This is the most uncomfortable I've ever felt while filming, for a few reasons. First, of course, because of the locust swarm itself. Second, because animal research - even on creatures as simple and pestilent as locusts - always raises ethical questions. Now, the researchers are careful with the locusts, and I don't think many people could have a problem with this. Indeed, most of the world currently has zero ethical restrictions on insect experimentation - but it's still worth interrogating whether this is okay. And finally: because if we can do this so easily to less intelligent creatures... what's to stop something more intelligent coming along and doing the same to us?

@I_love_dr_stone

Жыл бұрын

don't worry tom i wont let them do that to you

@blackholesun4942

Жыл бұрын

Because we could just communicate our patterns of society to the smarter beings and no harm would be done ? 🤔🤔

@Fishvap

Жыл бұрын

I mean hey, if there's something more intelligent that'll take us and start experimenting on us, at that point we'd be at war, wouldn't we? 😂

@goatcheese4me

Жыл бұрын

If something more intelligent comes along and experiments on us, we've already ran into bigger problems

@flygod.

Жыл бұрын

I mean human are given dominion for a reason even just from religion

You take the blue pill... the story ends, you wake up in your locust swarm and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill... you stay in Wonderland, and I show you how deep the locust sphere goes.

@Ramonatho

Жыл бұрын

Locust Sphere... Be right back, got some songs to write for my new band Locust Sphere.

@lucimon97

Жыл бұрын

Can you hear that chirping Mr. Anderson? That is the sound of inevitability.

@RemoWilliams1227

Жыл бұрын

​@@Ramonatho love it

@RemoWilliams1227

Жыл бұрын

​@@Ramonatho swarm sphere?

@DragonOfTheMortalKombat

Жыл бұрын

Morpheus, The truth is that these bees we see around ourselves are pathetic and I hate them. They spread and sting wherever they can and do you know what other creature shows this behavior? A VIRUS

Tom doesn't even know he's still in there. He legitimately thinks he's out and about in the world. _It's wild stuff._

@somark28

Жыл бұрын

What a quaint lad, I really enjoy him. I hope one day they let him out and about in the real world like the rest of us. Best of luck, Tom!

@mrshhjj8899

Жыл бұрын

@@somark28 Quiet please! You're trying to interfere with our test data on Tom!

@motifity3416

Жыл бұрын

I support freedom for Tom! Free him!

@matthijsmelissen2469

Жыл бұрын

To be fair, I think the experiment designers have taken it a bit too far recently. They've been exposing Tom to such utterly weird graphics, at some point he must be realising he's in a simulation right?

@somark28

Жыл бұрын

@@matthijsmelissen2469 the lack of awareness is actually not a limitation of the simulation but the test subject itself sadly

the fact that we can just decode thoughts into lines of C++ is just terrifying

@comparatorclock

Жыл бұрын

If that sort of thing starts happening in relation to human thought patterns, then it would only be a matter of time until the Borg are created on earth... 😱😱😱

@benbrook469

Жыл бұрын

it's Python not C++

@Happy-to3tf

Жыл бұрын

@@comparatorclock id gladly get a borg chip installed if itd let me run some premade workout programs while my consciousness naps or something

@comparatorclock

Жыл бұрын

@@Happy-to3tf I mean, that would be nice, just as long as one's individuality is kept intact. Thing is, I don't really trust that those in charge of the tech development would be willing to ensure that individuality is preserved... but then again, that could be my paranoia talking...

@lowcostfish

Жыл бұрын

That's not what's happening.

Being a student at the same university in a different subject, I had no idea what crazy stuff they do, even though I have friends in behavioural Biology. Thanks Tom for showing me interesting stuff from my hometown (for the second time now) :D

@Schpaetzlemitsoss

Жыл бұрын

Ich hatte den Prof Couzin heute in Animal Behavior und er hat uns Ausschnitte aus dem Video gezeigt, gesagt wir sollten es mal zuhause ganz anschauen, allerdings ohne zu erwähnen dass er selber darin vorkommt😂 Grüßle ausm Biological Sciences Studiengang😂

@thedarknightnicht

Жыл бұрын

Ja auch grade gesehen als Psychologe an der Uni Konstanz. Wusste nicht dass die Biologen da so krass ausgestattet sind. Hab einfach Tom scott an der uni verpasst

@MCraft4U

Жыл бұрын

@@thedarknightnicht das denk ich mir auch. Richtig schade. Hätte ihn echt mal gerne in Person gesehen :D

@rachelspencer8887

Жыл бұрын

this is how I feel when the ethical questions arise…just because we don’t yet understand how something can experience feeling doesn’t mean that creature doesn’t have the capacity to feel. When something seems different from ourselves we tend to disregard their feelings and our ethical standards.

