"bees know the roundness of earth" *_flat earthers have left the chat_*

@DuyNguyen-sg7pw

4 жыл бұрын

Flat-earthers: The bees work for the government

@gjk-arts5855

4 жыл бұрын

Duy Nguyen they sting us because we broke the law-

@wolfmistresswilderr6579

4 жыл бұрын

in other words, bees are smarter than some humans

@yerakim397

4 жыл бұрын

Wéýūįķœ

@khodibritton8368

3 жыл бұрын

Yes. This is a good conclusion for this comment. End it.

Why do honeybees love hexagons? Cause hexagons are the bestagons

@beepk9228

3 жыл бұрын

yes

@Accordian

3 жыл бұрын

Praise the hexagon

@atchaaa

3 жыл бұрын

Because B E E S !

@arigershen9033

3 жыл бұрын

yes

@explosivpotato4582

3 жыл бұрын

CGP GREY, WOOOOOOW!

And I thought bees were only good at spelling

@cactussenpai9625

8 жыл бұрын

xD

@azrafrahman8456

5 жыл бұрын

Bees are good at, both Spelling and, Math.

@medxed2827

5 жыл бұрын

And they're also good at quizzes!!!

@lillyloulijia

5 жыл бұрын

😂

@thalespro9995

5 жыл бұрын

Don’t get it

Once I saw a bee bump into the same wall five times before it decided to go the other way.

@raphaelelento9511

8 жыл бұрын

lol

@Jordan_Dossou

7 жыл бұрын

lol

@Jariid

7 жыл бұрын

6th time's the charm.

@ARandomGuy24

7 жыл бұрын

And it's still definitely better at math than me.

@cheribradt6095

7 жыл бұрын

ARandomGuy l

That moment you realize bees are better at maths than you...

@branthebrave

9 жыл бұрын

Blu Hiubatto The bees didn't even really know that math...

@J7Handle

8 жыл бұрын

+Blu Hiubatto Nature is better than you at everything.

@weylin6

8 жыл бұрын

+Lucian Willi i bet he can type and watch youtube videos better than anything in nature

@J7Handle

8 жыл бұрын

weylin6 Yes, and that is *such* an accomplishment for humanity.

@themightychabunga2441

8 жыл бұрын

+Blu Hiubatto 'Math' is a human invention to try to understand this Cosmos. It is flawed and incomplete. We live in a age where traditional Euclidean math fails us. The things math tries to explain are much more complex than our comprehension of 'numbers'.

The mathematic term for "fit together with no spaces" is "tesselate."

@DanielW607

4 жыл бұрын

Nice

@bokyungjung-lee2065

4 жыл бұрын

magical

@Katharsis540

4 жыл бұрын

Alt J.

@Neyobe

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah I remember doing tessellations in school

@phoenixmascellino4438

3 жыл бұрын

nerd

Simple answer: *Hexagons are the Bestagons*

@user-tp7ip8tf8t

3 жыл бұрын

YES YES YES

@kholozondi9904

3 жыл бұрын

I see you are enlightened.

@monkemonke9048

3 жыл бұрын

Yes yes cgp grey

@aadhyaivaturi495

3 жыл бұрын

ah yes, CGP Grey.

@javieralejandrotrianapaz6343

3 жыл бұрын

Why? Because bees, bees are the best and only build the bestagon, the hexagon

It seems like they chose the hexagon shape when in fact this is not true. The bees make wax circles at first, but wax is not solid and under its own weight all the little circles turn to hexagons. This is very efficient, because making circles is simpler, but hexagons have larger storage area for the same wax volume.

@calvinkrist5672

8 жыл бұрын

That doesn't mean they don't make the circles knowing in their little bee minds it will become a hexagon.

@ffnovice7

7 жыл бұрын

Exactly! The bees knew the honey would turn into hexagons, so they made circles at first!

