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Started by ducatiz, September 05, 2008, 05:31:46 AM

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ducatiz

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!
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ducsix

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September 05, 2008, 05:39:25 AM Last Edit: September 05, 2008, 06:25:49 AM by ducsix
Incredible!  I would pay big bucks for a chance to see that first-hand.

695LAM

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September 05, 2008, 05:45:56 AM
That is cool.  I wonder how many times they got bit while they were there.  Ow!!  Thanks for the video. [drink]

roy-nexus-6

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September 05, 2008, 06:07:46 AM
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]

MikeZ

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September 05, 2008, 12:23:02 PM
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"
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Fresh Pants

#5
September 05, 2008, 12:29:23 PM
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.
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ducatiz

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September 05, 2008, 03:00:37 PM
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. 
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He Man

#7
September 05, 2008, 04:19:00 PM
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.

Grampa

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September 05, 2008, 04:21:20 PM
I thought this was all about cousins.....all this talk about aunt holes
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ducatiz

#9
September 05, 2008, 05:24:09 PM
but you see

now it makes sense

all those times i funneled kerosene down a big anthill

it must have been serious shit underground!
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DesmoDiva

#10
September 05, 2008, 05:25:08 PM
Wow, amazing!!!

Reminds me of some of Paolo Soleri's Archogy sketches.  
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Grampa

#11
September 05, 2008, 06:13:38 PM
so...... ants are to blame for global warming with all that harmfull gas they pump out into the air.

f'n lil socialist bastards.

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So I went solo.  -Me

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NeufUnSix

#12
September 07, 2008, 09:58:24 AM
Red scum!
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