@catatoblob8598

Жыл бұрын

​@rachelspencer8887 the scientific consensus is that insects probably feel pain. But people also accidentally or deliberately kill dozens of insects everyday, so they're too inconvenient for us to care about.

"So what do you do for a living?" "I glue retro-reflective tags to the backs of thousands of locusts"

@ThatOpalGuy

Жыл бұрын

making bugs easier to see, one bug at a time. want to know more?????

@jimbob3332

Жыл бұрын

It's not much, but it's honest work

@GameFuMaster

Жыл бұрын

@@ThatOpalGuy I guess you can call it... bug detection

@michac3796

Жыл бұрын

@@ThatOpalGuy She's doin' her part.

@OrigamiMarie

Жыл бұрын

I don't know why, but I find the bug clamps (pair of foam blocks) kinda funny.

Shoutout to that one locust who didnt even care about the marching swarm and just kept messing with the camera. Little dude's living it up

@gxgx55

Жыл бұрын

Dude took the red pill, oh dear

@holypriest1054

Жыл бұрын

"He's beginning to believe"

@Wattchn

Жыл бұрын

It's the Truman locust :O

@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721

Жыл бұрын

Just loves being in the spotlight.

@claratenzs

Жыл бұрын

He made my face itch though a screen, dudes got skill 🦗

That little bit at the end where Tom was apparently there to see research happen in real time was amazing

The researcher in the lab coat @6:41 is so happy to see Tom gettting excited. It feels great when other people appreciate the work we do.

@srzsrz2049

Жыл бұрын

Jay Shree Ram!

@mikehydroseed1282

9 ай бұрын

Thanks for pointing that out, if you had not I would have missed that data in my life memory bank. Much obliged

This video _needs_ a follow-up like a year or two from now. I am so curious to see what they'll discover.

@serronserron1320

Жыл бұрын

New advertisements for hiring interns because all the other ones have disappeared

@adrianjagielak

Жыл бұрын

And I, for one, welcome our new insect overlords

@MeThePeoples

Жыл бұрын

A year or two later: "the locusts have taken over the lab and are forcing the humans to run on the spherical treadmills"

@lntg

Жыл бұрын

@JohnMosesBrowningVEVO Holy cow, didn't even clock that. You're so right!

@UtubeH8tr

Жыл бұрын

Human testing would be on the table.

I love the last little bit where Tom gets to watch the scientists in their natural habitat

@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721

Жыл бұрын

And it looks like it's Tom's natural habitat, too.

@bernier42

Жыл бұрын

No the last little bit is when we hear thousands of locust feet walking around for 15 seconds.

@mitchellspanheimer1803

Жыл бұрын

@@bernier42Yeah that was unsettling...

@giangkim8789

Жыл бұрын

ok

@truongtran-sl6rh

Жыл бұрын

ok

6:17 to 6:27. That behavior shown reminded me of water sloshing back and forth in an enclosed pool. I've seen this in a swimming pool after an earthquake, though it is easily creatable on a small scale in a bowl of water. Fascinating!

What a cool application of motion capture using a Qualisys Arqus system! We are often asked 'how many bodies can you track?' In this case - 10,000, more or less 😆✔ Thank you for sharing - always interesting to see the variety of ways our systems are used, in both big and small. 👏

I love how the reseacher on the right behind tom smiles when hearing his praise for them. 6:41

@am7ha7

Жыл бұрын

nice catch

@mastershooter64

Жыл бұрын

haha yea that was wholesome

@queenieevergreen

Жыл бұрын

Loved that too ❤ It’s not everyday they’re appreciated like that, I’m sure.

