They really missed a chance here to call the robots Star Destroyers.

@HaxxorElite

3 жыл бұрын

aw man

@ashman2712

3 жыл бұрын

My god this robots name needs a revision

@kyle18934

3 жыл бұрын

@Bite Em Up well that sounds terrifying

@Spanky00Cheeks

3 жыл бұрын

Every single starfish is now and ENEMY of the Republic!

@amarstang6377

3 жыл бұрын

How about "Death Star" ;)

Imagine getting your own Bizarre Beasts episode but all they're talking about is how to kill you.

@Mel-be6mg

3 жыл бұрын

I feel like that's very Black Mirror/ Tales from the Loop. Pretty dark idea, so probably more Black Mirror.

@neolexiousneolexian6079

3 жыл бұрын

The Bizarre Beast isn't the starfish. The Bizarre Beast is the starfish terminator.

@nilspochat8665

3 жыл бұрын

@@neolexiousneolexian6079 yep... soon AI will be able to target and kill humans 100% of the time, avoiding the 3d printed ones even...

@delgermuruntsagaankhuu6951

3 жыл бұрын

@@nilspochat8665 it can now, the bot is literally a proof that it can be done

@nilspochat8665

3 жыл бұрын

@@delgermuruntsagaankhuu6951 even the 3dprinted humans?! :O (yeah it would actually, with enough vram...)

So now even Starfish have to worry about being dronestriked.

@SgtSkelebone

2 жыл бұрын

'MERICA F*** YEAH

@ptitgavroche

2 жыл бұрын

They sit on millions of barrels of suboceanic oil. Naturally, they had to be liberated by drones.

@augzer261

2 жыл бұрын

How to get american funding

@genericalfishtycoon3853

2 жыл бұрын

@@SgtSkelebone Coming again to save the MotherFk'n Day yeah!

@HairyNun

2 жыл бұрын

@@ptitgavroche imagine if we found a coral that produces hydrocarbon chains and we could turn the reefs into a petrol farm 😂😂

I do this job for a living, hunting these starfish, ive seen litterally 100s of thounsands (i describe them as the locusts of the reef) in 8 days diving 7 of us culled 33 thousand roughly. Needless to say they chewed the reef hard. Glad CoTS are finally getting more awareness! Weeoow thanks so much everyone! I have passed this onto many of crew that have come through the vessels. For an update still doing it and its going good! Its now may 2024 and im a skipper of one of the vessels!

@inotaarto8719

3 жыл бұрын

Ppl who do cullings are ironically some of the greatest heroes of nature, my hats off to you and your fellows

@amandathurston2720

3 жыл бұрын

I bet your job is AMAZING 🤩

@toads_ftw6866

3 жыл бұрын

@@inotaarto8719 thank you kind sir, means alot to me and the crew!

@toads_ftw6866

3 жыл бұрын

@@amandathurston2720 its pretty awesome! Work isnt really work when you love what you do.

@miserablepumpkin9453

2 жыл бұрын

@@toads_ftw6866 Thanks for protecting the reefs.

Starfish Robot Assassin is a videogame i want to exist

@johnnyrepine937

3 жыл бұрын

Isn't that part of Subnautica?

@fluffskunk

3 жыл бұрын

@@johnnyrepine937 Potential for a mod there.

@ethanspaziani1070

3 жыл бұрын

Cute profile pic and yes that would be a fun game to play

@TwistedPresence

3 жыл бұрын

Actually, it is a game that does exist... If you can manage to get to Brisbane Australia and use QUT's 'Cube': A giant wall sized array of touch screens at the ground floor of one of their newest buildings, open to the public. You control a simplified version of the RangerBot and help it take out Crown of Thorns star fish.

@katherinec.5375

3 жыл бұрын

One where we could operate ACTUAL robots that help take down the starfish?

The fact the bot seeds coral while killing the coral-eaters is amazing. It's like if your species was driven tp near-extinction by a single nefarious group of demons, but some divine entity sends a mechanized champion that helps your population return to bre-destruction levels and assassinates all the evil dark-starred demons.

