How This Beetle Could Help Solve Our Water Crisis | Evolutionary Tech

[@nevaeh9125]

Bug: *just living it's life Scientists: THIS INSECT CAN SOLVE OUR PROBLEMS

[@الياسغالب-خ8ز]

That's the nature of humans, enslaving other species to solve their problems

[@TheLiamster]

The bug do be vibin tho

[@nevaeh9125]

@@TheLiamster he really do be vibin

[@FuckGoogle2]

@@الياسغالب-خ8ز More like imitating nature, humans have always done that, that's how we find new ways to survive, looking at other species to see what works.

[@allysonnightshade5465]

Beetle: hElP mE...

[@robellyosief8820]

Bug: it ain’t much but it’s honest work

[@iamb34]

this is such an underrated comment.

[@koma-san2692]

Gold ❣️

[@Avocado-yw4xb]

Exactly

[@seifixnetwork4663]

You must be a fellow 9gager

[@snazzysnazzergryphon8550]

Thats funny😄

[@FingeringThings]

Nestle about to sue that beetle cause water isn't a "human right"

[@ChurrosFN]

@@spekky6248 no

[@richmondjay8614]

Fingering Things ✔️ wow how did i found you

[@allysonnightshade5465]

Oof-

[@spekky6248]

God 😔

[@CKzoidYT]

@@spekky6248 no shut up

[@amoghskulkarni]

2:25 "We're far away from that still.. Um, or, we're getting closer" He suddenly realized people who funded his research could also probably watch this video

[@saiprahasaravapalli4686]

haha ... exactly

[@amargaste3833]

😂 Yeah..

[@cheesecakelasagna]

lmao fr

[@OPJuiceBox]

Actually true

[@inevitably_human8097]

Animals just living their life: People: Ooh, I bet we can use them to make human lives better.

[@bp_cherryblossomtree723]

Humans: 'its called sharing"

[@ADAJ342]

@Kelvin Lin ,nahh mate, evolution is dumb as rocks, it's just that it had a few billion years to figure things out and came up with some smart stuff... and some really dumb other stuff Ex: Bees testicles explode after mating and cannot sting without ripping their guts out. Dogs get hip pain as they get older due to poor design. Ferrets have a intestinal track so tight that it can clog killing them. Rodents have to bite down on stuff constantly in order for their teeth not to grow too long and hurt/end up stabbing them. And Just Koalas in general.

[@yeetusfeetus713]

@@ADAJ342 I was offended at ur comment until I press read more and read it all. *I agree*

[@Tower_Swagman]

our plans is to do something similar to the properities of this beetle, and improve society

[@zem7779]

it's called bio-mimicry

[@IAMIO]

Seuoia and Redwoods also “drink fog...” Nature’s so smart.

[@GenEmperor]

Aren't those the ones that got burned down in the recent wildfires?

[@IAMIO]

GenEmperor There has been some damage but not much to them, overall. Redwoods have a large amount of tannin in their thick bark, and heartwood; tannin is a natural flame retardant, (and protects against fungi, mold, bacteria, as well as giving the trees the characteristic red color.)

[@JesusChrist-wp5pj]

Beetles are just kinda really cool

[@azareelperezzapata2433]

Designed. Nature was made by God.

[@squanchmastersquanch4376]

I heard that too. Glad Im not the only one that knew that.

[@solidname9085]

Bear Grylls : by eating this beatle we get hydrated

[@erenjaeger9902]

LOL

[@corpsey_]

Thirsty Hooman: Nooo u cant just drink from fog Chad Beatle: Haha me go glug glug

[@merchant3899]

Eats beetle who's laughing know

[@yeetusfeetus713]

@@merchant3899 *wait, I am still thirsty, oh no! Food poisoning! AHHhh*

[@merchant3899]

@@yeetusfeetus713 oh crap you right

[@supernukey419]

@@merchant3899 viruses, bacteria, parasites, fungi. Don't eat beetles

[@merchant3899]

@@supernukey419 OK thanks for the tip

[@vikeshshetty5380]

Can it be that the beetle can somehow lower the temperature of the outer upper shell so that it can condense the water vapour

[@larrygonzalez4607]

imma have to experiment with that possibility

[@blueshoes5145]

An Asian that comes up with a good idea...not surprising lol

[@ban_energypri6716]

I don't think so, beetles have maintain there body temperature as they are cold blooded and according to my knowledge there are no insect that can lower there body temperature then the atmospheric temperature. Also the only know method know by which organisms cool themselves is by releasing fluids from there body (transpiration and sweating)which is not useful in this context for capturing water from fog.

