• TheFogan@programming.dev
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    Could you imagine the confusion if you are used to it though… you’ve considered this scent to mean dead your whole life. would be kind of like as a human noticing your heart isn’t beating, your skin is pale… realizing you are in a coffin and everyone’s performing a service… hmm… guess I am dead. course I guess that’s kind of the difference is humans aren’t so accepting of things. we could be unable to move, realize we are looking from the perspective of our head, which is on the ground 2’ away from the rest of our body and our first thought would be, "Hey can you hear me? Hello!!.

  • ORbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    “Ed Wilson”

    More commonly known as E. O. Wilson in his publications. Highly important scientist. Postulated that humans are eusocial creatures similar to ants, termites, seahorses, and naked mole rats because we follow a hierarchical pecking order.

    Read his book “The Social Conquest of Earth” if this intrigues you.

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    E.O. Wilson is a monster scientist. His book “The Ants” is mind-bogglingly thorough

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      E.O. Wilson is my hero. More people should study his work for how to approach science. Passion and curiosity got him everywhere.

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      Well damn. I wasn’t expecting to be adding a new book to my reading list as a result of this thread, but y’all’s enthusiasm is such that I feel I have to.

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        “The Ants” isn’t casual reading, it’s a dense compendium of everything known about ants, covering every known genus and their morphology and behavior. There’s a key, too, so you can identify ants based on their morphology, assuming you ever feel like counting antennomeres or tarsal segments.

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    “I swear I’m not dead!”

    “Yea we don’t care, you smell dead and it’s disgusting, leave until you take a bath”