We dare you all to name a cooler deep-sea worm! Thanks to ShiShow and the Monterey Bay Aquarium for partnering with us on this episode and featuring our team's work on the swimming mechanics of the gossamer worm-an incredible intersection of engineering and biology. Learn more about the work: ruclips.net/video/5_SWbwLNHew/видео.html
I have a bit of a fear of underwater invertebrates with polychaetes being one of the big yikes ones, but this video made this one appeal to my efficiency focused mind, so it's not as scary anymore.
Check out Eelume; The snake-like underwater vessel described at the end already exists, although its thruster propulsion is more efficient than its ‘swimming’..
idk why but at the end of the video it gave me the idea of a video game sorta like subnautica where your goal is to explore the ocean and as you explore more you encounter more creatures with different swimming techniques, allowing you to develop better and better swimming methods based on the creatures you find as a form of progression
This wasn't what I expected. Some of the techniques mentioned here are known by birds and competitive swimmers. I would have liked to know more about using slime for water-proofing, though. Like, if we coated a submersible in a polymer slime, how much drag reduction would we get and how long would it last? Would navy sailors be press-ganged into re-coating their submarines weekly?
There has been researchs on making slimy coating onto submarines. Not only it reduces drags it also reduce cavitation at the tail, making the submarines more quiet. But I don't think they would plan to have the coating manually applied if you are copying you copy all the way. They probably gonna make the submarines secret the coating through miniature holes on the surface just like marines animals do. Other options is to make the slime into solid plates and glue them onto the hull. As the plating dissolve they slowly turn into the self replenishing slimy coating. The problem now is how to make the slime that can absorb a huge amount of water so you can carry it in dried form to save space and how to consistently apply it on the surface of the submarines.
@@xCindyLouWhox Except Evangelion did the hallucigenia-chan first. 10 years before Shingeki no Kyojin-Attack on Titan. It was at Episode 26 during the Sartrean Void scene: ruclips.net/video/vXbCWJNfq_0/видео.html The same goes for the Rumbling. Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind did Rumbling 40 years before Shingeki no Kyojin-Attack on Titan. It’s was called the Seven Days of Fire 🔥 and it was more devastating and cataclysmic. It left 2,000 human being as survivors of the event.
@@whathell6t O-okay…? Why are you telling ME this? I haven’t watched Evangelion and don’t really care to, and I also really don’t care to know the history. I was just seeing if anyone else had thought of AoT… Thanks, though…
wow, not only do they move beautifully but they also maximize their biomechanical.... stuff I guess, to move with maximum power and efficiency! Really cool!
Please someone tell me, I was not the only one thinking of making a homebrew DnD monster out of this. Meet the underwater cousin of the Gelatinous Cube xD
I’m grateful to live just a few miles from the Monterey Bay Aquarium; it’s a fantastic experience, and I recommend going there if you ever visit San Francisco or the Central Coast!
You see Hank, a long time ago there was a lost city of Antlantis. In it lived some Brachycybe Nodulosa and they survived the submergence into the great depth only to become this critter when exposed to Giant toxitonin that is only now being understood by Termite scientists.
Every time I watch one of these with MBARI. I kinda wish I had a degree in the field to go join them. Living so close to them, yet no idea how much great work they are doing. I now find it interesting. 🤦♂️ my younger self
It makes sense to copy lifeforms, life has had billions of years to figure out what works. Course, that doesn't mean it'll always be the best for our robots. After all, evolution is lazy and works by the college student mantra of "forget it, that's good enough to work."
Werent all of these principles already known and established? Its amazing to watch the worm, but i dont quite understand where the "discovery" is, if that makes sense
I have my doubts if this could get scaled up. This probably only works at this size. If it worked at larger sizes, I would expect to see larger animals using it.
you can clearly see the alternating zigzag of the legs being synchronized you can probably just shoot an electrical pulse really slowly making the ‘legs’ of a robot push forward and the release of the electric pulse contracting the legs that way when you increase the speed of pulses it moves faster and if the body is squishy not solid it will naturally cause the body to squish itself from a rectangle to a more cube like shape. That’s sort of why they were good swimmers. They’re a great overall shape, durability, and movement with large antenna acting as a sort of wave breaker and max range for their legs to wiggle it’s really a cute and smart designed animal
I can't believe they skipped over the most interesting aspects of the gossamer worm. Like how it can live thousands of years, or fuse with your spine turning you into a 300 foot giant with godlike powers. Most people find the whole swimming thing to be a bit silly honestly.