@f1reguy587

2 жыл бұрын

So with COVID the girls are going to be in for a real treat later in isolation then.

@jacobhoover1654

2 жыл бұрын

That's just Pelinal Whitestrake from the Elder Scrolls videogame series

@carloutube

2 жыл бұрын

Terminator 2

@monica012077

2 жыл бұрын

Why do the nefarious evil demons have to be dark skinned? 😂

@fartdoodoostinkfart6864

2 жыл бұрын

@@monica012077 he said dark starred lmao

-What do you do for a living? -Oh, I manage an extra national group of robotic assassins

@domeen0gt895

3 жыл бұрын

"Oh, do they like, protect the president?" "No, they kill starfish"

@yourdaddy6030

2 жыл бұрын

That's a panty dropper right there

@Corvus__

2 жыл бұрын

@@yourdaddy6030 Never heard that term.

@elleryhorton8434

2 жыл бұрын

@@domeen0gt895 you ever see a starfish near the President? Sounds like they're protecting the President to me.

@Corvus__

2 жыл бұрын

@@masonsmith9619 Shoot! I'm all ears.

I remember in a Pokémon game a few years ago there was a Pokémon based on a crown of thorns starfish called mareanie that attacks corsola and I never realized that the interaction was based on how the starfish actually damage reefs

@avidarois5505

9 ай бұрын

Not only that but Bruxish, which is Mareanie's predator, is based off a triggerfish (which can attack COTs in real life)

I'm wondering why I never thought about how starfish eat. Not disappointed.

@evilsharkey8954

3 жыл бұрын

It’s pretty gruesome if you think about it. Lots of sea stars are predators. The ones that prey on bivalves will grab onto their shells with their hydraulic tube feet and pull until the prey is exhausted, and then insert their stomachs into the shell and digest the prey out of it, alive. It’s a good thing even fast sea stars are pretty slow because being eaten by them would suck.

@starandfox601

3 жыл бұрын

A lot of the ways invertbrates eat is terrifying.

@fuupdaass275

3 жыл бұрын

Now how do they poo

@evilsharkey8954

3 жыл бұрын

Fu Updaass, their butthole is on the top.

@fuupdaass275

3 жыл бұрын

@@evilsharkey8954 face down ass up

How amazing that they found a relatively easy to get, and inocous to other animals venom that kills the starfish fast. Like, it's usually much more complicated than that

@casualsleepingdragon8501

3 жыл бұрын

Does this make sheep poisonous to starfish, like whooly cane toads

@saucevc8353

3 жыл бұрын

@@casualsleepingdragon8501 Only if the sheep is feeling rather sick that day.

@BastiatC

3 жыл бұрын

@@saucevc8353 or if the sheep is in a bad mood

@omfgHumuhumunuku

3 жыл бұрын

It gets better. Turns out you can just use regular old household vinegar. Quick 20 ml injection gives 97% mortality. And it's a lot easier to source than bile salts.

@JelB

3 жыл бұрын

@@omfgHumuhumunuku while I haven't properly looked into it, I'd think that acetic acid might be worse due to the higher acidity, while the acidification of the oceans is already a problem.

The fact that it can also seed coral and test water quality makes me think that the rangerbots would be very easily altered or tinkered with for other marine conservation jobs that may come up, perhaps in the future we'll see them using ai to do species count estimations

@riddell26

2 жыл бұрын

It's gonna deploy the fish variants of covid

4:00 Now I see why Toxapex's defenses are so stupidly high, damn.

@nunyabiznes33

3 жыл бұрын

And it fookin regenerates

@Jake.The.Snake.

3 жыл бұрын

I always thought toxapex was based off of a vampire squid in its defensive position. It's listed as a "brutal star" pokemon on bulbapedia, but they refer to it's legs as tenticles, like a squid, multiple times in the article. Perhaps it's a combination of both real life animals.

@BrandonJ978

2 жыл бұрын

And just like the real crown of thorns, toxapex quickly takes over a meta :D

@nunyabiznes33

2 жыл бұрын

@@BrandonJ978 pretty toxic

@notempura

2 жыл бұрын

@@Jake.The.Snake. You missed an event in SM/USUM where the Aether Foundation explained that Mareanie and Toxapex prey on Corsola.

