THIS IS A BUTTERFLY! (Scanning Electron Microscope) - Part 2 - Smarter Every Day 105

[@Dloweification]

That was by far one of the most interesting videos I've run into on KZbin.

[@jimday666]

one of them

[@es_los]

Dloweification I am glad to be part of the 1.5m that have watched this video. FeelsGoodMan

[@maenpaaelmeri]

I TOTALLY agree!

[@rupityruptherandomprince1252]

2:15

[@WatchInVR1]

Yeah, evolution is so creative!

[@ElizabethLopez-hx6xv]

I love the vibe with which you teach us. You are a very intelligent man and are constantly expanding your field of knowledge yet you never act haughty or "smarter-than-you". You learn what you can, teach us, admire it, and accept the fact that there is still things not known and express how beautiful that is. I just wanted to say: I thoroughly enjoy your videos, keep it up!

[@Drybones898]

When the photo didn't lose quality as it zoomed it actually confused me.

[@skyr8449]

several gb of an image I would imagine

[@KarunaMurti]

Probably using software to create deep zoom image en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Zoom

[@asdfghyter]

It might be based on multiple photos, each one more zoomed in. That is why it switches from color to grayscale, they switched from microscope to electron microscope.

[@HelloHiHelloHiHello]

Haha same here

[@somefuckstolemynick]

Zoom! Enhance!

[@MrNick-]

“Oooo so this is where you work?” “This is where I live” 1:12 I know that feeling buddy 😂

[@aj339]

Lolololol hahaha Godbless you and him

[@BillAnt]

Hold my butterfly wing! ;D

[@mark_shagal]

Ahahahahhhh the same

[@LaWraWaN]

Step in to my domain mortal.

[@RicardoJunqueira]

Destin, you made me cry tears of joy during this video. Your point of view of the things the baffles you are amazing and truly inspirational and contagious. You are, more than a great person and a very intelligent man, you are a GREAT communicator. Mankind needs more people like you. Today you made me feel really good and proud to be human and alive at this time. Thank you!

[@smartereveryday]

Thanks Ricardo! It's not me though, I'm just the messenger.

[@huedue]

@smartereveryday don't be tempted by Satan. Stay steadfast in your faith

[@SallyLePage]

Such a beautiful video - I really like the observation, question, testing format to show science in action. Also, that isopropanol test was inspired - so simple but worked so clearly! I'm now very tempted to set up an activity with the museum I volunteer at all about butterfly scales. :)

[@Kram1032]

Do that! More butterfly wing research can never be wrong! :D

[@SmarterEveryDay2]

Make it so.

[@TheCatWrangler]

I have an intense phobia of butterflies and moths, yet this video helped me to translate that energy into interest instead of fear. From this video I can appreciate how beautiful and complex life is. Thank you so much.

[@jelenasusic2914]

Good for you!

[@user-Odjei87.]

Как так можно бояться бабочек!?

[@Khaos07]

Man, the way you make those videos is absolutely over the roof - or rather from space. Keep it up forever. So extremely appreciated.

[@cibiraj1275]

i am in tears ! the elegance, grandeur of nature is indescribable.

[@theG0rdL0rd]

The hippo sprays chuncks of shiy everywhere to mark territory.

[@tgstudio85]

@Asad Ahmad yes it can. Can you explain how complex shape of snowflakes are made "themselves" from water? Do angels make them?

[@Deon]

Wow, this is absolutely beautiful. Thanks for sharing this with us.

[@letsart6434]

I love this guy's outlook on life. I almost cried when he said "and thats, beautiful."

[@kathryncarter6143]

Cry for the death of those beautiful butterflies that had there life ended because someone wanted to grab them for a video

[@irlclubsandwich7907]

@@kathryncarter6143 dude, they probably have access to a butterfly farm (Destin made a video at one once) so they probably died naturally

[@sipit7029]

I can't cry because I watched the video in 1.75x speed...

[@geniusgamer3840]

@@kathryncarter6143 Right, because animals never die in the wild and there's no way to get already-dead butterflies

[@gm_construct_13_betaexplor38]

@@kathryncarter6143 and while he grabbed that singular butterfly, plenty of thousands probably died in that same second.

