You don’t see it? We must learn from them, we must stop the fighting between us and corporate with our spider overlords. Imagine what we could accomplish with this alliance! We could farm near the webs and any insects that would destroy the plants will get trapped and eaten by the spiders. We would save so much money from not having to use pesticides, we could focus on creating alternate forms of energy. This started off as sarcastic, but I’m thinking what if it could actually work? I don’t know if I’m serious or not
The republicans want to build a physical wall down the aisle of congress. I didn't make that up. I'm sure that will improve their approval rating and make the country great...again? Oh wait I just spent 0.2 seconds thinking about this and it's a horrible idea.
I actually was a kid living about 15 minutes away when that web formed, me and friends loved the abundance of insects that year, and we actually got to see the web shortly after it began to fall apart (The web broke, and scattered all across the trees and ground around) It was an amazing place, and absolutely beautiful to walk through during the time, definitely better than any halloween decorations.
*Walks outside, sipping a glass of water* *Sees enormous sheet web, with thousands of spiders wandering around* *Gently sits glass down, and walks inside* "Hey, honey? We're moving." "Wha- why?" "Just get in the car, I'll call the moving truck to get our things."
there are actual social spiders massimo...granted in the areas most of the quasi-social spiders evolved in there are huge amounts of prey...there are also swarm social spiders as well..the territorial social ones would be the sub-social where working together is kept at a minimum.
Blaine Carey IKR! People need to respect creatures that aren't humans more! They were here first! I hope I never have to hire an exterminator! The only reason animals should be killed is for food and for clothes and to keep the population in check!
I'll probably have nightmares about bajillions of spiders crawling around covering a whole forest with their ginormous web, trapping me inside. Thanks for that.
don’t forget the most important part of being devoured by a centillion spiders. them injecting venom into your body, thus turning your guts liquid, then drinking you like a slush-ice!
+KASASpace 'Bugs' is in the title. If we're being technical, none of these are bugs; there is such a thing as a 'true bug' family of insects which includes assassin bugs.
When you consider the fact that Spiders can simply dismiss their territorial nature and instantly adapt in favour of cooperation. I wonder if many spiders decided that this was a superior way to live? How long would it take for Spiders to form a hive mentality?
If Aragog pulls out his Acromantula things on me all Im gonna say his "Harry was a wizard but me, IM A "MUGGLE" id thats what you things call me, and we dont use your Expeliarmus crap we have 45 50 cal.'s hitched up behind me and we know how to use them.
There should be 4.. You missed Ants. I mean really.. They are everywhere and they are amazing insects.. But still freak me out when they try to climb on me..
Australia is a horrible place to be when you're talking about ants, the poor little things (sarcasm) have to live in everybodies households to protect themselves from the heat waves we have.
I don't think the ants are as complex as the ones listed. At best they resemble the termites, but they termites out-did them due to things like above-ground 'towers'.
C00kii0 If spiders have genetic information that allows them to co-operate, then through biological engineering we could theoretically make these genes much more prominent. Like dogs, we can use the co-operation genes to have the spiders recognize us as part of their group.
+Polyester Homes there are 3 distinct categories in social spiders..quasi-social, sub-social, and than there is the swarm social spiders. quasi-social spiders do pretty much exactly whats in the video pretty much..they build giant webs, work together, take care of the young together, one group of females breed while another group does not breed (i believe they switch out every so often), they take care of the nest together as well, and they form colonies together (given). sub-social spiders they build large webs too but unlike the quasi-social spiders its much more limited in that they wont work together to take care of the giant nest and they are much more territorial with their webs...their individual webs are loosely connected to the main web structure and each other. the swarm social spiders are quite literally ants or bees expect that every female can breed and there is no cast system. females will go out an venture forth drop their eggs off in some random spot and return home or stay and when the eggs hatch a new colony forms and sometimes males will venture between the swarms and or help start a new colony although a very rare occurrence as far as i know....so you get a spider version of meerkats which grandsons breed with grandmoms, son breeds with mother, sister, grand-daughter breeds with grandpa, cousin 1 and cousin 2 breed together, etc.
0:55 1. You can tile a plane with any number of other shapes beyond equilateral triangle, square, and hexagon, they're just not regular shapes. 2. "Hexagons have a smaller total perimeter than either triangles or squares, which means you can fit a lot more of them in a given area." This is exactly backward. Hexagons have a smaller perimeter for a given area which means that you need -fewer- to fill an area for any given side length. Also would have been cool to explain how they do it.
