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It's something about the combination of "we need to show the children All of The Important and Wonderful Things" but then also someone said "but they might get hungry"
And really anyone might get hungry. So you need to have a cafeteria, the curators and interns will be in there too. Noses in their books.
The food is always "fine" never amazing, never terrible. In the winter they have soups. And it's always off in a basement with interesting murals.
The sounds from the museum off in the distance, but for now have some toast and tomato soup.
museum cafeterias are the most comforting places in the known universe. When I've been in a dark place, wondering why the world must be the way that it is... if I can sneak off to a museum cafeteria on a weekday, ideally over a long holiday when it's a little dead ... my soul is put right.
These photos have a little of that mood.
90s ski jacket bird. Amazing.
What could be more fun than helping the colony get warm? Your little larvae sisters are so cold and you can bring them the rays of the sun.
And here is a shocking tale of how humans have tried to claim that they made great hearths, but it turns out... these too were maybe* just the work of ants.
(Seriously, it's an interesting debate, and I'm fascinated how the debate is between anthropogenic origin or ANTpogenic origin since ants make that much of a mark.)
*or maybe not. there is a debate
Isn't that done to help melt the snow?
Have humans ever made anything as proportionally magnificent? Look at this nest, it's designed to maintain the perfect micro-climate. It's the home to 100,000s of ants. It's made of natural materials and perfectly integrated into the forest... not just "not imposing" but actively making the forest a better place.
And yet it towers like the work of the best engineers to collect the rays of the sun like the great pyramid.
But there is no pharaoh. Only the colony.
I think you are correct unless this is somehow in Europe.
That is a good looking ant hill.
Are you in Europe or out west in the US?
It's a little odd for them to be this active in winter, but if there is sun they will go out and try to warm-up.
They do this thing where they sit in the sun and get warm. Then go deep in the nest and get cold... over and over, slowly warming up the nest with their bodies.
That sucks.
arboreal
Can you feel the vision?
RE: https://mstdn.ca/@c_9/115879020571243606
Quietly make the pins even better, unforgettable, magnificent. Add a ribbon and some gold leaf.
Then order one tenth as many and let them die of envy.
I have an example. See next post.
Are there space bugs in this as the cover seems to indicate?
... any of those... space ants maybe?
[Image Description:
The cover of "The Selected Novels of Eric Frank Russell: Entities"
The cover features a painting of a glowing space moth with big feathered antenna and wings like clouds of plasma or nebulae in shades of orange.
A scattering of dark starry sky.
There are spaceships like organic metallic seed pods. The moth is either confronting them or sending them off into universe.]
It's really good looking especially on the bamboo frame. I'm impressed.
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This list is not comprehensive, well defined or subject to any consistent attributes other than finding a bunch of people in my recent mentions who'd I'd instantly miss.
I assumed that's what they were for?