[@garrettglenewinkel7366]

This is by far one of my favorite videos Destin has ever made. It’s one of the videos that got me so interested in this channel I even used it in high school for a project. I made a slideshow talking about monarch butterflies and have a used the technology to produce the color that they are and I included a few key clips from this video. My presentation seemed to be one of the only ones that almost the other delinquents were interested in. My teacher pulled me aside and told me how much she loved this. I bought her a monarch butterfly that’s framed and she still has it on her wall. So Destin, thank you for everything you’ve taught me

[@Vorpal_Wit]

The hairs look like the scales rolled up. Perhaps the scales come in as hairs then split and unroll into scales. The root hole looks to be the same structure for both.

[@Nahh13579]

+Billy Wardlaw nice theory

[@nixilei7152]

+Jermaine Lee hab u seen a alien? Hab u seen a alien pleas?

[@Nahh13579]

Nixilei b0ss plz gibe da pusi. plz gibe da pusi b0ss plz

[@animalntaz]

+Billy Wardlaw That's what I immediately thought.

[@HatchetHatter]

+Jermaine Lee I love how this went from an incredibly intelligent comment to Filthy Frank.

[@BisMaxx]

Your commitment and mutual loyalty with Audible is worthy of respect. You've been working with them for many years. It says a lot about your character and that of their business. I am definitely going to support you both!

[@rjones6801]

7:02 - Something as simple as a butterfly contains complicated mysteries that you and I "don't understand yet." Fixed it.

[@josephang9927]

Well, even if science understand it as a field, we will never be able to understand it under a human intuition. Another example? The unimaginable distances found at space. We can't really understand them.

[@rjones6801]

Joseph Ang Yeah, I'd agree with Thomas on the semantics. I can understand them, but I don't have anything tangible to relate them to, so I can't really comprehend them.

[@mhgscrubadub9917]

I got a chance to use a SEM recently and they are one of the most eye opening pieces of tech I've ever touched. Its like zooming in from space to a street view on the micro scopic scale

[@heidiannemorris]

beautiful ♥ thank you Destin, gave me goosebumps

[@ManuelOctavio]

Speechless. Great great video.

[@smartereveryday]

Don't thank me. I didn't make the butterfly. I'm just the reporter.

[@catshavedreamstoo967]

SmarterEveryDay Both the subject and reporter are needed to bring us this amazing video. So still a sincere thanks from all of us (to both you and the specimens collected).

[@Meifesto]

I love how simple something can look, but if you look closely, they became so versatile and impressive. Nothing as beautiful as mother nature

[@zackjandali]

When I have a question I want answered, I go to Google, not physically, I just open my phone and search it. When Destin has a question he wants answered he flies to the most knowledgeable place on the 🌎 about the subject of his question and asks the experts in person. What a passion for knowledge. And then he records as much of it as he can to share it for free with the world. This man is educating the right way. Keep it up Destin ❤️ you a homie

[@saphireflmz4321]

dang it is inspirational

[@AlexPope1668]

I almost didn't watch this one. I would have missed out on amazing electron microscope amazingness. Well done, Destin!

[@smartereveryday]

What should I do to the title/thumbnail to have made you more likely to watch?

[@AlexPope1668]

SmarterEveryDay Perhaps the pink of the blue scales would have drawn me in quicker. Bright Colours may attract more viewers. But, to be completely honest, you've had a few videos that had spiders or other creepy-crawly critters, and I'm a bit squeamish in that area, so I've occasionally avoided some of your videos that I thought may contain similar images. But I clicked on this one because, with butterflies, I didn't really expect the creepy-crawlies.

[@frollard]

SmarterEveryDay If theres anything I've learned about my (most) popular videos it's that rainbow colours in the thumbnail (I build rgb led stuff) get people to click. Your magic part 1 video with the wide chroma is perfect for clickable enticing goodness. Using the false colour sem would be better than the brown.

[@442hoeky]

I have a theory on WHY they developed the 'dust' like material on their wings. As a kid, I liked to feed the big Garden spiders whatever insects I could find around the yard. The most common creature I found were little moths that hung out in the grass until dark. Half the time I threw them in the web, they would fly right out, leaving only a coating of 'dust' on the sticky spider web. Seemed like a pretty good defense mechanism to me.