Well, shoot, there goes the plot of my epic sci-fi/horror story about monster starfish rising from the depths to devour human livers.

@lonestarr1490

3 жыл бұрын

Nah, you just have to adapt a little bit. Let them gain control over the killer robots and use them to sink every single one of our military and cargo ships. That way it'll actually be us who'll have made their rise possible.

@LukeBunyip

3 жыл бұрын

"I know that organ harvesting is illegal, but we need as much bile as possible in order to defeat the starfish invasion!" Am available for further script editing suggestions. You're welcome.

@madzmidz

3 жыл бұрын

Are we ignoring the second horror element here. Artifically intelligent, aquatic assassin robots have been unleased underwater. This is terrifying.

@neolexiousneolexian6079

3 жыл бұрын

Nah, this is the perfect setup for you. Humans have created selection pressure so only the strongest starfish can now survive, and at the same time humans are giving starfish good reason to hate humans. They're already immune to most physical and chemical trauma. Once they evolve immunity to bile, humanity is basically doomed.

@skinnypete8928

3 жыл бұрын

These Idjuts don’t know that bile is in the liver.

Starfish: leisurely devouring coal reefs, yummy Killer robots: WE ARE THE BORG. RESISTANCE IS FUTILE!

@yachiyous9110

2 жыл бұрын

Lower your metabolism and surrender your lives, you will be eliminated

@theenderdestruction2362

Жыл бұрын

We are the necrons and your on our planet get off

@thomasherndon-io2gl

2 ай бұрын

More like the resistance to the empire 😂

My dive instructor in Hawaii always carried a net for removing crown of thorns. It's quite funny to watch a cots run in terror from a giant triton since it's such a slow chase.

@evilsharkey8954

3 жыл бұрын

Crown of thorns can actually really run for sea stars, but they’re still super slow.

How bad is it? "The scientists decided to create an army of murderbots to solve the problem" bad.

@desolateflea2236

2 жыл бұрын

Enough for the terminators to change their target kind of bad

@fallen4satan

Жыл бұрын

typpical aint it? a natural phenomena occurs and man tries to use its own hands and tech brain pride on its own to try n fix an issue that only nature itself can solve...

@door-chan

Жыл бұрын

@@fallen4satan But the issue came from nature itself...?

@fallen4satan

Жыл бұрын

@@door-chan from human alteration with nature

@door-chan

Жыл бұрын

@@fallen4satan Nature doesn't have some perfect balance where every species has its place or whatever, every species looks after itself and there were several extinction periods long before humans were even a thing, nature doesn't care about anyone

Crown of Thorns: Ha ha, I'm invincible! Snail: Who left all this free food here?

@mianando9669

2 жыл бұрын

😂😂😂

The way starfish move reminds me of the sped up footage of plants growing. Both are deeply disturbing for some reason.

@ShakaZoulou77

3 жыл бұрын

I like the galoping starfish kzread.info/dash/bejne/a6asyMFrdcrdlqg.html

@IrisGlowingBlue

3 жыл бұрын

It's the creepy-crawly reflex, I think, & in the starfish's case it's literal.

"Correctly identified the crown of thorns 99.4% of the time" RIP to the lost 0.6% ⚰

@neolexiousneolexian6079

3 жыл бұрын

...That might be false negatives instead of false positives?

@cane870

3 жыл бұрын

@@neolexiousneolexian6079 a mixture of both

@n1nj4l1nk

3 жыл бұрын

Rip for the ones the machine doesn't see and thus survive... Nice logic.

@desperatelyseekingrealnews

3 жыл бұрын

Funnything, coincidentally if you turn the stats downside up or front to back you get the approximate "success" rate of the "deadly" wossname . Do you believe in coincidence?.🤔

@SpinosaurusStudios_

2 жыл бұрын

That one purple starfish with only 6 arms: i feel funny…

Heard about these things first from a show called 'Barney's Barrier Reef', a BBC nature show that talked about various lifeforms in the GBR. Normally it was a light hearted/edutainment show, talking about various ways creatures used mucus, poop, bits of reef debris, colours, and so on. But from what I can remember, every single time the Crown-Of-Thorns was talked about, it was in a much more serious tone compared to everything else, and was in a way the main villain/antagonist of the show due to the fact that they're mostly known for how much damage they cause to the reef at large.

