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Wow, that's an incredible thought! It's amazing how far we have come despite our relatively short time on this planet. It makes you wonder what else we are capable of as a species if given enough time.
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And that's a drop in the bucket compared with how many ants are estimated to be alive right now: Twenty quadrillion.
That's 20,000,000,000,000,000 ants living right now!