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GCUMstlyHarmls
8 days ago
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Flies keep landing on North Sea oil rigs
I think this is a particularly human-centric perspective on the idea. Do you think ants have the same issue now?
oneseven
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Or, concretely, migrating hoverflies. Interestingly they don't appear to be colonial.
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quietbritishjim
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Not really human-centric, but intelligent life-centric. Given that the discussion (by this point) was about intelligent life communicating across the universe, ants aren't very relevant, unless you think they're about to start building spaceships.
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