October 12, 2012

Video: What do you get when you pump concrete into a giant ant colony?



A giant ant colony is pumped full of concrete, then excavated to reveal the complexity of its inner structure.

3 comments:

  1. What do you get? A bunch of dead ants. It's an odd documentary that praises the glories of this "city" that they have just destroyed, just for the heck of it.

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  2. This does seem unnecessarily destructive for very little benefit. That said, it is, admittedly, rather cool.

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  3. The National Museum of Natural History recently (in the last few years) had one of these made out of metal. They had poured molten aluminum, I think, into the colony and then excavated it. You could see the ants' impressions in the metal.

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