@AcuaDi

5 жыл бұрын

Under honeycomb temperatures shift the circles shrink and overlap over themselves turning into hexagonal shapes

@sturicky2105

5 жыл бұрын

Dang it I made this comment without realizing that someone else already did ;-;

@jt8821

4 жыл бұрын

Was gonna say

It`s not that they "choose" to build hexagons, it seems infact that they stick to circes/tubes, but wax as a material shapes itself into form because the stress in the walls leads the material to an optimal shape (it is assumed that it needs a certain enviromental temperature). My leightweight professor demonstrated this with paper tubes he glued together and the more of them you add, the more the middle part turns into hexagonal shapes. You can create a similar effect with soap bubbles, too. There are scientific studies on rather normal materials that form themselves into certain shapes if you just apply certain values of force, temperature, or even current etc.

@olivevkb

5 жыл бұрын

TED-ED, YOU HAVE FAILED ME ONCE MORE.

@white_exe8053

4 жыл бұрын

Ya :D

@vertujoe2886

2 жыл бұрын

That sounds work, I always wonder if there are some natural assists while building the honeycomb, simply because the hexagonal lattice structure is too precise and uniform. it might resemble more to something related to the nature of the material rather than the sheer work by bees.

@davidrodgersNJ

2 жыл бұрын

Not so. When bees were presented with comb in cylindrical cells by a scientist, they will still built hexagonal cells. I also watch them build burr comb in my observation hive, and the cell walls already are hexagonal as they start the edges on the glass

@gpgreyvenstein8227

2 жыл бұрын

Yes this is true

It sounds like the bees actually choose the exagon. Do birds migrate to the south because they've seen some advertisement on TV?

@TEDEd

10 жыл бұрын

Ha! Great question, Denis Dionigi Del Grande! Fore more about bird migration, you should check out this lesson: ed.ted.com/lessons/bird-migration-a-perilous-journey-alyssa-klavans

@1980rlquinn

10 жыл бұрын

TED-Ed He's not asking for the explanation of bird migration. He's saying anthropomorphizing instinct-driven animals is ridiculous, and I agree. This video was disappointing. I was hoping for a brief intersection of biology and mathematics, but instead I got a children's story about conscious creatures attending a nonexistent architectural school. The formulas for the efficiency of each shape are shown for barely a moment with no explanation for how they work or how hive-minded creatures might achieve them. The conclusion chucks the design up to "trial and error," but no examples of previous errors are provided. (Surely, biologists must have some idea?) TED-Ed has definitely made better videos. If "making it fun" comes at the expense of the actual education, then something is wrong.

@denisdionigidelgrande7961

10 жыл бұрын

1980rlquinn Thank you. Biologists have more than ideas about instincts. Darwin explains very well how they come to be in his book. It is one of his most original works

@ayonibrahim4951

9 жыл бұрын

Yes, this video made me frown. In fact, there is evidence that shows that bees actually lay them as circular open "bubbles", and heat/surface attention stretches them into hexagons. www.nature.com/news/how-honeycombs-can-build-themselves-1.13398

@christosvoskresye

8 жыл бұрын

+Denis Dionigi Del Grande Well, it is perhaps less original than his foray into abstract sculpture, but it is more successful.

You gotta fly like a butterfly and.... calculate like a bee? :p

@andreinamaleno3560

4 жыл бұрын

BRUH I'm kinda laughing for no reason

@yerakim397

4 жыл бұрын

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaheeheeheehehhehhehhahaheeheeheeheehehhehheeheeheeheehehhahheehahahahehhehhahahahaheh is this too mad-ish

To understand, you have to think like a bee.... who goes to a geometry class and asks a teacher. Um, why not just think like a geometry teacher?

@bayuidhamfathurachman1276

7 жыл бұрын

because geometry teacher do not produce honey? Shit, i replied to 2 years ago comment.

@randomcarp7689

6 жыл бұрын

Shawn Ravenfire I

@JayGeneralexceldaddy

5 жыл бұрын

@Dani Mew Blitz shocks..i replied to your 6 month old comment

@isuchyquaich8518

4 жыл бұрын

Bee is more linked to the video story line

@saudmughal1656

4 жыл бұрын

@@bayuidhamfathurachman1276 and guess what I'm watching 3 years ago comment

Maybe they play alot of Sid meier's Civilization ?

