A space ant fires its lasers

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I'm happy to see this on the front page of hacker news! It was already shared to me via my family because Donald Menzel was my great grandfather.

Oh nice! Small world! Are you also pursuing a career in science?

Meta: I know people hate click-baity headlines, but it is the weekend and sometimes things are a bit more lax around here then.

I love clever headlines. Not the lying click-bait sort, but the kind that make puns or tell the summarize the story in a fun way.

It used to be that after you bought the newspaper, you were done making financial decisions. But editors would still stick these stories with cute heads deep inside. It gives a feeling for the tone of the people putting together the content.

For my money, for folks who like these things, "Giant Space Ant Fires Lasers At Earth" is just too much to pass up.

It may be clickbait, but it's not clickbait that's trying to sell you something or more generally make money - it's trying to get people interested in space, and it's relatively wholesome, so I agree.

But you do have to deliver decent photos of said lasers at least

Titles aside, it did get my curiosity piqued, I didn’t know lasers could be naturally formed.

Sounds like a Salvador Dali's painting

This title delivers.

There's an ant. It's in space. It shoots lasers.

Is it aliens?

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