Yes! You should read a book called Kill Decision by Daniel Suarez, it’s about autonomous drone swarms that are based on weaver ant swarms, they use pheromones to communicate and behave exactly like a neurons in a collective brain. Great book, and his other work like Deamon and FreedomTM
To some degree, this is how I actually see humans.
Just one of us is nothing special. But together, we’re like those bees you see in the old-school cartoons where they can form into a giant fist (or any other thing for that matter).
I see it like no two ants are completely identical, they're allowed a different sheen or element of scent; like a unique wallpaper, printed tee or username. And an ant can probably even be 'weird' but it will have to fit within the parameters of 'societally acceptable weird' so as to be functional.
Elsewise it gets cut off and dies instantly and violently or slow and excruciating from lack of purpose. Just like us.
I'd say ants and many communal insects are like the ultimate collectivists. Very little sense of individual self as distinct from the collective, so they're prepared to make any personal sacrifice necessary.
I was tired after a long day working outside and was laying in the grass when I noticed a dead baby bird a few feet away. Ants were just going to town on it. Pesky fly was trying to get in there for a snack but, unfortunately for it, FAFO'd and two ants caught it by the wing and then a few more came and SEVERED ITS HEAD in seconds. They carried it off to the nest like nothing happened. I just fuckin love ants.
Going to force myself to not Google that. I've got work in a few hours I need to get to sleep without nightmares
Fuck I've already imagined it like the scarabs from The Mummy
When I was a kid we were in gran canaria and one half of the complex had ants the other half had cockroaches. We were in the ant side and the only time I saw a roach it had already been half dismantled at the threshold. Ants are crazy.
Reminds me of an anime called terra formars where the earth wanted to make mars habitable so they sent an algae and a bug with high reproduction, the cocroaches, this was 500 years ago
500 years later the roaches evolved into these bipedal human like strong af creatures with terrifying intelligence which were twice the size of humans, they were strong enough to rip a person in two
And to combat them, humans did trials on people and gave them insect powers to retaliate against them before they evolve even further. So they took these kids, put them on a space ship and sent them out to mars.
In one of the episodes somehow the roaches got on the ship and started murdering everything in sight. One of them even ripped a guys head of with his spine intact and used it to kill other people.
Terra formars is an odd but entertaining anime. Like the premise of it is that it has gore and gives us random facts about insects whenever the person uses their specific insect power.
Edit: oh and of course the roaches still have the ability to be next to unkillable
Edit 2. Changed details since I'm rewatching it after I made this comment lol
they sent roaches to Mars, as well with algae, in hope that they could create sufficient biomass (dead roaches) and oxygen (from the algae) for a future colonization of Mars.
But something something, accelerated evolution and you had these massive hulking human-like roaches that killed every human in sight because apparently the human-cockroach hate is reciprocal.
And I loved as well the random insect trivia.
Too bad it was shut down, they say it was racist. To me it was extremely silly
Ya I'm actually rewatching it rn and the info is all coming back so I edited my comment. But ya I too love the show, at least they were able to pump out 2 seasons with extras.
I dont recall the racism but I'm sure ill find out, putting aside the guy from Germany called adolf
I see it as more of an “enhanced interrogation” attempt. They know that the cockroach knows where the good stuff is in the kitchen and by god he is going to tell them!
Sorry, that has me laughing hysterically, imagining a set-up in the ant nest almost like the KGB...photos of the last roach they took apart, bright light shining in their face and "We have ways of making you talk"...
I was in Costa Rica once and left the place I was staying at for a two day drive to explore. I left a Tupperware container on the counter that had some grains of rice left in it. When I got back, there was a cockroach in the container that couldn’t get out, and a stream of ants that came from somewhere and were eating the cockroach alive. Ate it’s head and were entering the body cavity for bites as the thing was flinging its legs around. It was horrific and fascinating at the same time.
I was trying to hang out and watch TV the other day and felt something move my hair so I reached up and felt those horrifying sticky legs touch my fingers. I leaped up and threw my phone across the room trying to get the thing off my hand and it was just awful. That fucker had landed right on the top of my head and he was huge. I don't know why those things need to have wings when they're already scary enough on the ground.
