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[@Retodon8]

That's not a bug, that's a feature. :)

[@sugarqbs]

it’s also not technically a bug, it’s a homopteran and not a hemipteran

[@erikjonromnes]

That bug is a feat, sure.

[@dynashadow365]

DEVS

[@philipmccrackeniii4575]

Do you know that's actually the title of a book?

[@The-KP]

🥁🥁🥁

[@jfess1911]

I love that he talks about this amazing bug's jumping ability........ then shows it just crawling away.

[@xd3athclawx554]

its not recordable really. 500g's is alot. It would be really hard for a slo mo camera, let alone normal one.

[@Tenster12]

​@@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?

[@OneManMining]

@@xd3athclawx554nat geo says otherwise

[@mrhoho]

indeed

[@Roach18]

​@@Tenster12There's also the Slow Mo Guys

[@dreamer7770]

Needed to see the frog hopper frog hop. Deduct 20 points.

[@AlanS_DGC]

Agreed

[@Mr.Anders0n_]

Thank copyright claims for that 🙃

[@themuteprophet6332]

It did. You just didn't see it due to its speed. Get better eyes

[@2nd-place]

FIFTY POINTS TO GRYFFINDOR

[@noahblack914]

@@Mr.Anders0n_ uh, what?

[@biggusy25]

Ah yes.. a spud gun. I've totally heard of those.

[@-pyrosef-]

If you haven't heard of a spud gun you must be under 18 years old😂

[@biggusy25]

@@-pyrosef- I'm 34..

[@ishmowo]

@@-pyrosef- you must be UNDER 18 you wank

[@dominicparker6124]

@@biggusy25 me too, spud guns were a big part of my childhood :D

[@biggusy25]

@@dominicparker6124 Whaat, where are you from?

[@troubleMakesThree]

What! You taught us about a cool feature of this insect, and didn't even show it jumping?

[@joshyoung1440]

Because it just disappears from the camera frame. There is literally nothing to see haha

[@meenstreek]

Need the slo-mo guys!

[@cablecar3683]

thats 500g, you cant see it with a realtime camera, even a slow-mo camera would probably be hard to see.

[@SadCatStudio.]

@@cablecar3683lol slomo cameras can record the speed of light nowadays, do your research

[@0minous187]

@@joshyoung1440 guess you never heard of zoom out!

[@joeritter8331]

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.

[@matthewbertrand4139]

that's a potato cannon, not a spud gun. important distinction lol

[@umadbroimatroll7918]

​@@matthewbertrand4139 there ain't no spud guns in north America, we gotta make cannons here 😂

[@AnnoyingNewsletters]

I've seen Potato Howitzers 😅

[@umadbroimatroll7918]

@@AnnoyingNewsletters me and my friends made potato cannons and aimed them like mortars, fish in the lake never knew what hit em, coordinated mortar strike 🤣🤣

[@Eddyithink]

Those bugs would be even funnier if they made a boioioing sound every time they yeeted away

[@PlayerZeroStart]

Or the Roblox Gravity Coil sound

[@chilledburrito]

@@PlayerZeroStart "Jimmy I told you to get off the- OW! what just hit me?"

[@drawincode1800]

No! It's cooler that they are silent so they don't get spotted by predators.

[@0minous187]

its jumping though it's not being thrown. you are missing a word trying to be funny and it just makes you sound derpy

[@Eddyithink]

@@0minous187 who is this for?

[@wackbirdz]

That must be a British spud gun, the one we made as a kid involved a can of hairspray and could kill a cow 😂

[@mikekristin7201]

Blew a hole through a frozen porta potty at 25 yards with mine 🤣

[@58jharris]

We take guns seriously in the USA, including toy ones.

[@kiachaelchild]

@@58jharris yup, no room for error lmao

[@LotharLive]

"The potato seal" sounds like a last reserve of food in olden times. Which would only be "broken" in times of severe hardship.

[@Soken50]

Ireland could have used that.

