I also have only 16 neurons that help me to target precisely the fridge. Evolution, boys.

@AsianDefenceNews

5 жыл бұрын

Me cookies and ice cream

@slaughtergang518

5 жыл бұрын

loool 😂

@innocentmaps

5 жыл бұрын

😂🤣😂😆 So unexpected & I so needed that TY!

@henrythegreatamerican8136

5 жыл бұрын

And republican voters are working with only two neurons. One for denying evolution and the other for using a book of fairytales to guide their existence.

@backstabber3537

5 жыл бұрын

Henry TheGreatAmerican i would say 60% of the Republicans

LOL the kid who supplies the dragonflies for research

@bespokemon880

5 жыл бұрын

mcm1322 he’s going places clearly

@frederichrecinski4616

5 жыл бұрын

Le gamin est le prochain à se faire planter des aiguilles de métal dans son crâne d'ado... pour voir si il a un cerveau ou de la 💩 à la place !! 😂😂

@logancasner8467

5 жыл бұрын

Probably her son

@thomasbarton1050

5 жыл бұрын

Love how they gave him a title.

@ayandavilakazi3805

5 жыл бұрын

Ey man, when I was a kid, I used to cut grass for a couple of bucks and if I had a choice I'd pick hunting bugs instead.

I'll never forget the experience I had as a teen, driving through the woods on a 4 wheeler when a dragonfly flew into my mouth at full speed. Talk about sharp and painful. Thankfully it managed to fly out and we both got away unharmed. That was my closest run-in with an apex predator.

@shekinass

2 жыл бұрын

Well when I was a child I loved to go into the woods to play and somehow I found a small pond with like 100+ dragonflies while I was running and I'm not sure If I got attacked or scared them but It was terrifying being in the middle of a cloud of insects.😭😭😭😭

@theworthysoul

Жыл бұрын

Not truly an apex predator, as while fast there is a few creatures that eat them. But they’re close.

@porterandrews5453

Жыл бұрын

Apex to anything smaller than them.

@drips1030

6 ай бұрын

No no no lol. 🤮🤮🤮🤮

ok but if dragonflies are so smart then why do they always get stuck inside my house and freak me out? like use ur 360 vision to find the fcking door

@stevzky

5 жыл бұрын

Or keep him to eat any flies that get into your home. That's my plan on those days in the summer when I'm having a party and the kids keep leaving the sliding glass door open

@ElTokeMaestro

5 жыл бұрын

This comment made my day lolol

@quin2910

5 жыл бұрын

They don't have the capacity to think. You would need to hold a fly in the doorway lol

@Randomguy-wd5lw

5 жыл бұрын

Only 16 neurons insanely fast, but not smart,

@garjian0

5 жыл бұрын

Because they're not "smart", they just have precise reflexes to help them catch flies. I wonder if hanging a small black object from an open window would cause it to fly through trying to catch it.

I'm a fan of them... just as long as they target mosquitoes!

@elliottjames671

5 жыл бұрын

Damsel flies are the ones that eat mesquitos

@dr.snowman4883

5 жыл бұрын

@@elliottjames671 LIAR! flies only eat trash and decomposed bodies.

@wojrb4872

5 жыл бұрын

@@dr.snowman4883 Damselflies are close relatives to dragonflies and predatory by nature. Both groups of insects hunt mosquitoes, flies, mayflies, butterflies, moths, and even other dragonflies and damselflies sometimes. They pretty much hunt every small flying insect in their territory.

@dr.snowman4883

5 жыл бұрын

@@wojrb4872 lol there like us...

@elliottjames671

5 жыл бұрын

@@dr.snowman4883 damsel flys they look like smaller dragonflies

Dragon flies are fps gods

@soton4010

5 жыл бұрын

I call hacks

@imlivinlikelarry6672

5 жыл бұрын

I wish I had a biological aimbot :(

@ricardoiv8970

5 жыл бұрын

It's tpp they have a 360 view

@killerwaspy1303

5 жыл бұрын

What about the hummingbird

@ghoulbuster1

5 жыл бұрын

FOV = 9000

For everyone's information, the "16 neurons" are just the ones directly connected to the wings. The entire brain probably contains at least half a million neurons, considering even a fruit fly has a quarter million.

