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They were ants


Matt Holck

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Cobra's rant

 

the efficiency of follow the leader

the architects of Hoover Dam

trouble was size

an exoskeleton that would not scale

a sloshing circulatory system

I will give them bones to stand upon

I will place a valved pumps at each joint

I will make them giant

 

 

I think a laboratory in Nebraska has lost control of Project Giant Ants

and they are swarming the silos

 

pesticides are out

the exposed surface to mass ratio is logarithmically smaller

 

What would your character do?

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Re: They were ants

 

Which character?

 

Hardcase would beat each ant into a pulp, not realizing exactly how many ants that would entail.

 

Is "Nuke the Site from Orbit" an option? No? "We're the good guys" you say? Rats.

 

Do they have a silo of giant ant-killing giant wasps? "What would we do about the giant wasps then?" you say? Giant Tarantulas??? See, this is why we don't trust you scientist types.

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Re: jointed legs, poetic feet

 

It's kinda like poetry.

 

Much like poetry

Disjointed/evocative

Madness often is

 

 

What is poetry?

Madness under discipline

Storm in a bottle

 

 

Scarlet battalions

Between salt water sea shore

Give 'em pepper spray

 

 

Scurrying insects

Absurdly inflated ants

Don't let them bug you

 

 

Do they seem massive?

Crushing nightmare strength implied

In this joint fragment

 

 

View the whole picture

Insubstantial sketch of a

rain shrouded night scene

 

 

Reason alone, or

Measured and paid for powers

Are inadequate

 

 

Would you then capture

Both the mountain and the mist?

Haiku serves your need

 

 

Lucius Alexander

 

Well mounted, I ride

My palindromedary

Even through haiku

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Re: They were ants

 

Sink 'em. On the other hand' date=' this indicates the ants are intelligent, if not necessarily sapient ... get a telepath, see if these things have any kind of comprehensible to humans thoughts, see what they want.[/quote']

 

 

Arsenal:

while the barges can been blown to bit the wood fragments will not sink

and the ants are adept at clinging

they fan out

 

While exacting pheromones. you recall a knot of white mater about the size of Hardcores' Fist

Psi asks for several live specimens

and is gathering a team of physiologists and computer programmers

 

 

 

 

HAPS to the palindromedary

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