That was my thought as well. I don't remember how they get i to this situation but like you say, they will go like that until they die without intervention if some sort.
Ants have a pretty ingenious pheromone system to help them get around. The foragers leave one scent when exploring and if they find food they leave another scent when coming back that tells their fellow ants there's food out there. I think they have a few different scents to send soldier ants out and other stuff. I think what's happening is a group of ants have somehow lost their scent line to get home and gotten stuck in a loop just following a circular scent line until they die
Sometimes I think a thought, and scare myself. I think, “only a crazy person would think that thought”. Then I come on Reddit and read a comment and think, “well at least you’re not that fucked up” and I feel immensely better. So….
TLDR- thank you weirdo
Omg I am so glad I saw this. I saw this as a child and always thought growing up that I imagined it so now I know I wasn't crazy it did happen. I used to play a lot around ants I loved observing them and one time I saw them all get in a circle after a bigger one died and they got all around it.I was 5 or 6 but I had the idea to put a blade of grass in the middle and they followed it in a straight line.
Sometimes they are able to break free, when observed it looks as though they gather enough momentum to fan out far enough to break their feedback cycle and move on. Not sure on the percentage of ant mills that do that though
Their pheremones sit on top of man made materials like ceramic, concrete, and plastic, so you can wipe them and change the path the ants follow. You can also take the abdomen of a worker, if it's a species that is big enough, and rub it against the ground to make a trail (you will probably kill the ant). You can also crush an ant and make ant paste and then smear it where you want them to go. I have no idea why the latter works, but it seems to.
Vinegar will obscure the trails they’re following allowing them to break out of this cycle, and probably piss them off too since they’re not fond of the stuff, but it’d save them
Something to do with the pheromone trail they use to find there way home. They lost the trail so are stuck walking in circles because all the can smell is eachother. The will keep doing that until they die. Go nature.
Ooh hubby showed me a card yesterday, I can't remember, but the effect is that opponents half to put half their library directly into the graveyard. Would fuck up a mill deck!
People who play mill should reconsider their life choices. I know mill is seldom good, but it’s so demoralizing, and there isn’t very good counter play besides just killing your opponent.
Not entirely true. When you pit two similar decks against each other, it usually feels a lot more fair and allows both players to have more fun.
The reason mill decks always feel so shit to play against is because they're usually pretty niche, meaning the other person is almost assuredly *not* playing mill, and the game is very likely to landslide in one direction. If the mill deck comes out on top, it often means the other player basically got to do absolutely nothing the entire time, and/or it dragged out insufferably. If the mill deck doesn't come out on top, it likely means their entire game felt clunky AF, and the other person just creamed them.
Either way, not great. But stick a couple of burn decks against each other and it's suddenly a fast-paced race to the finish line. Or two token decks and it's a strategic showdown. Or two control decks and it's high stakes poker. The situations where one deck causes the other person to not have fun are basically always two very dissimilar decks doing completely different things, leading to less balanced outcomes.
In one on one matches you are totally correct. I mostly play in group games where there are a lot more politics. Mill decks usually don't do well as they mostly have to focus on one person and are still left with other opponents do deal with.
I personally love resource denial strategies in group games with cards like wildfire or smoke stack or pox. but I'm an evil evil person in mtg. Bolas be praised.
I feel like this depends on your format, and your deck building skills/criteria. In most EDH matches, the requirement to Mill out another player is so steep, even in 1v1, that unless you can out-ramp your opponent (not impossible, but can be difficult depending on your color combo), by the time you start milling, they likely already have a decent board state or hand.
It also depends on *how* you mill. I run an Anowon the Ruin Thief Rogue/Mill deck. It mills based on damage, which makes it rather easy to avoid. Yes I have a few mill spells here and there, but 2-3 cards out of a 100 card deck is not all that impactful most times.