[@HighFlyinAFGuy]

Or it could be the very thing they discussed in the video.

[@vikeshshetty5380]

@@HighFlyinAFGuy but have you seen the video

[@clarkevander]

Pulling water out of thin air? Avatar: The Last Airbender S03E08: "Chapter 8: The Puppet Master"

[@AmazeAngeloGames]

Your mom: kzbin.info/www/bejne/moLaZapvjMyLmbM

[@rayalexander2281]

@@AmazeAngeloGames thats a rickroll ive memorized the link

[@DraqonfruitYT]

I love how when they put “two third of people face water shortage,” they have 2 white people highlighted out

[@kukurikapo5531]

And you're making scenario out of it by pointing it could be reverse racism?

[@brianisme6498]

@@kukurikapo5531 there’s no such thing as reverse racism. It’s just racism. If a black person is prejudice to a white person that’s racism. If a white person is prejudice to a black person that’s racism.

[@brianisme6498]

You know their are nations with a large white population that have a massive population. Like Chile which is 95% white. Or Brazil which is 47% white. Although yes they still get access to water a lot of the people there are poor (atleast when compared to western nations).

[@Raphael3032]

@@brianisme6498 Brazil's population declare itself as white due to many cultural and social factors, the reality isn't that simple. Also both Chile and Brazil are in the west so they're western countries. Finishing with the classic: There's no racism against white people, because we aren't talking about a semantic phenomenon, racism is a SOCIAL phenomenon that can only exist because it was artificially created to exert power dinamics against black and indigenous people (and asian people in the US).

[@brianisme6498]

@@Raphael3032 So you think it's impossible for a black person to have a deep seated hatred for whites and/or discriminate against whites for their skin colour. Ya, it doesn't have to be a systemic thing. And if the new second definition adds the systemic problem, specifying it to be a problem for minorities. What about countries where whites are minority. Such as DRC, Japan, China. If that new definition applies doesn't that mean that whites can be discriminated against. In fact what about a worldwide perspective. Whites aren't even the majority race. The majority race in fact is actually Han Chinese and Arabic. Mostly because of India and China who both have the highest populations on Earth. Although that may change soon as Asia's population growth slowing down. What's going to have a population boom is Africa. It's predicted that by the end of the centaury Africa will have 4 billion people, making Africa the projected most populated continent and making blacks the soon to be majority race on Earth.

[@leonbranca5038]

Bruh just open your mouth the fog comes in and you eat it🤓

[@devanshutiwari5177]

Hehehe

[@Diamondesignsempires]

Mmmm r a d i o a c t i v e f o g

[@nabeel9187]

This is big brain time

[@gabrielchanel4448]

*until bug or bird poop coming in straight down your throat*

[@brianisme6498]

@@Diamondesignsempires African Chernobyl

[@JoseGranny]

Nope. Then you're just gonna end up sucking all the fog out of the air.

[@poweredman]

This made me think of how the fact that we would affect the fog's natural movement, we could be affecting the water's natural cycle, smh.

[@jojieriveral5035]

fog wont run out until we have water tho

[@JoseGranny]

Was I stoned when I wrote this? 😂

[@jojieriveral5035]

@@JoseGranny wahahaha

[@5166y]

Freeway LMAOOO

[@deltronzero9]

what happens when we start pulling fog and humidity out of the air on a mass scale? the problem is that our demand for water is unsustainable...

