flying saucers shaped like ants heaven have mercy pleas let it be so #monsterdon
Flying saucers?? Did I miss something?
THEFTS OF SUGAR SYRUPS SWEETS
@CactuarJoe which left us on 17 letters of the alphabet. #monsterdon
"UNNATURAL THINGS ALIVE OR DEAD"
AP, IP, UP, everybody Ps! #Monsterdon
"...can't tell you a thing boys, we're under extremely hush hush rules."
Wait, how are the New Mexico ants going to get to Asia/Africa? They don't swim thousands of miles right?
#Monsterdon
@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>
AP, PU, UPI
Iβm perilously close to learning something about ants #Monsterdon
Adding to the movie time with some film strips from a kids science class.
#Monsterdon #Them
An ant fight that lasted for 72 hours? Humans should just surrender now.
#Monsterdon
Oh boy they rolled in the projector we're going to watch a video in class today!
#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.
"In some cases, for reasons no one understands, ants occasionally fling themselves off cliffs in huge numbers."
someone has a Special Interest. (^_^) #monsterdon
don't monkeys have wars? I'm pretty sure I've seen videos of them doing it
#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
#Monsterdon
"Doctor, will this be on the exam?"
#Monsterdon #Them1954
Ants are just like us!
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!
We're getting a whole flood of pro-ant propaganda here.
So ants are the Klingons of the insect world?
"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!)
#Monsterdon technically *I* should be referred to as a princess!
if it was 70 years ago Iβd 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.
#Monsterdon
Was that Ike in that meeting?
They could have just done some math, but no, they had to get some fancy scales involved.
tech-i-nic-i-ly
They said Them!
Anyone else suddenly remembering Honey I Shrunk The Kids right now?
"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"
So heβs not just a desert beat cop? #Monsterdon
ant farrrrrrrrrrrrm
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!
oh the fifties! Everyone smoking on a closed room.
#monsterdon
"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:
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?
#monsterdon
"Does everyone have a smoke? You have to. A bit like saying 'Over'. It's a rule."
Clever way to use stock footage.
oooh, a short film. does it have a musical introduction?
TIME TO INFORM WASHINGTON!
Movie time! ("In a small way...")
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.
#Monsterdon
#Monsterdon π !π !π ! π₯ π±
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
The Queen's chamber and the eggs. Oh.... OOOH. Well as people have pointed out this is some serious Aliens scenes going on.
#Monsterdon #Them
@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?
@darren It really is. β€οΈ
#Monsterdon
"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.
#Monsterdon what the fuck are these ants gonna _eat_ that they can grow and reproduce at this rate?
If there's an aerial planes vs. gynes dogfight I'm going to shit myself and die #Monsterdon
uh-oh, 'Washington!'
#Monsterdon π !π !π ! π₯ π±
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
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?"
"...I said burn it!"
#Monsterdon #Them
"I said burn it, burn everything!"
Doctor Pat should definitely be in charge of this operation.
Ripley vibe burn everything!!
"Burn the Galaxy!"
#monsterdon
Ant flambe ...
#Monsterdon #Them(1954)
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)