I watched the original Star Trek as a kid, and the matter-of-fact presentation of people of different races and nationalities, having important roles, did have an effect on me. It never occurred to me that the future would be different.
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Might have know that this was the case. Thanks for bringing me up to speed.
That’s the ticket. But there’s also the perpetual bad temper.
See, common ground right from the start.
Really? Hadn’t heard that. Well, other Europeans might do it too - the peat bogs on the continent are apparently becoming rapidly depleted due to cutting for fuel, but I hadn’t heard if it was for domestic use or for public utilities.
Suppose the aliens are lousy at math?
Possibly. It’s not a very big wasp, and ants of one species or another might be significant competitors. If it could mimic an ant species that the other ants don’t want to tangle with, that might give it an advantage.
Yes, but you can make everyone around you miserable as well, so there are compensations.
They’re proposing to use fluorescent tagging. In vivo staining, then prepare a squash of the stained tissue. Not a lot to it.
“Estes, he’s the bestes”
19th-century technology is sufficient to produce a rough-and-ready slide, and it’s pretty portable stuff, too. The technician that you need to operate the smartphone-microscope could easily be trained to produce slides in the field, if they don’t know how already.
No, there’s...um, nothing better...than...ah...exchanging long protein... strands. mmmmhmm.
They’re evacuating in March, which is getting on for Fall down there.
They are concealing their joy with remarkable skill. He will no doubt spare the city because of this.
Yes, technically they’re clones.
Yes, but look at how long the resource lasts - they’ve been burning peat for fuel in Ireland for thousands of years, and it’s still a going concern.
Here is a selection of Burghers for you.
Anything with buns. He’s a total dog.
He’s recovering the calories that he expended on sterile propagules.
+1 Troy Tempest reference.