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A termite road (above) and an ants road (below), both protected by a row of their soldiers in a confrontation without fighting..
Oct 4, 2020 7:02 PM
Rammsteinstochter
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A termite road (above) and an ants road (below), both protected by a row of their soldiers in a confrontation without fighting..
e1smann
Looks a bit like soldiers in east & west Berlin in the cold war, ready for WW3.
QimmiQ2
Spread creep
KuroFluff
Where's Kylie Jenner with her Pepsi?
superpaul79
It's like the India/Pakistan border, but with less killing
judaserebus
This is a WHOLE lot of bugs, squaring up and saying, "see what happens..." just... down the line, repeated ad nauseum.
Penguin41310
If only humans could always be like these termites and ants and just co exist without fighting
aScifiDog
roadsterdoc
An ant is stupid, a colony is smart VS a person is smart, a mob of people is stupid.
wonderinn
Ants are bigger than termites
AgamemnonsMemes
Yeah but one of them mutters something about the other's queen and its fucking on.
ColdRice
WAAAAARRRIIIIOOOOOORRRRRS! Come out and PLAAAAYYYAAAAAAYYYYYY!!!
MetalElephant
Sad to see insects can coexist better than us humans. This is very cool to see.
TheDayTheBrainStoodStill
Insects *can* coexist, just like humans can. Also like humans, they often don't: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqECNYmM23A
MetalElephant
Damn, that was fascinating. Thanks for sharing.
Crokkodrill8
For a sec I thought was the Chinese-Indian border
SamuthNBS
Better behaved than the police
Soggybathroomsock
MAD priciple in action.
Mikaru86
The only winning move, is not to play.
AdobewanKenobe
How come groups of ants are smart but groups of people are stupid?
MaddRave
Individual interest compared to a collective interest.
CallsignFatNinja
HOLD THE LINE!
cyno01
So what if i chuck a handful of sugar and sawdust right there?
Istherenothingleft
"They called me a madman! "
SleepySilentSnorlax
T0go
ant soldiers are embarrassing themselves with that display, call that formation?
NotTheSameAnymore
better behaved than 50% of the drivers on our roads.
Haidere1988
Good thing about embracing the hive mind
HarbingerOfThis
If badly behaving drivers were dismembered and eaten alive, you'd see a rapid improvement on human roads, too.
SmooveDoober
Better behaved than some of our world leaders.
MalNebiros
Only some?
realargonwolf
Most of our drivers aren't staring down tank barrels as they drive.
rd4yp11
Insect Détente!
Netskee
That's kinda awesome
strangelyaddicting
Now... As a God (to them), run your fingers through the line and watch what both sides do. Do they instantly break out in all out WAR?! ?
HeraldofOmega
They both attack the evil fingers disturbing the precarious peace.
Istherenothingleft
Depressing that as a god that idea is on the table.
MaliciousGrim05
Welcome to humanity, generally we are pretty shitty
EmotionallyMagnificient
So who would win?
mrmayortheiv
It really depends on the species, there are a lot of badass termites and ants out there. I'm curious what these ones are like.
VaultGirl69
Billions of years of evolution. ? At least neither group has their hands on a magnifying glass. ?
QimmiQ2
Yet
VaultGirl69
Once humanity has poisoned the planet and leave, only bugs will survive the toxicity and become sentient. Is pay to see that terrible movie
Ghostman0
North and south Korea
ManThatzaDrag
Staying in their lane.
artraou
Kinda want to see this kick off tho
KismetCrew
You see the start with the poor lost sod on the lower right getting stopped at the end. Shit's about to go down.
Mindshard
I've always liked the thought that a single insect is dumb, but some, like ants, have this group consciousness where they think as one.
wmzer0mw1
For the swarm!
SPQAAE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIfvcWCZZ7w
psudo
Emergence - How Stupid Things Become Smart Together https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16W7c0mb-rE&ab_channel=Kurzgesagt%E2%80%93InaNutshell
DirtyMcGerty
It's called a give mind. You should look into jungian theory.
floatationman
Kind of the opposite of people.
Trudybeakman
Riots are a good bad example, but governments are also a bad example but in theory should prove a group to be smarter or better than the ind
molotovb
Those seems like different groups in conflict with eachother
floatationman
Bludabeagle
Kinda like the Borg!!??!! J/K
Flyer770
Borg? Sound Swedish.
jjw9
The collective weight of ant brains in a large nest of fire ants is equal to the weight of one human brain. I believe there is a social
jjw9
collective intelligence in ants. Just as neurons can communicate w/ electrical impulses as a collective brain, I believe multiple insects
jjw9
in a colony can communicate via pheromones and other signals to make decisions and reason as a collective brain. One possible test of this
jjw9
is how ant colonies seem to know that they’ve reached a level of attrition where they collectively understand that they are facing something
jjw9
- a condition or adversary - that is destroying them. They seem to know after losing 20% of their colony that it is time to change from an
mLsRAT
Superorganism concept
NBbubblegum
Ye
FreddThundersen
Agreed. Similarly to neurons in a brain, I've considered
JayEnfield
Unfortunately no, but they have a VERY finely tuned little program running in those ant noggins.
Eldibs
With the right tubes and various other equipment, you could build Hex.
Imgerruinedimger
Have you been reading the comments here on imgur...? Or any social media site for that matter?
Mindshard
People are the opposite. A person is smart. People are dumb.
TIREDGANG
Yaaay we're evolving! Once we primarily exist on the internet, hopefully we can just transcend into a nebulous cloud of knowledge
TIREDGANG
The transition period sure is ugly tho
myeyesthegogglesdonothing
Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated.
FloodingWaters
Antsimilated
TheEvenPrez
better than termitenated
ZenithBattles
I know this is a trek reference but I always think of mass effect (particularly 2 with harbinger) when I read/hear this
Karna524365
Group mentality is exquisitely ordered and very efficient in bee hives. Our lessons s/b: work like a bee, love like a dog, eat like a bird.