Which Animal Defeated The Spanish Armada? | QI

[@Epicurus341]

For those who are curious, Biomimicry is the field of science where you take inspiration from nature to solve human problems. Maybe the most famous example is using the kingfisher's beak and the owl's feathers to make the Shinkansen faster and quieter. Other examples include using termite mounds to improve the heating & cooling of buildings; studying shark skin to allow boat hulls to move faster through water; and mimicking mosquitos to develop a painless needle.

[@AndyClayton-f5x]

Caly Beaton is lovely. Always pleased to see her on QI. Never seen her anywhere else.

[@var67]

She's on Threads, if you're so inclined. (I'm trying not to, to avoid Zuck's metaverse.)

[@ripdbtpoo1441]

Callie.

[@michaelbruce3050]

She did a set at Live at the Apollo that is brilliant! She’s charming and wickedly funny! ❤️

[@ripdbtpoo1441]

@@AndyClayton-f5x Callie ! (She deserves her real name).

[@Leornianæfre]

Most engineering solutions are and should continue to be animal based tbh. That was very clever by Brunel to figure that out in order to build the tunnel.

[@4231jerome]

Yep agreed. Most of the really ingenious advancements are inspired by something in nature

[@MichaelDothoso]

You should have used to word "many" instead. Then it would actually be true.

[@intheshell35ify]

​@MichaelDothoso truth?!? Truth??? What the heck does "truth" have to do with anything??? Hyperbole, you say?? No!! The discovery of atomic energy was based on the mating habits of the Lesser Bull Shrike of New Zealand. Get with it man!!! 😂😂

[@MrDowntemp0]

Ol' Copper Bottom!

[@lhfirex]

I know Sandi's saying shipworms, but every single time she says it, I hear "shitworms" and I keep thinking Sandi and QI are being kind of rude, even by QI standards.

[@var67]

0:51 "drill the passage" uh-huh!

[@aidanbell5199]

Just in case you hadn't realised, that is not Gus Khan as the description says, it is Jamali Maddix.

[@edroth7612]

Velcro was developer in this Biomimicry fashion.

[@MartinAhlman]

No shipworms where I live, so my head is safe!

[@trueFleGMan]

but what were they eating before ships?

[@TheBod76]

Wood

[@trueFleGMan]

@@TheBod76 surely there isn't enough random wood in the middle of the sea/ocean to support an entire species

[@ethan5719]

Maybe flooded forests?

[@Epicurus341]

@@trueFleGMan Have a google and you'll find a few science web sites discussing that question...

[@civlyzed]

RFK Jr's brain

[@BigWojS]

Pretty sure that's not Guz Khan, lads (awkward)

[@blaQI_roch]

He's looking more like Jamali Maddix every time he's on QI...

[@DRAG0NSPIRIT10]

Ramesh: "Why does my book say Guz in it?" Sandi: "Guz was here earlier." Ramesh: "Oh thank God for that, I thought somebody thought I was him."

[@alisonlinnell8943]

Amusing armada assumptions. Apparently ship worms only affected Spanish ships…. Good grief! 😂

[@minicle426]

Godzilla. >_>

[@terryhunt2659]

More commonly kown as the Teredo worm ( _Teredo navalis_ ). Which begins with 'T'.

[@luxurychoccie]

The last two videos make me suspicious that whoever runs this channel wanted trypophobics to have an awful festive period...

[@Nosmo90]

Two? The only particularly hole-related video that I see at the end of this video is the toad one. 🤔

[@luxurychoccie]

@@Nosmo90 Sorry, I was including this one! I couldn't watch either of them!

[@likebot.]

I have trypophobia and it didn't even move my needle.

[@luxurychoccie]

@@likebot. Interesting, What triggers your phobia in that case? I've had it since I was a kid, woodworm holes and barnacles make me feel sick, and when I was about 10 I had to tear out the page of my giant animal encyclopaedia that had a page showing an illustration of the toad with holes in its back. I'm not generally squeamish! Give me a video of someone performing brain surgery and I'm totally invested!

[@likebot.]

@@luxurychoccie When I see holes arranged tightly like a honeycomb or a sunflower with the seeds removed and sometimes seeing a few blackheads on someone's face I get a nausea reaction. I don't have a fear, just a stomach upsetting reaction to seeing something utterly gross. The same feeling comes over me when I think of WWI soldiers preventing gangrene by having flies lay eggs on their open wounds to eat the dead flesh. The worst reaction I ever had was seeing the waste grease barrel behind the Burger King I worked at. When I first opened it to pour in the old shortening (back when we used shortening instead of oil) from the friers and the whole top of it was covered in - I gotta stop

[@georgebennett3197]

Ship Worms, the weather, anything but anything other than suggest that Sir Francis Drake and the English Navy had anything to do with the defeat. (yes know that the weather helped.

[@DavidBishop-l8s]

Was it the starving rats biting the sailors as they tried to load the cannons ?

[@geoffroi-le-Hook]

Mark Brunell ? the quarterback for the Packers, Jaguars, Redskins and Jets?

[@Nosmo90]

I’m Jake Jortles, and I approve of this reference to the Jaguars; who, in fact, rule.

[@JJONNYREPP]

Which Animal Defeated The Spanish Armada? | QI 1309pm 30.12.24 kenny ball!!

[@zero11010]

Haven’t seen it yet … was it Fran Drescher? Maybe a relative of hers?

[@porticojunction]

I was hoping for the Portuguese Man o' War.

[@WilliamWrigley-z5u]

Cop a bottom?

[@UNICORN69HO]

Damnnnn Maisie Adams looking good. Oh wait.