[@junkequation]

That zoom was one of the coolest effects I've ever seen. Would love to see more scanning electron microscope videos

[@LawpickingLocksmith]

Around where I live there are Ulysses Butterflies. The first wing that went into a scanning electron microscope showed that raster that absorbs yellow light. A bit like a reverse LED where blue light shines onto yellow phosphor. So the Ulysses has a white raster narrow enough to turn daylight into blue light.

[@Bigelowbrook]

Thank you. This was very well done!

[@aoshi1992]

Improving every day (he really deserves any money he makes in videos)

[@WoWSmirv]

Man, I so love your channel. I love to learn and these videos do just that, they teach me a lot of REALLY COOL stuff. :) love it

[@bobgodin732]

Concerning the "hairs" on the Cithaerius' wings, I would venture to say that these hairs act as angle of attack sensors to help the butterfly determine is attitude relative to the wind vector. This is a critical element of data needed for objects capable of controlled flight, including aircraft.

[@thekrrib]

That makes sense, for sure =)

[@SpydersByte]

quite a good idea, like the hairs in our inner ears that give us our sense of balance.

[@Mgl1206]

SpydersByte I though those were fluids

[@railgap]

What if they serve multiple purposes? Hairs turn out to be a good defense against lots of things since the hairs themselves are non-living so cannot be infected or "hurt" (physically damaged, sure, but they are sacrificial by nature because dead) by say, UV light. They can defend against mites. Even small insects have parasitic insects and the like which live on their bodies. Hairs can make it hard for them to eat the host. Hairs with sensing nerves can also be used as sense organs. Hairs with erectile muscles (like human's skin hair) cam be used to help regulate temperature. And so on.

[@railgap]

@@Mgl1206 the motion of the fluids (determined in part by how fast we are turning and in which direction - there are three, which occupy roughly three axial planes - see also "rate gyro" - a navigation device which does this a different way) is detected by hairs inside the semicircular canals. Our hearing is also detected by waves passing thru the fluid-filled chambers of the cochlea, to which the semicircular canals. We also have small stones inside hollow chambers which are part of the semicircular canals called "otoliths" (latin for ear stones) and the position of these stones (which wall of the chamber gravity is pushing them against) is detected by hairs also, and these give us a very crude sense of absolute orientation, although it is not precise. They are better at telling us we are "not upright" than exactly what position we are in. This is driven home forcefully when one takes a night SCUBA diving class, when you are weightless and can't see - you literally can't tell which way is up. But it's better than nothing. ^_^

[@liambohl]

KZbin should have a "more people need to see this video" button! Even with 2.7 million views, this video is underrated.

[@jgrimmier]

Wow, how many megapixels was that full scan? Holy that zoom was amazing.

[@smartereveryday]

It was actually a series of 18 scans at different magnification. Henry from MinutePhysics stitched them all together for me. How awesome is that?

[@jgrimmier]

SmarterEveryDay Very! Thanks for the reply!

[@1800SHWEEEET]

SmarterEveryDay Pretty frickin' awesome!

[@martixy2]

If I wasn't already subscribed, you'd have earned my subscription with this one.

[@ArcticCustomProps]

Mind blown. That was one of your best videos ever.

[@Ahayu-lindo]

You made me smarter to understand butterflies, they are so amazing creatures. Beautiful and their life process is just amazing from from egg to larve to butterfly

[@joeytje50]

What I think those hairs might be is a kind of other version of the scales that is not folded out, which causes it to stop blocking out light, making the wing transparent. That would also explain why those hairs look so similar to the scales, since it just uses the same blueprint, but instead never folds out the scales. It's the same evolutionary principle as human body hairs. Instead of getting rid of the human's hairs or the butterfly's scales on the places where they're not needed, they're just reduced in size.

[@guijunkeira]

simply LOVE what you are doing for science! i show your videos frequently to all my students! THANKS A LOT FOR YOUR WORK

[@raz0229]

Did u expect ur comment to get a like from a video 6 years ago?

