AND you have recently contributed. It assumes that those two things cannot exist at the same time. Obviously, it's saying that regardless of whether or not you've recently contributed toilet paper you should contribute more, but how is that fair? Though I think in that case Nick's solution is appropriate.
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Though I think in that case Nick's solution is appropriate.