@redkeating5933

8 жыл бұрын

**Crickets chirping**

@timothwc2

8 жыл бұрын

Even those dumbasses needed three sequels to get the shape right

@Xx_BoogieBomber_xX

7 жыл бұрын

No, squares are superior.

@timothwc2

7 жыл бұрын

I prefer unspecified hologram polygons. Much more unpredictable

@Xx_BoogieBomber_xX

7 жыл бұрын

Antonio Klaić I don't really care about squares or hexes, it's just that Civ IV is the best Civ game.

The more you think of this the more interesting it becomes. This is a mathematical idea that the hexagon is the shape that tessellates with itself while still encompassing the greatest area with the least perimeter. We understand this through concepts in geometry. How bees figured this out is just amazing.

@Jontheinternet

Жыл бұрын

They don’t make hexagons. They make circles. Six circles fit around a circle the same size and make a hexagon. And this is repeated. You see sixes a lot, even in atomic particles. And fives - which contain the phi proportion.

@chrisworthen5403

5 ай бұрын

Math is universal to anyone or any species. No matter where in the universe a circle is a circle

whoever wrote the script for this is a goofball.

@matthewadams3565

7 жыл бұрын

Why?

@cklinejr

7 жыл бұрын

Its silly "we want the one that will work the best"

@scinerd11

7 жыл бұрын

cklinejr i honestly cant believe i finished it. they didnt even answer the question in the title. they just explained why hexagons are an efficient design.

@dabzdavid2378

6 жыл бұрын

They love it cause it's efficient in wax and space?

@Some1StoleMyName

6 жыл бұрын

dabz david No. If ya want the reason I already answered it in another comment.

This is not an evolutionary process by trial and error. It is an incredible masterpiece of an intelligent designer.

I love honey bees, they're such genius insects!

@TEDEd

10 жыл бұрын

We love them too, Zoink foo! Did you see Jordan Reeves's comment? "You all should check out the dig deeper section of this lesson! There's so many TED-Ed lessons that involve honey bees. ed.ted.com/lessons/why-do-honeybees-love-hexagons-zack-patterson-and-andy-peterson#digdeeper" Let us know what you think!

@Onionbagel

8 жыл бұрын

***** I’m everywhere, guess I must be famous.

@niydfass1060

7 жыл бұрын

they aren't really that smart to be honest, it's mostly just programmed into them by Evolution?

@siegfriedia9986

6 жыл бұрын

The Brutal Bros it's inspired to them by God Almighty

@nphilly4652

6 жыл бұрын

winning &making peace-I so glad you said this....AMEN!

I mean, they do make circles of wax but as they go in and out, the chambers slowly begin to take a shape of a hexagon

I don't need captions.. Her voice is so clear. Without those frustrating bg music.

Hexagons are the BESTAGONS!

@ianpineda

3 жыл бұрын

Hexagons are the bestagons.

Thanks for the videos explaining this I think there is a small error in the balloon form of the beehive which is the format of a wasp hive not the bee hive Also, the bee hexagonal are not horizontal but also tilting a bit so no back dropping. This increases the efficiency avoiding dropping nectar (as when it reaches honey level it is closed) Thanks

hexagons are the bestagons

when bees are better at math than me

@kiwi4998

7 жыл бұрын

But they aren't because you know what an octagon is

@kiwi4998

7 жыл бұрын

Shhh!

@Tjita1

7 жыл бұрын

An octagon doesn't work in this scenario, though. Only triangle, squares and hexagons do.

@kiwi4998

7 жыл бұрын

not the point

@NickPuentes

5 жыл бұрын

Let's tessellate.

1:01 Because hexagons are the bestagons!

Basically we can all save space from our growing populating, by creating a large building that has holes in the shapes of hexagons, and inside these hexagons are our beds.

@liawatson5789

8 жыл бұрын

What the hell are you talking about?

@thewaywework

8 жыл бұрын

+JustMegawatt, if we lived at the density that people live in Manhattan, the entire global population could fit in New Zealand:

Bees actually make round cells, and those cells soften from the bees' body heat. They eventually reach the hexagon shape with time.