[@arisu7397]

This is prob a temporary solution

[@raebaconowo9910]

Humidity doesn’t Work like that it would be hard to take all the fog away permanently for a long amount of time even if you try to do it on purpose

[@sounsure9108]

Fog is part of the earth’s desalination process SO fog is a way to address the freshwater shortage. There is not in fact with climate change a salt water crisis, because with climate change sea level is rising. Change in temperature and saline levels probably will have a huge impact on ocean life but catching fog before it falls to the ground is not going to change anything , no more than rain fall collection, which is very commonplace. And who am I to stop them from helping themselves to water which they are probably going to use very carefully. I have a private well fed by a spring. The well has an overflow valve that runs in all but the driest of August, it’s near may fresh water lakes, with a high ground water table, far enough from the ocean that it is never contaminated with sea water although I live somewhere associated with oceans. And the only thing it cost is owning the land , digging the well and installation of a pump and electricity to run the pump all of which are not a high level of economic power in my part of the developed world.

[@theprofessor2403]

True, water is notoriously a one-time-use resource that can't be recycled into some kind of "water cycle". We humans are drinking the planet dry.

[@goldHydrangeas]

@@theprofessor2403 that’s the plan. Earth was just once a clean dry 3rd Rock from the Sun without humanoids animals. Then an asteroid collided Tiamat (a Beautiful pure water planet that’s now split into 2 half on Earth and half in Venus as hot boiling water-burning gas form) into Earth … and here we are threesome of parts 😂

[@firewatch9224]

Bug: So yeah that's how I drink. Scientist: WRITE THAT DOWN WRITE THAT DOWN

[@randomstuffs26]

that process is called BIOMIMICRY and been used in every aspects of life nowadays and it's proven so effective

[@balke9985]

i am speed

[@AC_Music]

Probably

[@musfiratfaizanamira9634]

Or groot?

[@sleepingkindaof]

You had to edit that 😂😂

[@balke9985]

@@sleepingkindaof 😂

[@mrglibb]

If One Piece taught me anything, it's that this can only lead to a princess becoming an assassin and then a pirate in order to save her country from a brutal civil war and facilitate the ultimate battle between a monkey and a crocodile.

[@eljeffedeloda]

If I remember correctly, doesn't that beetle burrow at night below the surface? As it's not warm blooded I would imagine there is a thermal difference in its exoskeleton and the air that would help condensation. The ridges probably serve more to funnel the condensed water down towards the head so it can drink, which is why it raises it's abdomen up at a 45 degree angle as well.

[@TranscendentII]

Late reply: while a cold shell would help condense the water from the air into droplets, it is not effective if there is any significant wind. Cold objects condense water by cooling air that is immediately adjacent to them, so if there is any wind, the air will not be cooled down quick enough to cause condensation.

[@Phyrostyxx]

Thunderf00t : Let's test Superhydrophilicity (near 0 contact angles) with atomic scale measurements to see if water covalently binds to the surface. I will be using Wenzel's equation to shows that macrostructuring a surface amplifies that natural tendency to collect water. Still, people are willing to pay millions and millions get a "magical breakthrough in technology" also called A DEHUMIDIFIER.

[@electronresonator8882]

0:28 "it can pull water out of thin air" thunderf00t : "only with that stupid exoskeleton?, ....it's debunking time !! "

[@Medicus_Asur]

Well it pulls water out of fog so it might work, unlike other "water out of thin air" technology

[@madeumad3880]

1960s : In future we have flying cars 6 decades later.... 2020 : we depend on beetles to solve world water crisis

[@iamb34]

"It turns out the beetle that has the bumps isn't the beetle that fog-basks..." People that funds his research: "Wait so... You didn't realise that... earlier." Scientists: *Sweats* *profoundly*

[@goldHydrangeas]

Wasting money

[@kristinapalett3127]

mhmm tho fog must too be a huge deal for the local ecosystem and if fog is taken in large portions, then this practice might rect that ecosystem no??

[@JohnSmith-nc9ep]

You'll be making the air more dry. Any thoughts on how that may affect the ecosystem?

[@paow0w279]

Water comes back in the air. It's the cycle of water

[@krasome6440]

I dont think air will be dry as long as body of waters exist, unless all the lake, ocean and all bodies of water dried up, the water cycle will keep on going plus whether air is humid or dry depends on its temperature, more water vapour is presence in hotter air compared to cold air Edit: Do correct me if I'm wrong

[@MAGISMAGZMM2]

Leave the desert alone mkayyy

[@mangojulie123]

How about use a small, portable solar energy souce to run a small portable device that stays cool and causes the fog to condense and drip as water? LEAVE THE BEETLE ALONE!