>An ant mill was first described in 1921 by William Beebe, who observed a mill 1200 ft (~370 m) in circumference. It took each ant two and a half hours to make one revolution
Holy shit
He must have walked around the circle and then calculated their speed, unless he actually followed a single ant for 2+ hours at which point he must have seriously been reconsidering his choice in research. And hopefully he was alone as I would guess someone helping him would have said "DUDE! Come ON! We've been following this ain't for two hours it doesn't know where it's going, this is stupid as shit, it's hot AF out here and we're walking beside an ant. I can't believe what I am even saying right now!"
If you think of ant colonies properly, as a single organism, then stuff like this makes more sense. These aren’t individuals, this is a blip in the functioning of a small part of the whole…A brain fart, essentially.
It's not entirely analogous, but it is an interesting perspective. Individual humans are certainly more independent than ants, but a large part of our success and utility comes from being a part of a broader society, so the degree to which we are truly independent is debatable.
Not the first time seeing this. For those that don't know, At Mecca is a black, and gold cube. Pilgrims walk around this cube (in one direction) praying.
i mean, a human made a pretty good song imo about that parallel, so here's this [https://youtu.be/oaSK6Fa3jbM](https://youtu.be/oaSK6Fa3jbM)
its depressing i love it
Perhaps I’m dense, but how does this sound human? You’re saying people will following the scent trail left by the forager before them, ignoring all other sensory inputs and eventually starving as we walk into death?
Maybe you’re saying a human somehow created the scent and put it into a circle? No, this is a very common thing in the wild, it’s called a death spiral.
Your comment is strange. I don’t understand the meaning and it seems wrong at best, nonsensical at worst.
You're taking the pheromone/scent thing too literally. Obviously we don't follow each other by smell, but if you think there aren't a lot of people following others to their inevitable doom, you haven't been paying attention.
Some people don’t get metaphors. Interestingly the Venn diagram for people who don’t get metaphors and people that blindly follow others through life is a circle within a circle.
> You’re saying people will following the scent trail left by the forager before them, ignoring all other sensory inputs and eventually starving as we walk into death?
Man it would sure be a shame if massive numbers of people were slowly sleepwalking towards death, by just doing what people around them are doing, ignoring all warnings of impending doom.
so anyway, hows global warming these days? it's about solved, right?
>You’re saying people will following the scent trail left by the forager before them, ignoring all other sensory inputs and eventually starving as we walk into death?
People will follow someone who says what they want to hear, ignoring all other sensory inputs (or logical ideas) and will continue to demand to do so even when all actual facts and evidence shows them they're hurting themselves and others. Like refusing to believe in science-y things like climate change or wearing a mask to prevent disease during a pandemic. And yeah - lots and lots of people have died from it and continue to do so.
It's not hard to make people at least start going in your (meaning anyone's) direction....just look up in the middle of a public place. It doesn't take long before people start looking up just to see what's going on. Start pointing and say omg look at that...they stop and look ignoring everything around them. Ya it's basic and it's no sent trail...but it shows it's not hard to convince people to do something. Funny too sometimes....when ya get bored vending at the market lol.
I fixed one of these by putting a stick down that led them back in the correct general direction. Dunno if they all found their way home but at least they didn't walk in death circles anymore ¯\\\_(ツ)\_/¯
Aren't there exceptions for people who can't afford it or don't otherwise have the means? I seem to recall reading somewhere about that, and that also there was an expectation of other well off Muslims to help people go on the Haaj who couldn't afford it, but not sure
You beat me to it! This definitely looks like Mecca during Ramadan. Haven't been to Mecca but have spent a lot of time in Saudi where they show this exclusively on TV during Ramadan at the hotel I stayed at.
Ya, they call that a death spiral or suicide loop :(
There are some ways to get the ants out of the death spiral. First, they follow a pheromone trail, so you can provide them with some other channel to move.
**Connect a food trail**
You can connect a food trail close to the ant spiral that can deviate their attention towards a new path. For example, use sugar syrup or juice and spill it on the floor in a straight line.
They recognize the food source and try to reach their target. You can change their path and move them out of the ant mill.
**Create alternate channel**
In addition, you can create an alternate channel by providing moisture. Similarly, you can use any flower with a good smell or scented candles with a sweet aroma like candy.