If I remember my Huber correct (François Huber is the blind Swiss naturalist who laid the foundations for the scientific knowledge of the honey bee), bees start out by constructing circles by rotating their body around a fixed point. Each circle then changes into a hexagon as they continue the construction of each cell because of a specific property of the wax which appears a certain temperature, that alters the physical properties of the wax: the gaps between the circles contract and the sides become straight, effectively turning what was a circle into a hexagon. Saying that the bees "chose the hexagon" is a strange formulation. Instead, I'd say the hexagon shape appeared naturally.

The bee movie but without hexagons

Lol I don't think bees thought about wasted space but It was more pragmatic building process of going from one side of the wall to the next. Also they have compound eye with many ommatidia which has hexagonical-like resolution. They see through hexagon vision field and so they follow and build only hexagon-like patterns.

@bananian

7 жыл бұрын

actually i think their eyes have hexagonal lenses because of the same principles mentioned in the video. you can pack the most number of lenses on a given area using the least number of cells.

@HaloPwNnCrab

7 жыл бұрын

The video suggests it was by choice though. Are you suggesting that bees chose to have hexagonal lenses?

@bananian

7 жыл бұрын

Hippy Lemonz it's the most efficient shape regardless of whether it was built on purpose or through natural selection.

@HaloPwNnCrab

7 жыл бұрын

bananian You missed the shitty joke

@bananian

7 жыл бұрын

Hippy Lemonz I did, In fact, I still dont' get it. D:

Bees don't create perfect hexagon but close to hexagon most likely due to six legs but surface tension before wax dries perfects those imperfect hexagons. In fact it's quite possible evolution would have selected out species of bees that could not create shapes that would end up as hexagons so what survives is the most optimum solution

Actually a newly built bee hive's cells are circular shaped, and those holes gradually wear off to make hexagons. Bees aren't that smart.

@Jordie0001

3 жыл бұрын

i reckon making perfect uniform circles must be smart. all this theorising about experimentation over millions of years as claimed by the commentator is nonsense.

As a wise stickman once said "Hexagons are the bestagons"

Great video! But why ounce and not the mass in SI (gram) ?

@ShubhankarChawla

7 жыл бұрын

pedroesrt89 Ya I thought TedEd won't be metrically challenged.

@Minecraftster148790

7 жыл бұрын

pedroesrt89 you don't even need to use any units, and just give the ratio. And also ounce is a unit of force, not mass, so it is also wrong to use ounces because of that as well as it not being metric.

Hexagons are the bestagons. 6 years later, anyway.

Smart enough to calculate the perfect shape, but not smart enough to avoid my rolled up newspaper.

This video reminded me of those weird math questions that make no sense and use applications you will never need to know.

Whoever designed the Bees, is seriously Supreme and Almighty 😮

i think hexagonal structure are (is) more robust than a cube and triangle , actually a square can hold more space than a hexagonal shape but as he say there still empty space between circles, but as a shape is nearest to a circle-like it can be more resistant, a circle can resist to a lot of weight the intensity of weight divide into the circle circumference. we can use a cube it can be arranged so it leave no hallow area between them, but a cube may will be smashed at a less weight than a hexagon can tote.

@liawatson5789

8 жыл бұрын

So many grammatical errors I can't even.

@gx068

8 жыл бұрын

may you show me what is correct please. i appreciate any one help

@niboe1312

8 жыл бұрын

+ilyass nadah When you talk of a single object, you use 'is' rather than 'are'. So it would be "I think the hexagonal structure is more robust than a cube or triangle". Every time you used a comma there was supposed to be a period. The way you used a period at the end is the way you use periods, while commas are used for various other reasons, such as how I used that one you just saw.

@gx068

8 жыл бұрын

+No videos here thank you

I've heard from somewhere that hexagonal hives are more stable and strong than circled hives,in fact, in extreme weather conditions they don't collapse.

Another reason bees use hexagons is because it requires the least amount of wax since it shares its walls with more hexagons than almost any other shape.