[@karoma7898]

At that point water desalination is more effective

[@vivekgoutam5608]

Thank god you uploaded video and that's not on COVID-19 because in every section of u-tube there is this topic. Glad to see something new.😊

[@missalisha9644]

I've seen alot of Earth Documentaries & have seen beetles shown doing this in deserts, I never really thought of how they do it. I just figured they live in the desert & have adjusted by getting water how ever they can.

[@mguanipa2]

This is incredibly cool how this beetle works. I hope this gets learned from in our lifetime and creates a brand new way to capture fresh water

[@crazyscientists8758]

2/3 of people face water shortage and they show a black guy

[@david09baz]

Hey bro can you go quickly buy about 10000 gallons of beetles please to fill my pool?

[@david09baz]

MSHEHRI thanks bro

[@Nietabs]

I accidentally clicked this video, turns out to be interesting

[@darkbionic1044]

We have to learn from Mother Nature! It’s our responsibility to take care of it!

[@polarspirit]

When I exercise, I have water droplets forming on my body, I invert myself and just let it slide down into my mouth

[@recruit8921]

No

[@3hrsofsleep]

Ewww wtf

[@DesastreMan1]

I believe they are missing a important part. The thermal condutivity of the surface plays a role in the moisture capture. If a object is capable to assimilate and dissipate the heat from the moisture, the water will condensate in this object.

[@BeetlesAsPets]

Very interesting video, watched and enjoyed it. Thanks!

[@Lion-vl3kl]

heck!! Why can't we stop wastage of water and reduce pollutions A K A Spending millions of dollars instead of saving 10 bucks...

[@sanicanadkarni918]

But if we start capturing water from air, would we stop having rains ..........🤔🤔

[@holom2076]

:|

[@loveanimals-0197]

If you can't even pronounce "Namib" properly (N uh Mib), then you shouldn't be allowed to talk in this channel.

[@1ZZT223]

Came here to figure out how to drop the exhaust out of my car, now I’m in my back seat learning about beetles from another continent

[@danidufernando3142]

Me who thought the beetle cools its body so fog condenses on him... (i was so wrong...lmao)

[@DustyGus]

Is it possible to over-collect fog? Could we theoretically pull so much fog out of the air that it changes the ecosystem, or is it sort of endless?

[@sokritlun1624]

Not sure but it says fog is just clouds that touches the ground so I guess if the water s cycles happens infinite fog bahaha

[@CodeKirby]

Whenever we humans are stuck with a seemingly unsolvable problem, we should always look to Mother Nature for guidance.

[@JP-jr4fx]

So harvest 100% fog from the forest,desert and mountain just to human can drink

[@skinfully]

.....100%? ... also, "just so humans can drink" uh yeah man people wanna live lmao

[@dailydoseofmedicinee]

What is your top solution for the water crisis?👇 Education/Awareness. New Conservation Technologies. Recycle Wastewater. Improve Irrigation and Agriculture Water Use. Water Pricing. Energy Efficient Desal Plants. Rain Water Harvesting. Community Governance and Partnerships.

[@adamm5107]

Education won't do anything, 'cos the vast majority of people are just stupid and short-sighted.

[@spitzer666]

Sir can I order 10 billions Beetle right away?

[@kumand8259]

Try to be less greedy, there is more than enough for everyone. Stop molesting the nature

[@zuages]

I wonder if the researchers alevaluated the beetle's exoesqueleton composition. Maybe the shape it's not the key. Maybe the key is in the chemical affinity of the beetle's material and the water.

[@TheGuruNetOn]

Seems like there's more going on than just surface bumps alone on the exoskeleton of the beetle. Temperature differences for example? What about studying plant life for extracting fog water from the air? Nara desert melon : kzbin.info/www/bejne/rXvOaKp3irKLfdk Nara plant : kzbin.info/www/bejne/fZu6kn2dr7xmfMk Attracting the fog water droplets using electrically charged surfaces makes it a 100% effective fog catcher : kzbin.info/www/bejne/hHPLd6uOiZ6gi7M

[@stuffums]

I say this as an actual pure American; please use metric! It's very cringy to use niche British systems that most of your audience needs to convert by hand to understand.

