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[Aylinato]

You call that an ant colony? now this, is an ant colony:

I need to know more.

 

[Save 'N Quit]

Bunch of little devils died and something oddly cool came out of it?

I am OK with this.

 

[Eric C]

Well people destroy ant colonies just because they're a nuisance, and most people don't really care too much.

I guess if something this awesome looking can be the result it's better than just destroying the colony and getting nothing at all from it.

 

[Toxi]

Just reminding squeamish people, it could have been worse for the fire ants.

So adorable.

 

[TemplaerDude]

Oh my god they're fucking ants you people.

 

[Branduil]

Whole lot of people who have never been bitten by a fire ant in this thread.

 

[adj_noun]

Now I have the Pink Panther theme in my head. :/

 

[SlickShoesRUCrazy]

Oh my god they're fucking ants you people.

 

[speculawyer]

That is pretty cool.

 

[Toxi]

Whole lot of people who have never been bitten by a fire ant in this thread.

It's not the bite that sucks, it's the sting.

Or rather, the stings. Fire ants have a nasty habit of stinging multiple times. Assholes.

 

[akira28]

fire ants? I'm ok with this.

 

[Moon Patrol Pilot]

IDK, it looks as if that was an abandoned colony. I couldn't make out any remnants of ant corpses in the aluminum.

 

[Timedog]

think about how shitty and hostile humans are. what if some race that is orders up orders of magnitude more advanced than use were to find us, see how much of a nuisance we were, and then quickly destroy us? would that be okay? If not, what changes the situation when we're talking about ants and humans, and we are on the ones on top?

 

[Insaniac]

Unless humans went totally out of there way to spray ant killer to the point of lethality to humans, I don't think this one ant colony is going to make a significant impact on insect population

 

[kirblar]

Khal Drogo approves of this method of pest control.

"A crown fit for a Queen."

 

[ReturnOfTheRAT]

“I disabled comments because I'm sick of your bickering,” the artist wrote in the video's description on YouTube. “Also, I couldn't get YouTube to stop sending me an email every time someone posted ‘What if I poured aluminum in your house’ for the 100th time.”

Worthless YouTube comments.

 

[SmithnCo]

They're ants. BURN THEM ALL.

 

[Devolution]

think about how shitty and hostile humans are. what if some race that is orders up orders of magnitude more advanced than use were to find us, see how much of a nuisance we were, and then quickly destroy us? would that be okay? If not, what changes the situation when we're talking about ants and humans, and we are on the ones on top?

I hope when I'm on my death bed aliens just come and hot aluminum the whole fucking earth.

 

[Trouble]

This is an outrage, etc.

They're fire ants.

*crickets*

 

[Toxi]

think about how shitty and hostile humans are. what if some race that is orders up orders of magnitude more advanced than use were to find us, see how much of a nuisance we were, and then quickly destroy us? would that be okay? If not, what changes the situation when we're talking about ants and humans, and we are on the ones on top?

The situation is that these are invasive fire ants which murder the shit out of native ant species. They're our mistake, and therefore we consider it our responsibility to murder the shit out of them using poison, fire, decapitating parasitoids, and molten aluminum.

I hope when I'm on my death bed aliens just come and hot aluminum the whole fucking earth.

The human race will make a pretty sculpture. It'll be like Vesuvius, but bigger.

 

[Vigilant Walrus]

interesting. Is there any way to see where the queens chamber would be located?


Also, could the ants outside feel the pain of those dying with their hive mind? i wonder if they can feel each others physical pain.

 

[Trouble]

interesting. Is there any way to see where the queens chamber would be located?


Also, could the ants outside feel the pain of those dying with their hive mind? i wonder if they can feel each others physical pain.

Ants don't have telepathy.

 

[Timedog]

The situation is that these are invasive fire ants which murder the shit out of native ant species. They're our mistake, and therefore we consider it our responsibility to murder the shit out of them using poison, fire, decapitating parasitoids, and molten aluminum.

lets assume humans are hybrid clones of the greys and the greys are pissed cause we're fucking everything up. Look what we're doing to the planet.

 

[Vigilant Walrus]

think about how shitty and hostile humans are. what if some race that is orders up orders of magnitude more advanced than use were to find us, see how much of a nuisance we were, and then quickly destroy us? would that be okay? If not, what changes the situation when we're talking about ants and humans, and we are on the ones on top?

Yes. From the perspective of alians equalizing all life as equal, it would make sense to kill off humanity. But we are just broken as human beings. Just by living in a city you have contributed to countless deaths of countless life forms as your C02 blueprint by just being alive and consuming has had a terrible effect on lots of species.

 

[HappyBivouac]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-p0OadRapq4

 

[akira28]

lets assume humans are hybrid clones of the greys and the greys are pissed cause we're fucking everything up. Look what we're doing to the planet.

What we're doing to the planet is nothing compared to what fire ants will do to your legs.

