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To: ahhaha who wrote (7706)	3/13/2006 5:14:13 PM
From: GraceZ	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 24758

A lot of technological progress is made by individuals that aren't smart enough to know what they are attempting can't be done. Ants and termites are perfect examples of animal societies where the individual, while highly different, is completely secondary to the whole. Termites send out sacrificial flyers in the spring to mask the flight of a queen from the old nest to find a new one. Even when they escape the numerous birds who are keyed into this event, they die within hours. Those two groups of insects duke it out under ground in endless battle with each other. I come along with my traps and bait, upsetting the balance from time to time when my territory gets invaded, but for the most part those colonies will outlast any human society. This is why I have no trouble believing that the oldest intelligent alien life forms are insectoid. When a bug comes to town, you watch the morgue.