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No species the size of ants can ever smelt steel. They are not competitors for humans to become Earth's technological primary species.
by danieltillett 10y ago
No species the size of ants can ever smelt steel. They are not competitors for humans to become Earth's technological primary species.
- Tloewald 10y agoHave you read City? (Not that it's seriously making an argument the other way.) Arguing that smelting steel is the key thing is the typical, we're good at this therefore this is what matters argument we've been making since time immemorial. Humans can't sneak into other organism's bodies and take over their DNA (yet, to be sure) but viruses can, so humans just don't have a real shot.