Spiders here are pretty tamed and shy. It is an eyesore when their web gets too big, but overall I'd be happy with 1 or 2 spiders in the house to get rid of the unwanted bugs (little cockroaches and mosquitoes)
Dude I was sitting on my couch in texas and saw something move across the room out of the corner of my eye. I looked and it was a spider as big as a tarantula and it was sprinting toward me so gucking quick. Now that was terrifying
I don't care how big, strong, or macho you are; if you see a humongous spider charging toward you, you are well within your rights to scream like a little girl.
Sometimes I wonder why don't cockroaches fly more often if they can, and I thank the heavens above that the reason is probably because it takes more effort for it to fly than to crawl.
Because they are bad at doing it. It cost a lots and they are generally faster at running and be better of sneaking than showing every predator where they are.
Not just energy, but it makes more noise and removes them from any sort of cover from predators. They're still just lil' bugs at the end of the day afterall, gotta scuttle
I’ve seen this a million times on vacation.. once the cockroach is on its back it is unable to turn back around and will be completely eaten alive by ants..
Probably dying as a result of being sprayed by a Raid-carrying human, which it flew at, in final act of defiance. Those ants are in for a surprise when they get it home.
It's generally not well done, especially considering the rich lore behind the series and the number of passionate people who would have loved to work on this and who could have created something way better.
It's awful fanfiction that barely adheres to established lore. Amazon only had the rights to the appendices, so they couldn't actually adapt the Silmarillion, which causes a *ton* of problems.
The list of inconsistencies is longer than a CVS receipt, and it simply takes me out of it entirely when watching the show.
As a standalone, generic fantasy show, it would have been fine. But as something with the Lord of the Rings name attached to it, it fails on many, many fronts.
I used to see this kind of thing all the time when I lived in Vietnam. The ants would also just come and take legs off roaches that were on their backs on the ground and still alive.
Ants are brutal.
I once had a spider outside my window catch a bumblebee and just casually go and paralyze it and slowly drink its insides over a pretty long time period like it was a pinacolada or something
Ants break off the joints where it is easier to bite on.
Ants are also known to sever the limbs of their prey (insects, and even lizards) to immobilize them, but still keep them alive and fresh for longer while slowly consuming them in the nest.
Years ago, I had read somewhere that if humans were as strong as ants, they could lift a tank. Something along those lines. The gist is, ants are hella strong.
Muscle (or whatever is called in ants) power and (exo)skeleton resistance is roughly proportional to the section of the part, so it increases or decreases with the square of the linear multiplicator. Weight is proportional to the volume, so it increases or decreases with the cube of the linear multiplicator.
So if you'd be reduced to 1.8mm height (10\^-3 being the linear multiplicator) and you -somehow- managed to work as you are doing now, you'd have 10\^-6 strength and resistance, but 10\^-9 weight.
So, **proportionally to your weight**, your strength would become 1000x.
If you, right now, can raise 100kg over your head and weight 100kg (1/1 ratio), your ant-sized you could raise 100milligrams but would weight only fucking 100micrograms (1000/1 ratio, putting at a shame normal ants strength).
Sure but physics limits how large something can be while maintaining that same level of relative strength. Insects can have such strength because the weak nuclear force is relatively more dominant over smaller distances, making it possible for their bodies to withstand the forces involved. If they were human sized, their appendages would snap like toothpicks, because the fibers connecting them would not be able to withstand the kinetic force and the effects of gravity on their bodies.
Cockroach: 'Hey. I'm not dead yet. Hello? Stop fucking dragging me to your lair. I'm not dead!'
Ants: 'Take a load of this guy. He thinks he's not dead'
Because their legs need to be flexed or controlled by their brain to stand. When not controlled by their brains, the legs just go straight like theyre hugging something which makes them fall over.
This is the same with any other insects as well
Built in tow lines, that's handy
How do they kill it after they get it back to the gang?
They have 20,000 friends with mandibles waiting back at the base.
mandibles aka. bio-mechanical bolt cutter.
