The ants arrived on Thursday in a small tube via mail. I call them the "Expedition I" in honour of the first crew which moved into the International Space Station (ISS) on the 31st of October 2000, the "Expedition 1". With existing NASA procedures, an expedition lasts about 4 months, until the current astronauts get replaced by another expedition. This time span is similar to the life expectancy of an individual ant, which is between 1 and 4 months. I hope to see a great "Expedition I" followed by a bunch of further expeditions. (The current crew on the ISS is Expedition 14).
In accordance with the instructions, I bonked 4 holes into the blue gel.
I named them after Scottish lochs: Loch Ard, Birnie Loch, Loch Coruisk and Loch Dungeon. With this naming, I try to score a joke, because "loch" in Gaelic means "lake" which is not really what I dug today, but in German the work "loch" word means "hole" - so only in German, the naming makes sense.
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