[@Jacob-nx7oe]

But the problem is in a desert that uses the system that only 3 countries use, although this video was made in the U.S. I think there may be more people viewing that uses the other system (I forgot the name although I’m Canadian). Not everything can be about you guys.

[@santiagovasches9808]

Great, let's keep modifying environments to suit our human needs while breaking the resilience of every environment we step on. It sounds like a good plan that's been giving us great results so far.....

[@johnnysolami]

Beetle when the fog rolls in: "Face DOWN, ass UP"

[@Holycryptonite47]

i thought that the exoskeleton would just become a little hotter and then it would turn the fog that sticks on the shell into water. clearly it is a lot harder than that.

[@NOMVrewq]

Does it have an impact on local weather if used at large scale?

[@williamb.j.blaskowicz.5664]

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[@williamb.j.blaskowicz.5664]

JAEDEN ABNER D'SA.

[@williamb.j.blaskowicz.5664]

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[@williamb.j.blaskowicz.5664]

JAEDEN ABNER D'SA.

[@LA-bq6hf]

0:34 of course its the black guy that doesnt get water lol

[@carval2001]

Or you could just lick the water droplets off the beetles, if you have one nearby. Or just eat the whole beetle, then you get food and water at the same time.

[@Endlock_]

oh, so the jjba/jojo bizzare adventure manga creator made a reference to a beetle in part 6 to future sight the answer to our water crisis... N I C E

[@jaybuddzmotocamps]

Scientist just solved the riddle. God made the riddle thousand years ago.

[@vishwajitraut4987]

On seeing thumbnail, I thought about beetle band.

[@miabailey2236]

Beetle juice if u will

[@JonathonPawelko]

So based on simple maths, the average water content in the atmosphere is ~8.5 grams per liter or more accurately based on proper unit 0.0085 kilograms per litre and the average human needs approximately 3 litres of water per day, so do a little magic and voilà, you have to dehydrate ~353 cubic meters of air per person per day. Now since the water content in the air is in a gradient, and of course varies by geographical region, this is not quite so simple based on altitude and climate. The water carrying potential is directly proportional to the air temperature and it's pressure, I have nice charts showing the values, but for the Sahara desert, one would have to evacuate all the water vapour from 1325 cubic meters of air. Now of course you have to do this process in the day since the average humidity in the air can change up to 80%, pushing the air required to be dehumidifised to ~2385 cubic meters of air. Now agriculture is the largest use of water in the world next to transportation and of course sits in nice reservoirs called lakes, oceans, rivers, ponds. aquifers etc et al. A single lactating cow needs ~115 liters of water per day, so do the old maths magic again and a SINGLE lactating cow needs to have ~13,500 cubic meters of air dehumidifised per day, in the Sahara we require ~24,300 cubic meters of air dehumidifised. A market garden isn't as thirsty as a cow, but still requires huge amounts of water, imagine rice which rquires ~2,500 cubic liters of water to produce 1 kilogram of rice grains. An average human can eat up to ~180 kilograms of rice per year so that requires ~32,500 liters of water to produce that rice, which is 58,500 cubic meters of that is required to be dehydrated. Now these numbers are all getting ridiculous 0ly high, imagine the ludicrous numbers for a village of 300 families, their animals, their gardens and ancillary uses. This gets into the millions of cubic meters of air to continuously produce water just for ONE village. Now onto the big issue the real elephant in the room, the energy required to dehydrate the atmosphere of this water, now I picked a similar engineering process to dehydrating the air, in my case I chose desalinating sea water. The most effective and efficient way of desalinating sea watzr is with electricity. Now the numbers fornthis are going to be massively huge. The theoretical absolute minimum amount of energy required by natural osmosis to desalinate average seawater is approximately 1 kilowatt-hour per cubic meter (kwh/m3), the practical average is ~8.0 kwh/m3. Now based on industrial power rates, this translates roughly to $850.00 Canadian dollars per day per cubic meter of water desalinateed. Translate this process to producing water from the atmosphere and you immediately realise that this is a practical impossibility to do. Producing a few millilitres of water this way is one thing, but on on industrial scale not even slightly achievable. Now every community would basically require a future technology fusion reactor just to maintain the energy requirements. Oh my, I am tempted to calculate the energy costs for the approximate 4 billion people with water quality and quantity problems. I truly recommend that you consult the most brilliant hydrographic engineer, the most creative cost accountant, the most brilliant nuclear physicist, the most brilliant industrial and chemical engineers before you start on this project, you really are going to need them. Make sure that you have the world bank and all the world's bank resources, all the world's combined aid agencies budgets, and all the world's engineers together for what would be the world's largest and most expensive engineering project. I Based on costs, the amount of resources and the engineering and technological challenges, it would be cheaper, faster, easier and more manageable to desalinate sea water from the oceans with central fusion reactors and build massive pipeline infrastructure to pump this expensive and very precious fluid to the communities. Oh wait, now that you have paid for all of this and built all this infrastructure, it has to be maintained. This could be a very interesting graduate thesis combining engineering, economics, sociology, agriculture, physics, education and hundreds of fields of expertise with millions of workers. So this has been fun. Cheers from Canada.

