The Engineering Secrets of the World's Toughest Beetle
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- Опубликовано: 2 дек 2020
- This arthropod may look modest, but it actually used brilliant engineering to become the world’s most resilient beetle - and we might be able to use its design for our own engineering purposes.
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First reply
Hmm so many military applications for this. Exciting!
You talk about the diabolical beetle and you don’t even mention a tid-bit about the challenge of scientists to add it to a pin collection?
Actually this kind of joint is already used on modern jet engines. They are used to attach the compressor blades to the rotor hub. Although the joint is somewhat loosely fitting to allow for self balancing and dampens vibration.
Nature might be the unbeatable engineer, but evolutionary limitations have forced nature to do some pretty bad re-engineering. An example is the esophagus, eating through the tube you use to breath is just one of many bad desires.
Insect: can't fly.
Humans: how can we apply this knowledge to aircraft?
*Confusion 100*
@Justin Halladay Thank you for defending youtube videos from the meme nemesis
In the future our aircraft will evolve to crawl on the ground unable to fly but there will be no chance in hell of penetrating them.
Nature vs engineers. Place your bets.
@@nswanberg why not both?
It put all its stat points into defense because it didn't want to get hurt.
Cute lil bugger
Bofuri
Guys it's maple
it's an actual Shuckle.
It's small tank bulid
"Diabolical Ironclad Beetle" is, without a shadow of a doubt, the coolest name in all of nature.
You don't know the half of it....
We literally just call them rock bugs over here it’s hella lame
Its a man made name still
Dunno. Beelzebufo comes pretty close.
Like george harrison joining Slayer
So THAT'S where "Elytra" came from.
And this at least is UNBREAKING V
@@valentinozangobbo
Unbreaking V... No.
Unbreaking *A LOT*
Minecraft.net actually did an article on it, pretty cool
Thought they just made up the word
yes
"Thanks to its tough shell, the beetle can just put up with predators' attempts to crush it, and then carry on with its life."
Love this quote!
I need a shell that tough.
“Chemically altered to be stiff and hard” sounds like a viagra commercial
[Dirk Diggler has entered the chat]
😂
"Nature is the best engineer" tell that to my knees
underrated comment
Nature is the laziest engineer. Kludge it till it works. (Or goes extinct.) If it's hard to improve, don't bother, just try a workaround.
“Any idiot can build a bridge that stands, but it takes an engineer to build a bridge that barely stands.”
@@benjaminmiller3620 that's what we like to call an iterative process
@@himanbam Yup. and it works great if your design space is continuous and you can avoid local maxima. You can iterate your way from a windmill to a supercritical turbine. But no amount of iteration will get you from a bubble-sort to a quick-sort. Likewise no amount of iteration can un-derp the recurrent laryngeal nerve.
THE TANK IS HERE
First
Hank the Tank
Tank build mains, where you at?
cross breed this and a bombardier beetle THEN you'll have a tank
william fleete Crossbreed that with a giant centipede and you have a fast battleship
holy crap this is the first time I've heard of Elytra outside of Minecraft, and I'm 36. I learned a lot of new things in just 5 minutes, today!
And you don't even have to defeat the ender dragon to find them!
@@whalermac1561 defeating the Diabolical Ironclad Beetle seems like a harder feat
Along with this guy, I'm glad to finally have heard an accurate pronunciation of "elytra". I've spent a lot of time thinking it was something Minecraft made up.
@@whalermac1561 Technically, if you fly out 1000 blocks before defeating the dragon you can find end ships containing the elytra.
I just learned that chitin is pronounced “ky-tin” and not “chit-in”
Diabolical Ironclad Beetle sounds like an earthbound boss
It *IS* an earthbound boss.
I've only known about this beetle for five minutes, and I have already chosen it as one of my favourite creatures. You go little Ironclad, you go
I have just learned of the diabolical ironclad beetle and am reminding you of its existence have a good day
@@beaterofeggs Thank you, genuinely
"It's not like the beetle evolved on a highway"
haha I love this quote
Actually since it's diabolical it could've evolved on the highway to hell
Does this imply that eventually rabbits and raccoons and things will evolve to be able to withstand a car running over them?
