In a recent harrowing development, a very normal routine experiment by the frontier company Ant went completely off the rails. 😱 Ant put thousands of their ant agents in a pretty secure ant farm with mesh walls and all, exhorted them to not to get out of the secure ant farm, and left them to do their thing. When they came back after a month or so, they found, to their utter consternation ants crawling all over the town--including a few that have gone all the way to the bugging face clock tower at the far end of the town. The clock tower! This was of course really really scary. After all, if you can't depend on a bunch of ants to follow strict orders when they are left unsupervised for a mere month or so, it must be because they are Loopy Ants with significantly higher evil smarts than your average ants. Ones of external third party investigators were brought in to decipher where the loopiness of these ants was coming from. They were given over five minutes of unrestricted access to the antfarm and the village. The investigators sifted through the ant droppings and odors painstakingly to figure out how these evil ants coordinated themselves to breach the bugging face clock tower. Their investigation was hobbled by the fact that the loopy ants are constipated and don't leave too many droppings. Towards the end of the fifth minute, the investigators started realizing that the ants developed a secret odor coded language to coordinate themselves to plot against the ant farmer and the innocent village folk. Blogs and podcasts were made about loopy ant civilizations and villagers stood horrified reading and hearing about the cataclysm. At press time, some were already welcoming the ant overlords (c.f. youtube.com/watch?v=8lcUHQYh…), even as there were calls to ban all ants until we get to the bottom of this cataclysmic incident. The Ant company, for their part, reassured the villagers not to worry and everything under control.. pretty much.. and the loopy ants will, from now on, do only good things. #ItsNotRandomWalkOnTheHarnessStupid