obscure questions. obtuse answers

[JonDoe86]

Dunno if you've ever turned to your friend and legit asked them what you thought was a serious question, only to have them stare at you until the gears in their brain finally stop straining to understand what they just heard, to have them then break out in hysterical laughter over the complete farce you just spewed forth from your blissfully ignorant maw.

I know i have. so share some of the the most ridiculous questions you've ever heard/asked.

and while you're at it, go for gusto and some of the best/ridiculous answers as well.

I asked my friend if she thought birds might miss the feathers they lose, like humans miss the hair they lose from their balding skulls.

she simply said birds don't know what feathers are. *insert contemplative silence*

she had a point.

 

[Captain Spiral]

hmmmm..... asked my friend the other day:

"If an ant gets seperated from it's colony somehow, does it miss its home? Also, does it try to find its way back or just join the nearest ant colony? Do they let random ants join their colony?"

She couldn't answer that but I suppose it's a question people don't think about often.

 

[JonDoe86]

I tend to believe ants don't "get separated" they wander off on excavations looking for new sources of food, and although i am no specialist, i would speculate that a distinct scent trail left by oil secreting glands in the ants legs would provide a general path back to the original colony.

though you offer a good question how ants would treat other ants, specifically stray ones. Taking into consideration things like species, location, development, and other such things i think it's safe to say ants would treat ants of other colonies much like factions of rival ninja clans. They're all technically the same, seeking the same goal, but would gladly step over the dead body of fallen member to gain their own objectives.

interesting question

 

[Biosophilogical]

I have asked a physics teacher at my school *is energy directional* (i believe it is, please no physics fan-boys rattling of word for word some random textbook at me) he endud up speaking so loudly (not yelling) and at such a high pitch the glass shattered in the nearby houses and godzilla himself got a brain haemorrhage. (slightly exaggerated) he actually went fully spastic and said NO ENERGY IS NOT DIRECTIONAL BLAH BLAH BLAH, IT MAY DEPEND ON SOMETHING DIRECTIONAL BLAH BLAH BLAH *NO ACTUAL EVIDENCE* awkward

 

[Graustein]

I tend to believe ants don't "get separated" they wander off on excavations looking for new sources of food, and although i am no specialist, i would speculate that a distinct scent trail left by oil secreting glands in the ants legs would provide a general path back to the original colony.

though you offer a good question how ants would treat other ants, specifically stray ones. Taking into consideration things like species, location, development, and other such things i think it's safe to say ants would treat ants of other colonies much like factions of rival ninja clans. They're all technically the same, seeking the same goal, but would gladly step over the dead body of fallen member to gain their own objectives.

interesting question

If Animorphs has taught me anything (other than that war is bad), it's that ant colonies are extremely hostile to each other. Extremely.

 

[Gruthar]

hmmmm..... asked my friend the other day:

"If an ant gets seperated from it's colony somehow, does it miss its home? Also, does it try to find its way back or just join the nearest ant colony? Do they let random ants join their colony?"

She couldn't answer that but I suppose it's a question people don't think about often.

Depends on the species, but with most worker/soldier castes of ants, if they lose their way home, they'll either wander aimlessly 'till dead (unless they stumble upon a scent marking) or they'll (hopelessly) start digging a new colony. I don't think they feel much of anything, they are quite stupid individually.

With certain exceptions, ant colonies will generally not accept ants from another queen, even if they are the same species. If you transfer recently hatched ants of the same species to another colony, however, they can usually join without incident.

 

[JonDoe86]

i'm no physics fan boy, but from what i know of energy, it remains potential until acted upon by a force. thusly causing a direction of transfer.

it's like a puddle of water on a balanced see-saw, soon as you tilt it the water starts to run down the path of least resistance in a certain direction. Energy itself having no directional property. but when in transfer it takes on a direction to travel.

as does everything in the universe lol

 

[Captain Spiral]

hmmmm..... asked my friend the other day:

"If an ant gets seperated from it's colony somehow, does it miss its home? Also, does it try to find its way back or just join the nearest ant colony? Do they let random ants join their colony?"

She couldn't answer that but I suppose it's a question people don't think about often.

Depends on the species, but with most worker/soldier castes of ants, if they lose their way home, they'll either wander aimlessly 'till dead (unless they stumble upon a scent marking) or they'll (hopelessly) start digging a new colony. I don't think they feel much of anything, they are quite stupid individually.

With certain exceptions, ant colonies will generally not accept ants from another queen, even if they are the same species. If you transfer recently hatched ants of the same species to another colony, however, they can usually join without incident.

Wow. Thanks!

"The more you know!" *Rainbow*