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Cadaverous Pallor

01-15-2009 09:32 AM

Ant structures

Check out what the hive mind can do. Amazing.

SacTown Chronic

01-15-2009 09:57 AM

Let's take the LoT commune underground.

scaeagles

01-15-2009 10:08 AM

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

SzczerbiakManiac

01-15-2009 10:10 AM

Wow! That's impressive. :eek:

DreadPirateRoberts

01-15-2009 10:21 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by scaeagles (Post 263585)

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	01-15-2009 10:30 AM

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

01-15-2009 10:31 AM

Yes.

scaeagles

01-15-2009 11:02 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by DreadPirateRoberts (Post 263588)

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

01-15-2009 11:07 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Alex (Post 263590)

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight (Post 263591)

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

01-15-2009 11:21 AM

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

alphabassettgrrl

01-15-2009 11:23 AM

Interesting.

Betty

01-15-2009 11:26 AM

So kewl!

Cadaverous Pallor

01-15-2009 02:13 PM

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

lashbear

01-15-2009 02:37 PM

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

JWBear

01-15-2009 02:56 PM

My guess would be slurry.

cirquelover

01-15-2009 03:43 PM

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

01-15-2009 04:02 PM

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

01-15-2009 04:02 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by cirquelover (Post 263671)

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

01-15-2009 04:20 PM

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

01-15-2009 05:03 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by SzczerbiakManiac (Post 263607)

Not that I am cement expert.

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

bewitched

01-16-2009 01:32 AM

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

Nonetheless, totally amazing.

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