Here is a fun thing to do:
- Buy a magnifying glass
- Put a big drop of honey on your driveway. Place it on the edge near the grass. Early day.
Check it about an hour and see if there are ants at it.
Observe.
Note:
I noticed the first ants get stuck and die. Then other ants do the same. Then other ants come and crawl over the dead ants and start pulling off the dead ants legs. The dead ants legs have a drop of honey on them. The live ant carries the honey embossed dead ant leg back to the queen.
They create a distinct path from the grass to the honey. Lots of ants. It becomes like a highway. New ants going to the honey, and returning ants carrying honeyed dead ant parts. Lots and lots of ants. The ants don't care. Marching to die or bring dead with honey back home.
Now, having observed this with your magnifying glass, you start to hate the ants.
You then use the magnifying glass to capture the suns rays and try to burn them ants. It starts with just one ant. Then the next one burns faster. You have learned to focus the beam to kill ants instantly. You become drunk with this power and start to strafe the entire ant highway. You feel like an A-10 warthog pilot strafing the Highway of Death in Iraq at the beginning of the Gulf War. Nothing but destruction left behind. And it was so easy.
This is exactly how an Extra Terrestrial civilization would see us. They would have just as much advantage as a human would to an ant. And who really cares about ants.
Kill the ants.