@ccg2301

3 жыл бұрын

Don't they have any other purpose other than eat corals? They're basically pest of the sea if they have no other positive contribution to sea life.

@MB-sq7yn

3 жыл бұрын

@@ccg2301 They might have some other purpose to them, but their reef killing ways overwhelm all other elements to them by far.

@omfgHumuhumunuku

3 жыл бұрын

@@ccg2301 Animals don't have a purpose. They're just out there trying to grow and reproduce as much as possible, just like every other animal. If you're asking if they provide a benefit to the rest of the ecosystem, it's the same as any other predator. They tend to feed primarily on the most abundant fastest growing corals, which in a balanced system, increases biodiversity.

@iffracem

3 жыл бұрын

@@ccg2301 Which were held in balance by the Giant Triton Snail until humans reduced the numbers to critical levels. So who's the culprit here? A starfish that's been around for thousands of years (if not more) before the European human got to Australia, and yet the Reef still thrived, or the humans who collected the snails to near extinction because they were "pretty" and looked nice on a shelf or aquarium, along with (according to the vast majority of scientists in the field) have created climate conditions that are severely stressing coral reefs everywhere? (Coral bleaching is also devastating reefs) My money is on the human being the criminal here, as is usually the case when species go extinct.

@fortytudo

2 жыл бұрын

@@iffracem And yet the humans put all the blame on someone else like they always do.

The “kill the Crown of Thorns” and “reseed the reef with coral”robot sounds fantastic!!!! Congratulations to everyone involved!! 🎉🎊🥳

Random recommendation for a bizarre beast. The naked mole rat is the only mammal that is eusocial, and it is a thermoconformer (meaning they are practically cold blooded). A university professor I had had done studies with naked mole rats and I truly learned how bizarre they were from him.

@neolexiousneolexian6079

Жыл бұрын

Also they have no sense of touch IIRC? It's speculated that that prevents them from feeling pain due to the extremely high levels of CO2 in their burrows. (Also, I *think* they're immortal/cancer-proof/senescence-proof?)

@CL-go2ji

10 ай бұрын

Those are really bizarre.

Now, what we need is a psychic-water Snail Pokemon that hunts the Mareanie and Toxapex down.

@mlpfanboy1701

3 жыл бұрын

Too bad they are nearly exstinct

@isaaclim8645

3 жыл бұрын

Love this idea

@nunyabiznes33

3 жыл бұрын

Save the Corsola!

@CarmenLC

2 жыл бұрын

and a Steel/Poison COTSbot evolving into a LarvalBot

@Jynx9921

2 жыл бұрын

O think Poison-Water with corrosion would make more sense since its the saliva that renders them useless

seems Australia had a knack to launch war with animals just like like the infamous The Great Emu War

@whalesauce3647

3 жыл бұрын

This time it seems that they're winning.

@iffracem

3 жыл бұрын

Shhhhh! don't speak of the Emu's! They are listening, and waiting, they will strike when the time is right. Plus, humans killed every single one in my state (Tasmania) around 1865, they still want revenge.........

@mochardiansah7452

2 жыл бұрын

This angered the Emus, who punished the Australians severely

@justanuff

2 жыл бұрын

Just want to point out that the "army" they sent to deal with the emu's consisted of 3 men, 2 lewis guns and ONLY 10,000 rounds of ammo for 20,000 emus. Work that one out.

"is this Bizarre Beasts?" "NO, this is Patrick!"

@GorillusMaximusEternitus

3 жыл бұрын

Tank Patrick

@toads_ftw6866

2 жыл бұрын

Haha patricks cousin? There is an actual stwrfish patrick is based on theyre so cuddly 🤣

@Painfulldarksoul

Жыл бұрын

*WAS Patrick

The real question is when are we going to get an episode on the Hanklerfish?

