This is about as big as they get, about a meter across.

That is, to send more winged queens and males to that year's mating flight.

They say they have the President of the Colonies aboard.

So the one thing, though, that I want you to remember about this is that these patterns of interactions are something that you'd expect to be closely connected to colony size.

Instead, something about the organization must be changing as the colony gets older.

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That I accept the office of the President of the Twelve Colonies of Kobol...

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Colony?

Colony?

Really the question that I think about with these ants is what I call task allocation.

They make a midden, a pile of refuse mostly the husks of the seeds that they eat.

Get the President on the line. wind howling

What about the colony transmitters?

Including the colonies of Caprica, Picon... Oh, my God.

This is a logarithmic scale, 10 to the eighth power.

These are little wells.

And here was the most intriguing result the task allocation.

Caprica and three other colonies.

I'm the Vice President of the colony, selected in my own right.

And that lower photo, that's a bird colony that has been boomed.

In the meantime, however, as President of the Colonies, I'm giving you a direct order...

So this is the colony founded by a queen the previous summer.

So, an ant starts out somewhere near the queen.

Then tell him this comes directly from the President of the Twelve Colonies,

Then you do acknowledge my position as President as constituted under the Articles of Colonization.

Come to think that we were human?

It's a museum.

And by doing this I know how old they all are.

And on this axis, I'm showing dollars per person in income.

Most of the passengers are from Geminon or Picon, but we've got people from every colony.

They want to re assert their control over their former colony.

Global pastures cover 30 million km².

And it's not very big it's about 250 meters on one side, 400 on the other.

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like I expect to meet another forager every three seconds.

There's some juicy colonists' daughters we have to rescue from their virginity.

I just checked the colony log. Directive dated 6 12 79, signed Burke, Carter J.

lot, computers look very different. In this figure here, ya know, this thing was the size of a room.

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