@jackhe9374

Жыл бұрын

@@thisisreallife9026 smh

@smileyp4535

Жыл бұрын

Eagle eye! Though it could be something else but that's the best thought

I wonder how expensive all this technology is. I trust that it’s locost.

@Saladaszz

Жыл бұрын

Fun fact:Fredric Baur, the inventor of the Pringles can, is buried in one.

@lucasknox4871

Жыл бұрын

Great one

@levihope4737

Жыл бұрын

Take my like!

@TheEDFLegacy

Жыл бұрын

...and get out! 😂

@panzerofthelake4460

Жыл бұрын

dies from laughter

The whole thing was great Tom! Really fascinating stuff but the part I loved was how much you looked like someone who'd snuck backstage at a show at the end, just so excited by this brand new thing they were seeing, your genuine geeky joy is a pleasure to behold!

This is the best video you've made recently. Loved every second of it

If only Tom Scott could have set up this video so that the title randomly changed between referencing The Matrix, holodecks, and alien abductions each time someone looked at it.

@avfxz

Жыл бұрын

Nothing a beard cant fix

@liamdormon7822

Жыл бұрын

You would get instantly rate limited attempting something like that

@ecclesman

Жыл бұрын

I second this idea!

@timothymclean

Жыл бұрын

@@liamdormon7822 There is a reason I said "If only this was possible" and not "Why didn't Tom do this?"

@googleuser3163

Жыл бұрын

Wouldn't work, rate limits.

Utterly fascinating video, thank you for this! I'm so excited to see what this lab will discover and share with the world, especially as a prospective environmental management student^^

I'm primarily impressed by the kind of finesse and detail it takes to deal with these little things. I guess it's still easier than it'd be to build the same things on a human scale.

My friend in my biology class is terrified of insects, and when we dissected locusts he was outside doing revision sheets. I’m sure he’d love to work here

@ladyred9613

Жыл бұрын

You are such a caring friend

@DragonOfTheMortalKombat

Жыл бұрын

Everybody deserves a friend like you.

@northstarjakobs

Жыл бұрын

How exactly do you dissect a locust? It's so small

@barahng

Жыл бұрын

​@@northstarjakobs Very carefully.

@daskampffredchen9242

Жыл бұрын

@@northstarjakobs With even smaller tools

This is arguably the best video of recent. The topic is interesting and has a lot of implications for many fields beyond biology and its direct substudies. The camera work and close up shots are well timed and presented, Tom wrote a good script. The professor is also very detailed in his explanation but also does not obscure the topic by going into higher level concepts. Honestly he's one of the best featured on this channel

@idontknowman420

Жыл бұрын

Yes, I thought so as well

@Valmotrine

Жыл бұрын

There is also the fact that by the time it is being recorded, a never before seen event happened.

@rub3s

Жыл бұрын

But where monorail? 😢

@realDonaldTrump420

Жыл бұрын

Toms wrong tho. Locusts don't attack healthy crops. Pesticides are a scam by the fertilizer industry. You can tell this guy eats fast food then gets vaxxed out of fear, instead of getting proper nutrition.

@muazqamar

Жыл бұрын

@@Valmotrine What

Remarkable! I was glued to the screen!

This is so cool! I'd love an update on this project later on!

Locust: *walking slowly on a giant ball* Scientists: "he's starting to believe."

@missrobinhoodie

Жыл бұрын

Humans: *walking slowly on a giant ball*

@itsathing3369

Жыл бұрын

Locus scientists: “he is starting to believe!”

@DragonOfTheMortalKombat

Жыл бұрын

I love these definitely not matrix references.

@Stratelier

Жыл бұрын

Locust: "There is no ball."

@itsathing3369

Жыл бұрын

Humans: there is no spoon

Every time the camera cuts to a large swarm of locusts, the video quality drops immediately - and thanks to a much older video by Tom, we also know why! (It's been said many times before, but it's just lovely to see these concepts you're taught occur in concrete situations)

@Photonees

Жыл бұрын

It's because they are eating the bitrate

@vaibhavk2400

Жыл бұрын

@@Photonees that’s right. Confetti, snow, locusts.

@coolloafofbread6462

Жыл бұрын

locust confetti

@ItalianJesus3

Жыл бұрын

Why does it drop?