[@erikcrouch7881]

​@@Soken50They also could have used the English not exporting all their food and causing the problem in the first place. :)

[@spytf2203]

@@erikcrouch7881 or we could allow jokes in society

[@erikcrouch7881]

@@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.'

[@justindunlap1235]

​@@erikcrouch7881they steal all the spices in the world yet they still boil the piss out of everything.

[@bide2505]

This feature has a bug ❌️ This bug has a feature ✅️

[@dualinline7867]

Mantis Shirmp: "Hold my cavitation bubble.

[@Attaxalotl]

It's not a bug, it's a -shrimp- feature

[@0minous187]

no..just no..

[@giantlactismid5704]

No that's another shrimp i think

[@someone999555]

Pistol shrimps do also create cavitation bubbles, so maybe thats what youre thinking of, but mantis shrimp cause them too.

[@moonshinershonor202]

69th!

[@RobinRhombusHead]

Bugs and heavy machinery have a lot more in common than one would think.

[@Huwbacca]

The human equivelant would be vocal clicks and plosives, or finger snapping. We use this principle all the time in speech.

[@LightpandaOG]

or flicking

[@anon2427]

Who’s we?

[@shirinf333]

It's a French word ​@@anon2427

[@ferrisbueller9991]

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.

[@NickJrQuiachon]

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

[@bl7240]

Would've been nice to actually show the bug jumping while taking all this time to describe it.

[@jakesmerth1919]

The human equivalent is me pooping

[@davemccage7918]

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.🤔

[@DynoSkrimisher]

They didn't lie, that ass can shid

[@sillybilly_420]

What the flip

[@IsaacLivshin]

Real

[@ADogNamedStay]

Read this as I was shitting

[@wani2000]

I really love how we didn't get to see the bug use this in action.

[@BartT75]

Cmon, Steve, not the spud gun. It's more like flicking your finger, if we're sticking with the 'found in nature' idea

[@shambhav9534]

Snapping your finger! That's better.

[@VeteranVandal]

Both examples given are somewhat better.

[@shambhav9534]

@@VeteranVandal I'm just excited something so banal like snapping or flicking a finger is a "natural mechanical power amplification mechanism".

[@blockchaaain]

He mentions that in the video this clip is from.

[@harrietjameson]

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

[@massimookissed1023]

RIP the now extinct potato seal. Hungry sailors just found them too delicious.

[@jollyog]

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.

[@The-KP]

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!

[@jollyog]

@@The-KP I just watched them. I never tried to pick them up.

[@The-KP]

@@jollyog All good, just having fun with words friend.

[@jollyog]

@@The-KP it’s fine.

[@steviebboy69]

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.

[@innertuber4049]

I think my favorite mechanical power amplification mechanism in nature is the electrostatic waterwheel inside our cells

[@abigailcooling6604]

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 🤭.

[@VoluntaristSociety]

Nah bro your finger will do 200 gs

[@DanielDuhon]

@@VoluntaristSocietythat’s a localized area though. If your full body experienced 200 g’s you would likely not survive

[@disbelief3911]

​@@DanielDuhon The bug is also localized ...in the bug. 😅

[@patu8010]

​@@disbelief3911But the bug's brain experiences those g forces unlike the human's.

[@db_2112]

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

[@brandonstonge7513]

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.

[@Rin8Kin]

In physics terms it converting energy into impulse. Really great example.

[@VaryaEQ]

Been watching too much Hernitcraft, and I got very confused. 😅

[@incognito1456]

Baki's gonna have a field day with this one

[@100Jig]

Tell me more about the potato seal, are they endangered?

[@GreyAcumen]

They were practically wiped off the face of ireland due to starvation. Look up the great potato famine for more details.

[@lerikhkl]

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 :(

[@MerkhVision]

I can tell u that they are very round indeed!

