Hope others find this fascinating as much as I did. https://arstechnica....o-traffic-jams/
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Study: Ants are “immune” to traffic jams
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, Oct 24 2019 6:51 AM
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Posted October 24 2019 - 6:51 AM
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Posted October 24 2019 - 11:36 AM
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Very interesting! More reasons to love ants!
Some comments.
One of the research topics mentioned was that one saying 30% of ants do 70% of the work. I remember when Jordan Peterson quoted that study as some sort of "SEE only a small minority of creatures do the work. The rest are just lazy" and the researches had to correct him saying that only 30% work at a time, not ever. They all work just in shifts.
And I'm not sure who titled that book "The price of Anarchy" but (without getting too political) they don't seem to know what Anarchism actually is(spoiler I'm an anarchist).
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One of the research topics mentioned was that one saying 30% of ants do 70% of the work. I remember when Jordan Peterson quoted that study as some sort of "SEE only a small minority of creatures do the work. The rest are just lazy" and the researches had to correct him saying that only 30% work at a time, not ever. They all work just in shifts.
And I'm not sure who titled that book "The price of Anarchy" but (without getting too political) they don't seem to know what Anarchism actually is(spoiler I'm an anarchist).
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Posted October 25 2019 - 11:46 AM
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Maybe they always have fluid roads, but I still see the ants crawling over each other like it's nothing. Should we make vehicles that could crawl over each other?
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Posted October 25 2019 - 12:11 PM
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that's some serious nightmare fuelMaybe they always have fluid roads, but I still see the ants crawling over each other like it's nothing. Should we make vehicles that could crawl over each other?
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Posted October 25 2019 - 1:59 PM
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Posted October 26 2019 - 12:20 AM
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fake news
Lol.
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Posted October 26 2019 - 12:57 AM
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Well, this appearently doesn't work that well when there's no room to maneuver. I've repeatedly observed sort-of traffic jams within the vinyl tubing my Camponotus colony is using. And while there's never actually a complete blockage it can seriously impede traffic speed.
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Posted October 26 2019 - 9:19 AM
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normally ants don't travel through tubes when foraging though, and even if they do, the ants are either solitary foragers or the trails are army ant like and huge
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Posted October 29 2019 - 8:18 AM
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Well, this appearently doesn't work that well when there's no room to maneuver. I've repeatedly observed sort-of traffic jams within the vinyl tubing my Camponotus colony is using. And while there's never actually a complete blockage it can seriously impede traffic speed.
There is more surface area on the outer diameter of your vinyl tubing. Try letting them run on the outside compared to inside and according to this study, you won't have any traffic jams.
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