Post Auk6PiQkIKgSIPEOJc by trochee@dair-community.social
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(DIR) Post #AujCdufjyvSOstRDjE by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-06-02T18:24:02Z
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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.
(DIR) Post #AujCuqW8gNfUvB1NXU by Enema_Cowboy@dotnet.social
2025-06-02T18:27:03Z
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@futurebird Check out the 1963 episode "The Zanti Misfits" of *The Outer Limits*
(DIR) Post #AujDTmreFxsBj7k8mW by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-06-02T18:33:24Z
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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.
(DIR) Post #AujDofmRn0B9q0Glxw by waitworry@sakurajima.moe
2025-06-02T18:37:08Z
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@futurebird i guess things like the bugs from starship troopers, the zerg, tyranids, etc. are just space ants basically
(DIR) Post #AujE6GeLxkxR6psDJo by trochee@dair-community.social
2025-06-02T18:40:18Z
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@futurebird 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
(DIR) Post #AujGvU1gBpDlGvKjL6 by johnefrancis@cosocial.ca
2025-06-02T19:11:59Z
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@futurebird Star Trek did kinda dumb aliens a few times.
(DIR) Post #AujIJrVybwIr1bh2WW by llewelly@sauropods.win
2025-06-02T19:27:38Z
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@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.
(DIR) Post #AujMxg0nCJXskVLbvM by albnelson@beige.party
2025-06-02T20:19:37Z
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@futurebird there is something like this in Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir, tho they are microorganisms. It feels like with enough time and space it would be bound to happen somewhere.
(DIR) Post #AujP69Ewbxt1ck8NjU by kechpaja@social.kechpaja.com
2025-06-02T20:43:30Z
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@futurebird There is a species like that in @Jenthulhu's Fluency series IIRC. They're presented as an antagonist, but there's no reason the idea has to be limited to that.
(DIR) Post #AujYU4rNRn8iZob19s by jfrench@cupoftea.social
2025-06-02T22:28:43Z
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@futurebird "For thousands more years the mighty ships tore across the empty wastes of space and finally dived screaming on to the first planet they came across—which happened to be Earth—where due to a terrible miscalculation of scale the entire battle fleet was accidentally swallowed by a small dog." - Douglas Adams
(DIR) Post #AujnhIP1uCFzej6824 by sleet01@fosstodon.org
2025-06-03T01:19:09Z
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@futurebird You might enjoy "Camelot 30K"; it's not precisely this setup, but some similarities.
(DIR) Post #Auk6PhGmbt7WhDYv9E by Thebratdragon@mastodon.scot
2025-06-02T19:03:59Z
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@trochee @futurebird we don't need to worry until the Ant - Bee alliance finalised.....
(DIR) Post #Auk6PiQkIKgSIPEOJc by trochee@dair-community.social
2025-06-02T19:05:13Z
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@Thebratdragon I for one welcome our vespoid overlords@futurebird
(DIR) Post #Auk6PjPiddSNLVl5M0 by trochee@dair-community.social
2025-06-02T19:10:19Z
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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)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aculeata
(DIR) Post #AuxKzVbpMjofMyr5YO by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-06-09T14:03:32Z
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I drew some ants using space flight.
(DIR) Post #AuxPMkauDWRiK2lJOy by JoshuaACNewman@xeno.glyphpress.com
2025-06-09T14:52:21Z
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@futurebird This is beautiful.
(DIR) Post #AuxSG4kZBCIKfan11c by hackleberry@mastodon.social
2025-06-09T15:24:55Z
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@futurebird war of the worlds if it was peak!
(DIR) Post #AuxTAg6tSk8mkzDtUu by GamesMissed@mastodon.social
2025-06-09T15:35:08Z
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@futurebird If you're not already familiar, check out "Mr. Wuffles" (https://www.ala.org/winner/mr-wuffles). It's a children's book, and could be a prequel to your drawings.
(DIR) Post #AuxjbJfGcaESEE1bge by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-06-09T18:39:16Z
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@GamesMissed I found this in our library and it is a wordless masterpiece! Only a “children’s book” in the sense that children will be able to enjoy it as much as adults.
(DIR) Post #AuxkCoCy1Y4LfjfKro by GamesMissed@mastodon.social
2025-06-09T18:45:57Z
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@futurebird Absolutely. We love it here. The characterization of the aliens, the ants, and Mr. Wuffles with no words at all is incredible. And, the art is beautiful.