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Billions of years in the future and many parsecs from here, a small craft is detected drifting along by a civilisation that may not even have evolved when it was built and launched.
The craft is carefully captured and delicately opened. Inside its little armoured cockpit sits an ant, with each of
its six legs gripping a separate control stalk.
Time has long ago fused the details of the circuitry, the little computers and the mechanical features, but the facts are clear to those peering in. This little specimen may be all that remains of another entire civilisation forever lost in time.
Our protagonist
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[normzone, Aug 23 2009]
Phase IV
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070531/
Human/ant war. Extraterrestrial ants are implied. Low budget horror/sci-fi but surprisingly good and moody. [wagster, Aug 27 2009]
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Must be quite lonely, considering that members of Formicidae, like many other families of Hymenoptera,
are social insects. |
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Billions of years in the future and many parsecs from here,
an
unknown object moving at high speeds impacts a space
station built by a civilization that may not even have
evolved
when the object was built and launched. The station is
destroyed, along with the 83 souls living within. The
investigators are able to salvage a small craft from the
wreckage, containing a tiny evil-looking creature gripping
multiple weapons with its six legs. |
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The civilization declares war on ants. [+] |
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Not if it's a spider ant. In fact, better to use a spider, with those two extra arms. Though the idea of an intergalactic spider would seem slightly more sinister. |
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Is the tiny spacecraft transparent, have a narrow front profile,
and filled with sand? |
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I think I'm missing something here? |
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I don't know but I was just now reminded of my dream about hermit crabs last night. They were simply everywhere. |
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Xen, I was referring to an ant farm. |
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Eventually, there will be no earth, when the sun swallows up the planets in the closest orbit, so the only traces of a civilisation here will be that which is sent into deep space. |
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And it all started with a vending machine, where the
ants learnt that life sacrifices, on certain areas of the
circuit board, supplied them food. |
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Imagining a colony of ants staring at rows of vending machines, each filled with rows of Snickers bars like huge black monoliths, when one figures out how to open one.<cue 'Sprach Zarathustra'> |
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'OH MY GOD, IT'S FULL OF PEANUTS!' |
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Ah yes....Adam - the first Ant (re link) |
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following a galactic picnic of some sort I imagine... |
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According to Accelerando by Charles Stross, it's the lobsters that go first. |
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There was a film about this. It was awesome. (link) |
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