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> Or as I like to quip, somewhere in the middle of the ocean there's an island. On that island is an ant hill, and there's an ant at the top of it wondering: Wh
by oneoff786 4y ago
> Or as I like to quip, somewhere in the middle of the ocean there's an island. On that island is an ant hill, and there's an ant at the top of it wondering: Where are all of the other ants?
That’s not a very good analogy though. The ants’ answer would be “maybe across the ocean”. And since the ants lack any tech to check or be checked by other ants that would be the end of it. It’s not naivety. If there were other ants not visible to the island, they would be fundamentally underdiscoverable.
- darkerside 4y agoI'm sure they'd furiously be sensing the air for pheromones sent over a long distance
- oneoff786 4y agoDoesn’t matter. This is like asking where the other 21st century humans are in the universe. Ants are co-existing with beings beyond their reach. They effectively have alien contact for the purpose of this analogy. The absence of other ants is just because ants are not tech savvy.