ALIEN ANTS

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a you can't come over there oh they hear there there were million million for our

life I'm not going back not know they're all gone coming to get us okay thank you

over to our satellite link where we can talk with Dr CLA du of Stanford an expert in ant Behavior tell us doctor

what is happening well it's probably because these ants have been subjected to some kind of disturbance a mining or

excavation work basically they're Territorial and they will react with aggression if they feel like they're

being attack an communicate by trading chemical signals called ferals between

the touches of their antenna their eyes side is poor but all Intruders to the Colony are immediately detectable by

their smell so these guys are smart yeah I mean the chemical language they use it

it's remarkable in the case of eitan belli on a feeding rate it's responsible

for coordinating the behavior of up to a million individuals it has been estimated that

an brain has the processing power of a small computer it makes you wonder what we could learn if we could somehow strip

away our own technology and meet with them on equal ground we human beings struggle to understand the motives of

even a single suicide bomber what the hell does she know about suicide bombers here we see thousands of ants

deliberately drowning themselves to build the foundations for what can only be called a bridge you going to let her

get away with their crap may I introduced the man brought here to deal with the situation thank you Joe

it's a very uh interesting presentation Dr du but we do Park company when you fantasize that a swarm of army ants is

some kind of Marty gr marching Society it's not it's just a big ball of

instinct Dr Horus Leonard CEO of thorax Industries former colleague and now

world leader in the wholesale Slaughter of insects you're telling these people

bedtime stories do you know what happens when we strip away our technology and meet on equal ground they eat

us and if you don't believe me please come to BAU and see for yourself spray

gun in hand don't leave Camp without

it thank you very much well thank you Dr Leonard thank you and we're out thank

youc so did you have your fun Dr Clarity Bo when did you arrive fleu in yesterday

deploying tomorrow how's it look mostly rainforest rubber plantations plus a few

casualties you know I could always use the world's leading hrist in my truck somehow I don't think I'd fit in

with your crew come on my crew is like a family they love you almost as much as I love you

already um maybe maybe we can have dinner

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okay okay people let's liquefy some uh

endoskeletons

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move back move back get back the F let's go let's go get back the

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okay guys we have to solve this problem all of our industry are on whole

we cannot allow tourists on the island this time there are even more of

them than our first estimate larger than 2001 larger than

2001 that's swam in 2001 Destroy This Island economically for 2

years the locost are saying this time ants are different different how more

aggressive yeah more aggressive ants killing humans in large numbers is almost unheard

of the number of casualties here probably exceeds the total from all previously recorded

incidents yeah more but also picking their

battles okay let me show you um today when they Retreat it cross the fire dish

usually the ants just keep coming it to were light it but today they sto short almost like they knew the fire was

coming do you see what I

mean you set out a pretty good line of defense this Plantation here it's been

stripped everything is gone okay well we're going to have to

force them back onto this Barren ground so Cortez you and the Army are going to head straight right up the

middle bill and I will do a right flank and we'll force them into a

pincer you hired the right guy sir we're going to get this done

now

Lord I hate these suits Dam it's communication check this

is Bill you read me good helmet image switch to POV POV image is good across the board

hey Cortez your GPS is down uh I think it would help if I turned it

on team telemetric shows lots and loaded let's roll

people so while you and Cortez are moving up north we're going to soften up that Central Mass with Aerials every ant

poison kills every ant that touches and so on domino effect all set any

questions let's

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team Cortez first Contact kill ratio as predicted proceeding to

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North team Cortez control spray him

down how's it looking out there devb imagery is good recorders are

running go again you're breaking up Cortez still got his hands full damn it I ought to be there with him stick to

the plan bill we can think ahead it's one of our

advantages Debs hey Lenny how's your C with base

camp mine's crap yeah Dad we near a

power AAL or something there's a new saell tower half mile from you but it's not operational

yet Len did you copy that it's not operational

yet [Music] copy what is that Len there's something

weird near you I'm losing Telemetry

link Len did you copy any of that Len

Len Deb Deb does this seem a little bit weird to

you buddy what do you mean I know this all seems a little

too quiet yeah

well we me out a little bit too Len a

report what's with this commlink

Len what is that it's made entirely of ants we

container destroy don't move Deb you getting this Deb damn Tom is down

hey look let's see where it goes H I'm

game wow is that

weird this is incredible Lenny his ant caes cross but they remain

discreet I don't see any food being transported I call me crazy but it looks like C cable to

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they're nesting they never nest in Swarm at the same time I know

that look out JP oh God there's Millions

Lenny Lenny help me Bill Lenny get this Branch off

me easy

Bill Lenny Lenny open it God stop

it no one's inside this is this is

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bill they never got in Bud they never got in