[@Aaa-vp6ug]

@@GreyAcumenalso the British hunting them for sport

[@kaiya7942]

Its criminal to not show the frog hopper hop

[@gabagoul67]

I like that a spud gun is the human equivalent to this bugs leg mechanism

[@Natureboy224]

Nice pfp lol worthikids is way underrated

[@totallytoffy]

I want to know what the bug equivalent for real gun is

[@aetherblackbolt1301]

What a weird analogy to take. The human equivalent is how we snap our fingers or flick something with out fingers. One finger is trying to extend whilst another is in the way, then it is suddenly released to generate a force that we couldn't simply do with our finger normally.

[@Birchall88]

Surely clicking your fingers would have been a good human example of power amplification.

[@Danaba67]

Learning about a spud gun was the real discovery here

[@B-fq7ff]

I’m sorry, spud gun???

[@redmanone]

What, I thought everybody's got one in a kitchen drawer. How the hell do you shoot your spuds?

[@1kTroopKoopas]

​@@redmanonesome of us have sadly been missing out!

[@ijustwant2comment226]

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?

[@Rafael_Fuchs]

@@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

[@thomgizziz]

@@Rafael_Fuchs Ahhh, pretending like you have ever had a girlfriend, nice.

[@thefatherfintanstack]

Thank you for saying "Potato Seal" and "Frog Hopper" all in one video.

[@4EstGuy]

One more question how can it survive that?

[@maybe8650]

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

[@ramteja1550]

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.

[@bujaksha]

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.

[@kaksspl]

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.

[@joshyoung1440]

​@@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.

[@chrislive1586]

Froghopper = Unlimited Energy = Transer energy from tiny to our-size, and we are set as as a human society, done and done!

[@whothehellarewe]

Except now you need to feed it and keep it alive. So, not free energy.

[@chrislive1586]

@@whothehellarewe Bring on the compost! negative nancy

[@MaGaO]

g-acceleration then, no g-force.

[@maikopskoy]

Semantics

[@Soken50]

G-Force is a measure of the force exerted on an object at 1 standard earth gravity acceleration, it's correct.

[@cablecar3683]

same thing, it experiences g-forces when jumping and flies through the air

[@Phobos_Anomaly]

Equivalence principle - they are the same thing.

[@mutestingray]

The wildest part of this vid was learning that the spud gun is apparently a thing

[@Mr.JimPickens]

I wish my legs were like that😢

[@seshrut]

Nope... You would die

[@madmax82988]

​@@seshrut i wish my legs were like that 🙃

[@uxleumas]

You'd likely break your bones :(

[@Chicky_Lumps]

Well if you glue Velcro to your buttcheeks and heels, they will be!

[@kakahass8845]

Nice to see another member of the cult here.

[@Qynetic_K]

Bug-eating Animals: "Fastest Acceleration? Sure, I'll wait for you 1 foot ahead in the direction you are heading to (⁠•⁠‿⁠•⁠)"

[@kodyt914]

Have never actually seen a spud gun before, cute

[@iamthebigginge]

So... like clicking your fingers? Energy built up in your finger, held by friction against your thumb, then released rapidly into your palm

[@adplayzz_mk5640]

The frog hopper has jets in his legs...I want those...

[@PvtPartzz]

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

[@thedalaidrama]

Im more impressed by the fact that u built that little contraption as a visual for a 30 second story

[@quantum6637]

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.

[@MrC0MPUT3R]

I was today years old when I learned about spud guns.

[@matthewmeyer8178]

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 😊

[@Jehayland]

It’s like a much more powerful version of snapping or flicking your finger.

[@chrisl3193]

The hell is a spud gun

[@Akakakakak1-h5r]

Perfect recipe for detaching the quadriceps/ hamstrings

[@tahzeebmusic6477]

Bernardo Silva does know his stuff well.

[@josephjackson1956]

I think this mechanism is also similar to snapping your fingers

[@pabloraindogarcia8107]

Thats the finger flick for you

[@max_archer]

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.

[@movies-xr2sc]

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!

[@DLarus08]

Calling it a frog hopper is a disgraceful act. Frogs should be named after this superior jumper.

[@IIswagdelicious]

"A good example might be this thing you've never heard of" is what I hear lol

[@jordancambridge4106]

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.

[@bluedistortions]

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?

