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Ant Mega-Colony Covers Half The Planet
San Francisco, 6:43 PM
Fri Dec 4
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Saul Bass's Phase IV as has been noted by earlier commenters is way cool too. But for pure formic fun you can't beat THEM:
07/02/09
They don't attack each other and essentially work together; given that I live in the *eastern* United States, I think our best bet is to capture/train/breed our own, rival strains to fight the other ones.
Lets face it: Europe, Japan, and the west coast of the United States are basically a write-off at this point.
We have to focus on the regions that CAN be saved: the eastern United States, Britain, Australia, China, South America, etc.
07/02/09
And any ant that would be able to overthrow them would be even more powerful. Snakes, gorillas, etc.
They also haven't studied everywhere. It's probably many other places already.
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To hell with ecology, they all need to die. It's not like we'd be losing much diversity since they're all basically the same ant.
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07/03/09
But now the mofos are attracting black widows, and I'm not gonna stand for that in my house, especially when one of my cats loves to eat spiders.
07/02/09
Maybe it's a good plan, ya know. Maybe they want to be our friends.
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Boat Ants! Boat Ants! Boat Ants Boat Ants Boat Ants!
Boat Ants! Boat Aaaaaaaaaaants!
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Twinkle, twinkle little star.
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07/05/09
The sure do. We and they both have no "right" to exist at all.
Things (and people) have "rights" because people make moral choices that say they have rights.
Personally I think hunting, rodeo, and ant-based protein drinks are all okay.
Eating dogs, NOT okay, unless you are in some kind of survival situation.
That's just my morality, yours may differ, I don't care. Someone starts real trouble with me or my family, I care. A lot.
Simple as that.