Strange World

[Brakecheck]

Thought you guys might find this as interesting as I did.

If these could cross-breed with fire ants we'd have a problem.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQERRbU23bU

[DarthRider]

Incredible...

[JCsman]

Ho Lee Katz*! The structure that resulted would make a great sci-fi model of a martian city.

I recall years ago seeing lead "sculpture" created by pouring molten metal into ant mounds in the desert SW in the US. But those were table-top size. This is flippin' amazing.





* My Jewish-Korean cousin.

[Deans BMW]

Simply amazing.

[Rchop]

That was interesting :023:

[supermotoC]

Thank God those ants can't learn to pour concrete.

We'd be screwed.

[Gord]

That was truly fascinating both from an "architectural" perspective as well as from an engineering perspective. It certainly says something about the sense of community that ants have. I thought it ingenious to pump the concrete into the network to explore it. I'm afraid I would have thought of investing billions of dollars to figure out how to shrink a man down to a small enough size to explore the tunnels in person!

[Brakecheck]

I'm afraid I would have thought of investing billions of dollars to figure out how to shrink a man down to a small enough size to explore the tunnels in person!

Sounds like the beginnings of a screenplay Gord!

What I found interesting is how they do all this as one organism. They don't have planning meetings, elections or ant labor unions. They just do it - like llttle robots. Really amazing.

[DarthRider]

Thank God those ants can't learn to pour concrete.

We'd be screwed.

:rofl::rofl::rofl:

[Elsie Smith]

Thought you guys might find this as interesting as I did.
Wow, pretty amazing. Those ants seem a lot smarter than those guys in the pool with the extension
cord running across :-) The ant hill area looks like "lungs" with branches, lobes, etc.