File: Molten Aluminum meets Ant Colony.swf-(6.85 MB, 320x176, Loop)
[_] TMZ-19 02/18/14(Tue)00:24 No.

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>> [_] Anonymous 02/18/14(Tue)00:31 No.

  this is the coolest thing I've seen in a while

>> [_] Anonymous 02/18/14(Tue)00:33 No.

  I have to do that some time.
  Damn that is cool

>> [_] Anonymous 02/18/14(Tue)00:38 No.

  >>2292824
  It's expensive. This guy sells those things on eBay for a couple hundred bucks a piece.
  Watch the video where they use cement, seems a lot more economical.

>> [_] Anonymous 02/18/14(Tue)00:41 No.

  This really upset and disgusted me for some reason. At first I thought it was because I looked
  down on killing ants for entertainment, but then when the thing came out of the ground I realized
  that wasn't it at all.

  For some reason this kind of...thing...just terrifies me. Patterns in nature are just disgusting
  and unsettling.

>> [_] Anonymous 02/18/14(Tue)00:47 No.

  >>2292836
  Are you trypophobic?

>> [_] Anonymous 02/18/14(Tue)00:50 No.

  >>2292844
  Yes I am and I don't need to google that to know it's the word I was lacking.

  I know if I googled it there would just be upsetting pictures of lotus pods and honeycombs.

>> [_] Anonymous 02/18/14(Tue)00:55 No.

  >>2292847
  And photoshopped pictures of lotus pods in human skin.

>> [_] Anonymous 02/18/14(Tue)00:59 No.

  >>2292851
  man, that stuff is legit creepy- makes my skin crawl like a thousand bugs are coming out of it at
  once, maybe even maggots
  I legit hate that feeling- but this ant thing is cool, doesn't make me think of it.
  Just need to remember to avoid that trypo shit and hopefully dem trolls don't start posting it
  all over /f/ ;)

>> [_] Anonymous 02/18/14(Tue)01:04 No.

  >>2292851
  And that's why I was comfortable responding to such an obvious attempt to freak me out on
  /f/--because I know that at least here you can't suddenly post an image ITT that will
  automatically pop up on my screen.

>> [_] Anonymous 02/18/14(Tue)01:06 No.

  >>2292859
  That's true. Although I'll admit, some of that stuff is a little freaky even without trypophobia.

>> [_] Anonymous 02/18/14(Tue)01:09 No.

  this looks cool as fuck.
  how to they know how much to put in though?

>> [_] Anonymous 02/18/14(Tue)01:10 No.

  We should do this to the Jews.

>> [_] Anonymous 02/18/14(Tue)01:14 No.

  >>2292865
  How do you know how much water to put in a glass when you take a drink? You pour it in until it
  starts to get full--until the level of the liquid approaches the upper rim of the container.

  How could anyone even be confused by this?

>> [_] Anonymous 02/18/14(Tue)01:15 No.

  >>2292865
  I think it's that they know when to stop, perhaps they look down the hole and see the aluminum
  rising.
  >>2292866
  /pol/ pls go

>> [_] Anonymous 02/18/14(Tue)01:20 No.

  how would you like it if i poured aluminum in your house asshole

>> [_] Anonymous 02/18/14(Tue)01:22 No.

  >>2292875
  I know, it's shitty just to fuck up nature for entertainment, but consider that people have
  plenty of good reasons to exterminate ants anyway. Maybe they used an anthill on a property that
  had already been exterminated for other purposes (habitability without deadly fireants).

>> [_] Anonymous 02/18/14(Tue)01:23 No.

  >>2292875
  Fire ants are incapable of thinking, let alone feeling pain, on a sentient level. I doubt they
  even realize that the aluminum is hot, or that they're being drowned in it.

>> [_] Anonymous 02/18/14(Tue)01:23 No.

  The person doing this is whatever you call a scientist who studies ants. Not some amateur with
  free time

>> [_] Anonymous 02/18/14(Tue)01:25 No.

  >>2292875
  I swear to god I've seen this exact sentence posted at least 3 times now

>> [_] Anonymous 02/18/14(Tue)01:26 No.