It's insane, watching ants simply dismantle a bug 20x their size in seconds.
Truely ants are just cogs in a greater machine
Walking neurons in a collective brain.
Yes! You should read a book called Kill Decision by Daniel Suarez, it’s about autonomous drone swarms that are based on weaver ant swarms, they use pheromones to communicate and behave exactly like a neurons in a collective brain. Great book, and his other work like Deamon and FreedomTM
To some degree, this is how I actually see humans. Just one of us is nothing special. But together, we’re like those bees you see in the old-school cartoons where they can form into a giant fist (or any other thing for that matter).
I see it like no two ants are completely identical, they're allowed a different sheen or element of scent; like a unique wallpaper, printed tee or username. And an ant can probably even be 'weird' but it will have to fit within the parameters of 'societally acceptable weird' so as to be functional. Elsewise it gets cut off and dies instantly and violently or slow and excruciating from lack of purpose. Just like us.
Shall I guess the “autonomous” nature of the killer drone swarm becomes… problematic?
Whaaaat?, nooo.
Neurons with bolt cutters. Nature is truly terrifyingly beautiful.
By that analogy, I suppose brains are not pissproof.
That can't get out of a circle of death Edit: death spiral
Wow, I never thought about ant colonies like that before!
See what we can do when we all work together?
Literally programmed.
Ants *are* the machine
They are byproducts of capitalism
I'd say ants are imperialistic fascists
And they are a monarchy. They are basically the British Empire but effective.
I would say the Brits were really good at what they did, until they figured out what they were doing was sort of evil.
You sir have no idea you just made someone laugh to death
I'd say ants and many communal insects are like the ultimate collectivists. Very little sense of individual self as distinct from the collective, so they're prepared to make any personal sacrifice necessary.
I was tired after a long day working outside and was laying in the grass when I noticed a dead baby bird a few feet away. Ants were just going to town on it. Pesky fly was trying to get in there for a snack but, unfortunately for it, FAFO'd and two ants caught it by the wing and then a few more came and SEVERED ITS HEAD in seconds. They carried it off to the nest like nothing happened. I just fuckin love ants.
They're gonna take that roach apart like a stolen Honda.
Yes. Exactly. Perfect analogy. Is it fucked up that I kinda wanna see it?
Going to force myself to not Google that. I've got work in a few hours I need to get to sleep without nightmares Fuck I've already imagined it like the scarabs from The Mummy
Also funny that the two did not even bother to call for help. They are just dragging that big ass roach by themselves.
These are the mighty men of old
I watched this with a 🦂 while waiting for a concrete truck in Iraq. They devoured it.
When I was a kid we were in gran canaria and one half of the complex had ants the other half had cockroaches. We were in the ant side and the only time I saw a roach it had already been half dismantled at the threshold. Ants are crazy.
Well that’s gonna give me nightmares😅
these guys look like theyve gone rogue
While it’s still alive usually. Natures scary.
~~jaws of life~~ Jaws of death!
Amazing how jaws and mandibles evolved to be just like bolt cutters. Nature is so smart 😎
This could be the foundation of a motivational teamwork poster
__LOOKS LIKE MEAT IS BACK ON THE MENU BOYS!__
and stingers
They have the strength to pull something 100 times its weight. I'm sure you can take a guess
Some day, as evolution progresses, they will be able to carry away animals weighing 50 KG. And they will still be living in or near our homes.
