The house is infested with ants, and we're getting rid of them with aluminum instead of poison. @TheBackyardScientist @allenpan @NileBlue Thanks for filming @Estefannie
I've been mad for f******g years, absolutely years. I've been over the edge for yonks, been working with bands so long. I think 'Crikey'. I've always been mad, I know I've been mad, like the most of us have. Very hard to explain why you're mad, even if you're not mad.
this just proves to me that gravity ain't shit, it doesn't exist it's all determined by density and buoyance. prove me wrong... so gravity stops existing when it comes to the density of mater the less dense the more the object doesn't have to listen to so called "gravity"
Fun fact about the red ant vs. black ant war. There are no red ants in northern California because all of the black ants in the state, ALL OF THEM, have some kind of alliance. They don't attack each other. So the red ants try to move in and they run into this nation of black ants that just has no mercy. The black ants are annoying as heck and really good at getting into houses, but I try to remind myself that they're protecting us from all of the other ants like a mob of tiny superheroes.
@@kuliosw4815 I think so, yes. The little black ants are annoying, but they don't bite, so I'm happy to have them protecting me from the tyranny of the fire ants.
A friend lives out in country Victoria, Aus, and he had to deal with a Bull ant infestation. And those things will JUMP right at you from walls! They're also huge, 1,5 inches in length with a nasty sting! They will chase after you on the ground as well! Oh, and they have basically no natural predators 😅
no, there seems to be a new spam. Or just a really hilarious joke that nobody seems to get, I donnu. Seen this comment appear for 1 day. Never seen this comment with less than 20 likes, but I've actually never seen any comments under it. Except for this one that appears to be another bot and yourself @linus6078
Of all times to consume alcohol, Allen decides to drink, in shorts, while in the vicinity of molten aluminum This is the type of scientist I strive to be
I mean, he should be wearing a long leather apron but aluminum doesn’t splash (as opposed to iron and some other metals) it’s why sculpture 101 courses cast in aluminum because it’s the safest and one of the cheapest common casting metals. Shorts for any metal pour is a bad idea but it could have been a worse idea.
That AirBnB looks like something aliens or an evil AI set up to trick kidnapped humans, except they didn't actually understand interior design and did a poor job replicating it.
@@verynefariousyeah, you really want the mirror at the side closest to you as enter the room (so on the left wall if you're facing the mirror where it is in that room)... that way you don't get spooked because you can't see yourself til you walk closer bc of the shallow angle of your eyes to the wall, and more importantly - it doesn't feel like another person suddenly in the mirror, it feels like you because it's closer and matches your movement into the room, whereas a mirror facing you feels like someone moving the opposite direction to you coming towards you 😅. It's interesting because this made me realise I've always had my mirror that way in bedrooms, or in a way that I'm pretty much parallel to it if there isn't a wall next to the door -and this must be the reason for it!
Antkeeper here, the large ants at 0:12 are Pogonomyrmex badius. The smaller ants appear to be Linepithema humile, an extremely invasive species in many southern states of the US and highly invasive in California. Linepithema humile makes super colonies consisting of hundreds, if not, thousands of queens that span in a large area. They can found new colonies or can do a budding method where a part of the colony will fragment away from the original colony taking several queens and workers to start a new colony, a settlement one could say. Pogonomyrmex badius on the other hand, is the only native harvester ant species that's native to Florida and are somewhat commonly confused with Fire Ants (Solenopsis invicta). Several species of native ants that once lived in Florida used to be present in an abundance but were driven out or wiped out entirely from the state. The species that still exist are forced to adjust to the great issue the invasive species are giving them there. In the video, you can see the Linepithema humile start attacking the harvester ants that are trying to defend their nests from the invading workers. Unfortunately, it seems like the harvester ant colony were wiped out fully. But yeah, thought I might drop that little piece of info in here for those wondering what was going on with the ants. Love your videos by the way.
@@AntsMichigan Gtfo with that emote. This is really interesting and you're bashing on someone sharing valuable knowledge. Being knowledgeable or smart is not something that anybody should be shamed for. That emote is something that stupid people use on smart people because it makes you feel better about yourself - after all if you convince everyone including yourself, that being smart (a nerd) is a bad thing then of course it follows that not being smart is a good thing, right? And that's called denial and it's pathetic. Be better than that.