Is the body wave similar to the back and forth motion of a long board on a skate path? (Just trying to spark or intrigue or random interest). I don't see any easy way to apply it to there if it does. Maybe someone else can? 🤔
I think it's the first time I've a comment on this channel. Those scientists really didn't like water if they had to watch a sea worm under a laser to find out how to increase thrust and reduce drag of a moving limb in water, every point mentioned should be obvious to anyone that ever swam.
There are many ways to increase swimming efficiency, some intuitive and some counter intuitive. It's not trivial however to calculate and make a model of exactly which mechanisms an organism/robot uses - and to what degree of the swimming efficiency they respectively account for. Fluidics is complex, and that's why this is another step in the right direction for us to implement these mechanisms optimally in our robots or water vehicles.
We've been building robots in one stripe or another for...100 years? Maybe more? Our neighbors on this blue marble of ours have been conquering impossible challenges of motions for tens of millions. Might as well cheat off their homework.
They are kind of pretty... Which is not how I would usually describe most polychaetaes (stuff of nightmares usually), or any annelids at all really, or other groups of animals commonly referd to as worms either.
What is water to a fish? If you asked all of them, hardly any of them would respond with any comparison of their experience to the surface or the floor.
This is the kind of global worming we can get on board with
OK "dad"
Oh… My… GODS 😳…
You Are A Genius! 🤣😂🤣😂🤭
I Literally Giggled myself off My ridiculously tall bed. My tailbone hates you. I however regret nothing!
Haha yes!
We dare you all to name a cooler deep-sea worm!
Thanks to ShiShow and the Monterey Bay Aquarium for partnering with us on this episode and featuring our team's work on the swimming mechanics of the gossamer worm-an incredible intersection of engineering and biology. Learn more about the work: ruclips.net/video/5_SWbwLNHew/видео.html
Riftia pachyptila
Amazing footage!
Why do this worms need NOT to touch the ocean floor? Too fragile?
@@orsettomorbido They may have adapted to never need to touch the seafloor in order to avoid predation or find food.
i also use my body wave and many gelatinous feet to propel myself indefinitely in the deep ocean, very relatable!!
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That's where I know you from!
Keep it quiet, you can get disqualified from competition if it gets out.
I have a bit of a fear of underwater invertebrates with polychaetes being one of the big yikes ones, but this video made this one appeal to my efficiency focused mind, so it's not as scary anymore.
I love everything you and your team are doing with this channel, Hank. I've been able to learn and share so much with my wife and kids
Check out Eelume; The snake-like underwater vessel described at the end already exists, although its thruster propulsion is more efficient than its ‘swimming’..
idk why but at the end of the video it gave me the idea of a video game sorta like subnautica where your goal is to explore the ocean and as you explore more you encounter more creatures with different swimming techniques, allowing you to develop better and better swimming methods based on the creatures you find as a form of progression
This wasn't what I expected. Some of the techniques mentioned here are known by birds and competitive swimmers. I would have liked to know more about using slime for water-proofing, though. Like, if we coated a submersible in a polymer slime, how much drag reduction would we get and how long would it last? Would navy sailors be press-ganged into re-coating their submarines weekly?
There has been researchs on making slimy coating onto submarines. Not only it reduces drags it also reduce cavitation at the tail, making the submarines more quiet. But I don't think they would plan to have the coating manually applied if you are copying you copy all the way. They probably gonna make the submarines secret the coating through miniature holes on the surface just like marines animals do. Other options is to make the slime into solid plates and glue them onto the hull. As the plating dissolve they slowly turn into the self replenishing slimy coating. The problem now is how to make the slime that can absorb a huge amount of water so you can carry it in dried form to save space and how to consistently apply it on the surface of the submarines.
Attack on titan looking thing from the final season
That thing’s straight out of subnautic
Love the images provided throughout the video ❣️❣️
Nahhh I've seen what happened to Ymir Fritz lol
Lol was looking for u
Was looking for an AoT comment lol!
Attack on Titan finna be real life
Ereh
I was looking for a comment like this lol.
@@xCindyLouWhox
Except Evangelion did the hallucigenia-chan first. 10 years before Shingeki no Kyojin-Attack on Titan.