"... comprenhend the roundness of the world" They are smarter than some humans who think Earth ia flat.

Actually the hexagonal shape comes from the wax drying out. It’s a very efficient shape that is found in a lot of places in nature

@Jontheinternet

Жыл бұрын

They are making circles. Six circles fit around one the same side and make a hexagon. Just like we do with a compass. If you placed balls or circles of the same size next to each other it will form Tessellating hexagons with the space in between it kzread.info/dash/bejne/aoOAzMt7kqeql7Q.html

Octagons are okay I guess but however, you must understand that hexagons are *truly* The bestagons!

Solid particles in the melted thick liquid takes up the hexagon shape. One can experiment it. Heat the oil in a pan. Do not over heat it. Now put some mustard seeds in to it. Now you can see that the seeds inside will take hexagon shapes. If you keep heating the oil, the hexagon will break and the mustard will start crackling.

Next step, bee nuclear fission

@robb4044

6 жыл бұрын

Paquimex nah, they'll pass that right on by and straight to cold fusion.

This is totally wrong. Bees make round cells and the surface tension of the warm wax pulls it into the hexagonal shape.

@thedude4039

4 жыл бұрын

It’s not wrong, they make circles and allow them to conveniently become hexagons. It’s not intentional but it benefits them and so they evolved to do this.

@ananth227

4 жыл бұрын

@@thedude4039 that's exactly what he said🙄

The buzzing of the hive causes a vibration that resonates at a specific frequency. There is a corresponding shape that manifests as a result of the vibration. This is what creates the hexagon shape of the comb.

Honey bees are indeed fascinating. In our family summer house we have around 21 beehives. It's very interesting to take a look at what they are doing and how they behave .I once heard the Queen honey bee piping.

Bees can't do math, because bees don't go to school.

@RitsychServare

10 жыл бұрын

But they obviously work harder than those who do!

10 жыл бұрын

How did the first teacher learn, then?

@Amantducafe

10 жыл бұрын

Life was the teacher, the ancestors of the bees were the students and their books or museum of knoledge is DNA.

um, no. bees actually make combs in circle shape, and when they melt on each other, they get the hexagon shape. please don't create information noise. it's hard enough.

@peepslostsheep

8 жыл бұрын

+Efe Aydal No, they make hexagons. Just like wasps do.

@eugenecbell

8 жыл бұрын

I am a beekeeper, I do not know everything about bees, but I have read a great deal. Bees make cells that are round. These cells are stacked next to each other and become hexagons. The bees make the cells size in proportion to their own size.

@Jrock420blam

8 жыл бұрын

+Efe Aydal In the Engineering and metallurgy world that is how we get the same designs, by using circular open bubbles in effect and letting heat and surface tension find the right shape. This saves both us and them time and energy. Does that mean they are as smart as us? No but that does mean that they seem to know what they are doing.

@davidndiulor8428

8 жыл бұрын

+Eugege Bell how do bees sleep and how do they make honey

@indjev99

8 жыл бұрын

+Efe Aydal It doesn't matter what method they use to produce hexagonal cells, the important thing is that the final result is hexagonal cells.

The bigger wonder is that knowledge and instinct can be imprinted in the DNA of creatures.

To bee or not to bee, that is the question.

A better explanation: It's the natural process of selection. The hives made of circles and other shapes eventually died off because of inefficiency, and eventually all the correct hexagonal hives spread out and that was used.

@fleecemanjenkins6648

7 жыл бұрын

Free market capitalism applies selective pressures to products and businesses, which creates a sort of economic evolution. Survival of the fittest, the fittest being those who maximize profits.

@raxkar

7 жыл бұрын

Was there any other shape? To say that they settle to this one because it was more efficient, you first most know they used other shape. Bees actually lay it in circles and later, it forms hexagon. Maybe there aren't even trying to make it in that shape.

@Some1StoleMyName

6 жыл бұрын

Your wrong they are always circles first then melt into hexagons. So your WRONG.

@Some1StoleMyName

6 жыл бұрын

raxkar your right though.

