I Bet I Can Create A 25 Million-Year-Old False Alarm, Says Biologist E.O. Wilson
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[QUOTE]The world's most famous ant-scholar likes to daydream. "So much good science — and perhaps all of great science," he writes in his new book "has its roots in fantasy."
Here's his.
After seeing Jurassic Park, where scientists clone dinosaurs from the blood of ancient dino-biting mosquitoes,Wilson thought: Hmmm, that's a little far-fetched, but I bet I can do a version that might be "really and truly possible."
He was having lunch with the author of the film, Michael Crichton, (who also wrote The Andromeda Strain and TV's ER) when he outlined his plan. I can imagine Crichton leaning in, itchy with expectation. Nobody knows ants like Wilson. And Wilson likes to live dangerously (especially in his head).
Here's Wilson's idea.
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You bastard, the part you put in the post was just enough to get me interested and want to read the article.
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That was very interesting
Hey man don't complain to me it's the all-powerful overseers that set that precedent.
At the very bottom they mention a previous experiment where he made a "zombie" ant that was a good read too.
I like the way this guy thinks :v:
In 25 million more years the next lot of ants will likely get a warning signal that consists of "Hey everyone come outside. #latencyissues"
Co-incidence that he's talking about something he planned at least 5 years ago, with a guy (who is now dead and therefore can't verify it) right when his new book comes out, yep definately co-incidence.
[QUOTE]n his new book he says this experiment has a bit [I]"too much of the circus trick and too little of real science"[/I] to be worth taking the trouble, but this is the same guy who, in the 1950s, having discovered the ant gland that produces odor trails, [I]dabbed his finger with invisible ant attractant and wrote his name — in longhand — on his lab desk and then gleefully watched as thousands of ants rushed across his desk to spell "Ed Wilson" with their bodies.[/I][/QUOTE]
Aw come on man. Do it, it will get people interested in your field.
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