How To Train A Dragonfly

@bronxed3666

5 жыл бұрын

lmfao

@jitendra2510

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah, there is a procedure for it. First it needs to pass the written test followed by a physical test. After that we give training for the top 3 dragon flies for next Marvel movies. LoL

@abondonedchannel6870

5 жыл бұрын

Neuronless

@AtltheV

5 жыл бұрын

Your*

@tracyponch1798

5 жыл бұрын

Chem Hung fyi.. I was hiking in high cascades mountains this summer and ended up at tiny remote lake with giant blue fireflies that kept circling me. almost aggressive, or maybe never seen human? idk but they were big enough to mistake for Baby hummingbird. seriously !

2:53 The woman watching him doing her experiment was one of the funniest thing I've seen today. I love her bored expression as he was moving a piece of paper back and forth going "OH, OH". It reminds me of my 5 year old niece sitting quietly watching her older sister playing with her toys hahahaha

@songofthetrees579

8 ай бұрын

Haha thanks for this, I see it now😂

Fun fact: Dragon flies aren't called dragon flies because of anything to do with dragons, it's actually a mistranslated from their original name which mean "Devil flies".

@gqh007

5 жыл бұрын

Violet Fyxe thanks dude

@denniscat9395

5 жыл бұрын

No. Back in the olden days Dragon flies would eat the bugs that bothered Dragons. They also talked to the dragon and witches apparently. Of course they dont have anything to do with dragons Dragons never existed FFS

@Chemson1989

5 жыл бұрын

Devil May Flies

@violet-trash

5 жыл бұрын

+ Dennis Cat Sea dragons are called 'sea dragons' because they look like dragons.

@HiAdrian

5 жыл бұрын

[citation needed]

2:44 Is it just me or did anyone else get the feeling she was pissed off with him there? Like they'd taken over her experiment or she was worried he was going to fk it up in some way, or is it just me? Maybe she was paranoid the thing would get hurt or loose, idk, just she seemed pretty on edge at this point in the video for whatever reason

@suspectedpotato376

5 жыл бұрын

Draeas Talonsbane It’s definitely not just you, I just came to comments to see if anyone noticed it. Looks like they did

@skyoverclouds1

5 жыл бұрын

Yes she seemed disturbed by him doing the test, her body language suggest she was highly uncomfortable. I wonder what happened.

@krow9681

5 жыл бұрын

That's a bit rude mate, for all we know they changed the agreed plans where she was going to demonstrate or something else happened off camera that made her upset/comfortable. Before that point she was doing great.

@aini9528

5 жыл бұрын

I was bothered by most the actual male presentator in this video, and even he did a good job. Who knows, maybe they promised some participation or an interesting job but then only left her sitting in a corner so that "look guys we have an expert". We have absolutely no way of knowing what is behind the scenes and I don't think it's right to call a witch hunt on her or anybody in this. ps. I think she's also pretty.

@N77b44

5 жыл бұрын

I'm not sure if pissed off is the right way to put that. There's definitely some discomfort or irritation in her body language but it's an odd environment to be in and the experiment itself sounds really frustrating. If you look at one of their posts on the website (written by her I think) there's a description of the process and some its issues: blog.backyardbrains.com/2017/08/finalizing-a-no-harm-dragonfly-visual-neuron-recording-prep/ . There was a part where she discussed moving the stimulus by hand and developing an automated rig which ran into a bunch of problems. In my mind the whole thing implied that it probably took a very long time to get any response worth using for the video, possibly many hours of sitting in front of the camera, re-anesthetizing the dragon fly, starting narration then redoing the whole thing when the response just looks like noise or the electrode popped out of place. So it's pretty hard to imagine someone sitting still making engaging contact with the camera for the entirety of the shots, considering they have no idea when they'll get one that's usable. Beyond that if getting a good enough response on camera is rare enough to be a nuisance they probably didn't want to go through that whole process just to refilm the magical 10 seconds for the sole sake of having a more camera ready appearance. That's the problem with filming science being done in real time, it gets frustrating and it's terribly hard to predict when it'll go without errors. Much easier to be camera ready when what's being filmed doesn't rely on random events going just right.

thats a rather big cat

@ivorydelights

5 жыл бұрын

😂 Exactly what I was thinking!

