Ants - unbelieveable findings...*must see*

To sort of add to the thread is the saying that "nature knows best". I can't name any off the top of my head but I remember an engineer syaing in the past that when stuck on complex problems - they'd look at how nature achieves feats and then try to copy them.
 
still id be annoyed if someone destroyed a yrs worth of my and my friends familys work.. along with killing a lot of them.. :p clever lil ants. :D
 
Ants are awesome, i always wondered how big an ants nest was. Thankfully those people were there to annihlate an entire colony using concrete to show us how it really looks!
 
there was a fabulous national geographic explaining the "hive mind" of ants a while back.

here it is online -

http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0707/feature5/index.html

to take a small bit of how we learn from them.
Inspired by the elegance of this idea, Marco Dorigo, a computer scientist at the Université Libre in Brussels, used his knowledge of ant behavior in 1991 to create mathematical procedures for solving particularly complex human problems, such as routing trucks, scheduling airlines, or guiding military robots.

In Houston, for example, a company named American Air Liquide has been using an ant-based strategy to manage a complex business problem. The company produces industrial and medical gases, mostly nitrogen, oxygen, and hydrogen, at about a hundred locations in the United States and delivers them to 6,000 sites, using pipelines, railcars, and 400 trucks. Deregulated power markets in some regions (the price of electricity changes every 15 minutes in parts of Texas) add yet another layer of complexity.
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they did all that to find how ants work? surely they coulda just googled it

edit: omg he was gonna burn one of the ants to death with a magnifying glass at the very end :|
 
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Hi this is Professor Denzil Dexter... we wanted to know how ants lived so over three days we poured ten tonnes of cement over into their home :confused:

They'll be straight after him when the Giant Ants Invasion comes :p
 
JayMax said:
Did I miss something here?
Hi this is Professor Denzil Dexter... we wanted to know how ants lived so over three days we poured ten tonnes of cement over into their home :confused:

They'll be straight after him when the Giant Ants Invasion comes :p
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I was just going to say, it'd be pretty funny if one day massive alien ants filled his house with concrete while he was asleep :D
 
Immense little creatures, that's what happens when you give something just enough brain to function, too thick to worry about what the other 80% of it's brain is doing and just wants to get on with the task in hand.
 
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