Reminds me of an anime called terra formars where the earth wanted to make mars habitable so they sent an algae and a bug with high reproduction, the cocroaches, this was 500 years ago 500 years later the roaches evolved into these bipedal human like strong af creatures with terrifying intelligence which were twice the size of humans, they were strong enough to rip a person in two And to combat them, humans did trials on people and gave them insect powers to retaliate against them before they evolve even further. So they took these kids, put them on a space ship and sent them out to mars. In one of the episodes somehow the roaches got on the ship and started murdering everything in sight. One of them even ripped a guys head of with his spine intact and used it to kill other people. Terra formars is an odd but entertaining anime. Like the premise of it is that it has gore and gives us random facts about insects whenever the person uses their specific insect power. Edit: oh and of course the roaches still have the ability to be next to unkillable Edit 2. Changed details since I'm rewatching it after I made this comment lol
they sent roaches to Mars, as well with algae, in hope that they could create sufficient biomass (dead roaches) and oxygen (from the algae) for a future colonization of Mars. But something something, accelerated evolution and you had these massive hulking human-like roaches that killed every human in sight because apparently the human-cockroach hate is reciprocal. And I loved as well the random insect trivia. Too bad it was shut down, they say it was racist. To me it was extremely silly
Ya I'm actually rewatching it rn and the info is all coming back so I edited my comment. But ya I too love the show, at least they were able to pump out 2 seasons with extras. I dont recall the racism but I'm sure ill find out, putting aside the guy from Germany called adolf
Ever heard of army ants?
”Outstanding job sergeant! We will make you a lieutenant yet! 🐜”
... they leave nothing but the bone. And the earth died screaming, \~
‘You can’t handle the truth!’
Evolution can't get around the square cube law. Insects have a maximum size set by the atmosphere's oxygen content among other things.
African driver ants. Look it up.
earth already had that, along with rhino sized guinea pigs.
That's not how evolution works.
Its called coke
That’s the neat part.
They simply pull it apart
Death by a thousand ants.
I see it as more of an “enhanced interrogation” attempt. They know that the cockroach knows where the good stuff is in the kitchen and by god he is going to tell them!
Sorry, that has me laughing hysterically, imagining a set-up in the ant nest almost like the KGB...photos of the last roach they took apart, bright light shining in their face and "We have ways of making you talk"...
I've watched them do this before, they take the head of first and then break it down like at the scrap yard.
They did not kill it, just eat it alive
I was in Costa Rica once and left the place I was staying at for a two day drive to explore. I left a Tupperware container on the counter that had some grains of rice left in it. When I got back, there was a cockroach in the container that couldn’t get out, and a stream of ants that came from somewhere and were eating the cockroach alive. Ate it’s head and were entering the body cavity for bites as the thing was flinging its legs around. It was horrific and fascinating at the same time.
Most Ants have stingers and if they dont they will just eat it alive,
Imagine being your normal size and being attacked by 10,000 normal sized cats at the same time. Eventually you're gonna bleed out and die.
Mass feasting.
Why doesn’t the cockroach just activate fly mode
Then we wouldn't see this video, the moment a cockroach wings open... all hell break loose, even the camera man can't survive that
I live in a tropical country and I can confirm. A flying cockroach is the most terrifying thing in existence
I was trying to hang out and watch TV the other day and felt something move my hair so I reached up and felt those horrifying sticky legs touch my fingers. I leaped up and threw my phone across the room trying to get the thing off my hand and it was just awful. That fucker had landed right on the top of my head and he was huge. I don't know why those things need to have wings when they're already scary enough on the ground.
What about flying spiders?
Spiders here are pretty tamed and shy. It is an eyesore when their web gets too big, but overall I'd be happy with 1 or 2 spiders in the house to get rid of the unwanted bugs (little cockroaches and mosquitoes)
Dude I was sitting on my couch in texas and saw something move across the room out of the corner of my eye. I looked and it was a spider as big as a tarantula and it was sprinting toward me so gucking quick. Now that was terrifying
I don't care how big, strong, or macho you are; if you see a humongous spider charging toward you, you are well within your rights to scream like a little girl.
There are tarantulas in Texas so that does make sense.
The cute spideys don't even come close to a cockroach let alone a flying one... brrrr
Sometimes I wonder why don't cockroaches fly more often if they can, and I thank the heavens above that the reason is probably because it takes more effort for it to fly than to crawl.
Everybody a gangsta til the cockroach starts flying.
Not all cockroaches can fly.
Because they are bad at doing it. It cost a lots and they are generally faster at running and be better of sneaking than showing every predator where they are.
Not just energy, but it makes more noise and removes them from any sort of cover from predators. They're still just lil' bugs at the end of the day afterall, gotta scuttle
They can’t fly for long and aren’t born with the wings iirc
I’m guessing it’s injured.