  >>2292880
  I dunno what their problem is. As stated in >>2292877, ants don't really feel the pain the same
  way we do.

>> [_] Anonymous 02/18/14(Tue)01:27 No.

  >>2292877
  It doesn't matter, rocks aren't even alive, but it would still be really shitty for someone to
  blow up the Devil's Tower just for fun.

  I like my justification better.

>> [_] Anonymous 02/18/14(Tue)01:27 No.

  >>2292875
  I doubt they do it /purely/ for entertainment so much as the fact they don't want a fucking fire
  ant colony in their yard and this was a way to make the best of a bad situation.

>> [_] Anonymous 02/18/14(Tue)01:54 No.

  Gives a whole new meaning to the term "fire ants"

  Also, trippy. I need one now.

>> [_] Anonymous 02/18/14(Tue)01:56 No.

  >>2292876
  >>2292877
  >>2292880
  >>2292882
  >>2292884
  >>2292885
  you guys fall for that shit way too easily

>> [_] Anonymous 02/18/14(Tue)01:57 No.

  Fire ants can't believe in God, so it doesn't matter if they die.

>> [_] Anonymous 02/18/14(Tue)03:21 No.

  >>2292921

  So I guess that mean it doesn't matter is smart people die as well?

>> [_] Anonymous 02/18/14(Tue)03:53 No.

  >>2292973

  I guess that means you're safe.

>> [_] Anonymous 02/18/14(Tue)03:54 No.

  This still seems kinda messed up to me. I can see the need to exterminate dangerous insects but
  'Drowned in molten metal' seems kinda inhumane.

  Making a model doing seems even more fucked up. "Check out this monument to cruelty! Paid the guy
  who did it a hundred bucks!"

  Sure they're not sentient but I wouldn't say a house that backed onto a slaughterhouse had a
  scenic view either. If someone I knew bought one of these it'd throw up a pretty big red flag
  about them as a person: Either this really doesn't bother them at all or they just don't think
  about about it, which might actually be worse.

>> [_] Anonymous 02/18/14(Tue)03:58 No.

  >>2292989
  they're an invasive species that kills off shit and causes pain to countless animals
  also most scientists agree that ants can't feel pain in the first place
  fuck off to peta retard

>> [_] Anonymous 02/18/14(Tue)04:01 No.

  >>2292991
  >"I can see the need to exterminate dangerous insects"
  >Hurr they need to be exterminated. ur a retard
  Hokay, smartguy. Did you pick up some basic grammar with your degree?

>> [_] Anonymous 02/18/14(Tue)04:06 No.

  >>2292989

  How is it cruel? Normal methods of extermination involve poison, usually resulting in long,
  drawn-out deaths that take minutes to hours. Death via molten metal at the longest is seconds,
  usually absolutely instant. Much faster, far less 'pain', even if you believe ants can feel pain
  (which science says they can't).

>> [_] Anonymous 02/18/14(Tue)04:10 No.

  >>2292995
  because the mad person in question is capable of killing ants with poison, so to him it's huimane.
  the mad person doesn't really get how the aluminum bit works, so because it's not easily feasable
  and not readliy understood on how to recreate, and possibly dangerous, the mad person says it's
  inhumane

  but he could poison the ants and cause a longer suffering death

>> [_] Anonymous 02/18/14(Tue)04:14 No.

  >>2292998

  Not even that hard to pull this off. You can use what amounts to a steel trash bin and a bit of
  high-temp clay and a bag of charcoal to make a furnace that can melt aluminum. Cans work well for
  the situation, say 20 bucks in 12 packs of coke and empty out the cans, or just stash your
  empties for this.

  The hard bit is safely handling the molten aluminum for pouring. Even that wouldn't be insanely
  hard.

>> [_] Anonymous 02/18/14(Tue)04:16 No.

  >>2293004
  well u a thinker, but mad ppl be mad and stay ignant

>> [_] Anonymous 02/18/14(Tue)04:26 No.

  >>2293006

  Thanks. In fact, if you google "molten aluminum into anthill' you see the rest of this
  documentary which shows him putting the thing together. Pretty simple work.

>> [_] Anonymous 02/18/14(Tue)05:08 No.

