← Back to context Comment by kevinh 7 years ago Previous discussion about the referenced 2016 paper: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12414676 3 comments kevinh Reply hanniabu 7 years ago One comment there asks what the ants are up to since they have no food to collect or queen to mate with and this was the response:> Based on the article it seems that they're just endlessly maintaining their nest. Waiting for their Queen who will never come...I found this to be both extremely hilarious and depressing pvaldes 7 years ago An ant-eater! quick, save the children and move them to the secret bunker!. We'll rejoin you later in Helm's Deep!Like that sounds much less depressing to me. Or think about it like Spartants. Most ants do not live very long lives in any case.> "no queen to mate with"Ant males would never mate in a dirty bunker when there is the entire sky for this kind of romantic bussiness emsign 7 years ago I remember reading that paper back then. This is like a happy ending follow up story to that. :D
hanniabu 7 years ago One comment there asks what the ants are up to since they have no food to collect or queen to mate with and this was the response:> Based on the article it seems that they're just endlessly maintaining their nest. Waiting for their Queen who will never come...I found this to be both extremely hilarious and depressing pvaldes 7 years ago An ant-eater! quick, save the children and move them to the secret bunker!. We'll rejoin you later in Helm's Deep!Like that sounds much less depressing to me. Or think about it like Spartants. Most ants do not live very long lives in any case.> "no queen to mate with"Ant males would never mate in a dirty bunker when there is the entire sky for this kind of romantic bussiness
pvaldes 7 years ago An ant-eater! quick, save the children and move them to the secret bunker!. We'll rejoin you later in Helm's Deep!Like that sounds much less depressing to me. Or think about it like Spartants. Most ants do not live very long lives in any case.> "no queen to mate with"Ant males would never mate in a dirty bunker when there is the entire sky for this kind of romantic bussiness
emsign 7 years ago I remember reading that paper back then. This is like a happy ending follow up story to that. :D
One comment there asks what the ants are up to since they have no food to collect or queen to mate with and this was the response:
> Based on the article it seems that they're just endlessly maintaining their nest. Waiting for their Queen who will never come...
I found this to be both extremely hilarious and depressing
An ant-eater! quick, save the children and move them to the secret bunker!. We'll rejoin you later in Helm's Deep!
Like that sounds much less depressing to me. Or think about it like Spartants. Most ants do not live very long lives in any case.
> "no queen to mate with"
Ant males would never mate in a dirty bunker when there is the entire sky for this kind of romantic bussiness
I remember reading that paper back then. This is like a happy ending follow up story to that. :D