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==Explanation== | ==Explanation== | ||
| − | + | {{incomplete|Created by an INKJET PRINTER FILLED WITH PERFUME. Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}} | |
| − | + | {{w|Ant}}s, studied along with other insects by {{w|entomologist}}s, leave trails of signalling secretions such as {{w|pheromones}}, natural chemicals that they emit along the trail to and from food sources and other events. These chemical trails guide other ants in the colony to return to food, but are not generally refered to as chemtrails by biologists except informally. | |
| − | + | [[Cueball]] is intentionally conflating these with {{w|chemtrails}}, the subject of a conspiracy theory that the government controls the population by spraying toxic or mind-/body-transformative chemicals from high-flying aircraft. This myth may be based on the practice of {{w|cloud seeding}}, which uses chemical flares containing silver nitrate to increase precipitation up to 15%.[https://www.vox.com/videos/23290459/cloud-seeding-manmade-rain-future-perfect] Chemical manipulation of unwitting people is not uncommon, but usually doesn't involve airplanes.[https://www.businessnewsdaily.com/3469-smells-shoppers-spend-more.html] Please see also [[1677: Contrails]] — contrail is short for "condensation trail" which are cloud-like lines in the sky created by jet engines. | |
| − | + | [[Ponytail]] specifically studies ant navigation, perhaps as a professional entomologist who once worked with an editor who inserted the word "chemtrails" in one of her [https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00359-019-01363-z comparative physiology] drafts which competing before a peer review panel with papers by [https://bio.kuleuven.be/ento/pdfs/billen_procnev_2006_signal_variety.pdf Johan Bilen] of the Leuven University Zoological Institute and Harvard's [https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674045880 Rüdiger Wehner]. [[Cueball]] knows she will be annoyed when he tells her "So, I hear you're really into chemtrails?" And he gets the reaction he hoped for when she objects strongly and rejects this with a loud '''No!!''' [[Randall]] then notes in the caption that this is how to annoy people like Ponytail. Whether ant gland secretion signalling is {{w|Turing completeness|Turing-equivalent}} was explored in Douglas Hofstadter's ''{{w|Gödel, Escher, Bach|Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid}}''. | |
| − | + | The title text contrasts individual ants instinctively deciding how the whole colony behaves by using chemicals to indicate routes to food or dangers to motivate the colony to react to their individual experiences, with the human fear of loss of personal independence by being regulated by otherwise disconnected ruling elites, as depicted in the ant-technology interaction speculative fiction-themed rock music video by the band ''Placebo'' entitled [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fISvc-yUU1A "Infrared."] | |
| − | + | Ants are a recurring theme, as are those who study them. See for instance [[1610: Fire Ants]]. Chemtrails was also the subject of [[966: Jet Fuel]] and [[1677: Contrails]] and was mentioned in [[1803: Location Reviews]]. This comic has a similar format to [[2036: Edgelord]]: a simple one-panel interaction consisting of a (likely deliberate) misuse of a term in regards to a professional's work, followed immediately by the professional's upset outburst, and Randall's caption spelling out "How to annoy" the professional. Both of these seems to be related to Randall's [[:Category:My Hobby|hobbies]], as this is something he seems to think about a lot — how to annoy specific groups of people, which is necessary information for minimizing overall annoyance production.{{cn}} | |
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==Transcript== | ==Transcript== | ||
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:[Cueball stands talking to Ponytail, who has her arms raised and has small lines above her head to indicate annoyance.] | :[Cueball stands talking to Ponytail, who has her arms raised and has small lines above her head to indicate annoyance.] | ||
:Cueball: So, I hear you're really into chemtrails? | :Cueball: So, I hear you're really into chemtrails? | ||
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:[Caption below the panel:] | :[Caption below the panel:] | ||
:How to annoy entomologists who study ant navigation | :How to annoy entomologists who study ant navigation | ||
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{{comic discussion}} | {{comic discussion}} | ||
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[[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]] | [[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]] | ||
[[Category:Comics featuring Ponytail]] | [[Category:Comics featuring Ponytail]] | ||
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[[Category:Biology]] | [[Category:Biology]] | ||
[[Category:Puns]] | [[Category:Puns]] | ||
[[Category:Conspiracy theory]] | [[Category:Conspiracy theory]] | ||
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