Hmm, would this work with any clear material so you could see the ants as they suffer? I mean, for uhhh… science?
you can never see them “suffer”
“Ants are not subjected to feeling the same pain humans do. They can recognize damage and respond to it, but they don’t genuinely feel pain the same way people do”
Couldn’t you apply that logic to literally all animals including humans? Pain is just a sensation to make us respond to damage, the suffering part is entierly subjective and no one can be sure any of the other humans even are capable of it, we just assume its the case based on personal experience and empathy.
Nature is very cruel, but not so evil to evolve suffering in animals who don’t have the capacity to learn from it.
You’d pick up a lot of sand… Normally you’d use a metal like aluminum. You can sandblast that clean.
But clear means epoxy. That stuff doesn’t hold up very well under sandblasting. It can be done, but expect mistakes.
“Normally”!? I thought it was a one-time thing for that famous youtube video.
Yeah, hearing about this technique for the first time was a ride. Like, yeah, it’s kind of cool? But also, you’re doing a genocide.
Invasive ants can overwhelm and genocide native ants.
A lot of the castings I’ve seen have specifically been done on invasive ants for this reason.
I wanted to comment on fire ants for this (which are an invasive one). Anyone who has experienced fire ants would not feel sorry for a genocide on them.
It’s impossible for fire ants to be invasive in general.
They’re invasive to SOMEWHERE. We don’t all live in the same neighbourhood.
Classic US defaultism. They often have problems understanding the concept of the world wide web.
We don’t all live in the same neighbourhood.
My immersion is ruined.
They are invasive in most places except for a relatively small part of South America
TBH if you live somewhere where fire ants are native, MOVE.
I’m not going to let the ants win.
They’re more like a single superorganism.
So are humans. We still call mass killings of humans a genocide. There’s no really good reason to make an exception for ants.
You don’t think it cheapens the word “genocide” just a bit to lump an ant hill cast and the holocaust under the same umbrella term?
I see you’re point, I was a bit hasty when saying there’s no good reason to make an exception.
I still do not agree with the argument that ‘Ants are a superorganism, so it’s not really a genocide’. For humans it’s a genocide, because we’re trying to describe a social crime within humanity. For everything else, extermination is communicating the same thing, but generically.
Technically it’s the same, but if we want to apply emotion to human genocide, then what word would we alternatively use to describe eradicating a colony of beings we don’t care enough about?
Gonna be honest here.
I dont care enough to have a whole ass word.
No collective of humans is a superorganism by a longshot.
The term was literally coined in an analysis of human social interaction by Herbert Spencer in his book “Principles of Sociology”. The term was created to describe humanity.
Herbert Spencer
From the 19th century, who coined term super-organic.
It has practically nothing to do with the biological concept involving eusociality. So, no, humans aren’t eusocial creatures: etymological fallacy.
You’re carrying out a similar fallacy by claiming use of the term in its original field is illigitimate in this argument. On top of that, right on the wikipedia page for Eusociality, it states that biologists such as E.O. Wilson have previously argued that humans are weakly eusocial, weakening your whole argument in the first place.
The concept of humans as super-organisms is explored in both sociology and biology, and i’d argue that that means humans fit the bill. Whatever no-true-Scotsman version you’ve been gate keeping with doesn’t even fully agree with the field you’re supposedly arguing on the behalf of.
you’re doing a genocide
Yes, if you are dumb about it. Actual scientists doing this use abandoned colonies or move the colony first.
I always thought it was extremely hot aluminum poured into them.
It could be any liquid that hardens later on. I’ve seen aluminum and concrete.
extremely hot
Melted?
Molted?
To shreds, you say?
*n
nolted?
Evaporated?
Gaseous state
plasma
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Could be worse. Could be the guy filling them with copper or whatever molten metal it was on YT.
I would probably prefer getting almost instantly fried by molten hot metal than slowly suffucate in liquid cement
I think I remember that setting concrete has an exothermic reaction going on so you could be cooked as you suffocate.
I suspect the amount of the nest that gets affected is larger. (Technically, IIRC theyre mostly there to exterminate the ants, it’s just becoming art in the process.!
Probably a different instance to the one you’re thinking, but I have not forgotten that TechRax video of him pouring molten aluminum onto live hissing cockroaches. I don’t even know why he added the cockroaches, the subject of the video was the iPhone 6 vs molten aluminum.
Oh yea, I still remember that one, I hate cockroaches, but that video kinda disgusted me. Like… why torture other living things for nothing?
That’s horrifying, what the actual fuck.
I think I was These guys. Could be wrong, but part of what they’re doing is removing nests that are problematic to humans (or our cattle.)
I wonder what kind of concrete you’d use because I feel like any type I can think of would be too brittle and would break apart during even the most careful excavation.
It’s aluminum.
I would imagine for any significantly sized colony, molten metal would cool down and solidify too fast to cover everywhere; whereas concrete can stay liquid long enough to permeate everywhere.
The moisture would get sucked out of the concrete by the earth, and it’s not flowable that well. If you’ve made it like soup, it’s lost most of its strength when it cures already.
A 1/2 hole in plywood gets filled by grout pretty fast, a dirt ant tunnel I would be surprised if it went more than a foot to be honest.
It seems implausible to me, too (as an engineer), but the article says what it says. I guess they must be using tiny paint brushes like an archeological dig in order to excavate it without destroying it.
It’s “what it looks like” or “how it looks”, never “how it looks like”. That’s as dumb as “what it looks”, which I’m sure most people understand isn’t correct.
It’s one thing to make that mistake in a random comment, but in your fucking web comic? Seriously?Yeah, no one’s ever made a mistake before. And everyones first language is English. Ya bonehead.
Calm down dude…
Came here to say that. #noChildLeftBehind, right?