[@typhon36]

This isn't new research. The riddle of the fog harvesting beetles has been solved several times over and the trick replicated previously in at least 6 to 7 laboratories the world around though mostly too expensively for economic widespread use. The only research program I know of currently which promises water harvesting from air using cheap enough materials to make a differences is at one of our Universities in NSW, Australia. A cursory check of the literature reveals others. The technology depends on thin surfacing laid on cheaper fabrics. Micro grooves have hydrophilic surfacing on the ridges that droplets can condense on and slick surfacing that the droplets run off when they grow beyond a critical size in the grooves, much as the Namibian beetle has. I believe microsurfacing with minute amounts of expensive Nickel or Platinum is involved in the slick surfacing. It has been calculated that the average home could unfurl a sail of such treated textile overnight and capture enough dew to make a good contribution to their water requirements. If done enough this could alleviate the need to build more dams and water infrastructure etc. Some references worth checking include www.researchgate.net/publication/51499516_Biomimetic_Surface_Coatings_for_Atmospheric_Water_Capture_Prepared_by_Dewetting_of_Polymer_Films & www.researchgate.net/publication/228065154_Water_harvest_via_dewing

[@BioTheHuman]

I think that if you solute the water with some lond of other chemicals you can lower or raise its boiling point, and I guess also the capscity to better unify water molecules? Maybe the beetle produces some kind of compound that helps trapping the water?

[@SoapinTrucker]

Food, er water for thought....... If we keep sucking moisture out of the air, combined with desalination plants, we're going to make the ocean too salty and it will definitely affect the ocean life! I have to assume that most of our rain comes from ocean water being absorbed into the atmosphere without the salt of course which makes the remaining water saltier! If you deplete the atmosphere of moisture it's going to be replaced by absorption of ocean water evaporation.

[@ASI_Scribed]

Looks like the beetle is cooling its exoskeleton to create condensation. Either by using wings or an organ of some kind. It might be pumping cooler air through that crevice on its back between the front and middle legs. Then rapidly pushing the air out towards the rear repeatedly. Idk

[@schweigsamer]

To counterargue the comments getting water out of the atmosphere should have a lesser impact. Diffusion between gasses is faster meaning when we collect airhumidity the resthumidity in the air can disperse faster in a given area. So as long as we don't build a giant Wall of fog collectors in a strategic position it should not Impact Nature in a observable scale.

[@ender1242]

They could push salt to the surface of their exoskeleton. Osmosis

[@r.e.d.readyeveryday508]

Everytime i hear a bout the "water crisis" then i think about the inventor Frank moses and how he built a machine that can solve the worlds water crisis 😮its weird that instead of investing in it and mass producing them people just vandalize and destroy them 😠also the majority of people have no idea who he is or what he invented

[@TheGhostGuitars]

Oookay, so ye got the wrong bug, but that begs the question: why haven't they gotten the correct bug and then proceed with the study using the correct bug??? Sounds half assed continuing the study with the known wrong bug.

[@Gazpolling]

I dont understand the physic of fog catching, isnt it just easier to make a really big sail and capture all the fog maybe made it bigger and no hole, wouldnt it capture all the passing fog?, why the net?

[@terbaik9281]

Hey instead capture fog water to drink how about you just use your own snow I mean some part of this world must have snow problem how about you take that snow clean it up and give that water to people how needed the most , how's agree with me ?