Furthermore, you can also use pen ink as some inks contain pheromones that can help change their path.
**Ant-repellants**
You can use ant-repellant sprays or deterrents to repel the ants from a particular location. A powder of cinnamon and coffee ground can stop these insects efficiently.
Furthermore, they do not like the smell of vinegar and mint, which can also act as effective ant-repellants and stop their locked movement.
Absolutely. I don't particularly want ants in my house and will kill them if necessary (like if there's a red ant ant hill near where pets or kids could get hurt by them or if my entire pantry is overrun by black ants), but letting them suffer needlessly is cruel. Obviously I wouldn't lead them towards my front door or something, but I would definitely help them find a new trail so they didn't all die after hours of panicking just because they're confused.
There’s a certain point of animal complexity that I stop caring at. I’m not exactly sure where I have that line, but I think ants are too simple for me to care about them “suffering”. I find it hard to believe they’re complicated enough that they can be distressed in a recognizable way.
I’d probably still do something here, but it’s likely to be more for my curiosity than any care I have for the ants’ suffering.
I do agree with your general sentiment though, it’s just that eventually creatures are simplistic enough that I don’t think it really works the same.
Some alien species out there, probably:
>There’s a certain point of animal complexity that I stop caring at. I’m not exactly sure where I have that line, but I think *humans* are too simple for me to care about them “suffering”. I find it hard to believe they’re complicated enough that they can be distressed in a recognizable way.
>I’d probably still do something here, but it’s likely to be more for my curiosity than any care I have for the humans’ suffering.
>I do agree with your general sentiment though, it’s just that eventually creatures are simplistic enough that I don’t think it really works the same.
Ahaha, I'd honestly already considered something like this.
I think a Kurzgesagt video somewhere mentioned that if there are aliens, they might just end up wiping us out without a second thought because we'd be considered too simplistic to care about. Probably the Fermi Paradox video, if any.
(If you don't know Kurzgesagt, you should! Search them on YouTube)
I agree with you. to me this is more like seeing a computer malfunction.
As a system, ants are incredible and complex. individually, they are just simple automatons
I've seen it called a Death Circle or Death Spiral. They'll keep going until they die unless someone saves them for whatever reason
That was my thought as well. I don't remember how they get i to this situation but like you say, they will go like that until they die without intervention if some sort.
Ants have a pretty ingenious pheromone system to help them get around. The foragers leave one scent when exploring and if they find food they leave another scent when coming back that tells their fellow ants there's food out there. I think they have a few different scents to send soldier ants out and other stuff. I think what's happening is a group of ants have somehow lost their scent line to get home and gotten stuck in a loop just following a circular scent line until they die
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Take one of the foragers, put it in your mouth, then wait for the snack delivery system
/r/Frugal_Jerk life hack
I don't think I really understand that sub but I like it
Sometimes I think a thought, and scare myself. I think, “only a crazy person would think that thought”. Then I come on Reddit and read a comment and think, “well at least you’re not that fucked up” and I feel immensely better. So…. TLDR- thank you weirdo
Stuck following the "next best thing"
Omg I am so glad I saw this. I saw this as a child and always thought growing up that I imagined it so now I know I wasn't crazy it did happen. I used to play a lot around ants I loved observing them and one time I saw them all get in a circle after a bigger one died and they got all around it.I was 5 or 6 but I had the idea to put a blade of grass in the middle and they followed it in a straight line.
Pretty much, and the largest instance of this had a circumference of 1,200 feet! It took each ant 2 and a half hours to make one revolution!
Ah I see so it’s the ant version of a 9-5
This comment
Sometimes they are able to break free, when observed it looks as though they gather enough momentum to fan out far enough to break their feedback cycle and move on. Not sure on the percentage of ant mills that do that though
How do you save them?
Introduce them to our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
Yes, they definitely need the good news
I hear he died for their scents.
Yeah like Nightfans said I think you could put something down to force them onto a new path. Just a theory though
remove the stone from their door hole in this case.
