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(DIR) Post #AzTySwRHvaeLza2RRw by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-10-22T23:25:03Z
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As soon as you can verify that life has started more than one time in a single solar system (and we aren't near that really, but there is something worth looking into again) that means it's probably in many solar systems and BOOM you have to presume there are space ants since ants are the most logical and advanced creatures in Earth's ecosystem and the temporary dominance of vertebrates is an aberration. They will arrive and study us I'm certain. "What a curious planet" they will say.
(DIR) Post #AzTyZB02hlnwt9GeDA by Cheeseness@mastodon.social
2025-10-22T23:26:06Z
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@futurebird "Let's see how the ants here are treated..."
(DIR) Post #AzTyfUHFwatoPlKPpI by HumanServitor@mastodon.social
2025-10-22T23:27:10Z
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@futurebird Zero-G adapted, radially symmetrical space ants with legs on their backs too that stick up in the air.
(DIR) Post #AzTynyXlIadsbH61a4 by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-10-22T23:28:48Z
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@dashdsrdash This is a process that orbits the ant form without ever being able to reach it.
(DIR) Post #AzTyuS1Oc5c7lJ2qwa by oldladyplays@wargamers.social
2025-10-22T23:29:57Z
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@futurebird You have a wonderful brain. To call it one-track is to do you a disservice. It's more like a million tracks, but they all make their meandering path back to Ant Heaven. I truly adore this about you.
(DIR) Post #AzTzCGKioD3AiwZsLA by creativegamingname@infosec.exchange
2025-10-22T23:33:10Z
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@futurebird Will they be organized like we are -- with out bi-pedal work stations communicating through text, speech and visual communications? Or would they be more inclined to maintain their structure more hive-minded, with chambers of workers?How do they communicate across the colony? DO they communicate across the colony? I know they respond to emergencies but do they... have little "Colony newsletters" where ants from one section requests and communicates what is going on in other sections for non-emergency?
(DIR) Post #AzU06GaN3cZNiubOlc by doomsdayrs@cyberpunk.lol
2025-10-22T23:43:17Z
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@futurebird The author of Chrysalis keeps missing this exact point!Don't dig down, Dig up!
(DIR) Post #AzU2xboN4RnyoIiKZs by MedeaVanamonde@beige.party
2025-10-23T00:15:20Z
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@futurebird will I end up with Space Ants in my Space Ants
(DIR) Post #AzU5dDKcfz4ixTlYlU by nowayeast@mastodon.social
2025-10-23T00:45:14Z
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@futurebird so... Ender's Game?
(DIR) Post #AzUflclhaEekW1k3Jw by noodlejetski@masto.ai
2025-10-23T07:30:09Z
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@futurebird @dashdsrdash so an antsymptote?
(DIR) Post #AzVP8fxSO1pp0PbdBI by lemgandi@mastodon.social
2025-10-23T15:58:31Z
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@futurebird Ants Rule the Land. The idea that we do is just an accident of scale.
(DIR) Post #AzVUxguX6S5CV5NqfA by lemgandi@mastodon.social
2025-10-23T00:18:29Z
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@creativegamingname @futurebird The ( eusocial ) colony is the reproductive unit. So ants are more analogous to our cells than to actual organisms with independent thoughts. Don't let their size fool you.
(DIR) Post #AzVUxi34sAVo1sOBcW by creativegamingname@infosec.exchange
2025-10-23T13:16:42Z
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@lemgandi I wasn't fooled. Just curious. They seem really organized and thoughtful, but I'm not really an expert on their world.With my understanding of how evolution works, it helps the species along its path. Being as successful as they are, I'm curious if there would ever be a reason for them to develop more complex social networks.A single queen can produce enough workers for a colony. But that is a limited environment with a finite amount of space. Astronaut Ants and colonizing ants wouldn't have that limitation in the traditional since would they?Hives are self-sufficient (I think?) so they would need to maintain that sufficiency while moving through space right? I don't think a single queen could produce enough offspring to maintain more than one star-ship could she? I wouldn't think she could populate a fleet.I'm not really familiar with how they, or if they, "talk". I understand they transmit communications to each other... but do they... "socialize"?For example, I'm talking to ya'll about a subject I have no knowledge of, a little interest in, and a little bit of time to discuss it. Do... ants... do that? I understand we don't necessarily know (or at least I don't, ya'll might)I'm just curious, right? They become space-capable, they want to explore the stars. They get a willing queen.... some workers... and they hit the stars.What does that look like? 🤔 @futurebird
(DIR) Post #AzVUxjGEMkcxmxYClE by lemgandi@mastodon.social
2025-10-23T15:44:46Z
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@creativegamingname @futurebird Best reference for questions like this is _The_Ants_ ( Brent Holldobler, E. O. Wilson, Harvard University Press, 1990 ). Ant *nests* communicate with each other -- fire ant nests establish mutual boundaries at least. Ant workers communicate through chemical signals, either aerosol or through contact. I believe their communications with other ants are limited to IFF and prey/slave raiding.