[@seifixnetwork4663]

This is what kind of science I love and not Sending rockets or something fictional. I hope goverments would invest more in these project to make this world a better place

[@patterry8610]

Trees are naturally hydromagnetic, they can pull water from miles under ground and bring in rain clouds. a 50 acer lake only has so much water, once drained its gone. But a 50 acer forest you can keep on draining water as long as the trees are there. By creating an artificial hydromagnetic field you could regreen any desert area. Hydromagnetic fields are easy to make.

[@gayass8599]

in a artificial system. could they use osmosis to collect water.

[@berno8974]

just an other example that mother nature is the greatest and most ressourcefull scientist/engineer we are just copycat 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@Investing_WithDrake_Culver]

bruh I woke up to see a beetle that is huge and I just gave it some water and I just saw this video

[@jexerkyleadefuin2729]

Also because we're pulling water from the air. The less water molecules are in the are which lowers the green house effects. Win - win if we can make this real.

[@anishaditya4400]

What about the charge, maybe the body surface of the beetle might be charged by the winds and helps the beetle to attract micro droplets from the fog....

[@Niemand377]

Why not give the simulation to an AI and let it do its thing? I mean, you could probably generate the texture and let it run in a simulation.

[@aaajamesbond2995]

So how fog forms in a desert at the first place ? I need an answer plz

[@sokritlun1624]

AAA James Bond air pushes them

[@alfredkossmann7263]

Hot air rises.....collides with the cold from the ocean.....voila....fog is formed......i live there

[@KhatuYogesh]

Even bug in the nature can help to solve human's problem.... Thanks Mother Earth 🌎

[@MadhuAkash]

Even the colour is also plays a role black colour absorbe heat may be with the wind it can heat exchange to get water from fog

[@potentia16]

I thought the answer was his cutting a cactus to get cactus water. It's the quenchiest! Wait, why are we in the middle of the ocean?

[@SamReligious]

Catch Them. Make 3D Model of them in Detail. Make it Bigger Put it on the Dessert with a Bucket

[@brendanbush2174]

Could it be maybe where the beetle sits on the dune? My uneducated guess would be maybe the subtle winds push the fog against the dune, the fog gets a bit denser due to it being pressed against the dune, and maybe the beetle sits in a spot where the fog is denser and can collect more efficiently

[@godlygamer2466]

Lol if there were bugs we could use as batteries we would shove them into our remotes

[@DunnickFayuro]

I would hypothesize that they play with their body surface temperature to make it colder and more likely to condense water. I would investigate if their exoskeleton doesn't use a "trick" akin to how Skycool can use heat from the sun to cool the air.

[@la23s.a.22]

Watching this while the whole of Cape Town's tap water has stopped running 😭😭😭

[@mohamad6533]

angry birds theme song

[@abdush-shakoordamon5969]

beetlejuice

[@Linkwii64]

Beetle: hahaha, human took you long enough to figure our million of years of evolution secrets.

[@emaa2123]

If there is water crisis, why don’t anyone fix the root of the problem- over use

[@FuckGoogle2]

This is truly great news, I dare say everyone loves water and everyone hates fog, win win.

[@otakuman706]

Eh, I actually kinda like fog. But that's probably due to it being a bit rare (at least in 'noticeable amounts') in the few different regions where I've spent most of my life. If I had to deal with it often, and it like impacted traffic and the like, I imagine I'd quickly lose tolerance for it.

[@warrioroflight6872]

I love fog, it adds to the ambiance.

[@FirstLast-di5sr]

I love fog, just not traveling in it (other than walking, and where Jack the ripper hunts 🤣)

[@FirstLast-di5sr]

Could it have something to do with ionization and what the exoskeleton is comprised of..???

[@FuckGoogle2]

@Spydragon Animations It's like a carwreck, most people like to look at them, you just don't want to be in them.

[@SomeWhiteMF]

Why does the music sound like a knock off pirates of the Caribbean soundtrack

[@SaUrAvNeil]

Decrease population

[@tchaugn]

why don't they 3D scan the beetle's shell? get *all* of the exact details and texture

[@manex879]

How much fog do we need to turn into droplets and make a full jag of water?