This video is amazing.
http://www.smirkingloon.com/video/city_of_ants.php
Researchers poured thin concrete into an ant colony to trace the caverns and paths.. it is astonishing!
Incredible! I would pay big bucks for a chance to see that first-hand.
That is cool. I wonder how many times they got bit while they were there. Ow!! Thanks for the video. [drink]
Quote from: ducatizzzz on September 05, 2008, 05:31:46 AM
This video is amazing.
http://www.smirkingloon.com/video/city_of_ants.php
Researchers poured thin concrete into an ant colony to trace the caverns and paths.. it is astonishing!
One of my all time favorite videos.... I don't remember how much cement they used: 10 tons? 40? [thumbsup]
Amazing.
And we spend big bucks to cool a building and they do it naturally.
They pumped in 10 tons of cement.
The ants removed 40 tons of dirt to make the "City"
Ants don't work for money, and they work as a community (okay, not really meaning to go this direction).
And they're proportionally much stronger than humans. Oh, and they don't have the interwebs to distract them.
Quote from: roy-nexus-6 on September 05, 2008, 06:07:46 AM
One of my all time favorite videos.... I don't remember how much cement they used: 10 tons? 40? [thumbsup]
it says 10 tons but i think that is dry weight before mixing in water. plus, i think they used very diluted mix so it would flow into all the caverns etc.
pretty wild.
ants can suck it.
My enounters with ants are always negative
These orange ants swarmed my room. so i killed them all. (they tasted and smelled great though)
then there was that time i was PTing and my Captain (female Marine) chopped my head of for scratching my private area. a make the beast with two backsing fire ant bit my penis. :/
like i said. ants can suck it.
I thought this was all about cousins.....all this talk about aunt holes
but you see
now it makes sense
all those times i funneled kerosene down a big anthill
it must have been serious shit underground!
Wow, amazing!!!
Reminds me of some of Paolo Soleri's (http://www.arcosanti.org/project/background/soleri/main.html) Archogy sketches.
so...... ants are to blame for global warming with all that harmfull gas they pump out into the air.
f'n lil socialist bastards.
Red scum!