@backupaccount9263

5 жыл бұрын

Or potentially a small human

@judgeady2391

5 жыл бұрын

@@maxz4830 Fossils?

@tt_the_blackout7133

5 жыл бұрын

Well back then, elephants were the size of blue whales

@emiliomota2459

5 жыл бұрын

@@tt_the_blackout7133 well back then Blue wales were the size of your mom, ohhhhhh boiiii....jk xD

Insect mouth parts are the things that nightmares are made of. Teeth have nothing on them.

@mildew6974

3 жыл бұрын

I used to watch my pet mantis eat and it was horrifying

3:03 Jaimie is noticeably uncomfortable with Greg's entertained test of the dragonfly's axons reactions.

@Scotch20

5 жыл бұрын

She is going to regret that for as long as she lives.

@susiemccallister9352

5 жыл бұрын

Shes rubbing her fingers together alot which could indicate that she's stressed or uncomfortable.

lol@ 2:43+ Her facial expressions at him acting ridiculous. Like, "That's not how you do it. You make a mockery of my area of study. I'm done with this."

@folonrng

5 жыл бұрын

yeah, she seemed kinda disturbed/anxious. i was wondering why.

@isvorsesdansa

5 жыл бұрын

He tries to steal her thunder

@wackey2k10

5 жыл бұрын

she looks like a jealous child who is told to let her brother play with a toy, while she has to wait until he has finished.

@BoyFromMa

5 жыл бұрын

actually, her entire area of study is a mockery 😂

@BR0984

5 жыл бұрын

SUPER LABINE and what do you for a living? I bet it's something not significant.

Dragonfly's were the only big bugs I wasn't afraid if as a kid, I actually loved them... Childhood is ruined :( ..

@PresidentialWinner

5 жыл бұрын

I love them, as i love all my children

@Benimation

5 жыл бұрын

What about butterflies, though?

@irij9423

5 жыл бұрын

@@Benimation Butterflies are scary 🙁

@Benimation

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah, when you think about it, they're basically caterpillars with wings.

@irij9423

5 жыл бұрын

@@Benimation Actually I'm scared of them because of a bad dream I had when I was about eight 😅. Butterflies came to my house and killed my family in this dream.

at 3:05 he says "Oh, yes!" and her eyes look upward!

@alb9022

5 жыл бұрын

That's called rolling upwards...

@counselorchandru

5 жыл бұрын

Nope, she actually looked up while controlling the pervy thought that crossed all of our minds.

@MrWest...

5 жыл бұрын

She seemed very disinterested for that part right?

@iamlibra3014159

5 жыл бұрын

And right after that, they edit out her eyes lol

@arm8636

4 жыл бұрын

@@iamlibra3014159 ahahah right

What you don't explain here: That a dragonfly apparently can anticipate where the prey is going to be upon inteception and go there directly. (Apparent in the video you show.) Unlike most other predators who usually aim for the momentous location, thus approaching their prey on a much less efficient asymptote.

In my local language we call them *helicopter*

@BankruptGreek

5 жыл бұрын

tony huckip in my language we call them λιβελουλα/λιβελουλες (plural), pronounced like and originates from Latin libellula (with a v instead of b). Lib as in library because their bodies look like scrolls or something.

@whatyearisit9756

5 жыл бұрын

Namaste!

@user-gl6su3xi6s

5 жыл бұрын

We used to call them helicopters as kids too :)

@TheCJUN

5 жыл бұрын

Trollslända

@dmitrilyutenko32

5 жыл бұрын

In Russian "стрекоза" /stri:kaza/ )) We (me and my brother) used to play with them when we were children.

If you put a larger and a smaller dragonfly face to face, the larger dragonfly will always attempt to eat the smaller dragonfly. The smaller dragonfly will never attempt to eat the larger dragonfly. I know because a friend and I used to catch dragonflies and test this :|

@wondersofivan2338

5 жыл бұрын

that was just self- defense . adults dont kill eachothers , the aggression was meant for the one who was holding their wings

@titansboytc

2 ай бұрын

​@@wondersofivan2338 no it's nothing to do with self defense yes they will do it when it's time to mate but they are cannibals and have been known to eat smaller dragonflies

Dragonflys are so beautiful. There was a family of them that lived on my grandma's property. They are peaceful to humans and they're colors are so beautiful. There was this shiny neon blue looking one and it was just amazingly beautiful.