@jozenne0018

3 жыл бұрын

We already got that in april, go look at it, it's very interesting

@IrisGlowingBlue

3 жыл бұрын

@@jozenne0018 ++

Now Lovecraft novels make so much sense. Cthulhu is just taking revenge for his pet starfish.

@YeprilesteR

2 жыл бұрын

Poor Cthulhu

“Radula”: a famous vampire that, wether on boards or wheels, shreds the gnar while always having a Vans baseball hat on backwards.

@chrisburn7178

3 жыл бұрын

He only has one fang because the other got knocked out trying to land a flair.

@conservat1vepatr1ot

3 жыл бұрын

@@chrisburn7178 I see you are also studied up on your ancient Romanian texts 😂

@chrisburn7178

3 жыл бұрын

@@conservat1vepatr1ot Well yeah, but also whenever I'm at the bowl or pump track he's there waiting for someone to stack so he can lick up the blood 🙄

@conservat1vepatr1ot

3 жыл бұрын

@@chrisburn7178 🤣🤣🤣

Starfish: • no responsibility • no need to pay taxes • no sand in swimsuit • can regrow lost limbs • stay on mermaid's booba *Become starfish*

@matsveritas2055

3 жыл бұрын

Underrated

@prestongonzalez3836

3 жыл бұрын

@@Ampedcrafter shut

@lordfelidae4505

3 жыл бұрын

@@prestongonzalez3836 NO LET THE MAN SPEAK.

@JoeMama-1diot

2 жыл бұрын

what's that last point? you spelled it wrong 😅 you should have payed more attention in school instead of wanting to be a starfish ☝️

@toads_ftw6866

2 жыл бұрын

@@JoeMama-1diot booba is a thing 🤣

COTSBOT: Think, Starfish! Think! WHY DID YOU MAKE ME DO THIS?! YOU'RE EATING AND REPRODUCING SO MUCH YOU CAN SEE EVERYONE AROUND YOU DIE! Crown-of-Thorns Starfish: ......

@mlpfanboy1701

3 жыл бұрын

The crown of thorns: its your makers fault. I had few natural predators, each one your makers hunted near exstinction for there own vanity or greed. They invited me to kill.

@toniotrussardi8126

2 жыл бұрын

@@mlpfanboy1701 and you accepted it..

When you play New Pokemon Snap and watch Corsola desperately flee a swarm of Mareanie in the distance.

@thaiangquoc9505

3 жыл бұрын

Magnezone... Invasive species massacre now

@tommycriton9758

3 жыл бұрын

Tyranitar eating entire mountains also imagine monster hunter x Pokemon

@werwolf6746

2 жыл бұрын

Followed by Porygon Star destroyer evolution

To fight the monsters we built monsters of our own -pacific rim

Imagine dying to allergic reactions for up to 24 hours.

@keithfaulkner6319

3 жыл бұрын

It's a starfish, not your sister. Get over it.

@evilsharkey8954

3 жыл бұрын

Fortunately, sea stars don’t have brains and probably don’t suffer pain the way we do. It’s more like a stimulus to move them away from ouch thing. Besides, predatory sea stars digest their prey alive. That inside out stomach. Death in the ocean is not gentle.

@keithfaulkner6319

3 жыл бұрын

@@evilsharkey8954 nature is not gentle. You ever watch fish crunch up crayfish, or Komodo dragons rip up living deer?

@V1ctoria00

3 жыл бұрын

@@keithfaulkner6319 this is called projection. I get it. You care way too much about it and it makes your eyes all teary so you tell other people to shut up and you "grrr" at them. We see you.

@keithfaulkner6319

3 жыл бұрын

@@V1ctoria00 ok

"..and you are being hunted by robotic assassins'." Netflix.. you listening?

That was simultaneously really interesting and several different kinds of super creepy.

I adore this hosts energy. Starfish freak me out too and he admits that even this particular species is especially weird and aggressive to boot. Glad to see these sea-locusts are being culled in a way that helps the reefs as well.