Bill buddy they never got

in Cortez get over here there's something wrong with Bill what's

up nothing I'm

fine just help me get him out of his

suit

what's going on we've got classic Retreat patterns across the infest

Zone okay you guys can stand down good job hey is he going to be

okay I don't know did you guys uh you guys get video

from when that Branch came down no you guys got out way before that see didn't

see it see what nothing just do a standard documentation

sweep and I'll check in with you

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what's that nothing you need to come see

this what crop Fields destroyed by an ant worm seen that before yeah but now I

put a filter on it is this for

real yeah this one this

one this this is just a mud flat on the river okay you need need to make hard

copies of these quietly what do you think it means I don't know but we need to find

out attention please Minister Zing would like to

address you thank you I Rise to offer our thanks to Dr Horus

Leonard and the thorx industries team for helping us defeat the insect

plague this ongoing partnership between our brave armed forces and the expertise of American

Science has made our vast archipelago safer and a more productive part of the

nation someday we may rid ourselves of this

Menace alog together or even someday Dr leard may even share his secret formula

with us I raise my glass to Dr Leonard and

his team yeah Cheers Cheers

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the hell is wrong with this joint

heyy how you doing buddy this is supposed to be the best part of town There's ants all over the

place they're all over the counter they keep following my

drink I don't see any ants Bill oh I see him Len I feel them all over me

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me you're just having a delayed sensory reaction to what happened it's totally

normal it's not normal ly it's not normal what happened to us

today the way they pulled that tree down on top of us they planned

that how are you guys doing you know you guys didn't do such a great job out there today no sir

look there's still one left you missed

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up in his hair not good l pull him together sure if anybody

can but I just worry you know worry about what Billy or rather William rout

PhD BSC etc etc was Len's professor at

College really strung out on booze when L first met him got him cleaned up gave

him this job gave him his life back cleared his gambling Debs but that was what 5 years ago right so if he's in

trouble again almost sort it out your they do anything for each

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other stop the music please stop the music stop please attention everyone

attention please all leave are cancel all military personnels report to

the unit immediately through team assemble with me please what is it a new swarm on BTO

that's impossible they never swor twice in a season yes they are this year and they have pushed out as far as the

river this can't be right estimated size that's three times the size of the first

swarm it's got to be wrong there ain't that many an on that island can I use your phone

yeah excuse me all right listen to this we're going to have to redeploy everything that we

pulled out of there all right Claire it's Lyn the text I sent should explain

everything just get yourself to banau airport and I'll pick you up I'll tell you more

then

I

come

hey Claire well doct how times have

changed well we're not backpacking through Europe anymore no we're not

unfortunately that's sweet we were

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multi-millionaires under the age of 35 congratulations it's not as Grand as it sounds profits go back into the business

and I'm living in the trailer socially I haven't evolved much Beyond The Backpacker stage I'm afraid

Backpacker with Millions it's a truly frightening Prospect so what about you Professor

associate professor associate all your scholarly articles and your book which

was tremendous by the way I don't think I ever told you that you read it cover to cover can't believe you're still

chasing Tenny oh you know you read the book speculating about Mass intelligence and insect swarms it's not exactly

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stuff well now we've got something in common

oh yeah what's that well both of us are academic par

now me because I kill insects and you because you think they're intelligent

that's a gross over statement of my

thesis what suppose some guy came up to you off the street and showed you evidence that

your thesis was correct you talking about that text and photo you forwarded

me what could such a guy expect a kiss a huge sloppy kiss what are you talking

about these were taken after the bant

Swarm but these are molecular

structures these were fabricated by an

it appears so yes but that would require intelligence

isn't that what you've been saying all along I never said they knew chemistry physics and geometry I saw other things

too wa what take a look at this it's a tentacle I don't know what

else to call it really made entirely out of ANS rose up out of the main swarm like a

cobra and on the top of the thing couple dozen Eaton with their eyes pushed forward and their antenna pressed back

and I swear to you they were watching me studying me they even deliberately knocked a tree

down on top of my partner and I they could have killed us at any

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over they let us go that's quite a

story so what do you think that a super colony of insects has

become

self-aware you know what this

is where did you get this is it right where did you get

it a grad student of mine first noticed something in local populations so we tested ant specimens

from around the world Africa the Amazon places where they swarm you know something like 70% of all the ant s

have metabolites of that in their systems so I reverse engineered

it how many years have you been spraying that stuff around the world about eight well it's now part of the global

ecosystem Claire I don't sit around my lab like some kind of mad scientist

dreaming up ways of destroying insects for Laughs okay my team and I go where

we're asked we save lives people are grateful for what we

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all right that ought to hold them for now stanchez you and Jac you watch them okay monitor this Cortez you're in

charge okay I got you Billy where the hell have you been we are barely in control of this what you two been having