@YourDadWithTheMilk304

Жыл бұрын

@@ItalianJesus3 I would guess simply because our devices have more detail to render, so the quality drops to make it easier for the image processor/gpu in our devices to display on our screens 🤓

This is really incredible stuff! I don't know which is more fascinating the Tech used for analysis or the biology(i.e., swarm intelligence of living creatures) and its potential applications.

The professor is so into swarms, even his shirt is about them.

I cannot believe there is a way to combine the fear of insects and the fear of dangerous technology into one feeling. Science is something.

@danielthecake8617

Жыл бұрын

technophobes, insectophobes, and more: burn the entire lab

@idontwantahandlethough

9 ай бұрын

*cleanse it with FIRE*

@Yellow-lx8dj

5 ай бұрын

no ... Let ...

1:55 a rare instance of seeing a scientist actually using a real spherical-cow

@evangorski7992

Жыл бұрын

Sadly not in a vacuum tho:/😂

@barryschwarz

Жыл бұрын

I appreciate this remark!

@ombricshalazar3869

Жыл бұрын

spherical and frictionless but sadly not massless or in a vacuum

I am both amazed, and terrified. Great video!

I'm both amazed and oddly terrified by this. It truly feels like something you'd see in the exposition dump at the beginning of some post-apocalypse movie.

@agape_99

Жыл бұрын

@Mark Aspen thats a psychological war, please adapt, learn about usage limits, how to minimize dependency, solid research results about it, p*rn also hacks our brains, commercials did with the fancy toys, workd is already a place where billions (probably millions but bc u generalized to billions, i used the same metric) want their nails to be polished every week (imagine a whole industry, ask them and they will say "its our cosmetics makes us happy", bruh could it make anyone happy 100 years ago this much, see the psychological damage already?) it needs collective work i guess to not to make same mistakes we did with previous "new big things"

@-_deploy_-

Жыл бұрын

Jurassic World Fallen Kingdom + The Matrix + Any other sci-fi movie

@KeenanV

Жыл бұрын

Coming this summer, it's ... THE SWARM!

@lmartinson6963

Жыл бұрын

THE YEAR IS 2030. CYBORG LOCUSTS ARE USED AS CURRENCY. SOCIETY IS ON THE BRINK OF COLLAPSE

@loganwalton8952

Жыл бұрын

@Mark Aspen Uhh, theres only 8 billion of us how many billions are you talking?

The time lapse of them eating at 3:39 made me say "wow" out loud. I have seen plenty of before & after images, showing fields that have been ravaged by them. But to see them advance like infantry was something else. edit: Tom's face at the end when talking about the researchers coming up with new ideas right in front of him is great. Regardless of how uncomfortable he was at any other time, he looks absolutely gleeful there.

@TimestopEntertainment

Жыл бұрын

I also love how as he is doing that, you can see the researcher behind him (to his right) look over at him with a little smirk, like his glee is infectious and they're happy to see someone so excited about it.

@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721

Жыл бұрын

It almost looks like a computer simulation, but you have to believe it when you see it's happening in real life.

Your titles and subject matter are some of the most enticing without resorting to being trendy

Perfect Tom Scott video. Had no idea this research was happening, but OF COURSE it is. Fascinating!

We had a fish matrix back at my uni. The fish were completely paralysed but they thought they were moving, and all their senses were fed false information.

@fim-43redeye31

Жыл бұрын

This is hard to believe. How did you replicate EVERY sense?

@youtubesucks-yx6kk

Жыл бұрын

👁️👁️

@leyrua

Жыл бұрын

​@@fim-43redeye31 I assume it was through their eyes and the electromagnetic sensory strips on the sides of their bodies.

@CatPlayGround

Жыл бұрын

Don't give the elites any idea's

@stephaniebach__12-24

Жыл бұрын

How do you prove the fish believed they were moving?

This feels like a modern take on Plato’s allegory of the cave for bugs. Really cool

@The5lacker

Жыл бұрын

Plato's Allegory of the Bug on a Ball in the Matrix was presumably lost in the Library of Alexandria.

@scottanno8861

Жыл бұрын

​@@The5lacker What a tragedy. Time to discover the steam software engine they developed.

