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Probably not. Any object falling through the atmosphere has a "terminal velocity" -- it accelerates from the force of gravity until it reaches the point where the air resistance equals the gravitational acceleration. For a human being falling "spread eagle", that's about 125 miles per hour. For an ant, it's going to be much lower than that because the ant's ratio of surface area to weight is very high. Also, ants are quite sturdy little creatures. So I don't have calculations to offer here, but I think if you throw 100 ants from an aircraft, 98 of them will live. The two that die will do so because they land on the road and get squashed by a truck! :)
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