[@ChristianoDebarry]

That (in)finite zoom is nothing but AWESOME!

[@flashflair]

I really appreciate that you just stated the discovery and the facts and you didn't just start talking about how it "evolved" to have scales. It just does and that's beautiful. This way whether you believe in evolution or creation both parties can watch this peacefully. Thank you

[@yubear420]

The dust that flew off of the butterfly's wings as it flapped its wings for the first time after falling was magical.

[@JinglePeeny]

Imagine if we could control this nano technology and apply it to a suit. Bam, we're now chameleons.

[@ARatQuiRit]

Soon, soon. If it's not us, will be AI ^^

[@paytoncotroneo4960]

Your comment just gave me a weird thought. If humanity is so close to the A.I. singularity, then it would stand to reason, if other sufficiently intelligent beings do exist, and if they are more advanced than us, than they should have already surpassed the point of the singularity, and should have A.I. capable of feats humanity couldn't fathom. Which brings me to three possible major conclusions: A. Everything stated above is true, and for some reason these beings (Either the A.I. or whatever created them) have chosen to stay hidden from us. Or B. we are the most advanced life in the universe. Or C. Mans fears are correct, and once the singularity is established, it destroys its creators and goes off on its own. Or i suppose a fourth possibility is just that it really is, by the laws of nature, impossible to explore the universe.

[@ARatQuiRit]

They took controle, we leave in a simulation, don't you know that ? =P

[@pkop4]

@ payton cotroneo - so basically the Fermi Paradox?

[@Michal235]

It's called "fiber Bragg grating" and it exists :p we're using it in optical fibers as the name says. This Bragg effect is incredibly common in nature and physics (for example in liquid crystals or in solid crystals), basically everytime you have a periodic structure in your material, it will somehow affect E-M waves with wave length close to the period.

[@eventhorizon8014]

7:17 I was somehow expecting him to eat it

[@maribelsanchez5703]

r/cursedcomments

[@rspoofy]

@@maribelsanchez5703 r/cursedreply

[@kieranwalker2249]

I was thinking that to

[@aloysiuskurnia7643]

Wrong channel, buddy. This is not Cody'sLab.

[@Demian1]

Same

[@JackTheAwsome1]

Awesome! I was thinking about the butterfly's "hairs": they could be respiration limbs. We know insects have a respiratory system based on hollow tubes that bring oxygen to the tissue inside the animal, and on a flying insect one of the most efficent place to harvest oxygen is on the wings because of the convection produced by the animal itself. It would be a bit like a dinamo on a bicycle: part of the energy we spend on riding the bicycle is causing motion of the wheels that fuel the dinamo, so part of the energy spent by the butterfly for motion of the wings is recycled through the hairs that allow a more efficent respiration.

[@andrescobark]

"Butterflies use nanotechnology to lie about their color” that was so beautifully unexpected it made my eyes watery

That's obviusly Stun Spore. It learns it at level 12.

[@chi4829]

6:39, the scale at the bottom-left changes as the structure is zoomed in. This is top-notch video editing.

[@Anomaly3066]

This made me so happy to be able to learn something so new and interesting 😭 What am Amazing Video!!!

[@Kurtlane]

Question: Do butterflies that lose scales grow new ones? If so, how / from where?

[@Narbris]

Destin, you should check if the wing is still transparent under different types of light, such as ultraviolet. Since butterflies can see different wavelengths from humans, I can't help but wonder if the wing is actually transparent from a butterfly's perspective. Perhaps this could be used in identifying potential mates.

[@inventanew]

you need an official show for sure this was very high quality, definitely showing this to my kids at school

[@riparianlife97701]

I clicked "Like" before even watching the video. I guess that makes me a die-hard groupie.

[@starkissed9shadow]

This was SO interesting...science is awesome :) Thanks for sharing!

[@confucheese]

What do the "hairs" do? What are they for? WHAT DO THEY DO?! I HAVE TO KNOW

[@dixonthe2]

The hairs are there to repel water considering the ridges only block out 97% of water :) hoped this helped

[@kida4313]

gianni dixon It did!

[@Sirax123]

gianni dixon beauty killer.

[@madeleineameliacoopergreen5398]

gianni dixon Really? That's so cool!!!

