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Ant: We've searched dozens of these floor tiles for several common types of pheromone trails.
Ant: If there were intelligent life up there, we would have seen its messages by now.
The world's first ant colony to achieve sentience calls off the search for us.
{{Title text: I am so excited about the Kepler mission. This is the second most important thing our species has ever done, right behind inventing the concept of delivery pizza.}}
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