:: An alien spacecraft lands on Earth.
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:: An alien spacecraft lands on Earth. However, because it is so small, almost no one notices. It is like a tiny meteor—a shooting star entering the upper atmosphere. Then the spacecraft opens, and the ants exit: perfectly ordinary ants, not super-intelligent just regular ants.
They've found a new way to conduct their nuptial flight. They're going places ants have never gone before.
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:: An alien spacecraft lands on Earth. However, because it is so small, almost no one notices. It is like a tiny meteor—a shooting star entering the upper atmosphere. Then the spacecraft opens, and the ants exit: perfectly ordinary ants, not super-intelligent just regular ants.
They've found a new way to conduct their nuptial flight. They're going places ants have never gone before.
I like the idea of aliens that aren't "intelligent" in any way that we'd recognize. They just mastered space flight to keep doing what they have always done. In the case of ants? Raising queens and drones to fly far and wide to make new colonies.
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I like the idea of aliens that aren't "intelligent" in any way that we'd recognize. They just mastered space flight to keep doing what they have always done. In the case of ants? Raising queens and drones to fly far and wide to make new colonies.
I mean, I suspect that "space ant", uh, xeno-myrmecologists* might not recognize human cities as the behavior of "intelligence" either
*"xenoanthropologist" just seems like the wrong phrase, even though they would be studying the collective anthropos in this instance
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I like the idea of aliens that aren't "intelligent" in any way that we'd recognize. They just mastered space flight to keep doing what they have always done. In the case of ants? Raising queens and drones to fly far and wide to make new colonies.
@futurebird In a sense, I suppose achieving long-distance space flight when you're trying to optimize for getting queens and drones to fly far and wide is more plausible than when you're trying to optimize for building better flint handaxes.
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I mean, I suspect that "space ant", uh, xeno-myrmecologists* might not recognize human cities as the behavior of "intelligence" either
*"xenoanthropologist" just seems like the wrong phrase, even though they would be studying the collective anthropos in this instance
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@trochee @futurebird we don't need to worry until the Ant - Bee alliance finalised.....
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@Thebratdragon
oh i was a little too clever and should have said "Apocritan" or "Aculeatan"sorry @futurebird i was not cladistically correct (but "vespoid" does sound cool)
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I like the idea of aliens that aren't "intelligent" in any way that we'd recognize. They just mastered space flight to keep doing what they have always done. In the case of ants? Raising queens and drones to fly far and wide to make new colonies.
@futurebird I've often thought that if star-wars-like hyperdrive was real (or even star-trek-like warp drive), the alien equivalent of a plant or a fungus without anything we'd call intellect would evolve the ability to use it to spread from one star system to the next.
