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TheDecline

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Insect verion of dwarf Fortress ??
« on: February 03, 2012, 10:17:56 am »

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2095335/Underground-ant-city-Brazil-rivals-Great-Wall-China-labyrinth-highways.html

do they not relaise they only have to switch to " insect legends" to find out this colonys demise ???  :P

I heard it was lack of booze.....
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Re: Insect verion of dwarf Fortress ??
« Reply #1 on: February 03, 2012, 02:37:43 pm »

Wait, isn't this kinda a few years old news? Daily mail be necro'ing science. Love it.

Also, the colony was still alive when they pumped it full of concrete, well not for long anyways :p

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Re: Insect verion of dwarf Fortress ??
« Reply #2 on: February 03, 2012, 02:56:51 pm »

Wait, isn't this kinda a few years old news? Daily mail be necro'ing science. Love it.

Also, the colony was still alive when they pumped it full of concrete, well not for long anyways :p

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Re: Insect verion of dwarf Fortress ??
« Reply #3 on: February 03, 2012, 03:08:33 pm »

In the future nanobots will be unrealistic, but ant-bots won't, all glory to our tiny, robotic, overlords!
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Re: Insect verion of dwarf Fortress ??
« Reply #4 on: February 03, 2012, 03:13:20 pm »

I once read that if you added up the body mass of all humans; and the body mass of all ants, the ants would outweigh the humans.
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Re: Insect verion of dwarf Fortress ??
« Reply #5 on: February 03, 2012, 03:18:21 pm »

I once read that if you added up the body mass of all humans; and the body mass of all ants, the ants would outweigh the humans.
Barring plants and microorganisms, insects outnumber all life on Earth.

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