Sounds to me that you need to do a Bizarre Beast on the snail that eats the starfish up 😁

@Samson16436

3 жыл бұрын

Why did your pfp make me so happy ☺️🖖

@finalmage6

3 жыл бұрын

@@Samson16436 Because I went out of my way to grab the TNG emblem to show everyone how "old" I am 🖖😆

Oh, so _THIS_ is what the Mareanie and Toxapex lines from Pokémon were based on. No wonder they were considered pests who feasted on Corsola (actually, they were only catchable by SOS chaining from a Corsola in SM iirc. Corsola is a coral Pokémon)

Octonauts made a movie about their invasion on the great barrier reef! Its a good watch for all ages

@phycoticreaction1179

3 жыл бұрын

Funny they left out the killer bile robots though...

this is solarpunk as all hell i love it

Toxapex is based on the Crown of Thorns Starfish *explains why its so hard to kill Toxapex*

@tsuribachi

3 жыл бұрын

somehow I can imagine the whole thing as Magnezone go on Toxapex KO-ing spree

@CorgeekSAM

3 жыл бұрын

@@tsuribachi SAME!

@beastwarsFTW

3 жыл бұрын

@@tsuribachi It's an electronic steel type so it probably could.

I feel like the giant snail and the robots deserve their own pins. Everything is so cool!

Definitely need a camera for live streaming on the rangerbot

I was hyped to see starfish footage then you brought out the sea snail... Dude you don't even know how much I love sea snails, this is making my bad morning way better thank you

The starfish surrounded by all the fighting, time traveling robots is the one.

Ok I’m super impressed that the bile poison is safe after the fact

@evannibbe9375

3 жыл бұрын

It’s sort of like snake venom in a way: the snake can eat the snake’s prey just fine after injecting its blood stream with venom. In this case bile makes perfect sense since a creature with bile in its stomach will be able to handle eating a creature with bile it its blood stream (emphasis on the bile in the blood stream as how the target died).

We built a mechanical predator. This isn't good. We've created an ocean terminator XD

I saw an older video about a virus that was causing starfish to rip themselves apart, and stopping them from regenerating. Any chance there could be a video about that?

@lothianmcadam1

2 жыл бұрын

no. there is no chance.

this episode only just finished and I'm already wondering if I dreamed it.

This is your first video that start sad on the get go, and finishes with hope, you guys are amazing!! 👍🏻

Scientist: Rangerbot can be trained to identify,target and terminate Crown Star fish. CIA: 🤔

@rbb9753

3 жыл бұрын

Oh come on, you know the CIA had it first

"You are, by all accounts, a fairly standard starfish..." NO IM NOT MY MOM SAYS IM A SPECIAL STARFISH

Hank green: “You are, by all accounts, a fairly standard starfish.”

Growing up in North Queensland Australia next to the Great Barrier Reef I learned about these starfish from a very you age. Our first school trip to the aquarium Reef HQ was in grade 3.

Robotic assassins seem like a good way to control introduced and invasive species without harming the rest of the ecosystem.

God I hate waking up as a starfish getting haunted by assassin robots

Ah yes. Built killer robots that deploy poison and can learn to spot hidden prey. I feel like Cave Johnson was involved in this somehow. The next model probably also dispenses cake.

@justanothermollusk5829

2 жыл бұрын

That does sound like something he would make his scientists do, now that I've thought about it...

As long as we don't wipe out the crown of thorns sea star species entirely I am totally okay with this

Imagine you're little nemo sleeping in his coral and out of no where this machine drives by and STABS your next door neighbor.

This needs millions of more views why is this so underrated

I remember this from Tangents! It's nice to get some footage to go along with that nugget of knowledge 👍

Fish heads are usually used by some home gardeners from where I'm from and I'm wondering that if this starfish can be great for gardening as well.

@mehere8038

10 ай бұрын

We use "charlie carp" as fertiliser in Australia instead, that product being made from invasive carp that are cleared from waterways to save them, using the profits their sale as fertiliser net

Imagine one day our AI creations declare us an invasive species and start jabbing us with nature friendly bile.

