Ant structures

[Cadaverous Pallor]

Check out what the hive mind can do. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozkBd2p2piU) Amazing.

[SacTown Chronic]

Let's take the LoT commune underground.

[scaeagles]

That's amazing....but how many poor ants had to die to do this. Tragic callousness in the scientific community.

[SzczerbiakManiac]

Wow! That's impressive. :eek:

[DreadPirateRoberts]

That's amazing....but how many poor ants had to die to do this. Tragic callousness in the scientific community.

In the comments they said that this was an abandoned ant hill, the ants had already moved their colony elsewhere.

[Alex]

Can't see the video from work. Is this one of those things where the scientist poured liquid polymer into the ant hill so all the tunnels and areas filled up and then it hardened allowing the ant hill to be removed and revealing the "circulatory system?" (Essentially the same thing as done to the human bodies in those traveling Bodies shows).

[Ghoulish Delight]

Yes.

[scaeagles]

In the comments they said that this was an abandoned ant hill, the ants had already moved their colony elsewhere.

I was being silly.

[SzczerbiakManiac]

Can't see the video from work. Is this one of those things where the scientist poured liquid polymer into the ant hill so all the tunnels and areas filled up and then it hardened allowing the ant hill to be removed and revealing the "circulatory system?"Yes.Though in the video they described it as cement. It looked pretty "liquidy", more like gray water, as it was being poured. Not that I am cement expert.

[scaeagles]

Cement would be way too thnk to flood the tonnels, I believe.

[alphabassettgrrl]

Interesting.

[Betty]

So kewl!

[Cadaverous Pallor]

I'm sure it was a cement variant, nice and thin to fill up those tunnels.

[lashbear]

I think it was Porridge. Mine always sets like that too !

[JWBear]

My guess would be slurry.

[cirquelover]

Great, that must be what it looks like under my house :mad:

They are amazing creatures but I do not like them in my house!

[alphabassettgrrl]

Yeah. Ants are one of the few creatures I don't feel bad about killing off. I don't mind if they live in the plants on the front porch but that's about it.

[Deebs]

Great, that must be what it looks like under my house :mad:

They are amazing creatures but I do not like them in my house!

Oh, I know! Me too! Ants are worse than spiders to me. When I see them in the house I get so freaked out. Yes, they are tiny. But when I see them coming up from the drain in the shower or marching in a snake-like line in my kitchen, they make my skin crawl and my stomach turn. I just know that where I see 100, there are 100 million others I can't see.

And now that I've watched this, well, I am even more freaked out by their engineering genius. And jealous of their LGM mind-link, allowing them to work together peacefully to make something far cooler than I ever could. Thanks, Caddie! ;)

[Capt Jack]

well, let me just say...

hail! to the future rulers of the planet from one of your devoted subjects!
PS: please, dont eat me

[RStar]

Not that I am cement expert.

Oh? I heard you were an expert on all things hard! ;)

[bewitched]

That is a clip from an award winning documentary entitled Ants! Nature's Secret Power

If anyone's interested, here's the full, 53 minute film (http://www.documentary-log.com/?id=67)



Nonetheless, totally amazing.