I don't think this is entirely accurate. Bees form the comb structure as an array of cylinders (circular), but given the warm temperatures in the hive and malleable materials, these cylinders steadily compress into their most stable state. Seeing as circle is surrounded by exactly 6 others, the 6-sided hexagon forms.

@garou108

6 жыл бұрын

That is correct. The circular cells gets transformed into hexagons by surface tension as the hive gets warmer from the bees’s activity. Like soap bubbles attaching themselves in hexagon shape.

and on B side (it has 2sides), the center of the those hexagons is at the joints of the hexagons of the A side, so that the thin bottom has a rigidity. you should add that to the video.

actually honeybees DO make rounded cells in their home, but with the heat from the busy bees, the wax honeycombs melt into the hexagonal shape :)

does that mean ancient bee hives had different shapes?

@dabzdavid2378

6 жыл бұрын

Exactly my thoughts! Hahahahaha As suggested in the video, Bee hives might have triangles, squares and other shapes too.

@ikichullo

6 жыл бұрын

No.

@Some1StoleMyName

6 жыл бұрын

No they are always circles first then become hexagons because they melt but they melt into a hexagon because that is the most efficient shape.

@doctoryoutube1698

6 жыл бұрын

No

@snowman7514

6 жыл бұрын

I'm gonna say No like others did. No.

The world is poorly designed, but copying nature helps. -Bomimicry

Will you please to a video on how exactly headphones transfer music and/or sound from a device . I really want to know and I like the way you guys do your videos .

This is the only TEDed video that I understand cause the script is more like a story

im sorry but i dont believe that bees attended a geometry class.

Thanks for the misleading animation of “Honey Bees” flying around a bald-faced hornet nest 0:34 Bees can produce wax for comb, but don’t build with “paper” like wasps do by chewing up wood fiber. It’s the bald-faced hornet (a kind of wasp) that makes a football shaped nest like that. Honey bees make their homes in tree hollows, rock overhangs or a man made structure. Most of the other 20,000 bee species nest in the ground (& don’t make honey. *Bumble bees are one of the few that nest in the ground and make honey.) In taxonomy, bees & wasps are in the same order (along with ants). That’s about as close as cats & wolves. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honey_bee

0:27 so bees aren't flat earthers

Philip Ball would argue that it's just the consequence of simple laws of physics where the surface tension is working to create uniform hexagons like many soap bubbles attached together. IMHO, it's much simpler and more elegant an explanation than bees trial-and-error-ly trying out different patterns.

at :30 honeybees flying around a wasp nest. honeybees smart. TED Ed, meh.

0:26 When a literal Bee is smarter than a flat earther

bees just make circles, but when they are close together the walls of nearby circles stick to each other and average to hexagons

0:27 and bees can even comprehend the ROUNDNESS of the earth Flat earther : NUH UH

And this is one of the reasons why I love TED videos.

Mathematicians after being a genius in math: "Well, maybe I am a bee"

I think this is the best way to explain it: take a bunch of marbles and role them down a ramp. When they collect, they form the densest possible way to store them, in alternating rows. But then there are those gaps. Naturally, to fit more material means getting rid of those gaps and flattening the circle, and when you do that, the circle becomes a hexagon.

There is hard work put into this video but the message is very very very bad. I hate it want scientist try to explain evolution using a purpose driven explanation. This is simply wrong, confuse and mislead new comers studying evolution. Please save the silly story telling and stick to trail and error and natural selection. If you had to use silly examples, at lease make it so that it fits the narrative of natural selection

@nicholasc.5944

7 жыл бұрын

Boris Chan why are you offended by creationist biology, is it because you're realizing its more credible than your chaos theory??

@borischan5252

7 жыл бұрын

Nicholas C. No, I am sadden, not offended, because they could not explain evolution correctly while it was clear that they are trying their best to. Most likely you cannot explain chaos theory correctly either. I just feel nothing but sadness for you.

