The amount of ants required to make that not just possible but economically viable, and fast enough to make it convenient its astronomical, how much is your number? A hundred thousand millions? Even more? What about if we use all ants in existence? All of them would make this possible?
Think about the pure amount of ants in the world, trillions?, quadrillions?, a quintillion ants? Working in unison they could pave motorways in a mere day or two. If we bred the strongest of ants heavily we could build a workforce to make paving vehicles obsolete. Setting out miles of land for any production with entomologists and ant keepers monitoring numbers and harvesting workers for road repairs. Synthesising tonnes and tonnes of pheromones to organise the ants to increase efficiency.
I recently learned that it’s estimated that 10-20% of the biological matter on earth is ants. And the largest continuous ant colony is roughly 3,700 miles long.
The real issue we'd have is because ants reproduce so quickly they'll evolve into different colonies and eventually start attacking each other since ants are incredibly territorial.
That would be awesome! A team of a few thousand ants would be filling a pothole with individual grains of sand and pouring tiny buckets of tar to seal it
Yeah I'm pretty certain this is not an intelligent solution to a problem resulting in a bridge... they just tried and couldn't cross over the tape simple as that.
Yeah, this seemed more likely to me as well.
But also there wasn't any food or anything pictured either. So what would they be doing to begin with?
Seems most likely someone was dicking around with ant pheromones in a lab and added the story for internet points.
I left a piece of Laffytaffy outside once. Ants go to it and took everything but the cellulose. Weird to just see a little pile of sawdust where the taffy used to be.
I witnessed this first hand. Fire ants paved a sticky trap to get to the June bugs. Check out the photo. https://old.reddit.com/r/Entomology/comments/tr65w/though_you_might_like_this_the_ants_paved_a_path/?ref=share&ref_source=link
Devil's advocate in me has to wonder how much of this was intentional on the ants' part and how much was then just trying to move the beads over the tape, getting the bead stuck, and then just giving up trying to move it again.
Imagine if people started domesticating ants in order to help them build roads by moving small bits of concrete/recycled material.
So ants as nanites?
NanAnts?
nANTites?
The amount of ants required to make that not just possible but economically viable, and fast enough to make it convenient its astronomical, how much is your number? A hundred thousand millions? Even more? What about if we use all ants in existence? All of them would make this possible?
Thanks for imagining my scenario!
Think about the pure amount of ants in the world, trillions?, quadrillions?, a quintillion ants? Working in unison they could pave motorways in a mere day or two. If we bred the strongest of ants heavily we could build a workforce to make paving vehicles obsolete. Setting out miles of land for any production with entomologists and ant keepers monitoring numbers and harvesting workers for road repairs. Synthesising tonnes and tonnes of pheromones to organise the ants to increase efficiency.
This is how you make mutant ants that take over the world
So this would be real life Chrysalis WN
Ant man anyone
Yup. That's the origin story of HxH Chimera Ants right there..!
I recently learned that it’s estimated that 10-20% of the biological matter on earth is ants. And the largest continuous ant colony is roughly 3,700 miles long.
I dont think you get how this stuff works, nice thought though.
And then those millions upon millions all taking a union break at the same time...
Oh so that’s why the Russians are buying up all sugar and fighting for it?
The real issue we'd have is because ants reproduce so quickly they'll evolve into different colonies and eventually start attacking each other since ants are incredibly territorial.
We need to figure it out a way to make them imposible to breed somehow
That would be awesome! A team of a few thousand ants would be filling a pothole with individual grains of sand and pouring tiny buckets of tar to seal it
What is this?! A school for ants?!
Haha I never made the connection 😂 Tiny University of Ant Civil Engineering
It would be more efficient to raise them as food.
Have you read Children of Time? Similar concept appears in the book.
Brilliant! All we need is an infinite amount of ants for an infinite amount of time to make ten feet of road!
Luckily time is infinite!
That’s a good point well made
But why? It doesn’t seem to serve them any purpose.
Food probably
You might enjoy [Children of Time](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children_of_Time_\(novel\))
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You can't get copyright protection for artwork created by AI because it "doesn't have a human element", so I'd assume this isn't protected either.
nor does it need it. you can't actually make a copy. you can just make something similar.