  This one is the best.
  Just look : https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=tyBf3GcGX64

>> [_] Anonymous 02/18/14(Tue)05:34 No.

  >>2292989
  DROWNED in molten metal? lol
  That would vaporize the ants before they even had a chance to breathe it in. It is the most
  humane way to exterminate an ant colony by far. Literally no suffering, there is no time to.

>> [_] Anonymous 02/18/14(Tue)05:41 No.

  I was sorta impressed when I saw those five or so ants manage to get the fuck out of the colony
  through the sides. Survival of the fittest, right there.

>> [_] Anonymous 02/18/14(Tue)06:15 No.

  >>2292868
  Ur dumb, just so you know.

  Using your magical glass logic, tell me how much boiling water you would take with you into the
  woods to fill a cup under the ground that is a completely unknown size, cause you know, its under
  the fucking ground, not a clear drinking glass. Remember if your boiling water cools you'll have
  to go back home for more and there's a good chance the "glass" will have deteriorated by the time
  you get back.

>> [_] Anonymous 02/18/14(Tue)06:21 No.

  I guess those fire ants... just couldn't... *sunglasses* take the heat.

>> [_] Anonymous 02/18/14(Tue)06:21 No.

  >>2293064
  Probably by watching the # of ants that frequent the hole, more ants means more metal

>> [_] Anonymous 02/18/14(Tue)06:22 No.

  >>2293064
  >Ur dumb
  >magical glass logic

  I don't even need to insult you for everyone here to know what a fucking retard you are.

>> [_] Anonymous 02/18/14(Tue)06:28 No.

  >>2293071
  "mounds can reach heights of 40 cm (15.7 in), and can also be as deep as a metre and a half (five
  feet)." ~wiki
  Google did not reveal any ant to molten metal conversion tables, so sitting and counting the ants
  probably wont help much.

  >>2293072
  I almost felt the same way, but decided to insult you instead. Makes me feel all squishy inside.

>> [_] Anonymous 02/18/14(Tue)06:33 No.

  >>2293079
  Anyway, got way off topic there, to answer the actual quesion of
  >how to they know how much to put in though?
  The answer is probably just from experience, and bringing more than you think youll need. Im sure
  that even the ones they didnt manage to fill completely look cool.

>> [_] Anonymous 02/18/14(Tue)07:50 No.

  >>2293064

  >magical glass logic

  There's no way this guy could be serious. Nobody could be that stupid. He's probably a religious
  nut trying to pretend to be a skeptic, but can't even think in a logical way long enough to mock
  us properly.

>> [_] Anonymous 02/18/14(Tue)08:00 No.

  The colony doesn't look very active. It's probably abandoned and those ants you see on the
  surface are just random ants wandering across the abandoned colony.

>> [_] Anonymous 02/18/14(Tue)08:45 No.

  >>2293064

  Failed logic. You can bring far, far more solid metal than you need and then just melt more. It
  takes roughly 10-15 minutes to melt some more metal in the furnace they built on-site, so if it
  doesn't fill on the first attempt just melt another load.

>> [_] Anonymous 02/18/14(Tue)09:14 No.

  Anything that has nerves can feel pain, even ants. If they didn't have a pain reflex they
  wouldn't be able to recognize when they're being attacked. Only creatures with developmental
  disabilities that cause them to be unable to react to the hormones released by damaged nerves are
  unable to feel pain, and those are rare in nature, because the inability to recognize an attack
  is strongly selected against.

>> [_] Anonymous 02/18/14(Tue)09:19 No.

  >>2293146

  Ability to react to damage is not the same thing as 'pain'. Ants have no concept of time, no
  higher level function of any sort. An ant cannot 'fear', nor can it understand what is happening
  to it. It's reaction to pain is more on the line of your knee jerking when the doc tests your
  reflexes, an automatic, unthinking, scripted reaction.

  On top of that, this doesn't even leave them time to 'feel' that much. Thermal shock is far more
  lethal to smaller creatures (large surface area means faster heat absorption to critical organs),
  so the extreme temperature would literally fry them alive inside of half a second, the entire
  HIVE was likely dead in the first 10 seconds, with no single ant being alive longer than 2
  seconds from when the heat hit it.