a big time is that it Dr it Phil we got bigger problems

now I've never seen ant Behavior like this

before there ain't that many ants in the

world let's figure out what we're going to do come

on glad you're here

yeah got a lot of work what is

we we have never seen anything like this we estimate the swamp population at 200

million 200 million that's impossible I bet there's more than that oh that's possible we have already lost 20

men and if the ants cross the river what is going to stop them besides what the hell do you know about at Professor

dubar they don't have this kind of crap at Stanford do they bill what the hell is the matter with you did you just shut

up and

listen

the locals took the example from the living age but there are half dozen different

species in there when we first got these J they were swarm together cooperating

what species no that can't be a swarm is one species one nest of a single species

they don't tolerate Outsiders they detect the difference in the pheromone and they kill them

oh just like these guys are doing exactly but once they were inside this

container separate from the swamp for a while they went back to their normal mutual

hostility well what one it's one pheromone one pheromone and

they work together single common purpose what's this over here let me

show you

okay guys listen up this is buang the village on the island AR Recon shows about 50 people

still there ANS haven't been able to get across yet okay we got to rescue these

people right away can we get boats here no problem okay well for the moment we

got to just focus on keeping the ants on the far end of the embankment set up defensive positions at the Narrows here

and here offer CH may take that jar away with me please I I'd like to examine it more closely let's

go how's that fit I'll get used to it Wells are made for a guy about this much

taller than you so yeah I guess where the hell oh there it

is B you good to go tank levels are okay we do this for the team yeah yeah of

course we do right right what do you mean am I good to go

of course I'm good to go why you asking me that testy the weapon please Len I I told you I won't be using your death

spray man you just don't seem fit I don't seem fit huh hey man I've been

doing I taught you how to do this I'll tell you

what you can leave it dangling around your neck if you like I can guarantee you w stay there

for long you just watch your own butt big

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running

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it this is your rescue boat we're going to

take you to safety get in get in get in okay let's

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let's go go

get to the river as fast as you

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weap Len I told you I using weap weap

weap help okay can he

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what get the

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Bill what's your status I'm in the middle of an old plantation it looks like we got an opening

here let me take a look

you used your weapon I see yes to save

her I had no choice don't expect me to do it again if

Cortez and I head towards that old factory maybe we can flank them and improve our odds Len said to stay put

you're not thinking straight Bill hey Len's not here you get him on the Cal this opening may not last long Comm is

all screwed up he hasn't reported in I'm going to get Cortez to your position stay where you are you do what you want

dibs I'm heading out what's wrong with you Bill stay

there her name is ying she's an orphan she used to live with her brother

but he went honey in the bush two days ago and he never came back God ly I'm

scared Cortez Cortez come in

quz quend quend convert on build this

right Claire you look at the thing you've loved and studied your whole life

and in one instant One Moment of clarity you see the dangerous

side the killer side

when you reach for the pistol instead of the

chair happened to me about 10 years ago Cortez if you can hear me on this

crappy Cal I'm about 20 yards Northeast of the factory come and find

me [Applause]

Bill glad to see you man right right

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yeah what an are pushing you fast get off I don't have my

gear get out get

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ctez Cortez Cortez

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Cortez [Music] wait this is what I was talking about

feeling ni

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oh my God you know what this [Music] is I'm

Nast no well yes but look at the

structure imagine each ant as a switch capable of saying yes or

no like binary code using electrical signals as what as

chemical you saying this is a computer that's

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hey maybe this is as far as we should go I don't think we have much

choice over

here

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here what are they doing these are the same images we've

been seeing is it a language

them and us the front

line DNA that that's what they've been trying to formulate they kill us we kill each

other one what was that one bantel yes it's

bantel

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silent

can't leave get back get

back she's the hostage she's going to be okay we've got

to deliver the message we'll be back in coming

back back

[Music] what AM we going to do I have no idea

what it is we just saw but we got to get her back how did they learn to do

that ants just became self-aware what in one Evolution we leave Evolution doesn't

work like that well sporadic spits of adaptation please come on there's something new here cruelty deception

Evolution doesn't just spawn that stuff well how about the introduction of a foreign substance into their nervous

systems if that's it we know who's the blame don't

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here oh

thanks well they come after us I don't think

so you know I looked at ants going two ways around a rock and rsid IED about how intelligent they were I never

dreamed i' let see ant TV nothing I've ever seen believe

me do you think what Ying said it's true

that the ants think that this island is their Sanctuary it's more like we're taking it

over that s Zing see well you know that we can't tell him I'm selling your

contract CL screw your contract you tell him about this he's going to go in there and blow that place the kingdom

come I have no choice we have to tell

them they'll listen to us us yeah us I mean we're going to have to

do this together and we may need Chang to get Ying

back you all right oh suits

yeah yeah sorry about that that was okay

oh better

thanks hey did this remind you of

anything it's a far cry from Venice

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it's good to see you Dr du it's good to see you Dr