[@chamarawijepala2021]

+Frederick Abel Dude your sentence rhymed.

[@andrewedis9907]

Destin that zoom animation is so cool. This video is beautiful and informative, I love it

[@TheSilverGate]

2:17 lol at that hardcore after-hat haristyle, the glasses maximized the nerdiness of it

[@qwiddity]

Say what? Butterfly wings are partially pigmented using nano-scale baffles which directly disrupt photons into reflecting only the desired wavelengths of particular colours, chosen for specific selection purposes by evolution through natural selection, out of the entire electromagnetic spectrum? Wow. For me at least, butterfly iridescence just got a WHOLE lot more awesome! Thank you! :)

[@jedijeremy]

Yup, and the light gets selectively polarized too, which their eyes can detect.

[@sketchbyudit4198]

Your videos help me to think about the world from a very different perspective...Thanks from India

[@mindset357]

This amazing and complicated design found in this butterfly require intelligent designer, isn’t it? Proof evolution is a lie!

[@AJAYKUMARSAGAR]

@@mindset357 dude that is the evidence that evolution is freaking amazing and true😂

[@EslamGenio]

@@AJAYKUMARSAGAR keep escaping from the crystal clear truth but don't regret that later when your limited opportunity is over.

[@aayush_789]

@@EslamGenio Hey look another Flat Earther who think his prophet split the Moon.

[@beyond0blivion]

@@aayush_789 He didn't...but let me guess, you believe man landed on it.

[@followthelaw8722]

You're videos are amazing! Where else on this planet could we find this information without you? Regardless of the topic you are doing something so important for helping any person understand complex things in a simpler way. Thank you.

[@ChristReigns100]

Gods genius in creation is indescribable.

[@ameyms]

*This* video is beautiful.

[@words007]

lets all take a moment of silence in 2019 for all those butterflies who gave their life for us to enlighten with knowledge

[@DanielJ]

I doubt they were willing haha

[@kathryncarter6143]

Absolutely

[@jimmcdonald9244]

Love the silhouette of Reepicheep at the end! Brilliant vid Destin. Thank you for posting.

[@CramBoom]

Amazing video, as always. I've read that butterfly scales do not grow back, is this true? If so, how do they maintain these nano-structures, through all the wear and tear? Wouldn't the colour fade significantly as time went by? Thank you, and keep making amazing videos (I hope my videos will someday be as good as yours)!

[@derajjared5495]

IDK, but they probably won't be worn out in the butterfly's lifetime. Or they are too strong to be worn out.

[@spliter88]

The hairs have a similar structure/texture to the scales, except with larger holes and those protrusions, and they appear near closer to the origin of the wing. Maybe they're how a butterfly the scales? As the scales mature they unroll, the holes get bigger and the protrusions either smooth out or fall off, which would also explain how such wide scales are connected to the wings by such tiny holes.

[@manoelamf1989]

***** but then, how come the other wing didn't have them?

[@spliter88]

Manoela Ferreira Could be vestigial. The butterflies originally had scales that had only fully developed, when it started to pay to have transparent wings rather than removing the scales on that part of the wing it might have been simpler to cripple the scale development in that area. And since the vestigial scales aren't affecting the natural selection that much they were left there. Kind of like our tail bone,belly button or appendix.

[@manoelamf1989]

Spliter makes sense I guess. thanks

[@christopherhanthorn3486]

After learning so much about viruses and their role in the evolution of animals by altering genes in dna, i wonder if the function of the complex nano-structure of the hair isn't an adaptation for the butterfly, but something that was created by viruses to help them collect or spread. Or if it is visual maybe just not for humans visual spectrum but for creatures that are more complex like the mantis shrimp that can see different types of waves on the electromagnetic spectrum. Nature is incredible and to understand it we need to be able to understand the smallest parts first. thanks for the video, I've been wanting to see an animation of a zoom like that, very cool.

[@emeraldtrichomeco8062]

I love it.! its so amazing how deep you can look into their structure. The zoom out was something Nat.Geo wish they had; it was so good!

