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 PurpleKush
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 Ant Death Spiral 
#13204267 - 09/16/10 12:52 PM (13 years, 6 months ago) |
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http://www.boingboing.net/2010/09/15/ant-death-spiral.html
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This is one of my favorite things about ants — the ant death spiral. Actually, it’s a circular mill, first described in army ants by Schneirla (1944). A circle of army ants, each one following the ant in front, becomes locked into a circular mill. They will continue to circle each other until they all die.
I wonder what they would do if you put a vertical pole in the center of the spiral? Could the ants climb on top of each other to make a giant column?
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Kada
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This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but an ANT DEATH SPIRAL.
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~The Cultivators Motherload~ "I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them.
I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do." -Robert A. Heinlein "There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies.
My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness."-Dalai Lama Live long and prosper. 
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twighead
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The ants by my house were doing something similar where they were just marching in a massive column for days all in one direction... which led to a river where half of them were drowning 
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Kada
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 Re: Ant Death Spiral [Re: twighead]
#13204307 - 09/16/10 12:58 PM (13 years, 6 months ago) |
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This guy had good questions lol.
arborman • #39 • 12:45 PM Wednesday, Sep 15, 2010 • Reply
Do they all die? Or eventually are there a couple of hundred ants climbing over the corpses of their sisters that stop and say 'hey, maybe this pheromone trail is leading us astray?'.
Also, if this were a human spiral, there would be a well funded industry of spiral denialists, claiming that the spiral is just part of the natural direction of the swarm, and the left turnists are trying to lead the swarm astray based on faulty evidence. Until there is absolute proof that the endless left spiral is a problem, nothing should be done about it, and suggesting otherwise is tinfoil hat territory.
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~The Cultivators Motherload~ "I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them.
I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do." -Robert A. Heinlein "There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies.
My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness."-Dalai Lama Live long and prosper.
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Re: Ant Death Spiral [Re: Kada]
#13204326 - 09/16/10 01:00 PM (13 years, 6 months ago) |
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If you put uric acid on ants it causes the other ants to identify them as dead so they pick up all the live ants and transport them out of the colony repeatedly until they clean themselves off 
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 ModularMind
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Does the coriolis effect determine the direction of the spiral?
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That Cenex Guy
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Re: Ant Death Spiral [Re: k4ge]
#13204365 - 09/16/10 01:08 PM (13 years, 6 months ago) |
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It's kind of mesmerizing just to watch lol
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Arden
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ModularMind
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A better quality video of the same would be sweet.
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twighead
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That's the brutalest circle pit i've ever seen...
Obviously we just can't hear their music all the way up here
Vid makes more sense with the music 
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Kada
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Re: Ant Death Spiral [Re: twighead]
#13204444 - 09/16/10 01:22 PM (13 years, 6 months ago) |
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Massive party
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~The Cultivators Motherload~ "I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them.
I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do." -Robert A. Heinlein "There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies.
My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness."-Dalai Lama Live long and prosper.
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Re: Ant Death Spiral [Re: Kada]
#13204740 - 09/16/10 02:27 PM (13 years, 6 months ago) |
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its a shame they aren't ambi-turners 
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Kada
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~The Cultivators Motherload~ "I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them.
I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do." -Robert A. Heinlein "There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies.
My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness."-Dalai Lama Live long and prosper.
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twighead
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Re: Ant Death Spiral [Re: Kada]
#13205052 - 09/16/10 03:35 PM (13 years, 6 months ago) |
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Quote:
Kada said:
Even better.
Hahahaha! That was great
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Arden
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Re: Ant Death Spiral [Re: twighead]
#13205184 - 09/16/10 04:05 PM (13 years, 6 months ago) |
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I hope that cat lady dies cold and alone with a terminal illness.
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Quote:
fear.loathingSF said:
its a shame they aren't ambi-turners
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