Re:Ant mill
by TranquilMarmot on Saturday January 22, 2022 @04:51PM
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If it's truly a "death spiral" aren't they all going to die anyway? The off chance that one breaks the loop and finds it back to the colony seems better than just infinitely going in a loop. But I'm no ant entomologist haha
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Re:Ant mill
by avianlyric on Saturday January 22, 2022 @06:33PM
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You should watch the videos of these things. They have thousands of individual ants in them, sure having one or two break away and making it back is better than zero. But itβs better in the same way that zero rice falling out of bag is better than one or two grains falling out, zero is definitely better, but nobody bothers to pickup dropped grains of rice.