That massive mess of web is straight outta my nightmares. The only difference is the one's in my nightmare is infested with big, black, beefy hand-sized super spiders from hell. And I find myself surrounded and trying to carefully get out of it without touching anything, especially the middle where the big momma is. Man I hate that re-occurring nightmare. Anyone wanna trade?
Correction! Bees don't actually build the hexagons, directly! They build circles, stacked to together as tightly as possible. These wax circles then sag and melt together in an hexagon shape, after a short while. Because hexagons is what you get when tightly packed circles sag enough to close the gaps between them but not so much that they collapse all together. You can reproduce this by stacking lots and lots of soap bubbles.
Isn't it amazing that insects, with their microscopic brains, and lack of ability for rational thought, are such precise and efficient architects of complex structures. It seems the more and more we learn about everything, the more difficult it becomes to maintain a closed-minded view towards the idea of intelligent design.
Speaking of spider webbies, can you do an episode on hummingbirds? I love how they use 'em to build nests. I've seen them eat spiders, too. I always thought that they'd stick their beak in and twirl it around like some sort of bug-filled cotton candy maker.
So spiders of different species, who would usually kill each other for food,supplies or a area that contain those things. .. yet when "shit hits the fan". . even they know how to get along for a common goal. . . why can't humans hardly do this?. . even though we deem ourselves as the *master mammal race*. .
Weren't you listening? They weren't co-operating because "shit hit the fan," quite the opposite. There was an unusual abundance of food around, so they always had plenty to eat. And Hank specifically pointed out that this is very rare for them. Even us violent humans will build a Hippie commune, from time to time.
Humans DO do this. We for the most part live in a world where our resources are scarce and fought over. We also have the brain power to seek higher tiers on the Need Heirarchy. If EVERYONE in the world had the resources to reach the highest level of need then everyone would coexist perfectly. Also when shit does hit the fan, humans tend to be strongest since we are very social creatures. You can praise spiders for this cooperation but also remember that under "normal" conditions, spiders will viciously kill each other for encroaching on their territory.
because greed is in man's nature, an abundance of resources is to be hoarded, not shared. When men wanted to share, the greedy called it communism, now they call it socialism.
i have defined bugs several times already but here: true bugs belong mainly to the order Hemiptera, which means half wing. Bugs usually have two pairs of wings, with the front wings divided into a leathery inner half and a thin, transparent outer half. But it’s not just the wings that make a bug a bug. It’s also their mouth parts. Whereas grasshoppers chew and butterflies siphon, actual bugs don’t do either. Instead they suck the juice from plants with their tube-like beaks.
wait spiders decided to work together? this is horrible what if they decide to take over the world next? i was happy before watching this video thinking spiders didn't have secret council meetings!
from Merriam-Webster: "bug" 1 a : an insect or other creeping or crawling invertebrate (as a spider or centipede). --------- Those of you thinking Toth proved the thing about hexagons: Toth only proved it for convex tiles. Also, Hales indeed published his results formally in 2001, but also on arXiv.org as a ``preprint'' in 1999, as SciShow accurately reports. I'm so happy there's actually accurate reporting on interesting mathematical problems in a public medium!
there's a number of reasons, but the main one is that they're just smart enough not to get caught in it. they don't come flying into full contact like their prey do and they clean themselves to remove web particles to minimize stickiness.
so what we do is we farm lots and lots of flying insects in one room, farm lots of spiders in another room, open the door between the rooms, the insects fly out of their room into the spider room in hopes to get breathing space and the spiders build this gigantic sheet web to catch them all, we then harvest the web and make it into incredibly tough clothing!
I love how Hank didn't tell us what constant temperature that building modeled after termites is kept... doesn't really matter if it's modeled after an amazing termite design or not if it's a temperature that's uncomfortable. Can it keep the building at a constant 23C? Then we're good.
Hank, you should do a video on people with phobias of tessellating shapes like honeycomb and textures like velvet. I personally know two people that vomit at the thought and sight of these, and I've always wondered why.
According to Wikipedia, some Queens that are leaving to start a new colony take an aphid egg to found a new herd of underground aphids in the new colony. Witch is pretty cool, especially keeping in mind that they probably started to do that long before human
0:32 Q: Why did bees choose the hexagon? A: They didn't. They build cylindrical tubes by pressing their heads into the soft wax. The hexagon just happens when a cluster of these cylinders press together from all angels. The cells are only hexagonal when they're in the middle; notice that at the right, where that honeycomb bends, they're still round.
