What do you think? Who wins? Assume it is an infinite plane with no geographical features, U.S. marines have flamethrowers with infinite fuel, ants are standard ants, neither force needs to eat, sleep or drink, and their only missions are to annihilate the other. Also gravity is normal.
What do you think? Who wins? Assume it is an infinite plane with no geographical features, U.S...
Jaxson Price
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Grayson Lewis
Marines would probably choke to death on the smoke and burning.
Jayden Wood
>flamethrowers with infinite fuel
>no need for food, sleep or water
just 1 marine at the end of a bottleneck is enough
Connor Rogers
he'd be there for millions of years you fucking nigger, he didn't say the marines didn't age
Andrew Roberts
>Also gravity is normal.
it all started with the fucking ants
they don't think, fucking bugs
they just follow their little wriggling noses
follow after the bug in front
we had flamethrowers, but it didn't matter, because the bugs went oh beyond the horizon
and on a flat world, the horizon is a hell of a thing to get beyond
the ants converged. the hormones they dropped drew them nearer and nearer
as they started to ball up, this fucking wave formed, but never stopped
a meter at first, then ten, then a hundred
soon you couldn't see anything but the fucking wave
squirming and writhing towards us
you can burn the base, but that just makes the ones on top fall on you
you don't even get eat alive, just crushed and smothered to death under an avalanche of untold insects
but that wave, it didn't stop
it just, kept growing, soon we could see smoke
the crush had killed untold quadrillions of the bastards, and the heat of their decaying corpses had self-combusted
a raging fucking inferno, but the ant just kept crawling up it.
didn't matter how many died.
it was about a week in when we started feeling the pull.
the ant wad was huge, you couldn't even see the top
no clouds, no sky, just ants till the haze of air made them indistinct
after another two days, some folks started slipping towards it
it had a goddamned gravity well, and was pulling in ants at a god damned exponential
there was nothing to hold to, nothing to stop the pull
we ran, but it grew faster than we could go
all day and night was guys losing their hold and screaming as they fell untold miles into the mass
some of us were further out, kept ahead of the well
the air was rushing towards it now, pulled in
the winds had to be 70-80mph and gaining hourly
not many of us left, just scattered clingers
feel a horrific burst of light burn through my pants
my pack keeps it from hitting my top half
it doesn't abate, shining past me
starbirth
even now the shockwave coming to eat me up
fucking stoploss.
Jackson Edwards
How big is Grahams number?
Juan Sanders
Ants don't live longer than marines.
Asher Jackson
They all die from gravity caused by the existance of each army.
Samuel Williams
Marines would die of old age before killing the ants
Jayden Campbell
they can breed however
Jordan Garcia
meant for
Angel Gomez
You'd end up with a stand-off that would last so long that every human who ever existed could spend the entire lifetime of the universe writing down zeros, and you still wouldn't have even have started to represent the amount of time involved. Entire civilizations of marines could reach ridiculous levels of technology and universe-spanning populations, and still not even make a dent in the number of ants.
But the flamethrowers could keep the ants out indefinitely, so the marines would live and die inside a great expanse, protected by flamethrowers. But eventually there would be a Ragnarok, or Antnarok. The final end, where the universe of marines is devoured by ants.
Elijah Phillips
because of this I say ants, they only take days to have new replacements. Humans need around 9 months.
Aiden Wood
Universes worth of digits and then some
Ryder King
Oliver Richardson
It's inconceivably big. If you're not familiar with tetration, think of the biggest number you can even express. Graham's number is so much bigger than that, that the number you're thinking about might as well be zero.
Ayden Reyes
We're talking Graham's number vs. a googolplex. Replication times are completely irrelevant.
Chase Thompson
>But eventually there would be a Ragnarok, or Antnarok. The final end, where the universe of marines is devoured by ants.
Cool.
Jordan Jenkins
U.S.A.!
U.S.A.!
U.S.A.!
Henry Price
Regardless how spread out the marines are standing eventually there would be so much mass by the marines that it would collapse into a black hole. The last marine would fall into the black hole way before the last ant, so the ants win.
Noah Wright
You didnt account for reproduction or black holes, that many marines would form a black hole as they have more mass than our universe (many times over) and the ants dwarf that by an unimaginable margin.
You also didnt account for death by natural causes, the ants would die of old age long before all the marines even encountered any ants.
Aaron Murphy
>implying our understanding of black holes is factual scientific knowledge and not completely theoretical
You might be right, but your point is not a scientific fact. For all we know nothing would happen and the ants and U.S. marines would be able to just exist in such large numbers without creating a black hole.
Parker Flores
no no no you're thinking about it all wrong.
imagine an appropriate ratio on the earth and then just replacing one whenever one dies and they are deleted
Logan Carter
Graham's number is so much larger that each marine could effectively exist (individually) in an entire universe composed of ants.
A googolplex is effectively zero compared to Graham's number.
Blake Howard
There's no bottleneck you illiterate retard, read OP
Nathaniel Reyes
Graham's Number is so much bigger than Googolplex that Googolplex might as well be zero. The ants win based on numbers, except you said gravity is normal. Both the ants and marines would collapse into singularities.
Matthew Allen
it would be a tie then since the sun would become a red giant long before the war would end
Justin Price
>Also gravity is normal.
Oh no, it wouldn't. A Graham's number of ants turns the whole observable universe into a black hole.
Hunter Smith
Can someone run the math on the ratio of ants to marines?