We have an ANT problem
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- čas přidán 22. 09. 2023
- 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 - Věda a technologie
There's nothing like watching a group of scientists slowly transform into mad scientists
Who is Robert?
transform into?
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.
Slowly?
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"
Better to be immortalized like Pompeii than get poisoned and die slowly in silence. Good stuff.
I was about to make a comparison with Pompeii as well. This is the ant equivalent except also it's molten aluminum.
well, the ants are vaporized I'm pretty sure. So far as I've seen, no ants are ever really visible in these casts.
To quote Neil Young, "It's better to burn out than fade away."
I know a girl who could survive that actually. Incredible specimen.
better to be in pompeii than chernobyl
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.
Are these the Argentina Ant vs Fire Ant situation? Funny timing cause I just rewatched the kurzgesagt ant war video haha.
@@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 😅
similar way in Indiana. You only see black ants, and they're very very good at getting into homes
The argentine ant megacolonies are kind of a scary
Pouring aluminum into anthills is something scientists have done to study the structure of the anthills. Look at you guys doing science!!
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there is nothing scientific about this science channel
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@@orangepuffs6796except for when they science (like in this video)
@@orangepuffs6796 its alchemy i guess
5 seconds in and i can tell this is going to be a certified spoonkid classic
large crossover between spoon and william viewers it seems
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
spooners are everywhere
I'm walking here
I thought I clicked on the wrong video
I love it when everybody is laughing together because everybody is oxygen deprived
@DontReadMyProfilePicture.57ok i didnt
969 :)
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.
To be fair he was *also* next to an ant war.
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.
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@@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 🤓
@@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.
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!
These three hanging out is just what I needed today
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ya I commented before I saw Alan was in the video my mistake!@@thermitebanana
You should see their podcast haha
This should be titled "we HAD an ant problem". Thanks for the video, William
Ps: that's what Mark (Mom) gets for leaving the kids alone for 2 minutes
"We HAD an ant problem, now we have ant ART.
So many artists put all they had into this piece."
Ant's can form networks that span miles long, though the presence of black ants probably restricts their territory a fair amount.
They HAD an ant problem. They still do, but they had one too!
I love Kevin sitting there screaming in pain over an ant bite like he can’t just brush the ant off of him
He wasn't screaming in pain he was screaming in content
Fire ant stings are no joke, that shit hurts!
Fire ants hurt, I remember I was five and I sat in an ant nest and my butt was tender and itchy the rest of the day.
@@baguette4607 You sat down in a fire ant nest? how are you even alive?!
@@Rulusto It was horrible, I was waiting for my bus in kindergarten and my brother pushed me in it, had to go to school all like that 😭
Glad to see Will is getting closer to figuring out how to use a shovel....
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Unknown technology
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.
shut up @@perigrin6
Just imagine this is like is aliens came to earth watching us fighting our wars, and they decide " I'm gunna Pompeii this shit for my mantle!"
Serves us right
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
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.
It's California, they can't use water there.
What problem can't be solved by pouring molten metal on it
house fire
colonoscopy
@@TheDiamondBladeHD Enough molten metal will suffocate the fire. There might be other disadvantages.
drowning in molten metal
@DontReadMyProfilePicture.57 I wish I could pour molten metal on your spam account
I get home kind off drunk and then it's really nice that William offers me a video that's like, exactly on my level
I got home drunk a bit ago and I was thinking the exact same thing
Cheers! I'm kinda drunk as well.
i too love consuming liver cirrhosis juice
Why is this so real damn
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 think it’s ‘The Impact Site’ from Pikmin 1 actually, but yeah the music choice at the end was perfect hahaha
its like a really high quality version, but not pikmin 2.
If you keep getting ants, you’ll have enough aluminum ant statues to make a Christmas tree.
The more of these guys gather, the more the hinge runs away and disappears, as opposed to the more unhinged it gets.
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Getting drunk and playing with molten metal. Truly the Saftey Third way.
Watching ants get vacuumed up to the sound of Pikmin's soundtrack is certainly something.
*boss fight music*
Alcohol and molten aluminum, sounds like an amazingly safe combination
Drunk Science is a national pastime
Just missing a safety tie
lmao @ kevin being far too much of a sweetie pie to sound evil
hell yeah@@EEEEEEEE go off
3:41 That *"GET BACK HERE NIGEL"* felt like it shook the Earth's mantle
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. 😂
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)
I find the aluminium solution more poetic
@@ElxCriiOit’s unfortunately not a very permanent fix. Like a bandaid on broken bone.
But you get a free statue.
@@DaTimmeh
“Ants Canada wants to know your location”
We take a small break from insecticide to inhale strange gasses at Rober's place.
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)
That AirBnB decor actually has a name. I forget what it is, but a ton of airbnbs are decorated the same way and it's insane how common it is.
Something something IKEA
For like a split second, NileRed sounded like a regular ass dude
Mr. Backdoor Scientist can’t help but rerun the classics.
"Whats the superior color of skin, Will?"