There are, of course, countless other shapes that can fit together without leaving gaps: Rectangles, parrallelograms, arbitrary triangles, and many other. M.C. Escher made even a series of lithographies where the plane is tiled with birds, fishes, angels and demons etc.
It would have been beneficial to add an aside on how the honeycomb is made. The hexagonal geometry is actually an emergent property of hymenoptera's tendency to be boring (as in holes) insects and when you bore as many holes as you can in a given space and rebuild the overlap you end up with hexagons. I first read about this in "On The Origin of Species" and it blew my mind: local rules creating complex and efficient structures, the beauty of natural selection.
I had a lecture on this about a month ago (I'm training to be a primary teacher) and apparently the ideal word to use with children is 'mini beasts' because it is broad enough to cover all species of creepy crawlies. Also it apparently 'doesn't sound intimidating' (or make the kids all squeamish!). According to my lecturer this is because the word 'mini' makes them sound cute. :') We live in a weird and wonderful world
Makes sense, because a circle has the highest area-to-perimeter ratio, but you'll have gaps. A hexagon is the most like a circle out of those 3 shapes (squares, triangles, and hexagons).
Termites also have designated soldiers who sacrifice themselves so that the workers can escape from predators (or eager photographers in my case). They are little badasses, squirting acid which really stings and itches.
I am well aware they are all owned by the same parent company (and other super companies. Nothing surprises me anymore). I had just never seen a Pizza Hut combined with anything else before.
actually, bees make a circular prism when they're making their hive, the hexagonal aspect is from nature as a hexagonal shape is the single most economical way to arrange things with the least tools, so it's hardly down to bees to do that, more just the laws of physics in general
I once saw a tree covered in webs like that one, but it was made by caterpillars I think as it was like a massive communal caterpillar web full of large cocoon pockets that were packed with caterpilars.
There are so many spiders in the world and they hunt in different ways. Please do a video about arachnids. From the smallest to the largest, how and what they hunt, and where they live and in what they live.
It's actually fun to read Vogel M.'s trollfest. About the measuring systems, while it is true that there are no 'good' or 'bad' systems, it is however easier to use some of them in certain situations. That's why there is the Kelvin scale and the Celsius scale, one is for scientific purposes, the other - for everyday life. The Fahrenheit scale probably has its own pros and cons, but I don't use it, so I can't say much about it. Also, it's a common misconception that base 10 is more convenient.
"These words he speaks are true. We're all humanary stew. If we don't pledge allegiance to.. THE BLACK WIDOW" I love spiders and all, but that even a bit much. I never knew spiders cooperated to catch food, that's actually really interesting.
true bugs belong mainly to the order Hemiptera, which means half wing. Bugs usually have two pairs of wings, with the front wings divided into a leathery inner half and a thin, transparent outer half. But it’s not just the wings that make a bug a bug. It’s also their mouth parts. Whereas grasshoppers chew and butterflies siphon, actual bugs don’t do either. Instead they suck the juice from plants with their tube-like beaks. so in this case bees/termites arent in this order.
Yeah I may have understated how big the amazon is, I guess I was just focussing on the point I made about the web line. 20 feet is still a long way for a spider to traverse horizontally through empty space!
i just respect hank's scientific videos, and i can't blieve that he was this careless. i know that it doesnt really affect the cool structures that he was describing, but the technicalities, at least in science, are important. i just think that for the better of the population we need to make sure that ignorance doesnt slip into the classroom anymore than it already does.
What I wrote was "I MADE a great effort to learn it (I wish I'd learned it earlier in life, it would have been easier)" which implies that while it was not easy to learn (I've never had an easy time with mathematics) I put forth the effort to do it, even though it wasn't required. What you seem to imply is that I struggled with it, which is not true. Rather, I took the time and expended the energy to learn it of my own volition rather than just sit back and use the Imperial system my whole life
Yes they do!! They also have KFC-Taco Bells. And if your lucky enough to live in certain areas... The Fast Food Junky's mouth-watering dream... the combination Pizza Hut - KFC - Taco Bell!!!
that web is so sick. I bet if spiders recorded their own history that would be like a big monumental thing and they would have to learn about it in spider school
Yes, you can just do that. I'm from Romania. My country had its currency changed about 6 years ago. Old people are still talking in terms of the old currency. Young people got used to it. Whatever you change overnight, there will be some that will adapt and some that won't.