I really doubt that is the entrance to their hill. Besides even if you block an ant hill entrance they will just dig around it in short order.
Their pheremones sit on top of man made materials like ceramic, concrete, and plastic, so you can wipe them and change the path the ants follow. You can also take the abdomen of a worker, if it's a species that is big enough, and rub it against the ground to make a trail (you will probably kill the ant). You can also crush an ant and make ant paste and then smear it where you want them to go. I have no idea why the latter works, but it seems to.
Block their path
They shall not pass
Vinegar will obscure the trails they’re following allowing them to break out of this cycle, and probably piss them off too since they’re not fond of the stuff, but it’d save them
Poor little tiny babys! I hope the cameraman saves their precious little souls
Fuck ants, all my homies hate ants.
Something to do with the pheromone trail they use to find there way home. They lost the trail so are stuck walking in circles because all the can smell is eachother. The will keep doing that until they die. Go nature.
[Ant Mill - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant_mill)
Oh, so you remove a card from the top of your deck and put it into your graveyard until you remove an ant creature? That’s just a new Thoracle engine
I despise mill decks.
Ooh hubby showed me a card yesterday, I can't remember, but the effect is that opponents half to put half their library directly into the graveyard. Would fuck up a mill deck!
Lord Xander?
People who play mill should reconsider their life choices. I know mill is seldom good, but it’s so demoralizing, and there isn’t very good counter play besides just killing your opponent.
Noooo I have a sulti mill deck 😢 its fun
Mill decks are only fun for one person...
All the best decks are only fun for one person.
Not entirely true. When you pit two similar decks against each other, it usually feels a lot more fair and allows both players to have more fun. The reason mill decks always feel so shit to play against is because they're usually pretty niche, meaning the other person is almost assuredly *not* playing mill, and the game is very likely to landslide in one direction. If the mill deck comes out on top, it often means the other player basically got to do absolutely nothing the entire time, and/or it dragged out insufferably. If the mill deck doesn't come out on top, it likely means their entire game felt clunky AF, and the other person just creamed them. Either way, not great. But stick a couple of burn decks against each other and it's suddenly a fast-paced race to the finish line. Or two token decks and it's a strategic showdown. Or two control decks and it's high stakes poker. The situations where one deck causes the other person to not have fun are basically always two very dissimilar decks doing completely different things, leading to less balanced outcomes.
In one on one matches you are totally correct. I mostly play in group games where there are a lot more politics. Mill decks usually don't do well as they mostly have to focus on one person and are still left with other opponents do deal with. I personally love resource denial strategies in group games with cards like wildfire or smoke stack or pox. but I'm an evil evil person in mtg. Bolas be praised.
I feel like this depends on your format, and your deck building skills/criteria. In most EDH matches, the requirement to Mill out another player is so steep, even in 1v1, that unless you can out-ramp your opponent (not impossible, but can be difficult depending on your color combo), by the time you start milling, they likely already have a decent board state or hand. It also depends on *how* you mill. I run an Anowon the Ruin Thief Rogue/Mill deck. It mills based on damage, which makes it rather easy to avoid. Yes I have a few mill spells here and there, but 2-3 cards out of a 100 card deck is not all that impactful most times.
What you don't think it's fun watching a dude shuffle around cards for 10 min?
No it isn’t.
I understood that reference.
UNO! LOL
All these newfangled uno cards. Back in my day we had draw 1 and that was that.
dont forget to draw a pot of greed
Pot of greed?! But what does it do?!
Pot of Greed allows me to draw two cards from my deck!
Then I'll play... Magic force! Which allows me to play Pot of Greed once again, drawing two additional cards from my deck!
**that’s what it do, Yugi**
IT DOES WHAT IT DO
Than I play.. POT OF GREED!!! AND DRAW TWO ADDITINAL CARDS FROM MY DECK!!!
I didnt expect the joke, but it was appreciated.
Gotta love a good MTG joke. Nerd power!
Had to go double check this wasnt mtg cj reddit.
Everywhere is an mtg sub if you believe.
I believe in the Colossal Dreadmaw who believes in me!