It was at Episode 26 during the Sartrean Void scene: ruclips.net/video/vXbCWJNfq_0/видео.html
The same goes for the Rumbling. Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind did Rumbling 40 years before Shingeki no Kyojin-Attack on Titan. It’s was called the Seven Days of Fire 🔥 and it was more devastating and cataclysmic. It left 2,000 human being as survivors of the event.
@@whathell6t O-okay…? Why are you telling ME this? I haven’t watched Evangelion and don’t really care to, and I also really don’t care to know the history. I was just seeing if anyone else had thought of AoT… Thanks, though…
@@xCindyLouWhox
It’s to curb the AoT Flame Civil Wars. So much bickering about the ending and I had set some killjoy mines to pause itx
Can you do an episode about "Boquila trifoliolata" ?? Its supposed to be a plant with eyes or vision !
wow, not only do they move beautifully but they also maximize their biomechanical.... stuff I guess, to move with maximum power and efficiency! Really cool!
Please someone tell me, I was not the only one thinking of making a homebrew DnD monster out of this.
Meet the underwater cousin of the Gelatinous Cube xD
The Gelatinous Ribbon, if you will!
@@Hannah_Em Absolutly!
This thing looks like Attack on Titan creature that gives Founding Titan powers.
Exactly what I was thinking!
Imagine being caught in a jar and taken to a museum where they shot a laser at you.
I’m grateful to live just a few miles from the Monterey Bay Aquarium; it’s a fantastic experience, and I recommend going there if you ever visit San Francisco or the Central Coast!
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2:39 With the movement lines drawn on it looks remarkably like the spiny fossil scientists had upside-down for a while
You see Hank, a long time ago there was a lost city of Antlantis. In it lived some Brachycybe Nodulosa and they survived the submergence into the great depth only to become this critter when exposed to Giant toxitonin that is only now being understood by Termite scientists.
Every time I watch one of these with MBARI. I kinda wish I had a degree in the field to go join them. Living so close to them, yet no idea how much great work they are doing. I now find it interesting. 🤦♂️ my younger self
Hahaha right? Buckle down past me! I love to watch the excitement of the MBARI team every time they see some little thing in the camera feed.
you had me at ' Gelatinous Worm'
When she asks if you’ll still love her as a worm, this is the worm
I love that you described their lil feet as naked xD
im watching this and cant help but think that they could be a good dune-ish sand worm design
Damn I like how they copy life to make robots it's good and keep it up :)
It makes sense to copy lifeforms, life has had billions of years to figure out what works.
Course, that doesn't mean it'll always be the best for our robots. After all, evolution is lazy and works by the college student mantra of "forget it, that's good enough to work."
I bet a Babylon 5 fan chose the acronym MBARI.
RIP Delenn.
This gelatinous worm has definitely inspired me
Werent all of these principles already known and established?
Its amazing to watch the worm, but i dont quite understand where the "discovery" is, if that makes sense
I know what it really is, but I can’t help thinking about Babylon 5 when I hear MBARI said out loud. Also when I read it in my head.
OMG I’m like 3 blocks away from the aquarium watching this. :) shout out from Monterey county.
How is this better than a propeller, where every stroke is a power stroke
I have my doubts if this could get scaled up. This probably only works at this size. If it worked at larger sizes, I would expect to see larger animals using it.
"Fire the worm laser!"
*FRAZZLE!*
"Reduce the power on the worm laser!"
you can clearly see the alternating zigzag of the legs being synchronized you can probably just shoot an electrical pulse really slowly making the ‘legs’ of a robot push forward and the release of the electric pulse contracting the legs that way when you increase the speed of pulses it moves faster and if the body is squishy not solid it will naturally cause the body to squish itself from a rectangle to a more cube like shape. That’s sort of why they were good swimmers. They’re a great overall shape, durability, and movement with large antenna acting as a sort of wave breaker and max range for their legs to wiggle it’s really a cute and smart designed animal
don't touch it you will become a titan
Don't let it touch your spine
Gelatinous worm sounds like something you fight with a fire spell and a +3 broadsword.
Is that what made the first titan?
IS THAT EREN?
I can't believe they skipped over the most interesting aspects of the gossamer worm. Like how it can live thousands of years, or fuse with your spine turning you into a 300 foot giant with godlike powers. Most people find the whole swimming thing to be a bit silly honestly.
the movement reminds me of anomalocaris, lobopods are so cool
Awww its a mini ghost leviathan
It just keeps moving forward
Worbots! The perfect autonomous ocean exploration robots, until they get swallowed up..
