flying saucers shaped like ants heaven have mercy pleas let it be so #monsterdon

Flying saucers?? Did I miss something?

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Flying saucers shaped like ants you say?

Talk about a lucky guy.

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THEFTS OF SUGAR SYRUPS SWEETS

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@CactuarJoe which left us on 17 letters of the alphabet. #monsterdon

"UNNATURAL THINGS ALIVE OR DEAD"

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AP, IP, UP, everybody Ps! #Monsterdon

"...can't tell you a thing boys, we're under extremely hush hush rules."

#Monsterdon #Them

Wait, how are the New Mexico ants going to get to Asia/Africa? They don't swim thousands of miles right?
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@Taweret most species are in some state of what you could consider war at all times #Monsterdon

@raindrops_and_roses Sounds good to me. <dies>

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AP, PU, UPI

#THEM #monsterdon

I’m perilously close to learning something about ants #Monsterdon

Adding to the movie time with some film strips from a kids science class.
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An ant fight that lasted for 72 hours? Humans should just surrender now.
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Oh boy they rolled in the projector we're going to watch a video in class today!

#Monsterdon #them1954

#Monsterdon "an ant would kill you and enslave your family if it could... and now it can"

@ramsey Someone asked about his hyper focus and he's going to make them regret it.

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"In some cases, for reasons no one understands, ants occasionally fling themselves off cliffs in huge numbers."

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someone has a Special Interest. (^_^) #monsterdon

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don't monkeys have wars? I'm pretty sure I've seen videos of them doing it

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#Monsterdon they dont stop being adorable @futurebird i get it! even when theyre fighting it looks like little kids doing a slapfight lol

Ants sound a lot like bees
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"The males are unequipped to survive after mating."

Sure, that's a safe way to put it.

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"Doctor, will this be on the exam?"

#Monsterdon #Them1954

Ants are just like us!

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Flashback to when I found a _Lasius_ gyne right after she took off her wings! https://inaturalist.ca/observations/242803347 #Monsterdon

Ants! Ants for industry!

#THEM #monsterdon

We're getting a whole flood of pro-ant propaganda here.

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So ants are the Klingons of the insect world?

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"wedding flight" has such weird social implications to me which seem completely inapplicable to ants #monsterdon

#monsterdon Cops, donuts, etc.

(10x their weight, and a ton is 2000, so "a ton and a half or more" is 3000 lbs, thus they'd have to be 300 lbs each!)

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#Monsterdon technically *I* should be referred to as a princess!

if it was 70 years ago I’d be making a good honest living emptying ashtrays #Monsterdon

#Monsterdon heehee the ants are so cute!

Don't shoot til you see the black of the Antennie.
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Was that Ike in that meeting?

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They could have just done some math, but no, they had to get some fancy scales involved.

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tech-i-nic-i-ly

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They said Them!

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Anyone else suddenly remembering Honey I Shrunk The Kids right now?

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"radar-like antennae" #monsterdon

Wait., _C. vicinus_ Mayr? Ernst Mayr? Daaaaamn! #taxonomy #Monsterdon

#Monsterdon "lemme explain what's going on" *starts narrating to a 1950s tiktok about ants*

He was rehearsing this narration all night #monsterdon

"Savage mandibles"

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So he’s not just a desert beat cop? #Monsterdon

ant farrrrrrrrrrrrm

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And we have cigarette smoking! Both smoking and coffee!

#Monsterdon #Them(1954)

And now comes the science lesson #monsterdon

Love that they have time for a smoke & educational film strip

fighting monsters in the 50s was so glamorous!

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oh the fifties! Everyone smoking on a closed room.
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"Okay shitheads, you laughed at my warnings about ants, so I'm here to SCARE THE SHIT OUT OF YOU!" #Monsterdon

(ugh, probably in my f-ing basement as well.) #monsterdon

please yes film within a film for some exposition this is peak 1950s #monsterdon

#monsterdon For your edification I've prepared a short film: /puts on "shake hands with danger"

:blobaww: It's Movie Day in science class today! #Monsterdon

So yeah, if you thought fire and buildings was bad, wait until you see fire in caves. Whole atmosphere gone just like that :BlobcatFlamethrower: :raccoonFlamethrower:

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Yeees educational short film within a film #monsterdon

no police are better at creating panic than handling it #monsterdon

some of you don't believe us. so how 'bout these apples?
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"Does everyone have a smoke? You have to. A bit like saying 'Over'. It's a rule."

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Clever way to use stock footage.

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oooh, a short film. does it have a musical introduction?

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TIME TO INFORM WASHINGTON!

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Movie time! ("In a small way...")

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So, can we use these ants in war? I mean giant ants could really be a good weapon, right?
~Me as CEO of Antz War Inc.
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#Monsterdon 🐜 !🐜 !🐜 ! 🔥 😱

Look I know the giant ants skeletonized the people but I still want to pet their fuzzy antennae and I'm pretty sure they'd be nice to us if we were nice to them

the ability to deliver clear lines with a cigarette in your mouth was also essential

in hollywood in the 1950s

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The Queen's chamber and the eggs. Oh.... OOOH. Well as people have pointed out this is some serious Aliens scenes going on.
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@moira @trixter Also I like how they decided to leave the nest once they confirmed Plan A hadn't worked. Like the captain (Laurence Fishburne) in Event Horizon when he said, "We're leaving." Also reminded me of the Aliens egg chamber scene. #Them!1954 #Monsterdon

queen ants in the stratosphere? bummer for the ants but pretty cool all the same. #monsterdon

#Monsterdon us military desperate to destroy a powerful matriarchy
too real

This is not the end, nor is it the beginning of the end. #Monsterdon

Ooo, are we gonna get stock footage of the Army?

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@darren It really is. ❤️
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"We haven't seen the end of them"

I know, right, Doc? We've got a whole 45 minutes left and we're still escalating.

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#Monsterdon what the fuck are these ants gonna _eat_ that they can grow and reproduce at this rate?

Commence barbecue

:akillitwithfire_rev: 🐜 :akillitwithfire:

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If there's an aerial planes vs. gynes dogfight I'm going to shit myself and die #Monsterdon

uh-oh, 'Washington!'

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The saliva tunnels have plenty of dry ice in them I guess

If the very smart lady who knows how to speak Metric says to burn it all down you do it NOW #Monsterdon

So many #aliens connections. These scenes were so similar! #monsterdon

I'm not even sure what he meant by spits all that's holding me together too

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Ant egg souffle? #monsterdon

Get em Ripleys! #monsterdon

okay, see if the crew of the Nostromo had simply firebombed the whole place as soon as they found the egg chamber, that movie would have gone a LOT differently. #monsterdon

"I say we take off and nuke the whole site from orbit"

"Isn't that how we got here in the first place?"

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"...I said burn it!"
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"I said burn it, burn everything!"

Doctor Pat should definitely be in charge of this operation.

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Ripley vibe burn everything!!

#Monsterdon #Them1954

"Burn the Galaxy!"
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Ant flambe ...

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in fallout 3 the ants had the flamethrowers #monsterdon

#Monsterdon aaaaaahhhh he took a duck in the face at fifty knaughts

#monsterdon BURN EVERYTHING! (They know)