Sheet web: OK, so the spider web would have been pretty gross in and of itself, being made of lots and lots of spiders. But think how many mosquitoes there had to be to make this possible. I'll give you a hint: the number of bugs around here is too damn high.
When I saw the Giant spider Web part I thought; "Oh damn, one of those spiders had a Martin Luther King momment. "I have a dream, that one day we will work together despite our differences for endless grub.""
He also doesn't realize the conversion mistake into his 'perfect' imperial measurements, or the fact that he doesn't know all three temperature measures are linear
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Just a heads up, cutting 212 in half then subtracting 12 gives you 94, not 100. You would want to say "let's cut (number -12) in half", or "let's cut that number in half -6"
A video on the "ganzfeld effect" would be awesome. also a video on the forms and structures of eyes. (not how they work, more like, why a cuddlefishs eyes look soooo weird to me.)
Bee's cases are circular, the appearance of hexagonal shape is accidental, incidental and more a pareidolia effect. Take the time to look at those cases one by one and you'll see the interior is round most of the time.
Also ∆T is the difference between a value of T, in two different environments. for instance, if T1=20 K but then heats up to T2=32 K,it means that ∆T=10 K
Oh my god the spiders are learning to cooperate! Quick someone teach them about party politics before they decide to conquer us!
You don’t see it? We must learn from them, we must stop the fighting between us and corporate with our spider overlords. Imagine what we could accomplish with this alliance! We could farm near the webs and any insects that would destroy the plants will get trapped and eaten by the spiders. We would save so much money from not having to use pesticides, we could focus on creating alternate forms of energy. This started off as sarcastic, but I’m thinking what if it could actually work? I don’t know if I’m serious or not
The republicans want to build a physical wall down the aisle of congress. I didn't make that up. I'm sure that will improve their approval rating and make the country great...again? Oh wait I just spent 0.2 seconds thinking about this and it's a horrible idea.
TheMonolith20001 oof
@@daveb5041 shut up commie
I actually was a kid living about 15 minutes away when that web formed, me and friends loved the abundance of insects that year, and we actually got to see the web shortly after it began to fall apart (The web broke, and scattered all across the trees and ground around)
It was an amazing place, and absolutely beautiful to walk through during the time, definitely better than any halloween decorations.
*Walks outside, sipping a glass of water*
*Sees enormous sheet web, with thousands of spiders wandering around*
*Gently sits glass down, and walks inside*
"Hey, honey? We're moving."
"Wha- why?"
"Just get in the car, I'll call the moving truck to get our things."
Spiders became highly sentient and decided to form a coalition and construct a massive structure! Impressive!
Or.., there was enough available food that they didn't *need* to be territorial.
there are actual social spiders massimo...granted in the areas most of the quasi-social spiders evolved in there are huge amounts of prey...there are also swarm social spiders as well..the territorial social ones would be the sub-social where working together is kept at a minimum.
"Our webs will block out the sun!"
"Then we will fight in the shade!"
Meanwhile...
Humanity is currently aiming nuclear weapons
Obama "allright congress, what the fuck should we do, press the button, please say press the fucking button"
*sees spider web net*
oh gee that sure is cool hank
*begins pressurizing flamethrower*
ICH HASSE SPINNEN!!!!!
ICH HASSE SPINNEN!!!!!
Why do you hate spiders?
Blaine Carey IKR! People need to respect creatures that aren't humans more! They were here first! I hope I never have to hire an exterminator! The only reason animals should be killed is for food and for clothes and to keep the population in check!
babiker a.majid well if you overcook spinach then you probably deserve the flamethrower
Same man same
spiders cooperate?
i'm moving off planet. send me to mars.
I'm packing bags. 😂
y do people hate spiders, they're awesome.
@@tvdeskis6521 spiders are really cute and awsome and tarantules have really shiney eyes they are beautiful
I'll probably have nightmares about bajillions of spiders crawling around covering a whole forest with their ginormous web, trapping me inside.
Thanks for that.
don’t forget the most important part of being devoured by a centillion spiders. them injecting venom into your body, thus turning your guts liquid, then drinking you like a slush-ice!
Spiders aren't insects....
But you knew that.
Still cool though. The whole video, I mean.
+KASASpace 'Bugs' is in the title. If we're being technical, none of these are bugs; there is such a thing as a 'true bug' family of insects which includes assassin bugs.
