If we were the size of an ant a Redwood tree would be 40 miles tall
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I was watering my 30 ft tree and watching the tiny ants crawling up and down the gigantic smooth white trunk trying to image what it must be like for them. So I did the calculations and if a tree was as big to us as it was to an ant my 30 foot tree would literally be 21,000 feet tall or as tall as Mt. McKinley in Alaska. This is based on an ant being .1 inches long. Now a 300 foot redwood would literally be like us standing next to a tree that is 40 miles tall or over 216,000 feet tall. Keep in mind our troposphere where all weather occurs is only 7 miles high.
A six foot human would be 4,320 feet tall to an ant and a 1 inch tall brick would be 60 feet tall to an ant.
Also, the base of General Sherman at 25 feet would be about 5 miles wide to a small ant. However since an ant is traveling 787 times its body length in one minute. Assuming an average-size man, 6 feet tall, covered 787 times his size in a minute, he would travel at a rate of 4,722 feet per minute or 53.6 miles per hour. An ant could walk across the base of General Sherman in around 5 minutes.
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