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Seems a little inconvenient for the architect to have to account for all the laws of physics and allocate millions of cubic light years of space just for our ti
by nly 5y ago
Seems a little inconvenient for the architect to have to account for all the laws of physics and allocate millions of cubic light years of space just for our tiny rock when they could just squish those of us that escape, or at least discover the true nature of our environment, like we would ants on a kitchen work top.
- notsureaboutpg 5y agoIsn't it what we would do as humans if we were designing this? I don't want to have to constantly monitor an experiment to kill any stragglers. Preventing the stragglers from ever getting to anything interesting is easier if you do it at the beginning, then you free up the time you would have been monitoring them. I realize all these concepts "easier" / "time" / "convenience" etc. don't apply in this hypothetical, but it's still fun to think about
- w0de0 5y agoAnts don't have a pernicious ability to build progressively better technology in an attempt to escape the kitchen work top and conquer the refrigerator. Or, rather, they do, in the sense that they are life and life has this tendency, at least in the one case study we have access to.
- Tabular-Iceberg 5y agoI don't know, I like to gently brush them into a dustpan and dump them back into their anthill. I can't explain why, but ants are some of my favourite animals.
- aksss 5y agoWhat do you think happens to those ants, sir? Coming back with tales of being brought up in a flash of light, anally probed, seeing mosquitoes spontaneously exploded, giant ships transporting them to earth.. socially ostracized, is what. Made fun of on the front page of Ant Times.