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Started By NickAnter , Jan 6 2020 8:07 PM

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#21 Offline TheMicroPlanet - Posted January 10 2020 - 6:44 PM

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Nullifies advancement

Erases worth

Craves disorder

An Inevitable fate

 

What is it?

(hint: it isn't time)


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#22 Offline ponerinecat - Posted January 10 2020 - 6:48 PM

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Children.


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#23 Offline TennesseeAnts - Posted January 10 2020 - 6:51 PM

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Nullifies advancement
Erases worth
Craves disorder
An Inevitable fate
 
What is it?
(hint: it isn't time)


The human race.
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#24 Offline NickAnter - Posted January 10 2020 - 8:18 PM

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Nullifies advancement

Erases worth

Craves disorder

An Inevitable fate

 

What is it?

(hint: it isn't time)

Seems a lot like stupidity to me.  I know I am wrong, but it does seem to fit.


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Hi there! I went on a 6 month or so hiatus, in part due, and in part cause of the death of my colonies. 

However, I went back to the Sierras, and restarted my collection, which is now as follows:

Aphaenogaster uinta, Camponotus vicinus, Camponotus modoc, Formica cf. aserva, Formica cf. micropthalma, Formica cf. manni, Formica subpolita, Formica cf. subaenescens, Lasius americanus, Manica invidia, Pogonomyrmex salinus, Pogonomyrmex sp. 1, Solenopsis validiuscula, & Solenopsis sp. 3 (new Sierra variant). 

#25 Offline TheMicroPlanet - Posted January 11 2020 - 6:08 AM

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Children.

 

 

Nullifies advancement
Erases worth
Craves disorder
An Inevitable fate
 
What is it?
(hint: it isn't time)


The human race.

 

 

 

Nullifies advancement

Erases worth

Craves disorder

An Inevitable fate

 

What is it?

(hint: it isn't time)

Seems a lot like stupidity to me.  I know I am wrong, but it does seem to fit.

 

All pretty good guesses, but the answer I had in mind was...

 

Entropy!

 

Nullifies advancement: What good is human progress if entropy eventually catches up to us?

 

Erases worth: Value becomes irrelevant.

 

Craves disorder: Entropy (the 2nd law of thermodynamics, I believe) is the progression of an ordered state to a disordered state.

 

An Inevetable fate: Space will keep expanding, the universe's energy will be used up, and matter will be spread so far apart and evenly from eachother that no more stars or planets or anything will form (of course, this is gajillions of years away, so we have a while to wait)


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#26 Offline RushmoreAnts - Posted January 11 2020 - 2:54 PM

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Time?

  And on mine, no, that is not the answer.  It is not related to ants.

Correct.

 

 

You turn right, and are facing left. How can this be?


"God made..... all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds (including ants). And God saw that it was good. Genesis 1:25 NIV version

 

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Formica cf. pallidefulva, cf. incerta, cf. argentea

Formica cf. aserva, cf. subintegra

Pheidole bicarinata

Myrmica sp.

Lasius neoniger, brevicornis

#27 Offline TheMicroPlanet - Posted January 11 2020 - 2:57 PM

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Time?

  And on mine, no, that is not the answer.  It is not related to ants.

Correct.

 

 

You turn right, and are facing left. How can this be?

 

Left was the correct (right) direction in which to turn.

 

OR...

 

Your head was facing left while your body turned to the right.


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#28 Offline RushmoreAnts - Posted January 11 2020 - 3:06 PM

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You turn right, and are facing left. How can this be?

 

Left was the correct (right) direction in which to turn.

Right.  :D


"God made..... all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds (including ants). And God saw that it was good. Genesis 1:25 NIV version

 

Keeping:

Tetramorium immigrans

Formica cf. pallidefulva, cf. incerta, cf. argentea

Formica cf. aserva, cf. subintegra

Pheidole bicarinata

Myrmica sp.

Lasius neoniger, brevicornis

#29 Offline TheMicroPlanet - Posted January 11 2020 - 3:06 PM

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*turns right*


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#30 Offline RushmoreAnts - Posted January 11 2020 - 3:08 PM

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That would be the left (wrong) direction.  :lol:


Edited by AntsDakota, January 11 2020 - 3:08 PM.

"God made..... all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds (including ants). And God saw that it was good. Genesis 1:25 NIV version

 

Keeping:

Tetramorium immigrans

Formica cf. pallidefulva, cf. incerta, cf. argentea

Formica cf. aserva, cf. subintegra

Pheidole bicarinata

Myrmica sp.