Uhh... that girl looks super annoyed, 2:52, maybe he's doing it wrong?

@BULLTRONHERO

5 жыл бұрын

GDC I get the impression that this guy is just incredibly irritating to be around

@theworldoverheavan560

5 жыл бұрын

True

It’s amazing how similar this is to a simple but specialized artificial neural network, trained to do only one thing really well.

Wait... dragonflies are aggressive? What about all my childhood memories of them landing on me?? WERE THEY TRYING TO KILL ME?!?!

@npc6817

5 жыл бұрын

they just didn't perceive you as alive, else they would have ran away. most likely mistook you for a tree or something

@damiamquimtana573

5 жыл бұрын

I had a lot of dragonflies here, so there was a lot in my childhood. I saw they toooooo aggressive, they move soo fast, always going around you... Wondering if they were after me ( I feel like a pray, they look like little assassins, was really scary :c)

@ashertolbert7213

5 жыл бұрын

Lol

@MichaelJohnson-kq7qg

5 жыл бұрын

They are aggressive to prey. They showed how they process prey in the video - you would be part of the landscape, not lunch.

@passaolink6455

5 жыл бұрын

How on Earth would a dragonfly murder you?

Doesn't work for me... I connected my dragonfly to my USB and I get a "install dragonfly drivers" error. Is this a bug? A bug! Get it? Because dragonflies are insects? I'll show myself out...

@wondersofivan2338

5 жыл бұрын

🤘

@kbug0262

5 жыл бұрын

@@wondersofivan2338 shaka brah

@DenebTM

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah, that was beyond terrible, honestly

@giorgosd3624

5 жыл бұрын

Have you tried restarting your dragonfly?

@cyberlord64

5 жыл бұрын

+Giorgos D I did but then it died on me... get it? cause it was alive? ... I will go outside again...

"When dragonflies were the size of cats..." **Shows giant dragonfly the size of a bus eating a human.

Love the new TED format. Awesome! Love the Neuroscience series and the scientists. The animation of just one side of wings bending more was super cool. How close are we to designing such controllable wings in aircrafts? That'd be so cool!

more DIY, please! Thanks TED

I hit a dragonfly one day and 30 minutes later it flew into my head and hit me back...coincidences?

@speakyourtruth7872

5 жыл бұрын

Revenge

@deepalisardesai110

5 жыл бұрын

I DOnt ThinK sO

@RMate-bu7se

5 жыл бұрын

Maybe there was a fly on your face, a forefly!

@OscarGonzalez-ld4np

5 жыл бұрын

It has 16 neurons soooo... Yep.

@jadegeist

5 жыл бұрын

Bro Pru you probably broke its wings or something

It's not almost like a reflex, it's a reflex!

The dragonfly has it's brain so close to the parts of the body that it needs to control, and those parts are so light and quick to react, that for it everything looks like if all was in slow motion. For large slow creatures like us it is too fast to catch. Unfortunately for it, flies are also wired that way, so it is not as easy to catch a fly as it seems necessarily.

A beautiful delicate touch. I loved the trills

Dragonflies look like boomerangs when they mate. Their butts stick together and they fly around like that.

im just gonna keep a bunch of dragonflies in my house because 1. Theyre awesome 2. there are too many hecking houseflies

Excellent video. Thank you for making it.

It has been ages since I saw a dragonfly. 20 years dragonflies and butterflies were used to be everywhere and me and my friends used to catch them. But now I hardly find one. It's hard to find them these days.

*THE 38 PEOPLE WHO DISLIKED* think they're more dangerous than *DRAGONFLIES*

This is very simplified. Even insects have up to a million neurons with very complex wiring. And they are to some degree able to learn

@Mv0702

5 жыл бұрын

@@cula4083 yes that's right but I also think that the targeting mechanism is more complicated than this. Maybe this 16 neurons are an essential part of it but definitely not all.