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Leonard [Music]

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this

Cortez [Music]

L he made it hey good to see

you then we were sure you were dead we should be dead so what

happened we are face to face with another

intelligent species only they're not human they're insectoid they don't make

tools to manipulate their environment they use specific subspecies to meet specific needs millions of individuals

have created a matrix like a computer for data processing they've demonstrated an ability to not just comprehend ideas

or or concepts or intelligence they can actually project these things visual Iz them in three dimensions girl

hostage Len you actually buy

this we saw what we saw so what do you think it means then

they actually laid claim to one of our islands and I'm here to say that will

never happen thousands of people dead n dead

towns destroyed Plantation shut down livestock Dead Land wasted tourists

gone and we didn't stop them you didn't stop them no they just retreated and why

do you think they did that because you have tucked them into it no because we stopped killing them no we are not going

to negotiate with ants

Dr Leonard what do you advise I'll tell you what I'd

advise I say we go in and nuke them bill please

please we have to get Ying back just let Dr du and I try and negotiate oh good

good Dr Leonard right now nuk sound pretty good huh huh sound pretty good

huh yeah good

good so Dr Leonard how are you going to make them believe our desire to stop the

fighting or we can just give them part of the island like somewhere west of the

river it's less than half the island that's the offer or I will indeed nuke

them right nuke them you have until tomorrow

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Minister let's go

for

[Music] it's just like you said Lenn strip away the technology and meet

on equal terms that eat us there's nothing I could do he's a

good man Bill and a friend I mean it wasn't so much that they killed him I

mean I expect them to kill him but it was a way they killed him I mean always

before it was Mindless killing but this is anything but they laid a trap for us

we walked right into it you did your best bill it's like every time we hit them with something they they just get

smarter it's like they're it's like they're

learning they're

learning but if they're learning they can be

taught yeah yeah we can teach these clever little bastards a lesson that's why can we can teach them not to scroll

around with us Bill listen I get you're upset about Cortez we all

are is Claire and I are working out a plan theyve still got y trying to get

her back Count Me In

is he okay CLA can I show you something yeah

sure I'm trying to figure out what makes these ants cooperate so well together the different species are working

together I just can't make it out anymore will you help sure show me what you got so I put this

one okay this one and what's in here I know over

there okay let's take a look so I started with this

uhhuh and then it came out like this I don't know it might I might be on something but I'm not

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[Music] you add that and I'll be back yeah

okay don't move stay there what's WR with

you you never had a

chance hands never had a chance you okay

Bill yeah yeah I'm

fine

look I uh I know we've never really seen ID I

but but um I just wanted to say how sorry I am about what happened to

coret it was horrible and if there's anything I can

do to help

well well

Claire when I was teaching at calet was I any good I mean did did did

you think I was any good Alexa winsky would testify to that Paul

vov from the UN just it just seems like nobody ever says

if if you're any good well you got Len and me through you

take care of Len you guys take care of each

other I I

just I

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didn't you sleep well

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B what

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where is he I'm sorry I'm late you guys I I had to get all geared up we're not taking

them Bill we're not no we're leaving the suits in the barn this time

buddy you're serious you're going back in that cave

without skins you're out of your minds they need is alive just like Cortez was it's a gesture of Goodwill Goodwill

towards ants yes Lenny no it's just clearing me this

time bud well yeah sure I mean if that's what you want man you're the boss man can I

talk to you a second here lny you got to let me do this you got to

let me do this I gotta Cortez

man besides you getting the jam who do you want at your back huh her

me please all

right no Havoc no

suits

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now

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bastards you right though yeah fine come

on let's

go

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okay

okay it's okay it's

okay keep the thing away from me it's not hurting you don't start anything keep it

away

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Len four ANS one

man that's an [Music]

offer [Music]

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we're talking to them can you believe [Music]

this don't look

up are we done here yet not yet Bill we're

still negotiating got to get out now not

now yes oh yeah

Lyn

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it with these clever little bastards grab the kid and

go go I say we go in and nuke yeah nuke

sound pretty good huh just wait the hell she know about suicide

bombers Bill

Bill I can't wait anymore

go 3 minutes [Applause]

now

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a what is that concentrated pheromone of a different Queen and it's different smell

throw [Music]

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it run

run in here in here okay I'm going back for

Bill be

careful

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C Cry Havoc

cry

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what

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oh we pay you millions and

millions and this is all we got ants

aliens spacecraft and a giant ant because nobody can explain what has

happened here nothing has happened here do you

understand no alien no spaceship

nothing we will protect the People by telling them

nothing [Music]

nothing

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hey amazing beautiful

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hey all [Music]

right I love this [Music]

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