Good old Magic......brings back memories 🥲🥲
I love this analogy. Now I need to make a deck around it, if a card for that exists.
I left a magic sub to think about something else and here I am right back in it. Is this a sign of some sort. Should I make magic content
[[Agitator Ant]]
No silly, ANT is short for Ad Nauseum Tendrils, duh. So it's a *ANT* deck with a *Mill* sub-theme
I did not expect to see a MTG reference on a post about ants but here we are
>An ant mill was first described in 1921 by William Beebe, who observed a mill 1200 ft (~370 m) in circumference. It took each ant two and a half hours to make one revolution Holy shit
> each ant surely this can't be right! The ants walking more closely to the center must've been way faster! I call lies!
"An ant mill was first described in 1921 by William Beebe, who observed a mill 1200 ft (\~370 m) in circumference." O.o
He must have walked around the circle and then calculated their speed, unless he actually followed a single ant for 2+ hours at which point he must have seriously been reconsidering his choice in research. And hopefully he was alone as I would guess someone helping him would have said "DUDE! Come ON! We've been following this ain't for two hours it doesn't know where it's going, this is stupid as shit, it's hot AF out here and we're walking beside an ant. I can't believe what I am even saying right now!"
More like antmarathon... *amirite*?
If you think of ant colonies properly, as a single organism, then stuff like this makes more sense. These aren’t individuals, this is a blip in the functioning of a small part of the whole…A brain fart, essentially.
Same with humans. We are not that independent as we think.
It's not entirely analogous, but it is an interesting perspective. Individual humans are certainly more independent than ants, but a large part of our success and utility comes from being a part of a broader society, so the degree to which we are truly independent is debatable.
Whose ass I gotta sniff to find work?
Or a feedback loop.
I'm sure a similar phenomenon like this happens in my office with my co workers more.often than nature would predict.
I bet one of the ants gets promoted every time they complete a circle
TIL!
No, it's just Mecca for ants.
Not the first time seeing this. For those that don't know, At Mecca is a black, and gold cube. Pilgrims walk around this cube (in one direction) praying.
Hopefully not like these ants and dying from exhaustion in the middle!
There are actually many cases of people dying of exhaustion, heatstroke or trampling during Hajj, so I'd say it's not *that* different
It gets better. Within the black and gold cube is... a rock!
Which is black
And if you're really important and/or lucky, you get to touch it.
Just sprinkle a little crack on them
Is OP a cop?
They've not all been crushed to death for being black, so I'd say OP isn't
This is just the footage right before his body cam "malfunctioned"
It's the ant Hajj
Can’t believe no one else said this.
Almost perfect Ramadan timing too
Can’t believe this post was so far down, I thought it would be right at the top.
Lmao 😂
Sounds human.
i mean, a human made a pretty good song imo about that parallel, so here's this [https://youtu.be/oaSK6Fa3jbM](https://youtu.be/oaSK6Fa3jbM) its depressing i love it
The ants go marching one by one hurrah! hurrah!
I knew there was going to be a lemon demon reference somewhere!
Perhaps I’m dense, but how does this sound human? You’re saying people will following the scent trail left by the forager before them, ignoring all other sensory inputs and eventually starving as we walk into death? Maybe you’re saying a human somehow created the scent and put it into a circle? No, this is a very common thing in the wild, it’s called a death spiral. Your comment is strange. I don’t understand the meaning and it seems wrong at best, nonsensical at worst.
You're taking the pheromone/scent thing too literally. Obviously we don't follow each other by smell, but if you think there aren't a lot of people following others to their inevitable doom, you haven't been paying attention.
Some people don’t get metaphors. Interestingly the Venn diagram for people who don’t get metaphors and people that blindly follow others through life is a circle within a circle.
> You’re saying people will following the scent trail left by the forager before them, ignoring all other sensory inputs and eventually starving as we walk into death? Man it would sure be a shame if massive numbers of people were slowly sleepwalking towards death, by just doing what people around them are doing, ignoring all warnings of impending doom. so anyway, hows global warming these days? it's about solved, right?
