Diary (April 16, 2020)

Online diary of Karl Jones for Thursday April 16, 2020.

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Communication

All communication is imitative.

Apolemia

If I were going to invade this planet, I would definitely choose a small, simple, fast-replicating organism.

I was thinking bacteria. They form colonial streams under stress, you know – very useful for invading hominid planets.

But this Apolemia may be a better approach.

• Comment @ Boing Boing

Fiction cross-reference

• Gnomon algorithm
• Gnomon Chronicles