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Re:Astrobiologists have released the preliminary results of ... by nly on Monday May 10, 2021 @10:24AM (#27106264)
Seems a little inconvenient for the architect to have to account for all the laws of physics and allocate millions of cubic light years of space just for our tiny rock when they could just squish those of us that escape, or at least discover the true nature of our environment, like we would ants on a kitchen work top.
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Re:Astrobiologists have released the preliminary results of ... by w0de0 on Monday May 10, 2021 @01:37PM (#27108620)
Ants don't have a pernicious ability to build progressively better technology in an attempt to escape the kitchen work top and conquer the refrigerator. Or, rather, they do, in the sense that they are life and life has this tendency, at least in the one case study we have access to.
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Re:Astrobiologists have released the preliminary results of ... by Tabular-Iceberg on Monday May 10, 2021 @01:44PM (#27108707)
I don't know, I like to gently brush them into a dustpan and dump them back into their anthill.

I can't explain why, but ants are some of my favourite animals.

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Re:Astrobiologists have released the preliminary results of ... by aksss on Monday May 10, 2021 @01:51PM (#27108784)
What do you think happens to those ants, sir? Coming back with tales of being brought up in a flash of light, anally probed, seeing mosquitoes spontaneously exploded, giant ships transporting them to earth.. socially ostracized, is what. Made fun of on the front page of Ant Times.
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