"Blue because it means you're dead."
I love it.
Edit: 4:45 - 4:49 dont think I didn't clip that.
5:04 - That was by far and away from the funniest things on this entire channel! XD
7:15
"I Bought an Anteater to Fix My Ant Infestation"
There’s a tool for digging around roots without damaging them that’s basically an air compressor, would have been perfect for this.
3:17 bro that voice really suits him
9:48 i thought something VERY different was going on 💀
I LOVE WHEN ALL THE BOYS ARE TOGETHER!!!!!
That was really hilarious and the end result was pretty awesome! Thanks for sharing!
I really love the format of this video just occasionally coming back to the main video with clips between 👌🏻
Kevin wearing Urban Rescue Ranch merch was a great surprise in this vid :)
William is such a great content creator, even the ants he made homeless are subscribed
Ants aside, Nigel's voice on dense gas suits him.
*You HAD an ant problem
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
blah blah blah
napalm
@@ZaxstUserTermonuclear warhead
All of you are wrong.
Just buy a japanase wasp nest from the deep web, they gonna kill the ants...and maybe the weaker kids on the area.
@@komiks42woah calm down man, we're not dealing with spiders here
@@c.james1 Death by a (hundred) thousand cuts.
I LOVE these videos. So glad you are doing this Big Willy!
This is exactly how I would expect them to solve an ant infestation.
9:20 i love how the owners chose this whole collage of 9 prints and didn’t even bother to hang them up straight lol
12:36
“That’s nuts-“
“theres nuts in it”
More like William osmANT
11:30 budget Coyote Peterson lmao
I had no idea he still uploaded. This channel is such a pleasant surprise!
i love how this video becomes a different video halfway through
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
Nope, wrong, those a pogomyrmex, (red harvester ants) they are endangered in some places and they do sting rarely unlike fire ants
This is likely to be a certified spoon kid classic
The pikmin music was completely unexpected but very much appreciated
CRASH LAND! 12:12
such a great way to show random footage together
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...
Wow, I completely forgot about this game. What a throwback.
Everyone: Say the line, Comments
Comments: William's decent into madness...
Everyone: *cheers*
what an absolute great collection of videos, had a blast watching this will
NGL - that turned out way cooler than I thought it would.
me and the boys at 3 am pouring molten aluminium in an ant hill
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
"Is it hot?!" He says as the literal dirt bursts into flames
Really love this kind of vlogs
Best use of Pikmin music
That aluminum structure really was such an awesome representation of mass genocide
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!
Really enjoy just seeing vids of you fucking around, keep it up!
For those ants Pompeii happened in the middle of a war. That's pretty baller.
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!
the editing on this video was awesome more like this please
"iS iT hOt?" and "hOw LoNg DoEs It TaKe FoR tHe AnTs To DiE?" had me rolling
i love watching the boys have fun on this channel
Classic Kevin! 🐜
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.
These are the types of videos I need in my life
I was looking for a solution for my ant problem! I’ll be sure to buy a forge with a few bars of aluminum
4 engineer and no one thought of using water to get it out
wat
In their defense they did try rum
water isnt gonna kill an ants nest. why do u think you see so many anthills after it rains
they're engineers not hydrophysicists
Do you think every single ant in a colony dies whenever it rains?
Every time you guys link up, there's chaos
Dude, you need to make/get some proper tongs for that crucible. I winced when you lifted it with the plumbers' pliers, that's a great way to have your crucible break and dump molten metal at your feet...
Also, I'm jealous of that gnarly ant nest sculpture you guys made, I've wanted to make one for YEARS but never had a sufficiently large colony around.
Wait what gas makes the voices so deep?
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.
sulfur hexafluoride
It feels weird, almost every CZcams scientist/engineer coming together in Mark Rober’s land, and they pour melted aluminum into an ant nest.
Ant Bully remake looking sharp
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!
If you nerds had the self-control to wait a few more hours, you could have had an awesome cast of the entire colony.
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…
Hahah yall doing whippets is hilarious 😂😂 especially in Mark Roberts studio is so funny
This is the Citizens of Pompeii equivalent for ants
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.
no
i have a better term
density
u just proved the point in 3 idiots
Nah bruh occam's razor, heavy things fall faster.
(jk tho, that was the correct answer)
I have a termite problem I think!
"Ohh no we have brain damage" lmao
great cast for a first attempt! those are harvester ants they collect seeds and store them in chambers underground. they also have horribly painful stings much worse then any fire ants
engineer's problem requires engineering solution
except it s just pouring molten metal
did you serve them an eviction notice? You're a terrible land lord
This is a great ad for Mark Rober's space, I'm sure he's thrilled.
The balloon segment had me messed up. I thought I spaced out of the original video and woke back up where I left off for a moment
WHY AM I IN A BASEMENT NOW? This is an adhd engagement experiment and I’m being pacified with variety and continuity aren’t I?
William, if you can't wait to melt the aluminium to kill the ants just use a lot of boiling water. It's quicker and still no chemicals. 😆👍