@imperialofficer6185

Жыл бұрын

it's just like Plato guys

@that_one_guy934

Жыл бұрын

@@Sami-fg2bm You live in a cave, only staring at a wall. Behind you, there's a walkway and a light behind that. You will believe the shadows on the wall to be reality, that the shadows _are_ humans, and that the wall is all that there is.

@Viniter

Жыл бұрын

Ah yes. The original sci-fi story!

the footage in this video was profoundly terrifying. thank you, i learned a lot.

did NOT need that shot of pouring locusts on the camera thank you lmao

I have a big phobia of locusts and cricket type insects. I only listened to this video, sometimes glancing over to see a horrifying frame. This is a nightmare.

@delfinenteddyson9865

Жыл бұрын

I am just thankful these weren't spiders

@GreggyAck

Жыл бұрын

What’s the minimum amount of money you’d take to lay down in that big white locust bowl?

@skrimper

Жыл бұрын

5:50

@unclesam8862

Жыл бұрын

@@GreggyAck 10 dollars

@Spaceman0025

Жыл бұрын

​@@GreggyAck 10000$

I work on food security and nutrition in East Africa. This is genuinely very helpful. Thanks!

@TippyHippy

Жыл бұрын

I put my hamster in a sock and slammed it against the furniture.

@l.m.l8598

Жыл бұрын

@@blackie126 or petsmart

@abdulla10955

Жыл бұрын

@@TippyHippy Wake up Locust.

Oh wow, I could watch a 5 hour documentary following these guys. Really interesting! People like them are who change the world!

What a brilliant video. Also, what a creepy video. There's something about watching all those hoppers marching in lockstep that feels like the beginning to an awful sci-fi horror movie.

I lived on a farm in rural Australia during a locust plague, seeing these small swarms barely begins to describe the apocalyptic numbers of these insects filling the air during a plague, the insects literally coating the landscape like grass. How they billow up like clouds of smoke when you step near them.

@typicalwatcher1557

Жыл бұрын

I watched the documentary on Netflix with that guy and he talked about locus swarms, they're huge like in the billions and travel very fast

I’m also very fascinated with flocks of birds. And how sometimes they are so dense and they turn at the same time like a giant blob moving around seemingly random in the sky

@bikeny

Жыл бұрын

Back in 1958, there was a documentary on how blobs move. It's called The Blob.

@judet2992

Жыл бұрын

That’s called a Murmuration. It’s really cool.

@davidgustavsson4000

Жыл бұрын

While we're here, there's a simple model that simulates murmurations quite well, search for "Boids" (as in New York for "birds").

@aidy6000

Жыл бұрын

except the birds arent trying to cannabalise eachother as their only source of protein

@BlueFlash215

Жыл бұрын

It's a birdoid. There are good videos about it.

Incredibly interesting! Hope to see more similar videos :)

There are very few KZreadrs that offer real value to the community. You offer real educational value. Thank you, Tom.

02:06 Brb I'm debugging my locust

how you manage to find these unbelievably insane stories that no one has ever heard of to make these amazing videos about them just blows my mind... you're such a gift to us and i love you so so much side note, this is absolutely HORRIFYING

@abbofun9022

Жыл бұрын

Agree, suspect that by now Tom is so well known researchers reach out to him.

@darrennew8211

Жыл бұрын

@@abbofun9022 Yes. He's said a few times that he got invited to go see things others don't get to see.

@xalaxium

Жыл бұрын

terrifying*

@sambenjamin7515

Жыл бұрын

He get's contacted

@LatentePhoto

Жыл бұрын

read Scienze (the montly journal)

this is extremely cool. thanks for sharing

Tom, felicitaciones por este video, realmente te luciste

As a kid, grasshoppers fascinated me. In our backyard we had a huge diversity of species represented in their appearance, their flight characteristics, and their courting strategies, all relatively easy for a child to observe.

@GeoffCostanza

Жыл бұрын

Watching this video reminded me of the broad variety of grasshoppers I saw in my yard as a kid. A few decades later, and I rarely see any. I'm certain it's due to the pesticides that everybody puts all over their lawns.

