All they do is just walk around foraging for anything they can find that is edible, and then bringing it back to their hole. They do this all day long without ever taking a rest.
They don't even think about keeping what they find for themselves, nor do they steal something of value from a fellow ant either. No. They are all driven by this moral/ethics law which, impressively, is never enforced!
For all we know ants could have already invented neural implants to make this communistic code-of-behavior a living reality! This is why I think that they're the dominant species on this planet, so much that they use their knowledge and wisdom to make us, humans, think we are the dominant ones; somehow they found out, with the course of history, that we're prideful creatures. They are abusing this fact for their own good, given that in a situation of turmoil in between ants and men, we'd come up the victors, all because of our physical advantages. Even if we are one-hundredth as smart as they are.
Ants are a living testimony of a civilization that has reached absolute perfection, and will keep on being until the dawn of earth's future.
This is why I hate them so much and find them to be outrageous! Who's with me?
Poll: Well?
No, it's isn't that outrageous. (41)
64%
Yes, it's outrageous. (23)
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Your vote: Well?
(Vote): Yes, it's outrageous. (Vote): No, it's isn't that outrageous.
Even though this is a joke blog, ant "intelligence" is a very interesting topic.
Ants actually "communicate" through pheromones... they drop pheromone trails when they walk around looking for food, where the trail is stronger if they sense food nearby, and are attracted to other ant's pheromone trails. After they walk around at random, biased by others' trails, the pheromone ends up concentrating into a shortest path from the ant nest to the food source... so that's why you have so many ants walking the same path and bringing food back and forth.
Anyway, ants themselves have extremely low intelligence, but evolution stumbled upon this food-finding mechanism that works through swarm intelligence. It's actually a technique that artificial intelligence researchers try emulating every now and then to find solutions to problems.
I for one welcome our new insect overlords. I'd like to remind them that as a trusted personality, I can be helpful in rounding up others to toil in their underground sugar caves.
It's obviously a completely valid question. It's just one of those things that you never think of until someone mentions it you know...
And even though ant's may not be very smart, we can't really prove it. Even if we could prove that they weren't hiding their intelligence from us, who's to say that an ant couldn't have come down to earth and died for our sins in his son form only to revive three days later and start a religion?
The blog title also sneakily raises the question of whether people are as clueless as the ants they fry with a magnifying glass as children. I mean think about it: what he described the gathering of food, could easily be transcribed to humans. We work to make money to buy food. Same thing really. Do we have any more meaning than the ant? I think not.
Since the OP is almost trolling by doing this blog response to the other 'clueless' blog, I thought it would be safe to try some trolling of my own. The dark side is strong. And trolling is easy. It's also somewhat fun.
On April 14 2010 08:53 N.geNuity wrote: I for one welcome our new insect overlords. I'd like to remind them that as a trusted personality, I can be helpful in rounding up others to toil in their underground sugar caves.
He is also very tasty and there is a lot of good meat on him.
EPT
