This bug produces a g-force of 500 g!
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That's not a bug, that's a feature. :)
it’s also not technically a bug, it’s a homopteran and not a hemipteran
That bug is a feat, sure.
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Do you know that's actually the title of a book?
🥁🥁🥁
I love that he talks about this amazing bug's jumping ability........ then shows it just crawling away.
its not recordable really. 500g's is alot. It would be really hard for a slo mo camera, let alone normal one.
@@xd3athclawx554 We should put this idea forward to idk, the Ballistics Hi Speed Guys xD Maybe not their kinda thing but the only ones I could think of that have insane slo mo cameras. They could team up with idk, Steve and some other person that got access to those bugs?
@@xd3athclawx554nat geo says otherwise
indeed
@@Tenster12There's also the Slow Mo Guys
Needed to see the frog hopper frog hop. Deduct 20 points.
Agreed
Thank copyright claims for that 🙃
It did. You just didn't see it due to its speed. Get better eyes
FIFTY POINTS TO GRYFFINDOR
@@Mr.Anders0n_ uh, what?
"The potato seal" sounds like a last reserve of food in olden times. Which would only be "broken" in times of severe hardship.
Ireland could have used that.
@@Soken50They also could have used the English not exporting all their food and causing the problem in the first place. :)
@@erikcrouch7881 or we could allow jokes in society
@@spytf2203 Where, exactly, did my pointing out something intentional that was nearly as bad as the Holodomor ruin the joke? It can be fucked up AND funny. Like English 'cuisine.'
@@erikcrouch7881they steal all the spices in the world yet they still boil the piss out of everything.
What! You taught us about a cool feature of this insect, and didn't even show it jumping?
Because it just disappears from the camera frame. There is literally nothing to see haha
Need the slo-mo guys!
thats 500g, you cant see it with a realtime camera, even a slow-mo camera would probably be hard to see.
@@cablecar3683lol slomo cameras can record the speed of light nowadays, do your research
@@joshyoung1440 guess you never heard of zoom out!
Those bugs would be even funnier if they made a boioioing sound every time they yeeted away
Or the Roblox Gravity Coil sound
@@PlayerZeroStart "Jimmy I told you to get off the- OW! what just hit me?"
No! It's cooler that they are silent so they don't get spotted by predators.
its jumping though it's not being thrown. you are missing a word trying to be funny and it just makes you sound derpy
@@0minous187 who is this for?
Mantis Shirmp: "Hold my cavitation bubble.
It's not a bug, it's a -shrimp- feature
no..just no..
No that's another shrimp i think
Pistol shrimps do also create cavitation bubbles, so maybe thats what youre thinking of, but mantis shrimp cause them too.
69th!
I've never seen such a tiny spud gun. As a kid mine used propane, shot just about the whole potato, and would penetrate a garage door. That was an expensive lesson in kinetic energy.
The human equivalent is me pooping
What happened to our boy? He looks like he aged a whole decade in just a few months! He must have the same medical condition that Biden does.🤔
They didn't lie, that ass can shid
What the flip
Real
Read this as I was shitting
The human equivelant would be vocal clicks and plosives, or finger snapping.
We use this principle all the time in speech.
or flicking
Who’s we?
It's a French word @@anon2427
What about coming? Not like the average man but like when I was 13 and I would literally hit the other side of the bathroom wall with my ejaculate stream?
Basically a nerf gun.
Or maybe that one thing that's stuck and you wanna pull it out then when you do your hand comes flying into your face
That must be a British spud gun, the one we made as a kid involved a can of hairspray and could kill a cow 😂
Blew a hole through a frozen porta potty at 25 yards with mine 🤣
We take guns seriously in the USA, including toy ones.
@@58jharris yup, no room for error lmao
Bugs and heavy machinery have a lot more in common than one would think.
Cmon, Steve, not the spud gun. It's more like flicking your finger, if we're sticking with the 'found in nature' idea
Snapping your finger! That's better.
Both examples given are somewhat better.
@@VeteranVandal I'm just excited something so banal like snapping or flicking a finger is a "natural mechanical power amplification mechanism".
He mentions that in the video this clip is from.
the whole point of the video was to do this build-up and then find ways humans use this with their bodies instead of tools
Ah yes.. a spud gun. I've totally heard of those.
If you haven't heard of a spud gun you must be under 18 years old😂
@@-pyrosef- I'm 34..