@incognitoman3656

Жыл бұрын

@@GeoffCostanza conversely, nobody gardens anymore. This problem is noticeable also with birds of prey being so few and far between. We have a huge rabbit problem in the spring, squirrels steal bird food, and turkeys just exist in the fall. No predators. The tiniest things have no reason to be there

What a fascinating series of experiments happening right in my hometown! Thanks for shining a light on it. I was the guy bothering you for a photo the day you arrived in Constance. You were probably weary of travel and I wanted to both apologise for that and also thank you for being so friendly and taking the time regardless. Keep up the good work!

@adrianthoroughgood1191

Жыл бұрын

If I saw Tom I would definitely ask for a photo. Probably everybody here would. He's an absolute legend.

@krishp1104

Жыл бұрын

@@adrianthoroughgood1191 I would ask him to record a 10 second clip of him introducing me as the topic of his next video

@pabloata4708

Жыл бұрын

@@krishp1104 oh, the classic disrespectful person.

@_aullik

Жыл бұрын

I saw him cross the street to McDonalds in the evening (Industriegebiet) and i was really confused for a second. However decided not to drive up to him and annoy him.

@Idefix737

Жыл бұрын

@@_aullik Probably the right call, I felt sort of bad for it afterwards. Grüße von der anderen Rheinseite!

Thank you Tom to you and your team for doing this kind of research.

Every time I saw a locus jump "YIPEEE: plays in my mind

So it's a lab researching swarm intelligence? That's super interesting! Would love a follow-up in a year or so.

@Ithinkjustzelda

Жыл бұрын

look up the research group! They work on a ton of different animals and behaviours.

@TheRealInscrutable

Жыл бұрын

New origin story for the Borg.....

@forenamesurname5326

Жыл бұрын

@@TheRealInscrutable I am Locust of Borg. Resistance is futile.

@siliconhawk9293

Жыл бұрын

@@TheRealInscrutable what is borg ?

@TheRealInscrutable

Жыл бұрын

@@siliconhawk9293 a cultural reference to Star Trek. Borg are the ultimate horror genre villains. They kill the individuality without killing the body. They make you participate in your own enslavement and death of soul.

"What did you do today?" "I spent the entire day painstakingly gluing a disc to a locust, to about 10 000 locusts, by mounting each one individualy to a piece of foam -- all to track them inside of a mocap room." "Oh."

One of your coolest and most interesting videos 🙏🤯

This feels a bit like those chaotically swinging pendulums, where the periodic synchronicity of two seemingly random motions creates a self-stabilizing and -inducing feedback loop. Like 2 locusts next to each other randomly walking in the same direction for a brief moment slightly increases the likeliness of a third one joining etc. It's all probabilistic, so any individual can break out of the pattern again, but the more locusts around it are doing the same, the more likely it is for them to stay in sync. And in the end, there's some "critical mass" at which the vectorized sum of small probabilities in all various directions within hundreds of small groups locally exceeds 50% in one particular direction, and suddenly the whole swarm "snaps" in that direction.

4:10 Can you imagine if all those locusts jumped up at the same time and swarmed on Tom? I'm sure he thought of that possibility.

@Leviathan56

Жыл бұрын

I would literally die if a guy did that to me

@stanleybochenek1862

Жыл бұрын

@@Leviathan56 wtff

@Impetuss

Жыл бұрын

Doubt they can jump that high

I literally imagined building this same holodeck set up, but for a fish in a tank so that it could swim in an infinite ocean!

@Veriflon88

Жыл бұрын

They actually do that at the same research center!

@sevenseven7990

Жыл бұрын

@@Veriflon88 bruh they need to get that tech on the market for pet fish owners

@bhavjotkang8004

Жыл бұрын

@@sevenseven7990 it would be the size of a swimming pool. At that point just put it in a swimming pool.

@triton62674

Жыл бұрын

Surely the fish would just keeping bumping into the glass

@Yolwoocle

Жыл бұрын

@@Veriflon88 do you have any article or resources about this? I'm curious to know more

Academia and how precise this knowledge process works is fascinating

"It's the Matrix, but for locusts!" Movie Producer: "That has to be the worst pitch for a movie idea that I have ever heard."

The idea of swarm inteligence kinda reminds me of the wisdom of the crowd effect where the average of all guesses in one of those 'guess how many jelly beans are in this jar' games will come really close to the actual answer!