@nicholasc.5944

7 жыл бұрын

Boris Chan why are u sad for me, by what logic have you arrived to the conclusion that I am in a state of mind that is pitiable or saddening

@borischan5252

7 жыл бұрын

***** Such a lust for revenge! WHO!!!

@missmorbid1439

7 жыл бұрын

Guys, the point of the video was why a hexagon is the ideal shape for a beehive, not how the bees started building hexagonal cells in their beehives. They were just using an anecdote to prove their point.

Put it at 0:30 and play it at 0.25 speed

@Moonfrog11

10 жыл бұрын

how?

@Umirua

10 жыл бұрын

What...the..fuck?

@heart0fthedrag0n

10 жыл бұрын

Anyone you put at .25 speed sounds like he just got back from the dentist with the anesthesia still wearing out. Or, in other words, just high as fuck.

@nipunsharma1082

10 жыл бұрын

How do you play youtube video's at different speeds? i.e. 0.25x ???

@Moonfrog11

10 жыл бұрын

You need to use html 5 instead of flash, it's in the youtube optins.

my apartment is not just my home, it is also where I store my honey

I have a feeling the whole bee's and hexagon thingy is a bit of overthinking. This video kinda captures it, that they actually does circles, because it's the most efficent way to rack up space. But if you look at many honeycombs, they actually just looks like hexagons from an overview, but are more or less just circles placed next to eachother. The space in between the circles are filled up with wax, but the hole itself is more or less a circle. If you minimixe the building material however, you have hexagons. But that's just a natural step, but the goal is just to make lines and lines of circles.

*And can even comprehend roundness of The Eath* Flat Earthers: **Triggered**

Because they like Crysis?

There's also an important phenomenon that this video misses which is a problem with circles, one that may be even more significant than just wasted space: Shapes that tesselate (can fill a plane, such as triangles, rectangles, and hexagons) allow multiple cells to share the same wall, which saves wax. With circles, only a small region of the perimeter can be shared between cells, whereas hexagons allow every edge to be shared between two cells. Consequently, beyond just saving space in the hive, hexagons actually allow for a better use of beeswax than circles do!

@bananian

7 жыл бұрын

um this video covered that exactly. they even mentioned how the bees used circle initially.

all bees make circles, but then the heat of their wings forms circles into hexagons

Which species of bees produce milk? . . . Boo-Bees

beeautiful

Woow nature is so amazing! The honeycomb concept is the same concept that is used today in cellular telephone system. Hexagon is used to represent the coverage area because it is the same as circle and it also eliminates the gap 😁

If I don’t sneak a bee into my math test I’m screwed.

Ya like jazz?

1.1 mill people have watched this and been mislead. This video should be corrected. Bees make circular cells which forms hexagons through surface tension. So much incorrect folklore being spread about hexagons, waggle dances and other aspects of bee life. The hexagon is a consequence rather than a design element. PLEASE CORRECT THE VIDEO, YOU ARE MISLEADING PEOPLE.

@Bartisoft

7 жыл бұрын

I totally agreed !!!....this is so misleading...and should be corrected... The hexagon shape is just physics...not design !!!...they start in a circular shape...and then become hexagonal because of surface tension and pressure... There's a lot footage showing the initial state of honeycombs cells...

Always interested in learning even another amazing honey bee fact!

1:34 me after a frat party

Great video, as always.

do you thing its possible that something programmed the bees to make the honey comb this way? cause we as humans need to use instruments to measure and make accurate calculation, yet this simple creature instinctively know how to do these things. maybe they are programmed like like biological machines to do there task.

@MeOnStuff

10 жыл бұрын

It's not about being absolutely accurate down to thousandths of a degree - it's about being accurate enough to fulfill the purpose. Humans don't have to use tools to make approximate shapes. I'm sure you could split a circle into three sections with internal angle 120 degrees roughly by eye.

@MsHojat

10 жыл бұрын

Instinct is the natural explanation for behavior/awareness that animals have from birth. It evolves just like organisms' physical biology evolves as well. Just as birds have beaks, they have instinct - both are effective due to developing over long periods of time. A simple set of rules can sometimes result in some very interesting results. Take a look at the field of fractals, cellular automatons, or other number-related patterns.