[@davidrohrig2718]

Thanks for the Video! I’m always fascinated by objects appearing to be the color they reject. What if the round nano structures are part of sensory organs to sense airflow? (thought of the title bands on sails)

[@Phyankord]

well i can imagine that with those scales constantly falling off there must be some way for the butterfly to restore those scales right? perhaps the small hairs are the scales themselves in a younger state, they seem to have similar structure to the scales themselves. perhaps the hairs once reaching a certain length will fold out in some way?

[@Phyankord]

Conran Thomas its possible. unfortunately average people like us wont know

[@christiandoodles]

+Phyankord nationgeographic once said some stuff about this ... its like feathers for moths ...

[@raplavii]

Wonderful are Your works O Lord, in wisdom You have created them all!

[@MasterFloody]

This video is wild. That zoom in sequence blew my mind.

[@ktor538]

Very interesting episode, I had often wondered about. I feel smarter today' Cheers

[@levi12howell]

I don't like saying "mysteries we'll never understand".. I still have some hope

[@siinxx7656]

being optimistic about those things is what makes us human

[@colmblodget9157]

we will never understand what nothing would look like

[@siinxx7656]

@@colmblodget9157 imagine if thats what you experience when we die.... becoming nothing, or just nothing accordingly to how our senses perceive "something" in the "world" of this "reality".

[@barrywhite9114]

We Will Understand God... Smarter Day by Day! Thanks 🙏

[@wus291]

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[@TheJoriom]

Thats called Butterfly effect. This video about butterflies from 2013 caused all of 2020.

[@TheMrcoolguy1998]

I myself just learned to work with a SEM during my first graduate project for my graduate physics degree. Amazing machine and suprisingly easy to operate. Butterfly wings are an amazing sample to look at apparently!

[@MathieuLaflamme]

Wow with a video like this for sure I click subcribe!!!

[@anarfox]

Forget the butterflies. Those goggles!

[@ramidi1]

The reason why they have scales and ''hairs'': to create a bigger surface contact with the air surrounding the wings so with one fling of its wings it instantly stops dropping, a lot of air is hold around the wings wich makes it able to ''swim'' trough the air. Thanks for your hard work, keep feeling good!

[@naytchh7]

This guy is a national treasure. The world needs more of this right now.

[@Jerkasaur]

the nano structures you were calling "hairs" what if they are utilized for balance in the sense that the butterfly can feel the slightest movement in each "hair" so that is better able to steady himself during flight. idk maybe I'm just dumb

[@FlintSparkedStudios]

Haha, don't say you're dumb! Everything we've ever discovered starts with someone thinking, "Hmm, maybe this is why." and then that is tested.

[@MeesterG]

Pretty good hypotheses. I wonder what the nano-holes in the 'hairs' are good for

[@cebubikebootcamp]

I think the scales are defense mechanism against spider's web. It easily detaches so if it is caught up in a web then there is a chance that the butterfly/moth will escape.

[@krysmun]

And I'm pretty sure the hairs are new scales that are growing out, and haven't unravelled & flattened yet.

[@datgio4951]

Cebu Bike Boot Camp yeah and bigfoot is real

[@railgap]

You should let the other lepidopterists know about your findings - like, publish a paper or something.

[@tomiadventures]

That sounds like it makes sense. Not sure why your comment attracted the douchemoth family.

[@meanjeanmcqueen6171]

Holy cheeseballs, that's absolutely amazing!!!

[@MrSalvarion]

Stumbled onto SmarterEveryDay back when you made the vid about the bike with opposite steering and have watched a lot from the channel ever since. Love your channel. Always very interesting. ^^

[@saadraiyan]

SubhhaAllah! Great Creator has hidden so much beauty and mysteries inside so many things. Im just loving His creations being a creation of His myself.. how cool is that!

[@siecieh]

nature speeds up learning about itself creating thinking beings, which then create computers to speed up learning about themselves.. split of a second and we're talking about infinity of feedback loops! it's so good to be a part of this universe, I am thankful

[@sabbirahmed2011]

All praises to Allah

[@DarcyWhyte]

You're so hard on color that's not pigment color. It's sill valid color. Pigment isn't the only game in town. That makes you a colorist. :) You mention those hairs that have a nanostructure that doesn't appear to be driven for optical reasons. Don't forget something that is transparent to humans isn't necessarily to other animals because they see different wavelengths.