 

[Dark Stalkers]

hooray for SCIENCE!

 

[Plywood]

You call that an ant colony? now this, is an ant colony:

Was waiting for this.

 

[vas_a_morir]

Ants are my favorite animal, and even I say 'they're ants; fuck em.' They've probably done some equally ill shit to other insect nests and competing ant colonies. At this point, it's like feeling sympathy for the Aliens blown up in Independence Day.

Termites are like 'how does it feel, motherfuckers?!'

Ants are like "a dark day for ant-kind... but shit, we can always build more killbots."

 

[AstroZombie]

I'd stomp the fuck out of some ants if they were on my kitchen floor. I just wouldn't go out of my way to kill a bunch of them in their home.

 

[PAULINK]

Worthless YouTube comments.

I laughed, youtube commenters are really redundant.

 

[karasu]

That was gross. Not because of the death of the ants, but because of the aesthetics of their colony. I have the heebie geebies now.

 

[AshStrife]

I need to know more.

Here is the video for it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFg21x2sj-M

Much bigger than the fire ant colony in the OP.

 

[Timedog]

hooray for SCIENCE!

OMG I hope this is some weird convoluted sarcasm

 

[BravesCountry]

I know mass extermination of insects happens all of the time simply for our convenience but while watching this video something didn't sit right with me about it. I realize it's not a big deal but it just felt a little off.

 

[FStop7]

Kill it with fire... ants.

 

[Toxi]

lets assume humans are hybrid clones of the greys and the greys are pissed cause we're fucking everything up. Look what we're doing to the planet.

I dunno. If we do a good enough job of fixing up our shit, maybe the aliens will have a human defense force on their message boards.

Also, could the ants outside feel the pain of those dying with their hive mind? i wonder if they can feel each others physical pain.

Ants don't have a "hive mind". They communicate and interact through chemical signals. They're really good at it, but their synchronized behavior is still just a game of telephone.

There are a lot of misconceptions about eusocial insects caused by media. Like a lot of people think the queen is some sort of ruler who controls them all when she really just forms the colony and then lays a shit-ton of eggs.

 

[Tzeentch]

think about how shitty and hostile humans are. what if some race that is orders up orders of magnitude more advanced than use were to find us, see how much of a nuisance we were, and then quickly destroy us? would that be okay? If not, what changes the situation when we're talking about ants and humans, and we are on the ones on top?

 

[LaNaranja]

As neat as the end result looks I don't think I would be comfortable having it in my house knowing how it was created. It would give me the heebie jeebies.

Edit: good to see I am not alone in my feelings.

 

[Aurongel]

They're just ants guys, they aren't exactly an endangered species.

 

[Ratrat]

I'm ok with this. Kinda. I hate ants, as pests they've cost me a lot of grief over the years and pesticides and poisons were imployed more cruelly than this. Though if he did this like in the mountains that's a bit much.

 

[sn00zer]

I assume anyone on here saying how horrible this is has never had to deal with fire ant....also its probably a much better way to kill them than with the slow death of poison

 

[cardinalmind]

The end result looks pretty cool. I would buy that although the shipping cost might kill me plus the insane import taxes around here.

 

[Mortemis]

"What if I poured aluminum in your house."

People are sympathetic towards ants now? Fire ants even?

 

[vas_a_morir]

think about how shitty and hostile humans are. what if some race that is orders up orders of magnitude more advanced than use were to find us, see how much of a nuisance we were, and then quickly destroy us? would that be okay? If not, what changes the situation when we're talking about ants and humans, and we are on the ones on top?

Probably the same situation, where it matters to us, but not the ID4 aliens, blowing up statues and shit. "Do not jgrllen, for these humans cannot even florghenork like we can." As if the aliens have a level up from 'reason' that we can't even comprehend.

 

[MIMIC]

That was kinda cool

 

[nib95]

Must say, as cruel as it may be, the end result is pretty damn awesome.

 

[BigDug13]

think about how shitty and hostile humans are. what if some race that is orders up orders of magnitude more advanced than use were to find us, see how much of a nuisance we were, and then quickly destroy us? would that be okay? If not, what changes the situation when we're talking about ants and humans, and we are on the ones on top?

So if ants are blazing a trail through your kitchen, bathroom, etc, you just leave them alone? No killing whatsoever? No Raid? No shoe?

 

[Aylinato]

Here is the video for it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFg21x2sj-M

Much bigger than the fire ant colony in the OP.

So cool

 

[Game-Biz]

"What if I poured aluminum in your house."

People are sympathetic towards ants now? Fire ants even?

Yeah, fuck those ant children and ant families cause they don't have feelings. "Oh a species of animals that doesn't benefit me? Fuck'em, burn them with aluminum. Oh when I walk over them and their homes they try to hurt me, so then we should just kill them. Because they aren't human, you see."

Spoiler

Fire ants really are the devil.