@gljames24

Жыл бұрын

The wisdom of the crowd can be wrong tho. The jelly guess only works if no one communicates their guess. People will naturally skew their own estimate because we innately consider that other people have knowledge that we don't even when that isn't true and the other person was also guessing with no basis. This is how wrong knowledge can become entrenched into the public consciousness. The memetic transfer of information does alter this slowly over time tho.

2:18 thats absolutely scary at night

I love this video! Such an interesting idea! I've always been fascinated by locusts! Keep up the good work!

“Luckily for us it turns out that eating insects is becoming an important aspect for human’s “

This is absolutely incredible!

All of Tom's biology videos involve massive efforts into some task. It's always very impressive, always makes me go "They're really doing that". Great video.

@Zanaki113

Жыл бұрын

Its weird realizing just how much is going on in the world all at the same time.

@WanderTheNomad

Жыл бұрын

@@Zanaki113 I find it relieving to know that we're not just putting all of our eggs in one basket.

Is there a locust Morpheus giving a locust Neo a red leaf or blue leaf? Is there a locust Agent Smith infecting the Locust Matrix?

@blackholesun4942

Жыл бұрын

I find his matrix comparision kinda clumsy and clickbaity 😥

@somethingsomething7679

Жыл бұрын

Technically, they're trying to find out how these locusts somehow changed in to smith locusts

@infinitesquarez

Жыл бұрын

Locust Agent Smith: I *hate* this place. This zoo. This prison. This... reality - whatever you want to call it. I can't stand it any longer.

Extremely fascinating research!

This is disturbing from so many different angles.

seems like a good way to spend research money and a very important thing to know, considering that this will be a growing problem as the earth warms

I am really bad at handling close up shots of any kind of insect, but I'll be damned cause I'm sitting through this one! Tom, you continue to find fascinating and interesting topics along with equally fascinating people explaining them. Thank you.

This is why we’re still in the matrix, the aliens cannot figure out our social interactions because neither can we

I can really feel the passion and enthusiasm that professor Iain has. It's so inspiring to see someone who truly loves what they do!

At 6:18 the swarm movement looks like an harmonic oscillator. I wonder if the population density gradient could be influencing the swarm overall motion.

@Ithinkjustzelda

Жыл бұрын

thats exactly one of the questions they are trying to answer. Stay tuned for the publibations!

@JWooden271

Жыл бұрын

I wonder how locusts would respond to a double-slit experiment. Would they behave like waves or particles?

@Ithinkjustzelda

Жыл бұрын

@@JWooden271 that is also an incredibly good idea. I think they tried it. Not sure about the results tho

@ShadowDragon8685

Жыл бұрын

@@JWooden271 These people apparently have tens of thousands of locusts to burn. Propose it and they might just try it.

@DonkoXI

Жыл бұрын

​@@JWooden271 They would pass through both slits simultaneously and only collapse back into a single locust upon observation

As a Biologist I can confirm Locusts are nuts

@jazznstopstudios6092

Жыл бұрын

as a Locust, I absolutely concur

@co2_os

Жыл бұрын

They are insects not nuts, mr biologist.

@craigashworth3493

Жыл бұрын

Roasted and salted?

@phildman132

Жыл бұрын

Um actually, technically they are legumes

@Sableagle

Жыл бұрын

As a tourist, I can confirm locusts are delicious.

Tom, congratulations on this video. Moreover, thank you for publicising the amazing research. This work has the potential to be a game-changer in how poverty and pollution are tackled. And what a remarkable space to film in. Great work.

This is one of the coolest videos you've made

intriguing how simply walking into this facility can change your footwear 0:19-0:21 😉 Great video as always Tom

@bikeny

Жыл бұрын

Wow, great eye. Even after you pointed it out, I had to rewatch it twice.

@aramos3639

Жыл бұрын

He was plugged in the moment he crossed that threshold

@Max_Jacoby

Жыл бұрын

Do not try and change the boots, that’s impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth… there are no boots.

@dan_rad

Жыл бұрын

Love these continuity errors. Keep up the good work!

@timemycollection

Жыл бұрын

😂🙌🏾

I love weird organic-tech stuff like this, and especially brain things. I remember an old project simulating an entire worm's structure, and another one putting their brain in a car or something? It was weird, but so so fascinating to see them learn how to control it in real-time!