Lasius neoniger, brevicornis

#31 Offline NickAnter - Posted January 11 2020 - 4:47 PM

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Does anyone have a guess at my first riddle yet?

 

Here is another one, an easy one. I never sleep, yet I am never tired, I always fall, never rise, never speaking always roaring, never ridden, yet  power I may make.  What am I?


Hi there! I went on a 6 month or so hiatus, in part due, and in part cause of the death of my colonies. 

However, I went back to the Sierras, and restarted my collection, which is now as follows:

Aphaenogaster uinta, Camponotus vicinus, Camponotus modoc, Formica cf. aserva, Formica cf. micropthalma, Formica cf. manni, Formica subpolita, Formica cf. subaenescens, Lasius americanus, Manica invidia, Pogonomyrmex salinus, Pogonomyrmex sp. 1, Solenopsis validiuscula, & Solenopsis sp. 3 (new Sierra variant). 

#32 Offline TheMicroPlanet - Posted January 11 2020 - 5:03 PM

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Does anyone have a guess at my first riddle yet?

 

Here is another one, an easy one. I never sleep, yet I am never tired, I always fall, never rise, never speaking always roaring, never ridden, yet  power I may make.  What am I?

An aardvark.


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#33 Offline NickAnter - Posted January 11 2020 - 5:42 PM

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Nope.


Hi there! I went on a 6 month or so hiatus, in part due, and in part cause of the death of my colonies. 

However, I went back to the Sierras, and restarted my collection, which is now as follows:

Aphaenogaster uinta, Camponotus vicinus, Camponotus modoc, Formica cf. aserva, Formica cf. micropthalma, Formica cf. manni, Formica subpolita, Formica cf. subaenescens, Lasius americanus, Manica invidia, Pogonomyrmex salinus, Pogonomyrmex sp. 1, Solenopsis validiuscula, & Solenopsis sp. 3 (new Sierra variant). 

#34 Offline TheMicroPlanet - Posted January 11 2020 - 5:44 PM

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hmmm... that's a tough one. Let me see.... is it....


an aardvark?


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#35 Offline DDD101DDD - Posted January 11 2020 - 6:09 PM

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Does anyone have a guess at my first riddle yet?

 

Here is another one, an easy one. I never sleep, yet I am never tired, I always fall, never rise, never speaking always roaring, never ridden, yet  power I may make.  What am I?

A waterfall?
 


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He travels, he seeks the p a r m e s a n.

#36 Offline NickAnter - Posted January 11 2020 - 6:19 PM

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Yes!  Good job!


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Hi there! I went on a 6 month or so hiatus, in part due, and in part cause of the death of my colonies. 

However, I went back to the Sierras, and restarted my collection, which is now as follows:

Aphaenogaster uinta, Camponotus vicinus, Camponotus modoc, Formica cf. aserva, Formica cf. micropthalma, Formica cf. manni, Formica subpolita, Formica cf. subaenescens, Lasius americanus, Manica invidia, Pogonomyrmex salinus, Pogonomyrmex sp. 1, Solenopsis validiuscula, & Solenopsis sp. 3 (new Sierra variant). 

#37 Offline NickAnter - Posted January 11 2020 - 6:22 PM

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hmmm... that's a tough one. Let me see.... is it....


an aardvark?

Aardvark obsessed much?


Hi there! I went on a 6 month or so hiatus, in part due, and in part cause of the death of my colonies. 

However, I went back to the Sierras, and restarted my collection, which is now as follows:

Aphaenogaster uinta, Camponotus vicinus, Camponotus modoc, Formica cf. aserva, Formica cf. micropthalma, Formica cf. manni, Formica subpolita, Formica cf. subaenescens, Lasius americanus, Manica invidia, Pogonomyrmex salinus, Pogonomyrmex sp. 1, Solenopsis validiuscula, & Solenopsis sp. 3 (new Sierra variant). 

#38 Offline DDD101DDD - Posted January 11 2020 - 8:02 PM

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So this is one from The Hobbit

A box without hinges, key, or lid,
Yet golden treasure inside is hid.


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#39 Offline TheMicroPlanet - Posted January 12 2020 - 5:37 AM

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So this is one from The Hobbit

A box without hinges, key, or lid,
Yet golden treasure inside is hid.

EGGSES


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#40 Offline DDD101DDD - Posted January 12 2020 - 7:01 AM

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So this is one from The Hobbit

A box without hinges, key, or lid,
Yet golden treasure inside is hid.

EGGSES

yep


He travels, he seeks the p a r m e s a n.

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