Why does an Ant when intoxicated always fall on its right side?
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does it really.hope you have a license for animal teasting.its probably because the part of the brain for balance is effected and they are right side heavy who cares really though
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put a small inclined plane by the ants. they will want to climb up the inclined plane.then put a bucket at the end of they inclined plane.they will go in the bucket and there you go.
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Great question.  Two answers.  Nuts are not round, and you have big feet.  I jest in part, but, if you looked at a statistical analysis of 1000 nuts dropped randomly from somewhere right in front of you, you would see a wide 'scatter' of resting places.  It's all about taking the energy gained in the fall and transferring it to lateral velocity.  This is easy to do if the object is irregular ('nuts not spherical') or the target zone has scatterers ('big feet').\n\nIt gets even better when you consider that a nut will probably gain angular momentum during the scattering event.  This could assist some lucky nuts in their journey to the far corners of the room.  The lucky nut will gain stability, and if oriented correctly, will roll, which if you didn't guess is much more efficient than sliding or bouncing.\n\nCheers!
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it causes severe damage to your liver and also alcohol posioning can happen.  if you must drink, know your limits and  NEVER drink to excess. there is nothing worse than a sloppy drunk
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Marching in a straight line, which is usually the shortest route, seems like a solution to the problem of efficient food transportation. Ants also search for food by walking randomly.\nTo help the ant find its home again it leaves a trail of pheromone as it looks for food. On the way back to the nest, the ant tells the other ants about food by laying down more pheromone, creating a trail with an even stronger scent.\nWhen other ants run into a trail of pheromone, they give up their own search and start following the trail. In this way the ants are not following each other but the pheromone.\n\nAnd about the bumping into...they are on the same path, may not be doing anything, possibly passing food. When they "bump into" you and you think they bite you, believe it or not that "bite" is actually them peeing on you, as their pee is acidic! Ugh!
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The phenomenon that the ants and cockroaches take advantage of is that microwaves form standing waves within the oven cavity.\n\nSo in some places in the oven space, the energy density is very high, whereas in others it is very low. This is why most ovens have turntables to ensure that cooking food is heated evenly throughout.\n\nThis standing wave pattern can be observed by putting a static tray of marshmallows in the microwave, and heating for a while. The result will be a pattern of cooked and uncooked marshmallows. The standing wave pattern, however, varies according to the properties and position of any material within the oven, such as a cup of water.\n\nThe ant will experience this pattern as hot or cold regions within the oven and can thus locate the low-energy volumes. If the ant is in a high-field region, its high surface area to volume ratio allows it to cool down more quickly than a larger object while it searches for a cold spot.\n\nIt is a common myth that microwaves are too big to heat small objects. The fallacy of this has been demonstrated by chemists who employ microwave heating in their work. Certain types of catalyst consist of microwave-absorbing particles--typically of submicron size--dispersed throughout an inert support material. There is convincing evidence that microwaves are capable of heating only the tiny catalyst particles. \n\nThere is very little microwave energy near the metallic floor or walls of the oven. The electromagnetic fields of microwaves are "shorted" by the conducting metal, just as the amplitudes of waves in a skipping rope, swung by a child at one end but tied to a post at the other, are reduced to nothing at the post.\n\nAn ant crawling on the rope could ride out the motion near the post, but might be thrown off nearer the middle.\n\nFor a quick demonstration of this, place two pats of butter in a microwave in two polystyrene coffee cup bottoms, one resting on the floor, the other raised on an inverted glass tumbler. Be sure to place a cup of water in the microwave as well. On heating, the raised butter will melt long before the butter on the floor.
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It depends upon the species of ant. Some seek out sweets. Others seek out fats (like cheese). Still others swap between sources depending on what's available.
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Appendicitis occurs on your right side! Have you sprained it? I suggest you go and visit the doctor. Best wishes.
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The correct term is formication  - An abnormal sensation as of insects running over or into the skin, associated with cocaine intoxication or disease of the spinal cord and peripheral nerves.