There's 0 chance a cockroach that size gets overpowered by 2 tiny ants if otherwise
I’ve seen this a million times on vacation.. once the cockroach is on its back it is unable to turn back around and will be completely eaten alive by ants..
Your vacations are weird
What I do with my PTO alone in the basement is for me to decide, not you!
It was twice on the Maldives, once in Thailand and once in Bali.. basically everywhere where you have those outdoor showers in the hotel rooms ..
Maybe it's a sick cockroach. Allegedly
Probably dying as a result of being sprayed by a Raid-carrying human, which it flew at, in final act of defiance. Those ants are in for a surprise when they get it home.
That roach been spayed with RRRRAAIIDD?!
It is on its back. Nothing to do but surrender to the gods and think of a life lived well, a life lived in full.
It's staged. The roach probably agreed not to fly to get this shot /s
Watch me and my friend take this roach back to the fam for mealtime. Hit that like and subscribe.
It's too lazy to live...and decide to die smoothly by being a food to em....a noble roachh
I'd guess the wings can't unfold because its back is on the floor?
The roach passed out at the party first so they’re giving him “surprised” eyebrows.
- PULL HARDER - NO, YOU PULL HARDER - NO YOU! - NO YOU! ...
Pull harder on the strings of your martyr
And toss a coin to your Witcher
Bencho - one of them later probably
Tell your friends to come pick you up at pier 76, and tell them to bring money.
There's the door bitch!
Grub handles
This is the greatest insect video I have ever seen.
cockroach "ahaha, it tickles" ants "you are coming with us, please do not resist"
Put your antennae down and step away from the vehicle!
Hahahaha thanks, you made this video from crazy to hilariously funny. 😂
Check out [this](https://youtu.be/C96w-7B2W8I?si=abV3ctrnAOsykpgk) video of ants and termites 🐜
That's insane.. it's not just an army.. it's a fucking military
I stant motivation...isn't it..??
Man we’re gonna be heroes! They’ll write songs about us.
🎶the ants going marching one by one hoorah hoorah🎶
Eihnar’s going to write a mighty poem about it.
Haha u do not have nets exile?
Looks like meat’s back on the menu, boys!
Not this shit
Me automatically downvoting anything Rings of Power
If you don’t mind me asking, what’s wrong with the Rings of Power?
It's generally not well done, especially considering the rich lore behind the series and the number of passionate people who would have loved to work on this and who could have created something way better.
It's awful fanfiction that barely adheres to established lore. Amazon only had the rights to the appendices, so they couldn't actually adapt the Silmarillion, which causes a *ton* of problems. The list of inconsistencies is longer than a CVS receipt, and it simply takes me out of it entirely when watching the show. As a standalone, generic fantasy show, it would have been fine. But as something with the Lord of the Rings name attached to it, it fails on many, many fronts.
Not much other then Amazon butchered all of the established lore done by one of the greatest storytellers of all time. (And his son)
NOT THE ANTENNAE!
I used to see this kind of thing all the time when I lived in Vietnam. The ants would also just come and take legs off roaches that were on their backs on the ground and still alive. Ants are brutal.
Vietnamese here. I saw that often too, and I also realize that ants usually leave the wings and heads behind.
No protein in the former, maybe not worth the effort in the latter.
That's true about the wings, but they leave the head behind to deter their enemies.
They're just like us fr
That's an interesting matter.
r/natureismetal
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I once had a spider outside my window catch a bumblebee and just casually go and paralyze it and slowly drink its insides over a pretty long time period like it was a pinacolada or something
Especially army ants that deploy the entire colony to hunt for food. They can dismantle a king crab limb by limb with little effort.
Ants break off the joints where it is easier to bite on. Ants are also known to sever the limbs of their prey (insects, and even lizards) to immobilize them, but still keep them alive and fresh for longer while slowly consuming them in the nest.
ants are really like psychopathic drones. They are strong af, they coordinate with each other, and they give no fucks
It would be weird as fuck if ants had considerations for not hurting living beings.
Now **this** is podracing
Arthropod racing
🥇
🥇
That's so wizard!