@@-pyrosef- you must be UNDER 18 you wank
@@biggusy25 me too, spud guns were a big part of my childhood :D
I have those bugs all over my yard, and when I was a little kid, I thought the bugs looked like magical hooded teleporting bugs or something. It was so hard to show my parents because they “teleported” before I could catch them. I can see them after they jump now because my human brain fps is higher.
Cool story bro, but did you ever think about it from the bug's point of view? Giant toothy monster paws rapidly approaching... Need warp power now, Scotty!
@@The-KP I just watched them. I never tried to pick them up.
@@jollyog All good, just having fun with words friend.
@@The-KP it’s fine.
I remember those click beetles that I would see around and they would jump fast with a click. I haven't seen one for ages.
I like that a spud gun is the human equivalent to this bugs leg mechanism
Nice pfp lol worthikids is way underrated
500g is *crazy*. For reference, the highest known g-force a human has survived is about 126g.
EDIT: Oops I seem to have started a huge argument 🤭.
Nah bro your finger will do 200 gs
@@VoluntaristSocietythat’s a localized area though. If your full body experienced 200 g’s you would likely not survive
@@DanielDuhon The bug is also localized ...in the bug. 😅
@@disbelief3911But the bug's brain experiences those g forces unlike the human's.
G force doesn't scale with size, 100G is fatal to humans but all insects would survive it, while an elephant couldn't survive 8G
Would've been nice to actually show the bug jumping while taking all this time to describe it.
In physics terms it converting energy into impulse. Really great example.
Been watching too much Hernitcraft, and I got very confused. 😅
Surely clicking your fingers would have been a good human example of power amplification.
Tell me more about the potato seal, are they endangered?
They were practically wiped off the face of ireland due to starvation. Look up the great potato famine for more details.
The oceans have darkened due to climate change which makes them grow a lot of tentacles that require a lot of energy, which kills a lot of them sadly :(
I can tell u that they are very round indeed!
Baki's gonna have a field day with this one
I’m sorry, spud gun???
What, I thought everybody's got one in a kitchen drawer. How the hell do you shoot your spuds?
@@redmanonesome of us have sadly been missing out!
I'm glad someone commented this, it's what I sifted through the comments to find! I've never heard of a spud gun before, do people just use them to mess with each other and shoot pieces of potatoes like paintball? Or is it to shoot the outgrowths into a super far away trash can/compost bin before you peel them? Because why else would you need to get rid of the potato piece like a bullet?
@@ijustwant2comment226 It's fun, and removes the unsightly parts of the potato effectively. You're clearly missing out on the fun of flinging a little piece of potato at your girlfriend, ect. Lol
@@Rafael_Fuchs Ahhh, pretending like you have ever had a girlfriend, nice.
Similar thing with how mantis shrimp can bunch as fast as a bullet. They have a Pringle shaped piece of cartilage, which naturally, that shape creates tons of potential energy when you try to bend it. So they use a muscle to bend it pulling their “fist” inwards. Then when they release the muscle the cartilage straightens back out pushing super freaking hard.
One more question how can it survive that?
By being very light. F=m*a so even if the acceleration is high, the mass is very low which results in a small force. And a strong exoskeleton of course
I THINK it's because it's so small that even that much gravity change isn't enough to impact it on its tiny mass and weight.
Like dropping an ant and an elephant from a building
I think.
Due to the insects low mass m, the resulting force F = m * a is also low. Furthermore its evolutionary traits give it a hard exoskeleton and strong joints that can withstand the applied forces.
Square-cube law. Inertia is related to mass - volume. Forces and strength of organs are applied to areas, cross sections. As you grow larger, your mass grows faster so you need more energy to move it, but the surfaces the energy is applied through don't keep up.
It's also good to ask why g-forces kill at all. In our example it's usually whiplash cracking our spines, mainly necks. If not that then our brain gets damaged from all the bouncing around. But that's because we're big and too heavy for our little surfaces to handle those forces.
@@maybe8650 it's not really about the amount of force. Force per unit area is what kills, which is why we talk about the g. The reason is can survive is that it's small and doesn't have floppy bits that can flop until they tear apart. Its small body all kinda stays in one small place.
Froghopper = Unlimited Energy = Transer energy from tiny to our-size, and we are set as as a human society, done and done!
Except now you need to feed it and keep it alive. So, not free energy.