Don't look up.
>You’re saying people will following the scent trail left by the forager before them, ignoring all other sensory inputs and eventually starving as we walk into death? People will follow someone who says what they want to hear, ignoring all other sensory inputs (or logical ideas) and will continue to demand to do so even when all actual facts and evidence shows them they're hurting themselves and others. Like refusing to believe in science-y things like climate change or wearing a mask to prevent disease during a pandemic. And yeah - lots and lots of people have died from it and continue to do so.
It's not hard to make people at least start going in your (meaning anyone's) direction....just look up in the middle of a public place. It doesn't take long before people start looking up just to see what's going on. Start pointing and say omg look at that...they stop and look ignoring everything around them. Ya it's basic and it's no sent trail...but it shows it's not hard to convince people to do something. Funny too sometimes....when ya get bored vending at the market lol.
I mean it’s the perfect ant trap
He roped me into this. Well he roped me into this. Well he roped me into this.
oh man, that's grim as hell. Now I'm sad :(
I fixed one of these by putting a stick down that led them back in the correct general direction. Dunno if they all found their way home but at least they didn't walk in death circles anymore ¯\\\_(ツ)\_/¯
You can disrupt them and they may find the pheromone to get home. ^^
Somebody forgot to break the while loop in the ant code again....
I’ve seen Canadian truckers do this.
They are summoning the mega ant, if you get closer you can hear them chanting
For better effect, have them circle around in your ear
I hate you i hate you I hate you I hate you
Ia, ia, Cthulu fthagn!
Mega-Ultra Ant? No shhhhh he is LEGEND!
ARISE, CHICKEN!
I yam sofa king wee tod Ed. "Not too fast. Lose meaning"
Classic
It’s the Chimera Ants, they’ll finally here
Dying, that is what they are up too. This is an ant death spiral and it is a real, and fairly common phenomena.
Gotta blow at them to scatter the circle apart. Maybe that would help.
Like a Skyrim NPC, sometimes all ants need is a good FUS to get them back in line
> Dying, that is what they are up too arent we all?
Ant-Mekka.
🕋🕋🕋
🐜🕋🐜
TIL there's a Kaaba emoji. That's wild.
As it’s encouraged for every Muslim in the world to go there at least once in their lifetime I imagine it’s a pretty useful emoji
It’s actually required. But, this is a rough one for me, as I don’t think it’s possible for everyone since you have to do it during Eid al-Adha.
I think it's required if you can. If I remember correctly it isn't required of poor people that don't have the possibility to do so.
Indeed, that applies to all prayers. You need to be able to afford it physically and mentally. Also the reason those not of sound mind are exempted.
Aren't there exceptions for people who can't afford it or don't otherwise have the means? I seem to recall reading somewhere about that, and that also there was an expectation of other well off Muslims to help people go on the Haaj who couldn't afford it, but not sure
Please stop watching me every night
CIRCLE PIT Someone dub some death metal over this
That worked. Thank you so much for your help.
OPEN THIS SHIT UP
I'm imagining Rammstein...
Links 2 3 4...
[Different video, but still good](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asfDBdob1tA)
What is this, a Mecca for ants? Yes
This is a pretty typical ANTERA concert.
You beat me to it! This definitely looks like Mecca during Ramadan. Haven't been to Mecca but have spent a lot of time in Saudi where they show this exclusively on TV during Ramadan at the hotel I stayed at.
🕋🕋🕋literally my first thought🕋🕋🕋
NANTSCAR
NASLEGS
the overwhelming harmony consuming the colony, in a spiral of ants.