+Crested Dragon yep and lady bugs🐞
Yes but he said bugs not insects
When you consider the fact that Spiders can simply dismiss their territorial nature and instantly adapt in favour of cooperation. I wonder if many spiders decided that this was a superior way to live? How long would it take for Spiders to form a hive mentality?
When that happens it will be terrifying.
Christina Neri When it happens humans might get along too :P
Zivilyn The Wyrd Haha maybe :p
please do a full video on spiders and spider silk
That web... It's the beginning of Aragog...
If Aragog pulls out his Acromantula things on me all Im gonna say his "Harry was a wizard but me, IM A "MUGGLE" id thats what you things call me, and we dont use your Expeliarmus crap we have 45 50 cal.'s hitched up behind me and we know how to use them.
Cheezit034 Why use guns.......that's what bug spray is for
TheTokenBilly Bug Spray on Aragog? Ok while you're trying that i'll be running as fast as I can in the other direction.
TheTokenBilly or a flamethrower
that works too
There should be 4.. You missed Ants. I mean really.. They are everywhere and they are amazing insects.. But still freak me out when they try to climb on me..
Australia is a horrible place to be when you're talking about ants, the poor little things (sarcasm) have to live in everybodies households to protect themselves from the heat waves we have.
I don't think the ants are as complex as the ones listed. At best they resemble the termites, but they termites out-did them due to things like above-ground 'towers'.
Pinkie Pie 'above-ground towers'... You never seen a huge anthill then.
***** I've seen huge ant hills and the termites towers are way cooler.
***** You must not have ever seen a termite mound due to how you have no idea what I mean by explicitly using "towers" as an analogy.
the horror that is spiders working together. ..
If we spiders can work together, perhaps we can get them to work for us...
Polyester Homes ._ . Go on,i`m listening.
C00kii0
If spiders have genetic information that allows them to co-operate, then through biological engineering we could theoretically make these genes much more prominent. Like dogs, we can use the co-operation genes to have the spiders recognize us as part of their group.
:O *mind blowing sounds in the background* friendly spiders ?
+Polyester Homes
there are 3 distinct categories in social spiders..quasi-social, sub-social, and than there is the swarm social spiders.
quasi-social spiders do pretty much exactly whats in the video pretty much..they build giant webs, work together, take care of the young together, one group of females breed while another group does not breed (i believe they switch out every so often), they take care of the nest together as well, and they form colonies together (given).
sub-social spiders they build large webs too but unlike the quasi-social spiders its much more limited in that they wont work together to take care of the giant nest and they are much more territorial with their webs...their individual webs are loosely connected to the main web structure and each other.
the swarm social spiders are quite literally ants or bees expect that every female can breed and there is no cast system. females will go out an venture forth drop their eggs off in some random spot and return home or stay and when the eggs hatch a new colony forms and sometimes males will venture between the swarms and or help start a new colony although a very rare occurrence as far as i know....so you get a spider version of meerkats which grandsons breed with grandmoms, son breeds with mother, sister, grand-daughter breeds with grandpa, cousin 1 and cousin 2 breed together, etc.
That last one reminds me of Mirkwook from The Hobbit
First we have the busy bees' honeycomb, the next being the termite-scale skyscrapers, and the last being a MASSIVE web spiders built as a team.
how are bees better at math than me?
they’re asian...
I'm trying to write story focused on arthropods and this video was very helpful in understanding them more.
Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy. Spider Queen.
0:55
1. You can tile a plane with any number of other shapes beyond equilateral triangle, square, and hexagon, they're just not regular shapes.
2. "Hexagons have a smaller total perimeter than either triangles or squares, which means you can fit a lot more of them in a given area." This is exactly backward. Hexagons have a smaller perimeter for a given area which means that you need -fewer- to fill an area for any given side length.
Also would have been cool to explain how they do it.
That massive mess of web is straight outta my nightmares. The only difference is the one's in my nightmare is infested with big, black, beefy hand-sized super spiders from hell. And I find myself surrounded and trying to carefully get out of it without touching anything, especially the middle where the big momma is. Man I hate that re-occurring nightmare. Anyone wanna trade?
never....
+X Gen I have potentially good news, I have heard that if you tell someone a recurring dream, it's supposed to stop happening.
Dalton Brown
That is good to hear. I wouldn't mind that one bit. Here's hoping..
I think I'll pass...
+X Gen Heh, only if you like being kidnapped.
I'm liking this short series - what's next? Fish? Do fish build things?
Spiders are not insects, they are monsters.
Agreed...
