Imagine that aliens visited Earth, gathered data, and wrote a report to their bosses, including something like “the planet is inhabited by microorganisms, living predominantly in water and on/in multicellular organisms, among which arthropods prevail, mainly springtails, ants, plants, and beetles. We managed to establish communication with some microorganisms, as they most resemble us, the aliens. We are working with ants and beetles.”
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