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We Have Concerns

Higher, Higher, Ants of Fire

We Have Concerns

Anthony Carboni/Jeff Cannata

News, Science, Society & Culture, Culture, Comedy, Internet, Pop, Games, Gadgets

4.92K Ratings

🗓️ 21 July 2017

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

After a flood, thousands of homeless fire ants pile on top of one another to build bizarro towers with their own bodies — probably as temporary shelters. All the complex construction project needs is for each individual ant to follow a few simple rules, new research says. And, if wriggling ant towers weren’t nightmarish enough, this discovery could help engineer robot swarms that are even better at cooperating. Jeff and Anthony marvel at how this works, and imagine the robots it will spawn.

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0:00.0

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0:05.0

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0:16.5

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0:30.0

I

0:40.4

Think you're perfectly fine

0:42.4

I think you are boring and getting more boring. This is we have concerns. Hi Jeff can I have the new carbon

0:48.2

Look at certain citizens. You know, it's not boring Anthony. What ants?

0:52.8

Ants they're crazy. That's what we're gonna do next ants the ants the Woody Allen movie

0:57.3

It's so good with the Z. Yeah, cuz you know it's wacky. It's how you know it's wacky

1:02.0

I like you call that a Woody Allen movie wasn't it a Woody Allen movie? He's in it

1:05.6

But it's not a Woody Allen movie a Woody Allen movie is written and directed by him. Who's the star of that movie?

1:10.9

Woody Allen, but it's not a Woody Allen movie. It's a movie. Well, it's just I think it's a Sylvester Salon movie

1:17.3

Yeah, that's how I like to think of it

1:19.4

But it's that that was one of those ones where like ants and bugs like I came out and then ants came out like a Dante's in Ferno

1:26.3

People forget that for the first five years of its existence dream works was basically just like doing direct to video knockoffs of Disney movies

1:33.8

But like on a large scale putting them actually out in the others. Yeah, anyway, anyway, this is our ants fan cast

1:41.2

It's got a huge

1:43.6

Raving audience they love the ants. Um, you know why I think I think it's cuz people love Woody Allen

1:48.8

That's true

1:52.8

All right, so Brian town sent us this article about

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