Also arachnids.
very, very true
oh gahd. THEY ARE MONSTERRS😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀
and the mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell
Correction! Bees don't actually build the hexagons, directly! They build circles, stacked to together as tightly as possible. These wax circles then sag and melt together in an hexagon shape, after a short while. Because hexagons is what you get when tightly packed circles sag enough to close the gaps between them but not so much that they collapse all together.
You can reproduce this by stacking lots and lots of soap bubbles.
The spider web had me thinking of the Hobbit
same
Isn't it amazing that insects, with their microscopic brains, and lack of ability for rational thought, are such precise and efficient architects of complex structures. It seems the more and more we learn about everything, the more difficult it becomes to maintain a closed-minded view towards the idea of intelligent design.
stop the video at 3:30 xD LOOK AT HIS EYES!!! XD
Speaking of spider webbies, can you do an episode on hummingbirds? I love how they use 'em to build nests. I've seen them eat spiders, too. I always thought that they'd stick their beak in and twirl it around like some sort of bug-filled cotton candy maker.
4:01 Creepy? That's amazing. I personally think spiders are pretty cool, just as long as they don't crawl on me.
I would love entire episodes about spider structures and the science of silk.
Or at least one :3
Anyone else have a bad case of the willies after the spider bit? No? Ah right then... *calls therapist*
***** you
suck
***** Forget him, dude. He's just been watching too much porn today.
That termite vent system -- what a picture-perfect example of intelligent design without an intelligent designer! Go evolution!
So spiders of different species, who would usually kill each other for food,supplies or a area that contain those things. .. yet when "shit hits the fan". . even they know how to get along for a common goal. . . why can't humans hardly do this?. . even though we deem ourselves as the *master mammal race*. .
Weren't you listening? They weren't co-operating because "shit hit the fan," quite the opposite. There was an unusual abundance of food around, so they always had plenty to eat.
And Hank specifically pointed out that this is very rare for them. Even us violent humans will build a Hippie commune, from time to time.
Humans DO do this. We for the most part live in a world where our resources are scarce and fought over. We also have the brain power to seek higher tiers on the Need Heirarchy. If EVERYONE in the world had the resources to reach the highest level of need then everyone would coexist perfectly. Also when shit does hit the fan, humans tend to be strongest since we are very social creatures.
You can praise spiders for this cooperation but also remember that under "normal" conditions, spiders will viciously kill each other for encroaching on their territory.
because greed is in man's nature, an abundance of resources is to be hoarded, not shared. When men wanted to share, the greedy called it communism, now they call it socialism.
i have defined bugs several times already but here: true bugs belong mainly to the order Hemiptera, which means half wing. Bugs usually have two pairs of wings, with the front wings divided into a leathery inner half and a thin, transparent outer half.
But it’s not just the wings that make a bug a bug. It’s also their mouth parts. Whereas grasshoppers chew and butterflies siphon, actual bugs don’t do either. Instead they suck the juice from plants with their tube-like beaks.
wait spiders decided to work together? this is horrible what if they decide to take over the world next? i was happy before watching this video thinking spiders didn't have secret council meetings!
+SquiddyReviews there are bird-eating spiders.
It looks like Mirkwood
"Let us consider the geometry of bees" probably the best line ill hear all week.
is that pizzahut tacobell combo a das rasist shoutout
No it isn't... 😑
+Mayoman Mayoman well that's disappointing lol
from Merriam-Webster: "bug" 1 a : an insect or other creeping or crawling invertebrate (as a spider or centipede).
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Those of you thinking Toth proved the thing about hexagons: Toth only proved it for convex tiles. Also, Hales indeed published his results formally in 2001, but also on arXiv.org as a ``preprint'' in 1999, as SciShow accurately reports.
I'm so happy there's actually accurate reporting on interesting mathematical problems in a public medium!
11K likes 111 dislikes what is this sorcery
there's a number of reasons, but the main one is that they're just smart enough not to get caught in it. they don't come flying into full contact like their prey do and they clean themselves to remove web particles to minimize stickiness.
Spiders are Arachnids you noobs! Don't you know anything noobs? Noobs noobs noobs! Hahaha, someone love me.
*hugs*
Get rekt m8
Bugs is a general term for creepie crawlies and insect
Isaac Intner It's a joke, and I understand that.
Bugs is a blanket term for insects and arachnids and other such things.
so what we do is we farm lots and lots of flying insects in one room, farm lots of spiders in another room, open the door between the rooms, the insects fly out of their room into the spider room in hopes to get breathing space and the spiders build this gigantic sheet web to catch them all, we then harvest the web and make it into incredibly tough clothing!
