[lgkk]

I would like to believe we were put here by a super advanced species so they could observe what we do for their entertainment and research purposes.

Why else would people for example keep ant colonies in their home or grow kits?

Hopefully we are not alone and they come back soon. I have many questions.

[ithkuil]

Our ants may have many questions too but we don't seem to understand whether they even have questions and we may not even know how to start engaging with them to answer them. Surely they don't seem to respond to our level of intelligence, so we should adapt to their level in order to tell them something they can understand. But if we achieve that, will the ants really perceive us as a higher level of intelligence? We would clearly stumble our way to approximate a communication channel the best possible way with them and use the feedback to learn how to get better at communicating, but that may take a lot of effort on our side because we may always assume we "bottomed out" their intelligence level and that's pointless to continue probing.

I now ask you to imagine an analogy with a species that is as smarter, bigger, more powerful and radically different from us as we are to ants.

[rwallace]

Be careful what you hope for. For all we know, the answer might be, "Sorry, human, I'd love to chat, but I need to get your dish cleaned and racked up to dry before they close the lab for the eon. Now, how do you get the childproof cap off this bottle of antineutronium..."

[brnt]

I don't think ants want their kid 'owner' to come back soon to see how they struggle when it floods the nest. For science.