@dmitrilyutenko32

5 жыл бұрын

And also very interesting -- HOW did they build in this thin wire in axon? Nothing said about it. Silence.

@KP3droflxp

5 жыл бұрын

We still have several reflexes, some triggered by our visual system. The reason that our eyes don't have direct connections to our limbs is probably that we are larger than dragonflies.

This was an awesome/intresting video. Keep em coming

In all honesty dragonflys have always been chill with me. They like to rest on my hat. I've never felt they could or would bite me.

dragonflies are the coolest insects

@ABlackGuy10

5 жыл бұрын

uhh its a dragon so...

@ViewThis.

5 жыл бұрын

They're freaky when they are Larvae. They crawl around under water eating every little living thing in sight.

I bet if they tie this guy up and hook electrodes to his brain and show him pictures of circles and flies he will make the same curve on the screen

All I know is I'm glad I'm not that dragonfly with the metal probes all up in my brain...

I was almost going to sleep after the video, but that last sentence made my eyes wide open.

Thats a really small cat

I can tell you that I think there is way more going on in the Odonate brain than just instinctual killing. While driving a 4-wheel Kawasaki for the Florida Forest Service, I have been accosted many a time by dragonflies that swoop to the side of your face, going 15-20 MPH, tilt their orientation to get a better look at your face, and zoom off within a second or two, apparently satisfied that you present no threat to their territory. I don't pretend to know what's going on in their brains, but it's a damn close proximity to what's going on in ours.

I love, love, love dragonflies! They are my favorite insect.

This is all assuming a trapped dragonfly is actually thinking about prey, versus a giant pair of hands waving a giant piece of paper in front of it...

@surveil3548

5 жыл бұрын

Chuck Just Chuck “Thinking”

They slow down time to catch there prey ....wow 👍

@Cerevisi

5 жыл бұрын

Most flying insects "slow down time" so, it really is how dragonflies are engineered... ability to course correct on a dime, even fly straight up, down or even backwards with little effort!, and those freaking eyes that see almost everything. and don't forget those mandibles, I mean they hunt bees!!!!!

@Jacob-sb3su

5 жыл бұрын

When you completely miss the point of the video

@jesuschristonabike8878

5 жыл бұрын

r/woooosh

@AqierDesigns

5 жыл бұрын

Just Jake when you completly miss the joke

@alb9022

5 жыл бұрын

They evolved L5N mutations :)

it sounds like having some kind of aiming hack in a 1st person shooter game. Where the the aimer tracks the target for you and so you don't have to aim. Just shoot.

@alb9022

5 жыл бұрын

Aimbot OP.

I'm now interested in seeing a video clip of what happens the other 3 percent of the time.

I like where this is going they should keep this up

Ahhh. Don't tell Elon

@kotarodesu_23

5 жыл бұрын

Elon knows all, Elon made all.

@Randomguy-wd5lw

5 жыл бұрын

Elon would transform them into killer robot

@unclekanethetiberiummain1994

5 жыл бұрын

But you cannot defy your creator.

3:01 she's like.... Yeah stop wasting my time.

@annereilley4892

5 жыл бұрын

It seems everyone is getting that impression.

@user-nj3lv5rk9t

5 жыл бұрын

The theory of evolution

I definetly need a dragonfly in my room.

This video shows more how humans torture dragonflies, than how dragonflies kill

@wondersofivan2338

5 жыл бұрын

Thats so true ..

I wonder if it's possible to genetically engineer back those cat sized dragon flies!

@netpilot5

5 жыл бұрын

ZDY Now you're talking! 😜

@Cerevisi

5 жыл бұрын

It actually comes down to an O2 problem, there was much more oxygen in the Paleozoic era. The increase in O2 led to monstrous insects, centipedes and Dragonflies.

@BigFatHeretic

5 жыл бұрын

Aeoster Neil deGrasse Tyson mentioned this in one of his episodes of COSMOS Spacetime Odyssey.

@thenaughtyapartment2619

5 жыл бұрын

Funny thing is, it has actually been done before. Google 'HIGH OXYGEN LEVELS SPAWN MONSTER DRAGONFLIES'. There's an article on it by Wired :)

@bobderbraumeister6919

5 жыл бұрын

Just let them grow up in a high oxygen environment.