[@onionexecuter7556]

Thanks this was really helpful. A true no nonsense guide. And no extra mods required for main mods (exept cathedral landscapes). ❤👍🏻

[@iowasucks9494]

Man i almost couldn’t tell the rat was hand drawn, it’s so lifelike!

[@Skeptical_Numbat]

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.

[@GippyHappy]

I love when he’s like “it’s just like- (thing I have never heard of in my life)”

[@punished_venom_snake]

I think the best human comparison would be flicking something with your fingers

[@totalnoobfishing1753]

This man could make an ingredients label sound interesting

[@Brutalyte616]

The human equivalent is trying to pull back on a slingshot until the elastic gives way and pops you in the face.

[@SchwardsChannel]

We need to train this bug piloting jet fighter

[@bustersymes-]

One of my favourites mechanical leverages in nature is certain aski on mushrooms which use water to store energy to fling spores out

[@MisterCuddlez]

The spud gun analogy kind of killed the whole thing for me.

[@tess3000]

I’m sorry this is so unrelated but i will never ever ever get over “look what they’re doing to the cow bro”

[@bakersbread104]

A spud gun. Absolutely wild concept

[@CrewMate-r1m]

I think Red is a completionist, and that's why he bought all those upgrades

[@FeelnLikeIDoEveryDay]

“Mechanical power amplification mechanisms” I need one 😊

[@Auroch666]

Speaking of mechanical jumping power, these little guys have an amazing way to make sure they put an equal amount of force on each leg. They have little "gears" along that joint to make sure they are at the same setting. I encourage everyone to look up the pictures of it since my description doesn't do these cool little guys justice.

[@Scott-ti2eh]

And you never show the frog hopper jump. Highly satisfying video.

[@WhySoPuddi]

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

[@dearcole123]

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.

[@discordinmymind6565]

Your pun game this episode is top tier

[@TinaNewtonArt]

As an American. I did not 🚫 think of that little pop 🔫 when you mentioned a spud 🔫

[@TheAllcreatorLiveArchives]

I find it interesting that I knew about everything he mentioned already, yet he still managed to teach me something because I had no idea a "spud gun" existed.

[@chismesmi8413]

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 ❤

[@Blahaj_IKEA]

500! Is an insane amount of g force. 52! Is an incomprehensible number already, let alone 500!

[@jellyphone8343]

The way he shot the gun will forever haunt me.

[@Amalgam03]

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

[@JediRhymeTrix]

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.

[@erockbrox8484]

The attract image of this video is misleading because it was a mechanical device and NOT a picture of a bug.

[@Deltaforce650]

It's a insect taking advantage of the mechanics of a lever using its own skeleton and muscle amazing

[@husseinnibba2960]

The hell bernando silva doing here

[@illtaketheusual2996]

I like the part where they showed the bug doing the thing they’re explaining

[@Flymochairman1]

Nice explanation, Steve! Cheers!

[@theonlinelime1992]

Credit where credit is due, the models and atmosphere is very good, especially early on

[@markmunson6192]

I don’t see how this has any similarities to a spud gun.. the human equivalent would be a trebuchet catapult

[@Hlodowig1989]

Now I want to see antman catapulted by this bug.

[@kumeater]

I feel like his organs would rupture

[@deejy232]

There is a cardboard box of sweets with a integral lid. The latch that locks the lid is a satisfying example

[@Zeratsu]

The first thing came to my mind it's a small ball that found in folding knives called "detent". Knife guys will understand.

[@kingghidorah5213]

Imagine jumping like that. Like you just increase your leg power but don't actually know when exactly it will give in

[@FoxyCAMTV]

Every leafhopper i have ever seen just disappears in an instant.

[@i.boizer9939]

blunt looks like Bernado Silva

[@JAGJustAGuy3]

Sometimes I wish bugs knew what a freak of nature they are

[@billmadison2032]

That is the most ridiculous spud gun I've ever seen

[@eliasujashvili7113]

Why does he look so familiar

[@stephensmith4025]

Today I learned there are hand held spud guns. And now I require one.