@@Undy1 For context, I'm an ant keeper of three years who literally keeps Pogonomyrmex badius. I was responding to Nicholas because I was going to type a similar response, but he beat me to it, and we know each other, so, yeah, nothing personal. How about you learn how to mind your business and go preach somewhere else.
@@AntsMichigan this is literally a public comment section, not your private place so your 'mind your business' argument is moot. Besides you could've just explained that this is an inside joke with your friend and left it at that instead of acting like an asshole.
Clicked the thumbs up, and now I am afraid of going on LinkedIn. But seriously I am glad Will is hanging out with friends more and I hope he's doing great off camera.
It's amazing to me that with all the collective brain power in this group, not one of them thought to get a hose to rinse it off and instead stuck with the vacuum.
The Pikmin 2 music at the end of the video while showing the aluminum is ominous. The music from a game where small ant-like creature work together to defeat larger enemies is being played while large creatures gauc at the destruction of an ant home. Truly metal music choice here.
I wanna know how one second I’m watching them staring at little red dots in the pitch black outdoors to looking away for one second and they’re all of a sudden playing with balloons in Mark Rober’s lab. 😂
Never noticed how high pitched the amazing Nileblue's voice was until this video when everyone sucked the gas, they all got a funny voice and his voice turned into a normal person's voice. Lol. (FYI I'm a guy with a high pitch voice myself)
Borax + sugar solution-gel, on small spots all over (that's the diy version of the ant feeding traps, but cheap enough to have many locations outside or in, allow the ants to shortest-path optimize their poisoning)
For real though, cinnamon is the answer to an ant problem. Find where they're coming in, douse it in cinnamon. Repeat until they run out of entry points
i love those sudden transitions to some other random shit they were doing, just to go back to the ants like nothing ever happened. It reminds me of that cooking video where 2 dudes start kissing lmao
watching two warring ant colonies going for it while a giant molten ball of fire burns ever closer made me feel some kind of way about humanity and climate change lol
I'm like 90% sure those are fire ants, and the reason it was "gyrating" was because fire ants have a stinger that they use to inject venom and so they'll bite onto something and then sting in a circle around the bite
War between red ants and black ants takes me back to the mid 90s and a masterpiece of simulation gaming called Sim Ant (brought to you by the same geniuses that gave us Sim City and The Sims. Big surprise there). Your queen wears army boots! Better dead than red! I've worn my mandibles down to the chitin...
I like that the funny-scientist-youtuber-verse is doing the big colabs but production quality is at an all time low. Maybe this is just the behind the scenes bits but I love it!
Usually sulfur hexafluoride. I think Cody's lab did a video years ago where he breathed all the various gasses that change your voice pitch. Xenon might be one, too.
They didn't use enough aluminum. It poured down and filled only partially up, and the surface aluminum cooled down and clogged it before the rest could flow into the bottom. If they had used 50% more there would have been more flowing aluminum and the space would have filled completely. They probably could have waited a little longer too but you can tell it was pretty solid when they were digging it out.
@@BengalGeckoyeah they needed at last double the amount to get the whole nest. Probably closer to triple, and even then might not get quite everything. Those nests are just huge…
Wow, it really came out beautiful! It’s so fascinating that that’s what their house looks like! It’s way more interesting then seeing them in a little plastic ant farm!
I see you guys like molten aluminum. I’m wondering why would happen if you made a molten alloy of aluminum with some gallium? Gallium dissolves aluminum metal and makes it brittle - can even destroy aluminum locks and is banned on airplanes for this reason. Perhaps you will have a supper gallium alloy the is destructive to aluminum objects or is super ‘infective’. Just a thought - could be cool to do!
Reminds me of the article I saw a few weeks ago that announced "Red Ants have landed in Europe for the first time" and I was like damn those mfs just go where they damn please, glad someone is checking them like our hero William
The force of gravity on both balloons is proportional to their masses so they'd take the same time to fall in a vacuum. The air reistance is about the same but because both aren't much denser than air bouyancy isn't negligible like it usually is, and that bouyancy doesn't increase proportionally with mass so it'll cause a greater upward acceleration on the lighter balloon, making it fall slower.
The balloon frat party at the Crunch Bunker weighed me down more than the Sulfur Hexafluoride weighed your voices down. Holy shit I shouldn't have been laughing as much as I did.
I can get behind Kevin grabbing the crucible of molten aluminum with a pair of channel locks, I can get him moving it and pouring it in shorts (piece of wood for safety!). I would feel better though if they didn't have that canister of flammable gas so close to the forge though.