[@jasondashney]

That's what I was thinking. We see such a narrow bandwidth. That's why I have an infrared converted camera. Let's me see what I normally can't.

[@barry.anderberg]

Remember everyone, this just evolved by chance over millions of years. Even if it looks designed, it's not. Repeat that as many times as necessary to convince yourself.

[@captainhd9741]

It can still be designed even having undergone a system such as evolution. Just because you start with simple parts or ingredients for a computer chip and a factory spits out a complex computer chip doesn't mean there was no design. You wouldn't expect to get any meaningful result from any system or mechanisms be it by mother nature or artificial. In fact it's incredible that the world works in such a way that even allows for mechanisms to be able to interact with one another allowing for such bigger systems to be in place such that you not only get things that exist perfectly according to environmental needs but to also on top of that have a degree of flexibility such that it remains sophisticated and functioning as changes of the surroundings occur. If you still don't believe the science, ask yourself when evolution can even start to begin. Does it require genes in order for mutation to occur or not? If yes then there you go. The process needs something that is already complex (DNA) to even begin. Have you also considered the varies of factors that have to be considered in order for anything to be this successful? It's not as simple as trial and error under mutation, otherwise it wouldn't be a whole field of study that is developing such as the new neo-Darwinian theory as opposed to the old and replaced Darwinian theory of evolution

[@wasletfellcar]

I am absolutely amazed by this. I can't believe this was released over 6 years ago.

[@0EasyPete0]

I was told to never touch a butterfly's wings or else it wouldn't be able to fly anymore.

[@johnsmith-gk3ek]

Good for you.

[@martingutsch6985]

Well these were dead, so I doubt they'd be doing any flying regardless of handling (;

[@Panos__P]

me too Thought not immediately or with only one touch, but most kids(not only kids) don't know how to grab a butterfly so better to avoid the risk. if you only touch a butterfly for a instance it probably wouldnt be a problem, but if you rumb it that might destroy most of the little scales we saw in this video...

[@BisMaxx]

Your parents didn't love you.

[@Kevin-um1nq]

BisMaxx Bruh. It's obvious why they actually told him that. Jerk.

[@Alex-mp4kl]

Does that mean butterflies don't have color? I mean really we're just perceiving a reflection of light of the wings. Is that just how all color works? I'm trying to think of another example of some object or animal where its color doesn't come from its ability to absorb certain wavelengths. I mean it makes chameleons even more impressive then. Because they're adjust molecules in their skin to either create more or less of a certain shape to absorb light, but to also know how to absorb certain light to leave only a certain color. There's too much... I've gone too deep I don't know what's real any mroe

[@Schildknaapie]

You should go deeper into (un)reality and look at cuttlefish and octopuses haha

[@StarFireITA]

Hey Alex! You probably want to check out this article here: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC240659 In fact, the whole phenomenon is related to photonic band gap materials. Working with Bloch theory and Electromagnetic fields theory, one can come up with some (quite simple) equations that describe propagation of differently energetic photons (i.e. photons at different frequencies, inversely proportional to wavelengths) in periodic nanostructures. Roughly speaking, once periodicity of the material and refractive index are known, one can easily compute the wavelength that "will not propagate" in the periodic material (whose energy falls in the so called "photonic band gap"), and therefore will be reflected. The article above show the same phenomenon at work with Peacock feathers (same concept)! Of course not all things color come from this phenomenon, since not everything is made up as a fancy periodic nanostructure! Also, Chameleons skin too works in a really fascinating way (I think Destin made a video about that). Have a good one!

[@Alex-mp4kl]

Thank you for this! I've been an artist for several years, and it just blows my mind how little I knew about the physics of colors. This was a great article, and though I'm not too smart it sounds similar to this video in that the peacock feathers have their color from a physical structure. But the article points out other methods of how color is accomplished. I think that part blew my mind the most. Just that there happens to be multiple ways that colors reveal themselves. And at the end of the day there's an objects true color, as a loose term, and an objects ability to trap colors revealing what's left. It just really makes you think how there just can't be intention with colors. Sure once colors are established they can aide animals in evolution. But to arrive at having color in the first place is just a wild thought.

