Post Ahb62fLAlaMVVRK14K by karabaic@mastodon.social
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(DIR) Post #Ahaut4JTxs3gZ9khpw by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-05-05T22:09:50Z
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The disturbing thing about ant technology is it's all ants. The fridge? It's an ant.Your tank? It's an ant.Your boat? It's you, and other ants.Your house? The walls are ants.Your weed control for your garden? Tiny ants?Your glue gun? It's an ant (a baby ant!)So advanced high tech ants would have ant guns, and ant spaceships. Advanced ants would have ant computers for ants, made of ants. Advanced ants would have ants for storing data.And ant bombs.Wait! Those already exist!
(DIR) Post #Ahav8otj2wyJOCDQpc by joelvanderwerf@mastodon.social
2024-05-05T22:12:22Z
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@futurebird The cloud is somebody else's ant.
(DIR) Post #AhavF4W3tIaNZA80oa by 5ciFiGirl@starbase80.wtf
2024-05-05T22:12:27Z
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@futurebird 🤯
(DIR) Post #AhavI0qvy3QH4bIFcG by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-05-05T22:12:57Z
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@joelvanderwerf The cloud is someone's else's *colony* never trust that!
(DIR) Post #Ahaw49cGgkKI9WOBg8 by theplaguedoc@bookstodon.com
2024-05-05T22:23:11Z
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@futurebird You may well have read "Children of Time" by Adrian Tchaikovsky, but in case not, he features ant computing (operated by highly evolved spiders).
(DIR) Post #AhawKm5dPbpC6s3BS4 by hattifattener@wandering.shop
2024-05-05T22:26:00Z
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@futurebird Wasn't there something like that in an Adrian Tchaikovsky book? (I could be hallucinating)
(DIR) Post #AhawpbXifwlyNMt62a by MrMozz@social.linux.pizza
2024-05-05T22:31:48Z
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@futurebird is this just for ant society? Or is the gnome that turns the light on in my refrigerator also powered by ants?
(DIR) Post #Ahaxt2Hho5Ys8Xb5pg by catselbow@fosstodon.org
2024-05-05T22:43:38Z
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@futurebird Ant railguns! A line of ants accelerate a single ant to an enormous speed and fire the ant at an enemy!
(DIR) Post #Ahb1JtXcioikhXXeLY by KanaMauna@sauropods.win
2024-05-05T23:22:08Z
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@futurebird It’s ants all the way down.
(DIR) Post #Ahb1RyOOZM1a404r1E by llewelly@sauropods.win
2024-05-05T23:23:35Z
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@futurebird when I was a child, one of my favorite novels where the Harry Harrison series that begins with _West of Eden_. In that novel, the Yilane do everyhing with genetically modified organisms; ocean craft are genetically modified ichthyosaurs, conversations are recorded by genetically modified frogs, cities are housed in giant genetically modified trees, and so on. It would be wonderful to re-envision this with ants.
(DIR) Post #Ahb1anQQiLfaeiEhdI by ohmu@social.seattle.wa.us
2024-05-05T23:25:07Z
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@futurebird This is the James Brown speech about everything being a drum, but everything is ants.
(DIR) Post #Ahb1cdh1rygV3CsZKi by jonny@neuromatch.social
2024-05-05T23:25:23Z
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@futurebirdAntOS, an operating system programmed in ants for ant architecture CPUs, specializing in ant database management (ants computing on ants with ants to produce ants)
(DIR) Post #Ahb62fLAlaMVVRK14K by karabaic@mastodon.social
2024-05-06T00:15:00Z
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@futurebird This is a seriously cool idea that I'd love to see.There are very few SF stories that imagine radically different tech stacks for aliens.Heinlein's early "Future History" juvenile Space Cadet featured amphibian Venerians who had a catalytic-chemistry based stack presumably because they never had fire.
(DIR) Post #Ahb7KsaiL6fBljq9Dc by jonny@neuromatch.social
2024-05-05T23:29:09Z
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@futurebirdAnt researchers trying furiously to recombine ants to novel applications, decanting beakers of ants into other ants and accelerating ants at tremendous speeds to discover the constituent ants that make up ants
(DIR) Post #AhbJWZ8LhsCsLbuZKi by gay_ornithischians@sauropods.win
2024-05-06T02:46:04Z
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@futurebird i want ant trains
(DIR) Post #AhbP4US87GmbRk9x2W by bageler@sfba.social
2024-05-06T03:48:15Z
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@futurebird kentbrockmanantoverlords.gif
(DIR) Post #AhbPWkoirprYJACjUe by liohong@mastodon.social
2024-05-06T03:53:22Z
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@futurebird I'm going to need references for all of these. This is some Barlowe's Hell-level of archi-organicism