SubhanAllah
I love how Hank didn't tell us what constant temperature that building modeled after termites is kept... doesn't really matter if it's modeled after an amazing termite design or not if it's a temperature that's uncomfortable. Can it keep the building at a constant 23C? Then we're good.
Hank, you should do a video on people with phobias of tessellating shapes like honeycomb and textures like velvet. I personally know two people that vomit at the thought and sight of these, and I've always wondered why.
According to Wikipedia, some Queens that are leaving to start a new colony take an aphid egg to found a new herd of underground aphids in the new colony.
Witch is pretty cool, especially keeping in mind that they probably started to do that long before human
0:32
Q: Why did bees choose the hexagon?
A: They didn't.
They build cylindrical tubes by pressing their heads into the soft wax. The hexagon just happens when a cluster of these cylinders press together from all angels. The cells are only hexagonal when they're in the middle; notice that at the right, where that honeycomb bends, they're still round.
There are, of course, countless other shapes that can fit together without leaving gaps: Rectangles, parrallelograms, arbitrary triangles, and many other.
M.C. Escher made even a series of lithographies where the plane is tiled with birds, fishes, angels and demons etc.
It would have been beneficial to add an aside on how the honeycomb is made. The hexagonal geometry is actually an emergent property of hymenoptera's tendency to be boring (as in holes) insects and when you bore as many holes as you can in a given space and rebuild the overlap you end up with hexagons. I first read about this in "On The Origin of Species" and it blew my mind: local rules creating complex and efficient structures, the beauty of natural selection.
I had a lecture on this about a month ago (I'm training to be a primary teacher) and apparently the ideal word to use with children is 'mini beasts' because it is broad enough to cover all species of creepy crawlies. Also it apparently 'doesn't sound intimidating' (or make the kids all squeamish!). According to my lecturer this is because the word 'mini' makes them sound cute. :') We live in a weird and wonderful world
That sheet web is terrifying. I bet Aragog is just waiting in there waiting for some unlucky muggle to walk by.
I saw that spider web and thought "that's creepy good thing I don't live there" and then you said "east Texas" and my heart just sank
Spider: "A thousand spiders from the arachnid empire decend upon you. Our webs will blot out the sun"
Cricket: "Then we will bug in the shade"
I find the fact that spiders learned to cooperate creepier than their webs.
Makes sense, because a circle has the highest area-to-perimeter ratio, but you'll have gaps. A hexagon is the most like a circle out of those 3 shapes (squares, triangles, and hexagons).
Termites also have designated soldiers who sacrifice themselves so that the workers can escape from predators (or eager photographers in my case). They are little badasses, squirting acid which really stings and itches.
I am well aware they are all owned by the same parent company (and other super companies. Nothing surprises me anymore). I had just never seen a Pizza Hut combined with anything else before.
live with it. you cant stop smoker from smoking, thief for thefting, actor from acting so yea
Thanks for looking. Another person sent me a link for the pdf and it looks to be the paper. if anyone wants it, I can message you with the link.
actually, bees make a circular prism when they're making their hive, the hexagonal aspect is from nature as a hexagonal shape is the single most economical way to arrange things with the least tools, so it's hardly down to bees to do that, more just the laws of physics in general
I once saw a tree covered in webs like that one, but it was made by caterpillars I think as it was like a massive communal caterpillar web full of large cocoon pockets that were packed with caterpilars.
There are so many spiders in the world and they hunt in different ways. Please do a video about arachnids. From the smallest to the largest, how and what they hunt, and where they live and in what they live.
It's actually fun to read Vogel M.'s trollfest. About the measuring systems, while it is true that there are no 'good' or 'bad' systems, it is however easier to use some of them in certain situations. That's why there is the Kelvin scale and the Celsius scale, one is for scientific purposes, the other - for everyday life. The Fahrenheit scale probably has its own pros and cons, but I don't use it, so I can't say much about it. Also, it's a common misconception that base 10 is more convenient.
Web thick enough to block out the sun huh
Then I shall cower in the shade
"These words he speaks are true. We're all humanary stew. If we don't pledge allegiance to.. THE BLACK WIDOW"
I love spiders and all, but that even a bit much. I never knew spiders cooperated to catch food, that's actually really interesting.
