@annaleen @futurebird

That is just begging to be used in a science fiction story. Because yet again truth is stranger than fiction

@nyrath @annaleen

It's in the story I'm working on! Not a major plot point ... but part of the history of the moon ants.

Yes. The moon ants.

But I promise this is a "grounded" SF story.

@nyrath @annaleen @futurebird Martha Wells wrote a whole series about a civilization that did this cross species thing. I highly recommend.

@Frantasaur @nyrath @annaleen @futurebird Octavia Butler also had a series that had similarities. Decades ago. Also, she was Octavia Butler. (I love Wells, just bought one of her books. But Butler.)

@nitpicking @nyrath @annaleen @futurebird yeh, I have just started on Butler myself, got a lovely hardback box set of the parable of the sower and the parable of the talents. The first one was a really tough read emotionally speaking, so I had to take a break before tackling the second!

@futurebird @nyrath @annaleen
I imagine the ants grounded it up by digging a deep hole and sticking a lighting rod in the hole so the current has somewhere to go when the reader is shocked