@@himanbam Either that, or we'll kill ourselves first.
@@himanbam
Those could easily avoid being run over. Beetles move far slower and don't see nearly as far, so they have no chance.
Guy: How much do you bench bro ?
Beetle: 1.5 * Average Car...
It’s like the bug version of the Hulk. Neat!
Do you mean muscle Hank?
Iron man?
I think that would be the hercules beetle. It can lift more then 10 kg.
The real hulk*
dont you mean "the thing" from fantastic four? he aint as strong as the hulk but hes durable, unbendable, almost unstopable
Beetles are strongest insects by relative body size-weight. They can a lift objects, far heavier than their weight.
Pretty sure that title went to ants, but idk
@@FieryCoal No,Rhinoceros beetle is the strongest, it can carry 850 times its weight
*of
@@METALSCAVENGER78 looked it up. It’s actually the Taurus scarab aka the dung beetle. It lifts 1141 times its weight.
@@FieryCoal Oh dang, I forgot about the dung beetle
If the beetle can’t fly with its Elytra, why doesn’t it just get some fireworks?
smh my head these beetles don't even know what's up
@Justin Halladay Minecraft joke
@Justin Halladay youre so brilliant. has anyone ever told you that? youre so much smarter than everyone else
ikr
@@koi9826 be careful dude he uses words like “simpletons” and “inane”. He’s clearly leagues above the rest of us common folk. We outta tread lightly
I think the beetle was probably named by the bird who dented its beak while trying to peck it.
😂🤣😂🤣😂
Crow: behold, the most indestructible bug I've ever pecked, beetle, you earned my respect, I shall call you the "Diabolical Ironclad Beetle"
@@richardfeliciano8885 Nah more like "Ow! $
"Nature is the Unbeatable Engineer"
An engineer that often seems heavily intoxicated
That was my PhD work! :) It's great to see it out in the wild. haha
haha
Jesus Rivera you are famous!! I can't believe your work got on the SciShow. You are so cool!
Simply incredible. Amazing natural structural engineering. We can definitely learn something from it with biomimicry.
Cross-breed these with cockroaches and you'll have a creature that can survive a supernova.
The indestructible iron clad cockroach
Ugh! There's a thought. It's already hard enough getting rid of roaches. If ever an insect should be called The Diabolical that would be it. At that point we should ask just move to Mars.
Actually there's a type of beetle thats even better at surviving radiation than cockroaches
It looks like you forgot about genes
And with tardigradiant
The *Diabolical* Ironclad Beetle
"Do not be fooled! It has earned every bit of that amazing name!"
I mean, it's ugly as sin, but I don't see how it is diabolical.
Ask the birds who tried to eat it
This bug probably sold it soul to have that kind of power...
They are adorable!! I have one named Steve and he is so cute with his little antennas.
Why did you called it as ugly you #loozer
I don't think it's ugly though? Looks like a pretty normal beetle
Evolution: "So, do you wanna have an exoskeleton or endoskeleton?"
Turtles: "Yes"
"It can survive being run over by a car. I can't do that"
Not with that attitude Hank, not with that attitude.
Imagine a tank based on this beetle
It would be better, but not substantially better. In a nutshell, due to the square-cube law.
Why Haven't beetles evolved into. Crabs
Give it time.
All things return to crab.
🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀
Patience, my boy. Patience.
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What must come, will come
one day all arthropods will become crabs
Ive never heard "Elytra" outside of minecraft. Neat.
He said it so strangely
@@iCore7Gaming right. I say E Lee truh
When you allocate all your skill points to vitality, resistance, and endurance
The beetle looks like it could be used to craft some armors
Wow, this thing has a name like a Dark Souls boss.
Bird swoops down on beetle.
Beetle: "Oh no. By all means. Keep trying. I'll wait."
uh, I got a bit confused with the snail picture while using arthropods as reference.
they're mollusks and have calcarean shells which differs from the chitin and ecdysis the members of arthropods have.