Good idea! Please do a full episode on spider silk and webs
I myself am very fascinated with combination Pizza Hut-Taco Bells.
honeycombs are built circular. they just kinda "melt together", which makes them hexagonal.
true bugs belong mainly to the order Hemiptera, which means half wing. Bugs usually have two pairs of wings, with the front wings divided into a leathery inner half and a thin, transparent outer half.
But it’s not just the wings that make a bug a bug. It’s also their mouth parts. Whereas grasshoppers chew and butterflies siphon, actual bugs don’t do either. Instead they suck the juice from plants with their tube-like beaks. so in this case bees/termites arent in this order.
Great, wonderful, fantastic videos. Keep up the good work! Top notch..
"we could spend entire episodes talking about spider structures and the science of silk ..."
PLEASE DO IT!
Yeah I may have understated how big the amazon is, I guess I was just focussing on the point I made about the web line. 20 feet is still a long way for a spider to traverse horizontally through empty space!
You say you could do a whole episode on spiderstructures? That´d be awesome!
i just respect hank's scientific videos, and i can't blieve that he was this careless. i know that it doesnt really affect the cool structures that he was describing, but the technicalities, at least in science, are important. i just think that for the better of the population we need to make sure that ignorance doesnt slip into the classroom anymore than it already does.
One of the best RUclips Channel I've evere find
Keep doing your work
It's amazing
do an episode the sheet web. please do that. ya gota do it dude.
Can you do a whole episode on spiders and silk?
What I wrote was "I MADE a great effort to learn it (I wish I'd learned it earlier in life, it would have been easier)" which implies that while it was not easy to learn (I've never had an easy time with mathematics) I put forth the effort to do it, even though it wasn't required.
What you seem to imply is that I struggled with it, which is not true. Rather, I took the time and expended the energy to learn it of my own volition rather than just sit back and use the Imperial system my whole life
Yes they do!! They also have KFC-Taco Bells. And if your lucky enough to live in certain areas... The Fast Food Junky's mouth-watering dream... the combination Pizza Hut - KFC - Taco Bell!!!
that web is so sick. I bet if spiders recorded their own history that would be like a big monumental thing and they would have to learn about it in spider school
I'm not arachnophobic, but a sheet web would be terrifying to me. Just imagine the reaction of a person who actually does have arachnophobia.
Bugs are awesome! Thanks for the episode!
I was about to comment on ants but Grim Yoshi beat me to it ... so just decided to say that your channel is awesome
I swear to god spiders are constantly validating my nightmares through just being themselves. Geezus.
3:22 I was like "OH COOL BUT CREEPY!" Then you said East Texas and I was like... "No. Nope. No!" You hit close to home.
The combination of Pizza Hut and Taco Bell. Man do they still do that?
Yes, you can just do that. I'm from Romania. My country had its currency changed about 6 years ago. Old people are still talking in terms of the old currency. Young people got used to it.
Whatever you change overnight, there will be some that will adapt and some that won't.
Sheet web: OK, so the spider web would have been pretty gross in and of itself, being made of lots and lots of spiders. But think how many mosquitoes there had to be to make this possible. I'll give you a hint: the number of bugs around here is too damn high.
When I saw the Giant spider Web part I thought; "Oh damn, one of those spiders had a Martin Luther King momment. "I have a dream, that one day we will work together despite our differences for endless grub.""
He also doesn't realize the conversion mistake into his 'perfect' imperial measurements, or the fact that he doesn't know all three temperature measures are linear
Just a heads up, cutting 212 in half then subtracting 12 gives you 94, not 100. You would want to say "let's cut (number -12) in half", or "let's cut that number in half -6"
Interesting tidbit, the termites are not eating the fungi for food, they are growing it so they can use fungal enzymes to digest cellulose
A video on the "ganzfeld effect" would be awesome. also a video on the forms and structures of eyes. (not how they work, more like, why a cuddlefishs eyes look soooo weird to me.)
Yes, they do. There are several locations around Houston.
Bee's cases are circular, the appearance of hexagonal shape is accidental, incidental and more a pareidolia effect. Take the time to look at those cases one by one and you'll see the interior is round most of the time.
Make an episode on milk. I'm sure everypony will love it.
Imagine running through that web. I think that is probably the worst thing anyone could possibly imagine.
They found Shelob!!! But I still like the place where, during a flood, spiders covered palms in web, looking like web trees.
Bugs are so amazing, I love House Centipedes:)
Also ∆T is the difference between a value of T, in two different environments. for instance, if T1=20 K but then heats up to T2=32 K,it means that ∆T=10 K