@@whothehellarewe Bring on the compost! negative nancy
g-acceleration then, no g-force.
Semantics
G-Force is a measure of the force exerted on an object at 1 standard earth gravity acceleration, it's correct.
same thing, it experiences g-forces when jumping and flies through the air
Equivalence principle - they are the same thing.
Its criminal to not show the frog hopper hop
The frog hopper has jets in his legs...I want those...
The way you explain things is insanely intuitive. I completely understand the idea with that one simple set up and explanation.
I wish my legs were like that😢
Nope... You would die
@@seshrut i wish my legs were like that 🙃
You'd likely break your bones :(
Well if you glue Velcro to your buttcheeks and heels, they will be!
Nice to see another member of the cult here.
I learned 2 things from this. 1) the 500g leg catapult and 2) the spud gun does not always refer to an air cannon firing whole potatoes at lethal velocities
Have never actually seen a spud gun before, cute
This is effectively how "flipper" pocket knives work. Rather than velcro they use a spring-loaded (typically by being attached to the liner/frame lock bar) ball bearing that fits into a small hole in the blade and holds it until enough force is built up, at which point the blade very quickly flips into the open position.
The most impractical knife I've ever seen. You on the other hand are one of the most beautiful people I ever seen. Keep up the good work 😊
It’s like a much more powerful version of snapping or flicking your finger.
Springtails are absolutely incredible aswell! They use their furcula organ and the shape of their body to hold potential energy which is released when flexed, sending them flying many thousands of times their body lengths
Isn’t snapping like this? You apply force until your finger slips. If remember correctly as far as acceleration goes, that’s the fastest thing a human body can do.
We built spud guns out of aluminum cans.
Get about a dozen cans, cut the top and bottom off, tape them together. The last can which doesn't have the bottom cut out is the fuel chamber.
You can also use tennis balls.
Your pun game this episode is top tier
500! Is an insane amount of g force. 52! Is an incomprehensible number already, let alone 500!
Mussels. The bivalve mollusk. They produce an extremely strong adhesive to attach themselves to rocks on the shoreline. The military at one point was looking into the use of this adhesive and it’s applications.
We need to train this bug piloting jet fighter
So... like clicking your fingers? Energy built up in your finger, held by friction against your thumb, then released rapidly into your palm
Im more impressed by the fact that u built that little contraption as a visual for a 30 second story
A human equivalent would be coughing
The thing to realise is that they do this energy release with all six of their legs simultaneously, allowing one to reach staggering speeds of *4,000 m/s² (14,400 km/h²)* over a mere *2 mm* as it jumps (while also experiencing over *400 gs* of acceleration).
The incredibly "stretchy" polymers *_(Protein Elastomers)_* which insects have evolved to build these kinetic energy capacitors (allowing them to store tremendous amouts of energy, before releasing it all in a single tremendous burst) are getting investigated for industrial applications. The most efficient elastic protein known is called *Resilin.* It's been found in a variety of Arthropods; from Fleas & Frog Hoppers, to Locusts - and even Crayfish.
Thanks this was really helpful.
A true no nonsense guide.
And no extra mods required for main mods (exept cathedral landscapes). ❤👍🏻
Some fungi species can produce a force of up to 25.000g when it releases its spores. The spores sit on the tip of the basidia, then creates a gas bubble that travels up and goes between the spore and basidia, then explodes to release the spore and this force can be up to 25.000g
Petition to make them fighter pilots.
I really love how we didn't get to see the bug use this in action.
RIP the now extinct potato seal.
Hungry sailors just found them too delicious.
One of my favourites mechanical leverages in nature is certain aski on mushrooms which use water to store energy to fling spores out
I think my favorite mechanical power amplification mechanism in nature is the electrostatic waterwheel inside our cells
No wonder, whenever I’d catch these as a kid I remember feeling them ricochet out of my hand with a lot of force. I didn’t realize how intense it was until now, incredible ❤
The first thing came to my mind it's a small ball that found in folding knives called "detent". Knife guys will understand.
Bernardo Silva does know his stuff well.
A better human example in my opinion would be snapping. Tapping your middle finger against your palm won’t do anything, but if you apply enough pressure against your thumb, once you slide your thumb away you have enough energy stored in your finger to make a snapping sound
Thank you for saying "Potato Seal" and "Frog Hopper" all in one video.
