• TheFogan@programming.dev
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    5 months ago

    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!!.

  • protist@mander.xyz
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    5 months ago

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

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      5 months ago

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

  • piranhaconda@mander.xyz
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    5 months ago

    “I swear I’m not dead!”

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