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Holo Cow, Antman!

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ok, I'm swearing off mealybugs!! what about sow bugs?

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Astounding!! I read this to my wife and said, "See what one can learn reading a scientist's substack?!"

Now if a modern H. Sapiens

gets imbedded in tree amber, whilst clutching his smartphone, like the ant queen clutching her mealybug, what then would future biologists conclude about the relationship of the two? 😉

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Good question! The batteries would be flat and T-Mobile wouldn't exist anymore, so what would one make of it? Sort of an archeological problem, yes?

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One wonders if some kind of catastrophe similar to what happened at Herculaneum buried everyone in ash- flash frozen in what they were doing at the moment. And if this happened in some modern American metropolis, say Portland, just how many people would be excavated by future archeologists, either holding smart phones or having them close at hand? Lots!

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The last act of each one would probably have been to post themselves on Instagram, ash raining down.

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Another example of scientific inquiry raising as many questions as it answers.

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