3:46 Nature's Aimbot Hack. Damn you nature, fix the aimbot hackers.

Did the Dragonfly survive after the experiment?

I love the genius's picture on the top left corner.

Dragonflies are best bugs.

@GothicDragonX

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah.... Out of all the creatures in the animal kingdom the dragonfly is the #1 assassins/hunters

@ghoulbuster1

5 жыл бұрын

I love my little predators, don't you love how they murder those flies?

Interesting

I watched a dragonfly hunting a swarm of flies in the garden the other day. It was fascinating how precise it was.

Simple reflex machines, intriguing.

1:19 lmfao

Size does matter.

@introvertedperson007

5 жыл бұрын

haha

she looks so fed up when he's yelling "Oh yes!"

AMAZING VIDEO!!!!!!!!!!!!! More stuff like this please!

"Dracarys."

What if we would for example take a warehouse, make it so no air goes in and no air goes out, put some dragon flies inside there and increase the oxygen levels. Would they become bigger and bigger after a few generations of breeding?

@iminformedbecauseisawabunc9402

5 жыл бұрын

hmm...

@grantbanfill1117

5 жыл бұрын

Yes. There are studies where oxygen rich environments caused size increases in insects. I’m not sure if it generalizes to dragon flies, or what the cap on size increases is, but search the study!

@cursedsound

5 жыл бұрын

@@grantbanfill1117 Thats interesting gonna look this up 🤔

@Trashcansam123

2 жыл бұрын

You sound like a supervillain

I like these short videos by TED

Extremely interesting video. Thanks.

Rings a bell to the name given to the new supervised Chinese search engine Google is creating for the country...guess this videos sheds a light on why the name was chosen

and finally winner winner chicken dinner 4:05

The tension is intense!

Its like fucking directly wiring with a motherboard running a simple algorythm with wings, this is truly terrifying.

The moment she realised 2:53

@globin3477

5 жыл бұрын

...the moment she realized what?

@Datenshi-Beats

5 жыл бұрын

"aww yes!"

@hectord2032

5 жыл бұрын

@@globin3477 ....that the answer is 42.

so cruel , dragonfly has feelings too!!! #freethedragonfly

@cyber_dragon_123

5 жыл бұрын

1: the dragonfly was numbed with cold before fastening it down. 2: insects likely don't feel pain.

@tomy34188

5 жыл бұрын

@cypher_dragon_123 You should not be so sure about insects not feeling pain. I think it is likely that insects feel at least something equivalent to pain: "Given our lack of understanding of how higher-order nociception is processed in invertebrates, as well as the brain architecture required to experience pain, we cannot be sure that insects do not feel pain." (Adamo 2016) Check: doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2016.05.005

@wondersofivan2338

5 жыл бұрын

@@cyber_dragon_123 insects do feel pain or else they wouldnt try to escape predator attacks

@kbug0262

5 жыл бұрын

@@wondersofivan2338 or they don't wanna die, maybe... That sounds reasonable...right? Also, it's not like they killed the dragon fly. Also the whole pain thing, it's like pain but without feeling. They can tell their body is damaged without looking at it but do not feel it, of course this varies. Btw if y'all are so concerned about a lil dragon fly being handled with care for a better understanding of the whole species why don't you go help the several tarantula species slowly being wiped out... or do spiders not have feelings? Anyway this was a cool video.

Totally necessary to interview the kid with the mesh

What I learnt from dragonflies' : have a good and precise crosshair placement

OMG. You guys are geniuses. You figured out dragonflies don't hunt birds. Bravo.

@tomriddle2257

5 жыл бұрын

Well, but they still attack birds! Have seen it myself many times!

@npc6817

5 жыл бұрын

that was not the point of the experiment. they wanted to demonstrate that larger objects aren't reflexively perceived as prey. if a dragonfly wanted to attack a bird it would need to make concious effort to do so, and it's reflexes wouldn't help it

@XenoContact

5 жыл бұрын

Tom Riddle Let me get this cleared out, you are positive that you have seen a dragon fly attack a bird which is orders of magnitude larger?