[@philiphammar]

Yes, some materia function this way, such as peacock wings etc. The artist pigment you are using works in a different way. If you look at a monochrome red painting, the colour - red - that you are observing is that colour which the specific pigment used to cover the painting could not absorb. Its quite paradoxical eh?

[@maksphoto78]

Most birds' colour is like that - iridescence caused by micro-structures in the feathers blocking some wavelengths.

[@keilerbie7469]

Why are you so colorful? *NANOMACHINES, SON*

[@danyboyxd4]

Still can't believe some people dislike your content. Love what you do man, keep it up.

[@davidgamingremastered6784]

Well, if they don't like it...

[@imyouandurme]

I'm a guy, and I love butterflies. Doesn't make me a girly-man...but I am kinda girly. I wore a sequined dress once. I felt pretty for 5 minutes...then I shaved. I lied about feeling pretty. C'mon. It had blue sequins. I felt easy. But yeah...butterflies are awesome. (big finish on the guitar)

[@raptorchap356]

Maybe the hair looking things are the work in progress scales.

[@ExcelutionNero]

Butterfree used sleep powder.

[@SleebyRise]

You used dumb joke.

[@justinsong6462]

phantom?

[@palebluedot7435]

+SilentDarkness Attack evolved into a prick prick learned splash

[@zackjandali]

Is that why I’m yawning rn?

[@benji.B-side]

The beauty of nature at nano scale is just as beautiful as the beauty our eyes can see on our scale of viewing!! Incredible stuff!!

[@afirestone18]

Great are the works of the Lord; they are pondered by all who delight in them. Never stop adding those verses at the end.

[@willd6215]

@@plasticlawnchair7197 I think you oversimplified it on purpose

[@willd6215]

@@plasticlawnchair7197 a bomb blew up and suddenly we existed? Yeah I got a problem with that. I can't imagine anyone thinking that

[@willd6215]

@@plasticlawnchair7197 I don't think anyone believes that either.

[@willd6215]

@@plasticlawnchair7197 an explosion happens and then works of art appear or technology?

[@Teamsween]

I’m never going to look at butterflies the same

[@pumpkim9800]

I love yoor vids. Keep up the good the good work!

[@CP4884]

Princess is certainly in the video. I don't think she thought she would make the cut. Cool video, i love electron microscopes. They're so cool.

Just great!

[@TinyFord1]

Towards the end I was expecting Romans 1:18-1:21. Then Psalm 111:2 appeared

[@applicareinc]

Amen.

[@Ck-mt8ef]

And remember that this is the beauty for us to see .. insects see in UltraViolet .. so there is complete different coloring for them. ...

[@onnozweers]

Psalm 111:2: "Great are the works of the Lord; they are pondered by all who delight in them" Google Translate: "Did you mean: Great are the works of the Lord; they are *sponsored* by all who delight in them"

[@tracyd693]

@@brycedavis1433 The Earth is over 2,000 years old which conclusively proves your god to not exist. Imagine a religion that is proven wrong from the first line in the book.... keep denying evolution, I'm sure that will get you far.

[@AliMohammed-ez6nt]

@@tracyd693 first line in what book? there are like 30 bibles that get more updates, than the newest i phone. A "god" that was born a human and was spat on and killed by humans. Can you prove the Quran wrong? Ofcourse not, you can google it and quote with no context, but if u had read it from start to end, you would be crazy about it. I read both and i can tell, why christianity is dying and why most muslims are crazy about their religion.

[@chromecobalt]

People see beautiful painting = Artist did a great job People see complex and beautiful AF organic structures = Must have just popped out of nothing

[@SMPlayerSlayer]

My theory on the "hairs" is that they are some sort of sensory tool for the butterfly acting like a string attached to an aircraft which allows the pilot (butterfly) to see/feel how the air is going over the wing.

[@_skyfall24]

I see... we have been fooled by butterflies. Nano technology huh?

[@SlowlyFallingUpwards]

Snake is that you?

[@BillAnt]

At about 500nm spacing, it wasn't even a close up shot. They can go even closer.