This Is Not a Crack in the Road

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Ant 1: Protect the queen!
Ant 2: Which one's the queen?
Ant 3: I'm the queen!
Ant 1: No you're not!
Homer: Nooo! [his head smashed the colony, and the ants float free]
Ant 1: Freedom! Horrible, horrible freedom!
Buzz: You fool! Now we may never know if ants can be trained to sort tiny screws in space.

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I doesn't look like it is in Seattle, either.

Oh wait, now I get it. Is it in NM?

Your shadow is probably the designated lunch break spot.

Oh, it REALLY is ants. I thought it was a picture of where the spaceport is going in.