Colony shape

Coronie

Colony?

Colony?

What about the colony transmitters?

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

Caprica and three other colonies.

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

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

Come to think that we were human?

It's a museum.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

... and that I will protect and defend the sovereignty of the Colonies and that I will protect and defend the sovereignty of the Colonies...

It could be this year, or this year.

There's the nest entrance, there's a pencil for scale.

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

Ferro, take us in low over the main colony complex.

These are little wells.

And these ants are called harvester ants because they eat seeds.

And here was the most intriguing result the task allocation.

Elosha, there's a 13th colony of humankind, is there not?

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

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

They say they have the President of the Colonies aboard.

Why do we have programs to build habitation on Mars, and we have programs to look at colonizing the moon, but we do not have a program looking at how we colonize our own planet?

Get the President on the line. wind howling

So, an ant starts out somewhere near the queen.

If the colonists found that ship, there's no telling how many have been exposed.

And I go there every year and look for all the colonies that were alive the year before, and figure out which ones have died, and put all the new ones on the map.

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

There are nest maintenance workers working throughout the nest.

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

like I expect to meet another forager every three seconds.

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

We've got to hold the colonies till they vote tomorrow.

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

Gerard O'Neill The High Frontier. His idea was we were going to go build these colonies.

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

Takes decades. It's what we call a shake'n'bake colony.