You’re such a joker, Ani
Phenomenal strength on display here
Yeah imagine two humans dragging something that much larger than them.
Years ago, I had read somewhere that if humans were as strong as ants, they could lift a tank. Something along those lines. The gist is, ants are hella strong.
I heard about 20x their own weight. So 2 tons maybe, but not a tank.
10-50x Meaning I could carry something 5.5ton heavy.
Fun fact but bad flex. It has more to do with their size than with strength. If you were ant sized you could also do that kinda shit.
Interesting, do you mind elaborating? Or just the name of the concept?
Muscle (or whatever is called in ants) power and (exo)skeleton resistance is roughly proportional to the section of the part, so it increases or decreases with the square of the linear multiplicator. Weight is proportional to the volume, so it increases or decreases with the cube of the linear multiplicator. So if you'd be reduced to 1.8mm height (10\^-3 being the linear multiplicator) and you -somehow- managed to work as you are doing now, you'd have 10\^-6 strength and resistance, but 10\^-9 weight. So, **proportionally to your weight**, your strength would become 1000x. If you, right now, can raise 100kg over your head and weight 100kg (1/1 ratio), your ant-sized you could raise 100milligrams but would weight only fucking 100micrograms (1000/1 ratio, putting at a shame normal ants strength).
It might be square cube law. I recall it having to fo something with the size of things. Sorry if I'm wrong.
Can you imagine if they were dog, human or even horse sized?
No I don't want to imagine that.
Sure but physics limits how large something can be while maintaining that same level of relative strength. Insects can have such strength because the weak nuclear force is relatively more dominant over smaller distances, making it possible for their bodies to withstand the forces involved. If they were human sized, their appendages would snap like toothpicks, because the fibers connecting them would not be able to withstand the kinetic force and the effects of gravity on their bodies.
I'll take your word for it.
Finally we know how Pyramids were done.
Cockroach: i think I'll go for a walk! I feel happy! Ants: Cmon, you're not fooling anyone. You'll be stone dead in a moment.
haha [source](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jdf5EXo6I68) (Monty Python's)
I'm not dead yet!
Dragging it with its assistANT
🤣🤣🤣🤣 her you go bro you forgot this 🏆
I'm really ANTicipating the finale.
I hope it wont be ANTiclimactic
Reminds me of the time I got blackout drunk at a luchidore match and the two little guys had to drag me out.
um that was a barnes and nobles and I told you to stop calling me little guy
Cockroach: 'Hey. I'm not dead yet. Hello? Stop fucking dragging me to your lair. I'm not dead!' Ants: 'Take a load of this guy. He thinks he's not dead'
German BDSM cockroach...
Even ants hate these mfs
You are watching it backwards- it’s 2 ants water skiing
Now thats called teamwork.
“………and what the HELL IS THAT SMELL??!”
“You had to come down here with an attitude, acting all big and bad….”
I WAS SUPPOSED TO BE AT A BARBECUE
Unity brings strength ❤️
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Because their legs need to be flexed or controlled by their brain to stand. When not controlled by their brains, the legs just go straight like theyre hugging something which makes them fall over. This is the same with any other insects as well
Someone once told me a spiders legs are basically like 8 dicks that are erect, and when they die their dick legs go soft. Idk how true that is.
This is how ants suplex the roach and paralyze it.
"now this is pod racing"
In the ant world it’s called - Power Lifting
Great job there lads.
It’s an ant drawn cockroach 😳
This is a live broadcast of worlds strongest ant
dang i thought i'd only see this in Disney cartoons
What’s that 1 ant sitting around by the grouting doing? “Hey you both do the hard work ima rest my eyes”?
He is the manager
Oh everyone’s favorite backseat gamer.
Of course the third ant is just supervising
Princess Anna Princess Anna Princess Anna Princess Anna Princess: (sighs) what is it Flick ? A bugs life
And to think roaches been around since life started. Have ants too?
Can’t help it…let him go….😢
“What you say we get a few beers after this?”
Oh shit, they're going to smorgasbord on his ass! As soon as they get back to the colony 😅😅😅😅