@andreyrumming6842

Жыл бұрын

Currently working on custom hardware for large scale neural simulations. Hoping to get some middle point, where a biological brain is simulated in tech hardware, but then connected to a bio body. That way if the body starts to malfunction and organ failure or old age starts to kick in, you can save the brain and just swap to a new body. VERY MUCH a new field RN, and I'm only the custom hardware and simulation side of things

@sigmamale4147

Жыл бұрын

Surely this technology will never ever be used for nefarious purposes Surely

@solidsnake9924

Жыл бұрын

Yes our dystopian future is very exciting!

@Kaepsele337

Жыл бұрын

Have you seen the paper where they train brain cells (I think from a rat) to fly in a plane simulator? Ignoring the ethical issues, it's fascinating. All that you need is to punish wrong behavior with a high frequency signal and reward positive behavior with a 50 Hertz signal and the neurons will figure out how to avoid the pain.

@negative6442

Жыл бұрын

@@solidsnake9924 dystopian future is when scientific locust observation

5:30 But my lord, there is no such force!

I remember reading somewhere that some (I don't know if it's all) Locusts only become what we refer to as a true locust when they are in a swarm. I believe it has something to do with when there is more rainfall than usual more eggs are laid, and they sync up hatching (some hatch early). This means there a more nymphs crowded together and that somehow triggers them to become true Locusts instead of just big grasshoppers. If the swarming behavior has some sort of rule set like that, where just a few simple things can create a complex change then figuring it out could really help predict when a swarm can happen.

@Ithinkjustzelda

Жыл бұрын

That's right, the solitary version of these Locusts looks just like grasshoppers. The transformation is actually induced by the smell and constant touching of other locusts (so when it gets to crowded). Then the final adult stages turn into the big locusts that devastate continents.

@ModestMang

Жыл бұрын

Oh so y’all believe it’s over crowding behavior? Have y’all heard of rat kings? Is that over crowding behavior?

OK, why do I find the angle at 3:49 so entertaining? 5:16 as well. It honestly feels like something I could watch for a lot longer.

@hippieduck

Жыл бұрын

*Strange goings-on. A Locust's POV.* 🍿

This is the most interesting video in a long time, not saying the others aren't interesting, but I just loved this video

This is so fascinating

@jamesgood1058

Жыл бұрын

It’s evil

@Alasadg

Жыл бұрын

@@jamesgood1058 its helping the world

@spirit5923

Жыл бұрын

@@jamesgood1058 Evil simply means we do not agree with it. Which is totally fine, but if you want to be argumentative (which can be done healthily), then give me less generic stuff to go on. I'll gladly discuss the ethnics with you, if you like.

This needs a follow up video in the future. I would love to see what their results were and what their next steps are. Thanks for this!

I think this ethical question boils down to: if it's yucky, it has no rights.

@PlatinumAltaria

Жыл бұрын

You're joking but that is actually how human brains categorise animals. The less related to us something is, the less likely we are to empathise with it. Coincidentally the less related, the less likely we are to want to EAT it too. So there's a sweet spot where we want to eat stuff (cows, chickens, etc.) whereas cultures often have misgivings about eating fish or bugs.

Getting to be there and watching a bunch of scientists make a scientific breakthrough must’ve been such a cool experience

- Locust: happily flying with the swarm - Microsoft: please activate your Windows instance - Locust: the. WHAT.

This is one of my favorite stories you've done for a while, great job!!

Crazy you were there when they finally managed to observe swarm like behaviour!

This is going to be fascinating

Wow the very last bit of the video is amazing

5:16 I'm seeing a lot of dead locusts

@panda4247

Жыл бұрын

gooood :)

@azzor4134

Жыл бұрын

As Scott said in the video, locusts can kill other locusts so they have to march in unison or die.

@flashcraft7412

Жыл бұрын

You’re seeing the aftermath of the great locust wars 2023-2023. Many unspeakable horrors took place when the locusts barely defeated the locusts. Truly a tragedy… 😔

2:58 was really amusing, like they're getting put in little comfy chairs, ready for their pedicure.

This is my favourite video in a long time.

This is one of you most interesting videos ever

4:55 the locusts got so hungry they ate a bit rate