EX-Z55
ƒ/3.1
8.2 mm
1/8
Cricket love-fest songs, flickering fireflies, and drum circles…
19 responses to “Sync”
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-"crispy and brown"… Choco Krispies?
-…not exactly.(now, seriously, do you know how nasty this photograph is?)
(and what happens to these guys? was there somebody giving something free?)
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Okay so I totally love the whole nanotech concept but this is one of my biggest "grey goo" fears.
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Alieness: they were just climbing up that hill and playing king of the mountain. What’s not to love?
Caterina: Yup. “real wrath-of-God type stuff” from Ghostbusters
Artwitness: As for grey goo, I can only offer a humorous response…
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oh.. oh oh! Gentlemen, please. My 83 was only for the visible side, I took for granted you were just asking about what we can see. Following Steve, whose birthday is today, if you gonna count all the hill, then double my answer to 166. =D
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*grin* I hope you sensed my ear to ear grin in that last statement of mine. No REAL expectation of course. *grin*
You win Alieness! Unfortunately all those crickets are so very thin (itsy bitsy) and they disentegrated as I cooked them, so there is no prize. So sorry. Will you settle for the virtual thoughts of chocolate?
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No choco-crickets, Sh**! =(
Oh, sorry, I mean… "If there is no choice" 😉
ps: and yes, please, no puzzles on this theme…
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It just gets weirder…
From today’s EDGE:
"Another example that we’ve been investigating are huge swarms of Mormon crickets. If you look at these swarms, all of the individuals are marching in the same direction, and it looks like cooperative behavior. Perhaps they have come to a collective decision to move from one place to another. We investigated this collective decision, and what really makes this system work in the case of the Mormon cricket is cannibalism.
You think of these as vegetarian insects—they’re crop pests—but each individual tries to eat the other individuals when they run short of protein or salt, and they’re very deprived of these in the natural environment. As soon as they become short of these essential nutrients, they start trying to bite the other individuals, and they have evolved to have really big aggressive jaws and armor plating over themselves, but the one area you can’t defend is the rear end of the individual—it has to defecate, there has to be a hole there—and so they tend to specifically bite the rear end of individuals. It is the sight of others approaching and this biting behavior that causes individuals to move away from those coming towards them. This need to eat other individuals means you are attracted to individuals moving away from you, and so this simple algorithm essentially means the whole swarm starts moving as a collective."
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