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   BowserNoodle ☦️ (bowsacnoodle@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Feb-2026 22:08:31 JST BowserNoodle ☦️
   Antarctica posting again. Schizoposters and normieposters welcome.
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     BowserNoodle ☦️ (bowsacnoodle@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Feb-2026 22:10:17 JST BowserNoodle ☦️

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     They knew there were no bears. How they knew is beyond me, but they knew.
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     Bloodytailspike (monsterislandcolonizer@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Feb-2026 22:33:08 JST Bloodytailspike

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     @BowsacNoodle There was a Greek explorer who went very very far north but I can't recall his name
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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 12-Feb-2026 04:22:59 JST Bread up, Bro

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     • pepsi_man
     @pepsi_man @BowsacNoodle this explains ants
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     pepsi_man (pepsi_man@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 12-Feb-2026 04:23:00 JST pepsi_man

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     I'm too autistic to let that slide.
     
     The prefix "ant" when prepended to a word just means "opposite of the other thing."
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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 12-Feb-2026 04:24:52 JST Bread up, Bro

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     • Wolffkran
     @Wolffkran @BowsacNoodle much more than pretty smart. Geometry is actually sick as shit because it basically underlies a huge portion of math and it starts with "ok you have a ruler and a compass .. " and the whole point is just making mathematical proofs, but physically, not abstractly.
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     Wolffkran (wolffkran@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 12-Feb-2026 04:24:53 JST Wolffkran

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     @BowsacNoodle Same way they knew the circumference of the Earth, they had some pretty smart dudes
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     blankdeblank (blankdeblank@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Thursday, 12-Feb-2026 08:42:14 JST blankdeblank

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     I didn't find what I was looking for but this is Socrates:
     Also I believe that the earth is very vast, and that we who dwell in the region extending from the river Phasis to the Pillars of Heracles inhabit a small portion only about the sea, like ants or frogs about a marsh, and that there are other inhabitants of many other like places; for everywhere on the face of the earth there are hollows of various forms and sizes, into which the water and the mist and the lower air collect. But the true earth is pure and situated in the pure heaven—there are the stars also; and it is the heaven which is commonly spoken of by us as the ether,