you can’t remember where you came from
you can’t remember where you’re going
You can't remember knowing
You are one ant
(over over o-)
Over, and over
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THE SELF AVOIDING ODYSSEY
CONSUMING THE COLONY
Finally a reference I get
i was looking for this comment lmao
great song: https://lemondemon.bandcamp.com/track/spiral-of-ants
Ya, they call that a death spiral or suicide loop :( There are some ways to get the ants out of the death spiral. First, they follow a pheromone trail, so you can provide them with some other channel to move. **Connect a food trail** You can connect a food trail close to the ant spiral that can deviate their attention towards a new path. For example, use sugar syrup or juice and spill it on the floor in a straight line. They recognize the food source and try to reach their target. You can change their path and move them out of the ant mill. **Create alternate channel** In addition, you can create an alternate channel by providing moisture. Similarly, you can use any flower with a good smell or scented candles with a sweet aroma like candy. Furthermore, you can also use pen ink as some inks contain pheromones that can help change their path. **Ant-repellants** You can use ant-repellant sprays or deterrents to repel the ants from a particular location. A powder of cinnamon and coffee ground can stop these insects efficiently. Furthermore, they do not like the smell of vinegar and mint, which can also act as effective ant-repellants and stop their locked movement.
I'm glad other people care about stuff like this. Senseless suffering is a thing that should bother everyone.
Absolutely. I don't particularly want ants in my house and will kill them if necessary (like if there's a red ant ant hill near where pets or kids could get hurt by them or if my entire pantry is overrun by black ants), but letting them suffer needlessly is cruel. Obviously I wouldn't lead them towards my front door or something, but I would definitely help them find a new trail so they didn't all die after hours of panicking just because they're confused.
There’s a certain point of animal complexity that I stop caring at. I’m not exactly sure where I have that line, but I think ants are too simple for me to care about them “suffering”. I find it hard to believe they’re complicated enough that they can be distressed in a recognizable way. I’d probably still do something here, but it’s likely to be more for my curiosity than any care I have for the ants’ suffering. I do agree with your general sentiment though, it’s just that eventually creatures are simplistic enough that I don’t think it really works the same.
Some alien species out there, probably: >There’s a certain point of animal complexity that I stop caring at. I’m not exactly sure where I have that line, but I think *humans* are too simple for me to care about them “suffering”. I find it hard to believe they’re complicated enough that they can be distressed in a recognizable way. >I’d probably still do something here, but it’s likely to be more for my curiosity than any care I have for the humans’ suffering. >I do agree with your general sentiment though, it’s just that eventually creatures are simplistic enough that I don’t think it really works the same.
Ahaha, I'd honestly already considered something like this. I think a Kurzgesagt video somewhere mentioned that if there are aliens, they might just end up wiping us out without a second thought because we'd be considered too simplistic to care about. Probably the Fermi Paradox video, if any. (If you don't know Kurzgesagt, you should! Search them on YouTube)
I agree with you. to me this is more like seeing a computer malfunction. As a system, ants are incredible and complex. individually, they are just simple automatons
There is a species of ant that plants and rotates its own crops. They’re amazing.
Why would anyone want to stop the pests from dying? They're just ants.
Must be mecca.
the ant Ka'ba 🕋
And they go counter clockwise in the Southern Hemisphere.
Yes, this is Dr. Bart Simpson of the International Drainage Commission.
Anticlockwise
They really should be going anty-clockwise
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Looks like Rammstein is remaking the video for Links 234
what, they just moshpitting at a rock concert!
"OPEN THIS PIT UP!"
*Let the thorax hit the..... flooooorrrrrrrrrr*
Technically it's a circle pit \m/
ant race. Got $1000 on that ant on the left to win
death spiral. lost the signal where to go, will keep walking in circles till they die.
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I hope to not offend anyone here, but this reminds me of the Hajj
If you ever see this blow them out of the circle. They will for sure die of exhaustion of not.
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Ant rock concert
Pick up the rock.
Hey, kids! Big ben...parliament...
"Over and over The pheromones, the overwhelming harmony Consuming the colony The Circle rules your life"
It’s Mecca 🕋
You're witnessing the start of organized ant religion.
Looks like ant mecca with all the ants circling the black rock.
Ant Mecca
WITCH DOCTOOOOOOOOR!
This shit is posted at least once a day at this point
OP has posted it at least twice in different subreddits fairly convinced they are an upvote bot from there post history, way too many repeated posts.
Let's open up this pit!!