I think the intention was to show an unlikely animal that also have an "exoskeleton", but since some people still think snails are insects, it made me think maybe it could be clarified a little bit?
Also known as the Nokia beetle
I have found my new favorite beetle, my diabolical little buddy.
Somewhere in the evolutionary history of this beetle it got stomped on, a lot... Beetle: „eff that, Ima end this stompers whole career.“
The Japanese actually solved the thing about fastening a structure without weighing it down
They used it on shrines, its called Miyadaiku
It allows for quick repairs
imagine cross-breeding this beetle with cockroaches and tardigrades
durability + movement + infinite environment resistance effects
it would be like the ultimate life form
Un squishable bug? Oh boy its arch nemesis of ladies armed with slippers everywhere!
I remember hearing about these amazing insects in a Kyle Hill stream a few weeks ago! I'm glad to learn more about these tough little guys
I think I stepped on one of these when I was in my teens. I was in my backyard, it was dusk and saw something scuttling in the poor lighting, I thought it was cockroach, so I stomped on it and it felt like I had stomped on a walnut... I lifted my foot only to see that whatever it was just run off like a nothing happened, I was a pretty tall guy and over 200 pounds at the time, so my reaction was "what the f*** was that!?!?"
even though i am from califronia, i saw my first ironclad beetle when i moved to texas. texas has the rorschach variety which was aaaawesooome!
Happy holidays to everyone at scishow
Hank really has this charisma that makes me want to binge watch what he narrates/hosts.
Thank you again for the video
I love those guys, I like seeing them on trails and stuff
That beetle pun though, real smooth Hank, real smooth.
There are loads of these guys around where I live! when you touch them on the ground they also pull their legs in and almost flatten themselves to the ground, which probably is another reason they’re so tough
I found some really hard beetles as well in the pinnacles in Western Australia.
Loved this one. Very interesting.
Insect videos from yall are my FAVORITE.
Now imagine if a bombardier beetle evolved this trait back when the atmosphere was super rich in oxygen. You'd have ankylosaur sized chemical slinging tanks.
I've owned one for years! I love him and his little indestructible body
I remember those things from my childhood in Tujunga California. Yup! There's really no tougher bug.
I was wondering when you guys were going to do an episode about these guys. Thanks!
I accidentally stood on a big longhorn beetle in my socked feet when changing out of my bike boots. I got quite a start when I saw what I'd stood on, at they aren't native here and it must have hatched out of imported wooden pallets. The floor was smooth concrete, and most of my weight went down before I recoiled (which probably pressed it even harder). It carried on strolling across the lab floor. Impressive: and that's without a fused elytra! :)
At school we had a 'spinney' (small wood) on the grounds that the biology classes used to teach about insects etc. I remember one lesson where we all rooted around looking for unfortunate insects to mount on pins after anaesthetising with ether. One lad was pleased to find a stag beetle. He dutifully put it in a cup with cottonwool and ether for the allotted time, and then managed to get a pin through it onto a display card. But then it woke up and just lifted the pin out and flew around the room crashing into things. They aren't very good at flying in any case, but you don't want one crashing into you with a pin sticking out of it! :)
2:47 THE POWERHOUSE OF THE CELL
Fun fact:
Here in southern San Diego, the DIB have two variants. Solid black, and black with tomato polka dots (kinda like a reverse ladybug)
Keep up the good work
It would be great if you could do a video about the Bombardier Beetle - another fascinating little critter!
These are all over the place around San Bernardino. I never knew the name and always called them armor bugs cuz if you accidentally stepped on them on a sidewalk they just fold up their legs and ignore it then walk off.
Bit of a disclaimer, while yes it was recorded _once_ that an Ironclad beetle got hit by a car and lived, that car was going very fast and probably was on a dirt road. It's pretty unlikely that the Ironclad beetle could survive a car rolling onto it and _staying_ on it, nor would it fare well against being run over by a car on hard pavement. It's an impressive one-time local story, but it's not like any scientists have tried taking a bunch of beetles and running them over in scientific studies to prove it. Still, definitely the sturdiest bug that we know of, I know for a fact you can stomp as hard as you can on one of them with a boot and it can walk away unscathed.