I just hope the worms dont sue us of plagiarizing...
Biomechanics is the way to the future of the motion of our stuff.
You guys should collaborate on an otter themed video, MBARI has a lovely otter named Rosa. lol please talk about Rosa!!
I enjoy the labyrinth reference
Ive been sleeping to those jellyfish livestreams for a while now.
I wonder if SciShow will ever go 4k? 🤔
Awesomer like gossamer!
I just visited the Monterey Bay Aquarium last week, it was neat! Am from southern Utah.
Fascinating.
They move like centipedes, more creepy than beautiful, imo.
Reminds me of the Strandbeeste(? Beach beasts) by that Dutch man.
This whole time I was scared for Gelatinous CUBES when I should have been scared for gelatinous WORMS
And if we get a working model, we can send some to places like Europa and Enceladus.
This is how the Founding Titan came to be in Attack on Titan.
Their shape reminds of a fish that can be found in a videogame (Warframe, Orb Vallis) but I can't remember it's name
do you think Anomolcarids and other primitive aquatic arthropods from the Cambrian swam similarly?
A different worm drive than used in Hunt for the Red October
Tatakae, lil dude
This has a chance to work on Calisto.
Gelatinous is a good word. Just sayin. Edit: So many good words! Mbari, polychete, chetae, rami: this script must have been super fun to say.
i consider the idea of flexible propeller ineffective because rotation is without restoration.
the deep sea exhibit is awesome. they probably used about 2700 cubic feet of styrofoam which my company recycled for them
Already thought of it
Is this an AOT reference!?
I bet that this would be a cool thing to use on *Europa* or other ocean moons. (Somebody should tell *NASA* about this. 😉)
Do they ever get tired (of swimming)??
So rowing with a flexible boat.
Also the front feet are smaller which I’m guessing cuts down on the drag for the longer middle legs
Is the body wave similar to the back and forth motion of a long board on a skate path? (Just trying to spark or intrigue or random interest). I don't see any easy way to apply it to there if it does. Maybe someone else can? 🤔
I think I saw a vehicle in a sci-fi film that worked like this.
That parakeet sure has a lot of feet...
And no feathers... or wings.
What a weird bird.
I think it's the first time I've a comment on this channel. Those scientists really didn't like water if they had to watch a sea worm under a laser to find out how to increase thrust and reduce drag of a moving limb in water, every point mentioned should be obvious to anyone that ever swam.
There are many ways to increase swimming efficiency, some intuitive and some counter intuitive. It's not trivial however to calculate and make a model of exactly which mechanisms an organism/robot uses - and to what degree of the swimming efficiency they respectively account for. Fluidics is complex, and that's why this is another step in the right direction for us to implement these mechanisms optimally in our robots or water vehicles.
Hmm, a Powerstroke followerd by a Recovery stroke? Sounds like those big merkin engines people rave about across the pond.......... :P
We've been building robots in one stripe or another for...100 years? Maybe more? Our neighbors on this blue marble of ours have been conquering impossible challenges of motions for tens of millions. Might as well cheat off their homework.
No! I wanted to make something like this. They’re not allowed to make advancements until I graduate and can become an engineer ;-;
Like a centipede in the water
My reaction to the thumbnail: alright I’ll do it, but what is it? What am I taking from the worm?!
constantly clapping worm
I've been to the monterrey bay aquarium
They are kind of pretty... Which is not how I would usually describe most polychaetaes (stuff of nightmares usually), or any annelids at all really, or other groups of animals commonly referd to as worms either.
I want a flying one
Oh this kinda looks like the antarctic scale worm, which is definitely not terrifying and is totally okay to google. .
Just like in the Matrix?
dont know bout u but an isopod robot would be cool
I was trying to figure out why i was having a viceral responce to their appearance...
Ghost leviathan
What is water to a fish? If you asked all of them, hardly any of them would respond with any comparison of their experience to the surface or the floor.
Spirit fingers 😆
Spank the Hank~
Was going to buy your vintage SciShow t-shirt Hank, but they're sold out of large. How weathly are you? Lol
Does anyone know the lifespan of these little dudes?
does that mean parakeet means bristled bird or parrot??
those wiggly guys
These things are cute.
I have a gelatinous body, does that count.