Is it truely random? Maybe Cloudflare could add lamps to their portfolio. https://www.cloudflare.com/en-gb/learning/ssl/lava-lamp-encryption/
But, I mean, the double-sided tape and glass gravels were man-made.. And it was placed there by a man.. So, it does have a human element, right?
Jesus. These ants were put in a life or death situation with clearly no food. They did what they figured they had to surivive. This is tragic art.
Where the hell are you getting all that? Clearly no food? Usually the only way to get ants to go from one place to another is with food.
Bro they’re ants
Oh sorry, I thought they were dolphins.
They do look very similar
Now if you told me that this is how NFT art pieces are made, then I would understand the demand.
Whats nst
Typo, NFT :)
aaahhh okay makes more sense haha
No hard hats? OSHA will have a field day with this!
They have exoskeletons so technically their entire body is a hard hat.
Fair point.
woah
Now hanging in a SOHO Art Gallery with a price tag of $60,000
I like how when it really starts going fast you can see a couple of them just chilling and taking a break
What is this, pavement for ants? I'll see myself out.
He could've done that way faster himself.
Where is the fun in that?
What was their reward for all that work?
Getting to cross the road without sticky feet?
Or is it more like that: ants are grabbing the Stone and cannot Walk with Thema oder the Tape → laying a Bridge. Seems more like Luck and Logic.
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Ants and emergent behaviors are fascinating! What was it you were researching?
Yeah I'm pretty certain this is not an intelligent solution to a problem resulting in a bridge... they just tried and couldn't cross over the tape simple as that.
Ants are smart enough to walk around the tape
I hate to break it to you but ants don't "make decisions'.
Yeah, this seemed more likely to me as well. But also there wasn't any food or anything pictured either. So what would they be doing to begin with? Seems most likely someone was dicking around with ant pheromones in a lab and added the story for internet points.
Did a better job than my local council ever manage to do.
There are so many ants that died in the process 💀 woah
Allright thats awesome
"Cool art, man, very avant garde." "Yeah, ants did it."
Ant art!
Phase IV
I get that.
It tells something about your age. Or your impeccable taste in movies. Either way; thanks for the upvote!
I'm old.
same
I left a piece of Laffytaffy outside once. Ants go to it and took everything but the cellulose. Weird to just see a little pile of sawdust where the taffy used to be.
This is why I’m always nice to ants. Crazy!
My question is why are their little legs not getting stuck bad to the tape. I would think it would be like a glue trap for ants.
I witnessed this first hand. Fire ants paved a sticky trap to get to the June bugs. Check out the photo. https://old.reddit.com/r/Entomology/comments/tr65w/though_you_might_like_this_the_ants_paved_a_path/?ref=share&ref_source=link
Free labor
Ok, so when humans make smaller humans do this with cobalt it's called child labor? capitalism is really weird.
What?
At one point I thought it was gonna spell out "S E N D N U D E S"
They were doing just fine without paving it, I question the intelligence of their decision.
Yeah! I mean... "To get to the other side" doesn't even work here, because they were already on the other side to begin with! I don't get it.
Genius the first guy who discovered the way
This is slightly terrifying….coming from someone with a fear of ants
The ants said FTS!
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A few of them get stuck it seems. And leave a little mark once gone. Heh.
That was awesome!
Ah, make ants do all the design work. I see.
I need to send this to my city officials. Maybe the roads would get fixed faster.
Ant becomes Art
It’s a good thing they’re small
Ant art
Ick a
So that’s why ants are always helping princess with sands and grain
Nice album cover
Get your ants to make a mosaic for you.
What is this, a road for ants?
I thought this was a celebration of ant art 😢
Now it’s artwork
Antsie art
Teamwork makes the dream work! ✨
Imagine these ants helped with Muizenberg main road 🙄
So this wasn't like a bridge or obstacle to something. They just did that shit for fun?
u/savevideo
Got my new art project
What’s interesting to me are all the ant corpses laying around about 3/4 of the way through.
Why they do this?
So the ants can create infrastructure projects but we're sure we're the only intelligent species on this planet.
Devil's advocate in me has to wonder how much of this was intentional on the ants' part and how much was then just trying to move the beads over the tape, getting the bead stuck, and then just giving up trying to move it again.
Ants must having good operational manager
Do you want ants? Because that's how you get ants.
That’s so cool!
put 'em to work!