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This was a question that intrigued me as well. Whenever I sprayed a roach, it would always flip over and die on its back. Very strange. \nThe Straight Dope has some theories on this position. See http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a1_024.html .
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Here's a possibility off the beaten path: If you live in fire ant territory, she could have been laying in the sand and been bitten. \n\nThis happened to me when I was a kid in Georgia. I thought I was just in some rocks or something in the sand, but it turned out that I was being bitten by fire ants. They caused small white pustules all over my elbows. The link below will show pics of fire ant bites.\n\nGrandma used some ointment, but I don't recall 30 years later what it was.
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This exact question is answered in the reference. Apparently it's partly that smaller particles fit into spaces vacated by larger particles during the shaking per answer 1, and partly the result of a circulation pattern that the shaking establishes. The circulatory flow is downward at the sides of the can and upward in the center. The downward flow is only in a thin layer, and the larger particles cannot enter this layer whereas they can ride the center up-flowing column with ease, so they remain on top.
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Maybe ants get thirsty too. How do you know they're not trying to develop an ant beach front resort ? Or a city by the waterfront. What if there's some giant being staring from across the Galaxies looking at people by a beach asking the same question as you are ?
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Any object which is lying at a spot has a centre of gravity. If it is perfectly balanced it will continue to stand without falling unless it is acted upon by an external force. When it is standing by itself every small swirl in the air will disbalance it and it will fall because the centre of gravity will be shifted to one side and because gravity is attracting the bycycle - by Pascals Law - it will transmit the Gravitational Pressure equally in all directions and the bycycle will fall even with a very very small tilt.\nNow consider a moving bike. The inner ear of the rider has 3 small bones - the hammer, stirup and the anvil partially immersed in a fluid which maintains it level like water. Any tilt in the bike will tilt the rider. The body of the rider will immediately send signals to the rider to tilt his body in the opposite direction to maintain perfect equilibrium and balance. The body will immediately lean towards the other side of the tilt and the bike will also be tilted away from the tilt towards the centre of gravity and so the rider is the person who leans his body from side to side and keeps the center of gravity straight and prevents falling - SO PLAY A RIDE BY THE EAR - Ha Ha!
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O look who it is the guy who has the fetish with Ants and being locked in his girlfriends room....your weird you should use all this time you have asking stupid questions doing something productive instead. Who cares if your an ant! honestly after reading two of your ant questions i would step on you and squish your ant body so you would stop asking these questions! Thank you!
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Ants do have not have bones,  their skeleton (exoskeleton) is on the outside and made out of chitin, a very tough substance. Parts of the exoskeleton has extensions to the inside so muscles can attach to it, in the ant's head this it referred to as tentorium. That part functions a bit like some bones. \nThe ants you see crawling around do not shed their exoskeleton ever. Ants are holometabolous insects, which means their adult form is clearly different from their larval form (just like caterpillers and butterflies) and once they are adult they do not change any more. \nThere are other insects like cockroaches or silverfish. Their larval form look pretty much like the adult (only they don't have wings and they are not sexually mature) and they have a number of molts to keep up with their growth. The adult does not molt any more either.
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This happens for the same reason that your nuts drop when it's hot, or shrivel when it's cold. The guy who said "temperature regulation" is right.\n\nIt only looks like one is moving because humans aren't perfectly symmetrical. If you notice, one of your balls is bigger than the other and hangs lower than the other; one of your ears is higher than the other; one eye is slightly larger than the other; one foot longer than the other. It's for this reason that this optical illusion happens when you see your ball moving up and down what you check out yer sack. Chances are you're noticing the one that hangs a little lower, and it's just doin' it's thing - keeping the right temperature: not too hot and not too cold. Gotta keep the porrage "just right". Ya know?\n\nSo, that said, it's no big deal unless it starts dancing or talking to ya, man. \n\nSeriously, it's normal.