@Hal2718

10 жыл бұрын

Along with what was already said to you, natural selection and evolution would be the "programmers" of these instincts. Besides, just because something is intuitive to another organism but isn't to us doesn't mean much. We just didn't need to be as geometrically precise as the bee in order to survive. I also want to know why you called them simple creatures?

It's rather simple, really. Circles get the most area (as you know from Geometry class). The more sides a regular figure has, the more circular it gets. The thing is, just like how there are only five platonic solids, there are only a finite number of regular figures that tessellate. A tessellation will have at least three figures meeting up at one point; otherwise it'll just be two planes touching infinitely. There's a bunch of Euler math on this, and Numberphile has some great videos explaining it. The most you can get out of a regular figure, then, is 120 degrees, which also happen to be the interior angles of a hexagon. Thus it is the most geometrically efficient way to get the most area per cell in a tessellation of cells without any wasted space.

that is astonishingly smart for such a specie

y not a octagon or a dodecagon

@neodymiumaecium5459

9 жыл бұрын

koko pariz Volume of wax vs Volume of honey. It'd take more honey to make the octagon or dodecagon out of wax. Plus, hexagons tessilate better.

@0999999009

9 жыл бұрын

tnx

@willway1234

8 жыл бұрын

+koko pariz Plus they don't fit together, like a cirlce.

@chounoki

8 жыл бұрын

+koko pariz Each interior angle of an octagon is 135 degrees. A plane of 360 degrees can NOT be divided by 135 degrees. In fact, since the interior angle of any convex polygon is less than 180 degrees, the number of interior angles a plane can hold side by side is 360/(less than 180), which is greater than 2. So the minimum whole number is 3, which requires the interior angle of the polygon must be equal to or less than 360/3 =120 degrees. And that is a hexagon. Polygons with more than 6 equal interior angles (e.g. heptagon, octagon, nonagon, decagon, ...) will all have their interior angles greater than 120 degrees.

@anssiaurum264

8 жыл бұрын

+willway1234 That's what +NeodymiumAecium5 said.

And this is all from evolution, bassed upon what works...

@ytsas45488

8 жыл бұрын

+CommanderLVJ1 No, they start off as circles, but melt onto each other to make hexagons.

@calvinkrist5672

8 жыл бұрын

+Aaron Cruz well that's also how humans make hexagons from metal and other liquidous products... You can't discount they they know the circles will become hexagons

notice if you take the most volume-to-surface-area efficient shape, the circle, then surround it by the same size circles, you fit 6 exactly. If you cant figure out the mathematics, this is the most natural way to see why 6 sides is best. Look at 1.20 to see.

I'm pretty sure this over thinking the situation. They made the most natural shape that they can fit into, and pushed them together. Done and done.

So the bees come to that conclusion through evolution ..!! To understand, you have to think like a bee.... who goes to a geometry class and asks a teacher ... LMAO Intelligent Design , Intelligent Designer , God the creator of all things ;)

@truthseeker7815

3 жыл бұрын

._.

No "evolution" necessary, God knew what He was doing!

Bees are actually just creating round containers that, through surface pressure, turn into hexagons.

@rajapulkit2478

2 жыл бұрын

Yes

The same very concept is applied to designed cellular antennas for towers it’s mind blowing that we learnt all these things from nature.

How can somebody deny a god after watching this, its really amazing.

@overwrite_oversweet

8 жыл бұрын

"Because amazing things, therefore god" is not a valid argument.

@thronekingdom4369

8 жыл бұрын

Can't God do amazing amazing things.!?!?

@evanknowles4780

8 жыл бұрын

+Sol Kraiem That wasn't the argument. The argument is that amazing things do not necessarily require a god.

@liawatson5789

8 жыл бұрын

What? How did you come to that conclusion?

@overwrite_oversweet

8 жыл бұрын

Lara Orane Easy.Using the following fallacious logic: A can cause B, B, therefore A was used, in this case, A being A God and B being Beautiful, Amazing and/or Wonderful things in nature. And apparently G+ youtube comments is not working very well today.