Cots sounds like Kots in my language and that means Puke. Quite fitting since the bile is an internal fluid so now I will call it Kotsrobot

KZread: "hi, i heard you like science and biology, check this out" Me: "oh, neat" Hank green: "hola"

We're now drone striking starfish, what a time to be alive...

I am both excited and terrified of the fact we are now making and deploying real ass killer robots designed to kill specific targets for scifi reasons.

I had to lol at 0:50 when that fish noticed the camera and tried to give room to the star fish but still wanted to get to the other side 😂

This is quite hopeful for the lives and preservation of coral reefs. That’s nice to hear

I work for the COTS programs in Townsville Australia! this would be amazing to have!

@avacurtis2729

3 жыл бұрын

Wow really? That is so intresting

@lukelblitz3627

3 жыл бұрын

Well,they are making breakthroughs.maybe they will be available for purchase in a few years?

@toads_ftw6866

2 жыл бұрын

@scott appelbaum yeah bro we are up in cairns! Smooth travels and culling to you and the crew G!

All fun and games until the starfish starts programming the assassin bot to hunt swimming humans

How many times do we have to say Stop making future weapons for the Robot overlords...lol.

Am I the only one who thinks that protecting, breeding, and deploying Giant Tritons will be better for the environment in the long term?

@wombataldebaran9686

3 жыл бұрын

Probably. On the other hand: Autonomous Killer Robots!

@Hawk013

3 жыл бұрын

That was pretty much my first thought...

@werewolf4358

3 жыл бұрын

It takes time and effort, so while I'm certain that's happening it's not enough for what appears to be a more immediate problem.

@omfgHumuhumunuku

3 жыл бұрын

The key word there is long term. Plus the snails can only eat about 1 starfish a week. Some reefs have 50k + starfish

@paternoaparente2196

3 жыл бұрын

@@omfgHumuhumunuku still, does it justify spending millions on high tech equipment, maintenance, and staff per machine instead of supplementing the invader's natural predators?

I actually read about this thing years ago. I’ve been waiting to see it in action!

Great episode, glad i found this channel!

It's far more effective to try and breed Triton Snails in captivity and release them into vulnerable reef zones. One or two robots won't be able to cover as much ground and control such a large population of starfish. This would also help rejuvenate the diminished population of snails too.

@MrTREEHUNTER22

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah but that isn’t as cool

@melodyszadkowski5256

2 жыл бұрын

My only worry: how many captive bred tritons are being released on the reef as opposed to how many are being plucked OFF the reef by divers.

So that's what Caster's been summoning in Fate: Zero!

wow, Hank really is all over the place :D Subscribed! ^^

@myboy_

3 жыл бұрын

King of educational youtube

@DieFarbeLila88

3 жыл бұрын

@@myboy_ s.o. make him a crown!

0:29 Well, that escalated quickly.

wonder if this is being adapted for lionfish. mind you, is it a wise idea to start making assassin bots to "manage" our oceans. im picturing a scary mix of Terminator and Sharknado

Hank, I need a pin of the deadly anti starfish assassin robot!!

This is a very cool idea, but wouldn't the star fish become immune to the "bile" over time

@JohnSmith-mk1rj

3 жыл бұрын

There would have to be survivors for any immunity to build up in a species, and it takes a few generations and a lot of survivors to repress their vulnerability to the toxin. It sounds like the robot doesn't leave any survivors, so immunity seems unlikely at best, in this case.

@romanmeneghinister1584

3 жыл бұрын

Considering the lack of exposure to bile naturally, it should take a while before a mutation would appear in the population that could benefit the sea star. That being said, the massive amounts of eggs produced could be an issue if a mutation does appear and is selected for.

@leoanton2408

3 жыл бұрын

@@JohnSmith-mk1rj thank you for your answer I appreciate it.

@leoanton2408

3 жыл бұрын

@@romanmeneghinister1584 thank you for your answer I appreciate it.

Another Hank channel? Yes please. Don't know how I missed this one.