I love when he’s like “it’s just like- (thing I have never heard of in my life)”
"A human equivalent is the spud gun" 😂
The mechanical features bugs exhibit are wild. The clicking beetle achieves acceleration by flexing its throax towards its abdomen. The thorax has a pin like protrusion that fits neatly into a nook in the abdomen, but catches on the rim when the thorax is extendended. While flexing, energy is stored until the pin slips off the rim, causing the beetle to flex rapidly and thereby fling itself into the air
I still remember reading an article about these bugs and fell down the rabbit hole learning about different bone/muscle structures in insects! It’s genuinely astounding how many different little bits and bobs these insects have and how their bodies work!
This feature has a bug ❌️
This bug has a feature ✅️
Mechanical power amplification is often limited by size and weight compared to chemical or electrico-mechanical options, which tend to be far more efficient in those regards.
The human equivalent is trying to pull back on a slingshot until the elastic gives way and pops you in the face.
There is a tree in Australia that its bulbs that store its seeds produce a chemical that when it comes into contact with oxygen its explodes like a fire explosive grenade that launches its seeds up to 3500 feet away in under 3 seconds basically a grenade that fires seeds like an instant sniper riffle in order for it to spread out its growth in order to have space to grow. That chemical that ignites into fire and explodes well its explosive heat is that of over 1800 to 2700 degrees and burns everything instantly in a sphere of about 10 feet to 25 feet of where it explodes out from even though its bulbs are the size of an apple used in candy apples you get at the store during Fall.
Instantly burns everything around it in a 10 to 25 foot radius? 😂
So its seeds are more powerful than actual grenades? And the tree kills itself the moment it's first mature seed appears?
Dude what are you on?
As an American. I did not 🚫 think of that little pop 🔫 when you mentioned a spud 🔫
> Muscles = Elastic pistons
> Velcro-like skin/exoskeleton surface = Locking mechanism
I like biomechanics 😁
“Mechanical power amplification mechanisms” I need one 😊
Man i almost couldn’t tell the rat was hand drawn, it’s so lifelike!
"HOLD MY BEER"
-The Flea
I think the best human comparison would be flicking something with your fingers
Mantis shrimp is nightmare fuel. It’s punch is so fast it momentarily boils the water around its club and hits harder than Mike Tyson 💪
It's exactly the same mechanical principle as snapping your fingers, and that's also why snapping your fingers is the fastest movement your body is capable of (without vehicles)
It's a insect taking advantage of the mechanics of a lever using its own skeleton and muscle amazing
Today I learned there are hand held spud guns. And now I require one.
If that pop from the potato shooter wasn't edited in, it's absolutely clean.
10/10.
New fighter pilot lingo, “He pulled a frog 🐸 hopper up there!”
I think this mechanism is also similar to snapping your fingers
There’s a bug that also has a powerful jump force that requires it to synchronize all of its legs moving at once otherwise it could go off target and seriously injure itself. It does this by having the joints where the legs attach to the body being able to slot together with ridged bumps that act like half-gears so the legs on each side can only kick off in unison.
I think Red is a completionist, and that's why he bought all those upgrades
Elastic or fluid mechanics as water has a small amount of compression and the joints and muscles of insects rely more on fluids than fibres.
man, i wish i knew what a spud gun was when i was younger, that thing would have been such a fun toy
I’m the friend of a person like this, they refuse to take compliments and think they are worth nothing. I wish I knew a way to help them make progress.
4:15
Streamer: “Grab the-“
Tanner: “Say no more”
The spud gun analogy kind of killed the whole thing for me.
I’m sorry this is so unrelated but i will never ever ever get over “look what they’re doing to the cow bro”
I am fascinated buy those guys, they hop so fast you can feel them punching your hand to blast off but you can't see where they have gone.
The human equivalent is flicking your finger by storing it against your thumb, like for paper football.
Potato seals are one of my favourite animals
blunt looks like Bernado Silva
It was the little “pop” of the spud gun for me😭
Interesting spud gun. Ours were always made with pvc and powered by butane
Sometimes I wish bugs knew what a freak of nature they are
*snaps fingers
"That's genius!"
I don't know if you know, but morale influence on critical chance. Using the mech's mouth before attacking can be an advantage in some situations.
And if big oil finds you touting this, you’re officially on a short list you don’t want to be on 😂
The way he shot the gun will forever haunt me.
And you never show the frog hopper jump. Highly satisfying video.