@tomriddle2257

5 жыл бұрын

@@XenoContact Yes it attacks birds that are many times larger!

finally good scientific content and not political brainwashing

@siddhartacrowley8759

5 жыл бұрын

Whining about "political brainwashing" on TED and watching Alex Jones. What a hypocrit.

@techma82

5 жыл бұрын

Though it IS brainwashing. It says that the dragonfly has 16 neurons, though even the simplest jellyfish have thousands of neurons and dragonflies are a lot more complex. For example, fruit flies have 250 000 neurons. And it is just one of the many facts they got wrong in this video. EDIT: I am wrong, read below. While dragonfly has more than 16 neurons, 16 neurons is the number of neurons that control the wings when hunting prey.

@jamwheeler

5 жыл бұрын

@@techma82 thanks for the enlightenment but i would argue that being wrong is not as bad as political brainwashing. Still though one would and should expect TED to have a higher standard when it comes to truthful scientific data but i still wouldnt call it brainwashing but feel free to disagree i love to learn and getting proved wrong is the best way to do so

@mohammedjawahri5726

5 жыл бұрын

@@techma82 uhm it doesn't sound extremely unplausible,look im no expert but a quick google search says that a roundworm has 200 neurons total..you just happened to pick jellyfishes who are famous for having a ton of neurons that act as an integrated nervous system (to make up for the lack of a brain)

@sid2543

5 жыл бұрын

Firstly, they said they have 16 neurons that connect the eyes to the individual wing motility. Stop trying to act smart when you can't even be bothered to do some basic reading comprehension.

I just woke up from a dream about a dragonfly in my bedroom, now I just opened my phone and I see this video recommended to me. So weird.

1:18 i dont know why i found it hilarious and adorable in the same time

How many neurons does it have to feel the metal spikes piercing its head? Or is that irrelevant Greg Gage?

@Jacob-sb3su

5 жыл бұрын

They dont have a sense of pain like you or I would relate to so get your panties out of a bunch and go virtue signal somewhere else

@KP3droflxp

5 жыл бұрын

The electrodes sit on the skin, the insect isn't harmed in the experiment

Please don't use the word 'designed' in this context, as that implies there's a designer that made it. Evolved is the word you're looking for.

@stephenburdette2464

5 жыл бұрын

Please don’t use the word ‘evolved’ in this context, as that implies there was an explosion of nothing that made it over trillions of years by chance. Designed is the word you’re looking for.

@RubsNL

5 жыл бұрын

@@stephenburdette2464 an explosion of nothing? What are you even talking about... Also yes, random chance of mutation is exactly how evolution works.

@-Burb

5 жыл бұрын

RubsNL People can use whatever word they want.

@nathanhuit293

5 жыл бұрын

Not all scientists believe in evolution so he is free to express it based on his context

@michaelyoung7261

5 жыл бұрын

Just a thought for y’all, who gets to tell the God who created this earth that He can’t use evolution to make His creations? If God is omnipotent, then He would know enough to be able to make the ancestors to today’s critters and just let evolution do the hard work for Him. Work smarter, not harder.

That lady looked super nervous when the paper fly target came out

thank you for this video 😀

Well that's just fascinating.

"And let's be glad that we didn't live 350 million years ago, where dragonflies were the size of cats." Proceeds to show a dragonfly the size of a fucking 747 carry a human away.

What if you will find that dragonfly precision is not only behavioral survival instinct but the cosciousness, awarness .

I'll never be afraid of dragonflies they are absolutely mesmerizing beautiful creatures

dragonfly going after a bird, now that would be pretty cool to see

haha that lady at 02:55 - 03:10 looked like she was rolling her eyes at you

5 minutes and 17 seconds of watching *The Most Frustrated Dragonfly Ever*

Mind: "go to sleep. gotta wake up in 5 hours for school" Me: "lol hold on i gotta watch this video about how dragon flies are born to kill"

This is basically dragonfly torture

Excellent design.

My success rate of getting food out of the fridge is 100% of the time. Can’t beat that

That was so cool! To be honest i had no idea dragon flies hunted regular flies. I need more by my house immediately