"What happens when I drop an ant?" is probably an allusion to JBS Haldane:
You can drop a mouse down a thousand-yard mine shaft; and, on arriving at the bottom, it gets a slight shock and walks away, provided that the ground is fairly soft. A rat is killed, a man is broken, a horse splashes.
Yeah, me as well. Even the questions that do seem slightly bizarre become completely unbizarre and normal when you imagine an appropriate, and realistic, context.