This episode just saved me from failing my final exam. I learnt more here than I did in my class where we went to the great barrier reef

@mehere8038

10 ай бұрын

that's scary!

Stumbled upon this channel recently and it got me thinking, are there other channels I might not know where Hank Green is in? Even as a guest? I only know SciShow and CrashCourse. Very curious as I’ve been seeing him everywhere lately 😁

@amelisticamente56

3 жыл бұрын

he is on pbs eons occasionally and vlogbrothers of course

@justlurking6529

2 жыл бұрын

He’s a narrator on Journey to the Microcosm

While the Rangerbot is an exciting development, is it not possible to grow more Giant Triton snails and deploy them? Or would that end up like the introduction of the Cane Toads?

We also have that same problem here in the Philippines but divers here found a solution. They inject vinegar and they die right away.

Hank don't stop man. Love this guy.

This was good to hear. Lots of negative things going on in the world with no possible solutions, and this seems like it's viable.

First off, this is another good episode in this series all about weird creatures. However, I do have one minor question. To be clear, I am aware of how the pin club works, and that's well-understood. However, even after the video went live, my pin still says its unfulfilled. Is this delay happening with all shipments, or is there something I'm missing? 'Cause I'm pretty sure the window of a week to ship has passed a while ago.

@BizarreBeasts

3 жыл бұрын

You are correct! It looks like there has been a delay in the manufacturing process! Unfortunately the pins may not ship for another two weeks.

@joinmarch76

3 жыл бұрын

@@BizarreBeasts Okay, that's all I wanted to know. Not sure what's caused this delay, my best guess being the plague that's sadly still going on.

I'm hecka looking forward to my starfish pin!

I remember seeing something about these critters some time ago, and there were actually divers going down onto the reefs to find and kill them. The robot is an absolutely brilliant idea. It destroys the invasive species and then replenishes what has been lost, kind of a 'remove and repair' situation. Now this is where technology is brilliant and shows what we are capable of and what we should be using it for instead of trying to kill each other.

I’m sure those scientists have been binge watching Michael Reeves videos

I did a school report on this starfish a long time ago (I must have forgotten their spines were poisonous though, because I was surprised by that.), They are fascinating. To be fair, it's not the starfish's fault the corals are dying...they've been eating coral for thousands of years. It's only when humans started screwing things up that the balance of nature got out of wack. Now we have to fix what we broke, and the starfish pay the price. :(

@mrshumancar

3 жыл бұрын

This ^ Anyone who has looked deeper into this matter will know about this.

@avacurtis2729

3 жыл бұрын

Exactly. Just like its not an invasive species fault they do harm. Nature is perfectly balanced until humans mess it up

@ribozyme2899

3 жыл бұрын

@@avacurtis2729 Nature is not "perfectly balanced", it just moves a bit slower. Species have still died out regularly before human activity. (Not saying that it's not way worse now)

I didn't know this channel existed, saw the video was interested, Immediately recognized hank's voice and was sold, glad I found this.

@riddell26

2 жыл бұрын

If you like getting told bulshit by someone who believes they know more than they do, you should watch CNN Fox any other major News Network

@PollexLLC

2 жыл бұрын

@@riddell26 Actually has nothing to do with what I said, but ok buddy.

You see a starfish. I see a Toxapex.

I hope they also offer this technology to the poorer Coral Triangle nations up north. The Great Barrier Reef is great and all, but in terms of biodiversity, it still pales in comparison to the Coral Triangle. And the Coral Triangle is similarly becoming increasingly threatened by COT outbreaks.

@mehere8038

10 ай бұрын

In reality, it's still only prototypes, real control of the COT in Australia is handled by pure manpower, diver teams going out & injecting tens of thousands of them with vinegar. That should be even more viable to do in the coral triangle, with lower wages required for divers. Governments still have to be willing to fork out to pay for those programs though, proportionately the same costs for each government

I just love when you watch a video and you realize how good Pokemon gets their science!!!! It's Mareanie

It’s kind of funny to think a starfish is just minding its business then BAM stabbed by a robot

everbodys gangsta until the robot change his target to everything --BUT-- the starfish-