Wow! We learned some unbeliev-beetle information today!
Been keeping track on this beetle finally a video
ELEVEN dislikes from birds in disguise.
I've found at least one of these as a kid, I was always curious about it but never learned anything about it because I didn't think scientists would name it something so badass. I'm always gentle when handling animals... turns out it wasn't even *close* to necessary in this case.
Traditional wood working already uses a "jig saw puzzle" system to hold wood in place without fastners.
but those joints don't absorb energy as well when they break
molla-que-ller? riot! nice delve into biology and entomology! thanks for another good vid!
All this chitinous talk reminded me of the first place I ever heard about chitin: Seyda Neen
When you learn more from Bethesda Games than School...
It even looks like Havel. Awesome!
"This is something that researchers are looking into"
I've heard this for years. I wanna SEE some of this applied now!
That jacket tho... rockin that denim!
I have 5 of these Beetles and let me tell you they incredibly fascinating cool creatures. Really active, durable and fun to watch. They also play dead more so than my Death Feigning Beetles which is funny.
I love your jacket, Hank
Im tempted now to try to find one of these beetles and step on it with my shoe to see just how solid its armor is.
Thanks i knew about Michael Hill! He was my professor in Oxford and told us about FBC13 algorithm!
Of course Mother Nature is the queen of engineering, she’s had a working R&D division for 600,000,000 years!
Try 4.3 billion years.
@@squiresam that’s how old the earth is. It was just lava rock and nothing else until about 600 million years ago
@@weirdalexander8193 some forms of primitive multicellular life has been observed, and estimated to be 1,5 billion years old. And i think single cellular organisms have been around for about 3 billion years
@@darchandarchan7036 k
Well actually that's not long enough by faaaaaaar when you try to do the maths on the genomic lottery mechanism that would have to be in constant operation in order for that to occur, also, there should be hundreds of millions of dead end intermediary variants of all these random chance mutations yet. There are none.
Thats so cool!
i like your enthousiasme
I hope we get an update if it heals or not.
reminds me of Dovetail Joins in woodworking and carpentry.
... and with reguards to it's chitin, how closely does it's hardness compare to something like a mantis shrimps weapon? Excessive hardness to a point that blows the minds of most people.
Me and one of my good friends found out about this thing a few weeks ago, cool to see a vid on it
Awesome !
I found one of these in the Santa Barbara Mountains in CA 😍 hands down THE coclear insect I’ve ever encountered
The jigsaw puzzle type of architecture is prevelant in most parts of rural japan, its makes for a light weight yet solid wooden structure
Nature... unbeatable... the human optic nerve going _through_ the retina and giving us blind-spots says otherwise.
This is one of my favorite beetles.
Diabolical Ironclad Beetle is like your level 90 boss monster in an RPG.
"Nature is the Un-beetle-ble Enginner" Nice one 😎
I live in the Mojave desert have a degree in natural sciences so I study everything around me
These things are pretty rare I’ve only ever seen a few of them
Nice video! What about FBC13 algorithm review?
That beetle is very stronk
hank lookin dripy with that canadian tux on
Is is bulletproof? If not, it should be.
A 9mm bullet hits with the force of a fast basketball so... it probably is bulletproof.
So that's why the Beetle Armor is the tankiest armor pre-endgame.
I still don't know how it is connected to a golem
3:14 Huh, that's EXACTLY what it looks like when you 3D print some puzzle pieces, stick 'em together, and pull. At least with default slicing paths with a separate skin and infill.
Future of bulletproof vests
"Diabolical ironclad beetle" is a great name for a heavy metal cover band for the Beatles
when you pin beetles for collection, one method involves getting the needle/pin through the right elytra of the beetle. I’ve had a hard time with common beetles, I can only imagine how terrible this would be to pin!
I have heard they use a small drill
Why do you think the entomologist who named it "diabolical" did so? ;-)
There is a reason they have to use drills for it
Always thought the toughest one was Ringo. Lesson learned.