Swarm of Bacteria Builds Tiny Pyramid

[ArcKwill]

Very nice! BUT WILL IT BLEND?

[jcarlos05111979]

ESPETACULAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



[mave2612]

My mother's boyfriend is working on this. He is M. Mohammadi.

[elbowbiter1]

@mave2612 Your mother has excellent taste in men.

[plokooo]

harp

[teleny2]

All ye Small Folk, bless ye the Lord, bless ye the Lord...

[moegreen2]

so they guided the bacteria with light or sound waves, right? its impressive. 

[JetSetForLife]

@moegreen2 a magnetic field actually

[moegreen2]

@JetSetForLife yeah, that makes more sense.

[mave2612]

@moegreen2  No, with magnets.

[macshit900]

approximately 5000 magnetotactic bacteria were enslaved while building this microscopic pyramid. rofl.

[IHighLikePlane]

The future of gaming is here....CELL WARS!!!!

[darcon81]

can i ask how do they able to control bacteria like that when there are nanobots present? I'm just baffled because according to research, robots as small as nanometers are still just in theory and research. they still yet to make robots unseen by the naked eye.

[imaginenoreligion]

@darcon81 try reading the description and the captions 0:6 - 0:21

[macshit900]

@darcon81 they are magnetotactic bacteria that respond to magnetic fields. The computer was simulated to control them by using magnetic currents to 'guide' them to the path we want them to go to. try searching for MC-1 bacteria on google. hope that helps :D

[darcon81]

@macshit900 Thanks dude! For a moment i thought they already created a real nanobot. I'm searching for actual nanobot developments and its technological predictions but all i found is future timeline.net saying that it would be avaialable in year 2040 or 2050. I've yet to find the basis for these claims. Coz i'm planning to make a futurist sci fi short story making tech predictions on nanobots and nanotech but it's hard to make a future timeline if you have no idea when wil d tech b out.

[MrSporeowns]

@darcon81 well, roughly, the amount of data that can be stored in a data chip doubles each year, assuming ths is correct, in only 30 more years, there would be a computer 1/ 1,073,741,824 the size of any of ours, able to hold the same amount of data, in only 30 years. and in 40 years from now, a computer 1/1,099,511,627,776 the size of our modern computers. of course.... eventually we would stop progressing due to the size of atoms.... unless we found a new particle to build with......

[darcon81]

@MrSporeowns Thanks for the info. Yes, you're right about Moore's law. When that collapses, computer scientists have no choice but to take on quantum computers. Most of these people predict that the first practical qc will be in 2040s or 50s, but i think otherwise. the past decade they only computed like 2 +1. 30 yrs seems to short for such an incredible technological leap. I predict qc sometime after its 100 yr anniversary just like telephone into mobile phones n other stuff. 100 to 130 years.

[m3inity]

Tetris ?!

[geekionizado]

The world's first slave bactery...

[sandinsx]

blasphemy! this only proves that jesus is real! BECAUSE THIS IS MAGIC!!!!!!!!!!!11111111111111­11

[duanecosta]

uahuahuaha!!!!!!! Pirei!!

Totaly crazy!!!

[xbatusai]

in b4 skynet

[Npowell01]

@xbatusai

inb4 Egypt under my toe nails.

[Micr0Druid]

IT'S FUCKING SCIENCE.

[vmorgun]

It's a wonder. Laws of nature and science!

[AxeBlack84]

This is amazing.

On another note, I seriously doubt they built the pyramids that way lol.

[DokuJunkie]

The bacteria are playing Tetris! The end of the world is nigh!

[hyperlexic2]

i guess those little 'draw the beard on the guy with a magnet' games were very ahead of their time.

[alittlehebrew]

Technically that's not a pyramid, it's just a triangle. :P

[1Trupurpose]

I'm on edge waiting for the sphinx follow-up vid.

[absentspartin]

fake as hell

[erichathy222]

@absentspartin why do you think its fake?

[Devilboy668]

@erichathy222 Cause he's a fucking idiot?

[ak0087]

what's next? bacteria moses? let my bacteria go!

[sensoryhouse]

@ak0087 fuckin lol

[GMNives]

FOR GREAT SCIENCE!

[erichathy222]

why would someone down this video probably just another.......

[MrVorker]

i like the 1 guy who clicked "Dislike" on this video..

"hmm what's this? computers manipulating invisible micro-organisms to arrange complex shapes and recorded with a microscope then placed on a free video service accessible to anyone on the planet 24 hours a day? FUCK THIS"

[JaxxBat]

Nuttin like a plconewton ..

[hunzedog]

fake

[velja27]

Only makes you think how long was it for bacteria and what they were thinking, feeling... living through. If we cannot see it it doesn't mean it doesn't exist.

[mcglaven]

Careful enslaving the bacteria to build your pyramids. You might wake up one morning to find phage blood smeared on your door and your first-born children dead; meanwhile, Bacterial Moses is parting the petri dish and leading his organisms to freedom.

[yoyoj3d1]

This supports the notion that vastly superior aliens found our pro-human ancestors and manipulated them into building the pyramids.

Le sigh... I <3 alien-astronaut theory.

[menosmalus]

Usando bacterias «esclavas» para construir pirámides:

La construcción de la pirámide escalonada usando 5000 bacterias controladas por ordenador como fuerza obrera comienza más o menos a partir del primer minuto del vídeo.

[eyesonlyfd]

where can I see the ending (full pyramid)?

[madhatter060]

@eyesonlyfd i think that is the full pyramid

[ecyor0]

Sweet bejeebus... nano-bionics!

[whoslayedgoliath]

The future of medicine is right here.

[SniperF0x]

absolutely awesome!

[netenute]

If only the Egyptians had though of this I wouldn't be going to Seder dinner tonight =P

[Protzosch]

Das sieht ja aber aus wie Kraut und Rüben. Sind das etwa polnische Bakterien?

[nlpayne4]

...and still they don't know how the pyramids were built...can't even find the pyramid building gene...lol

[Savaril]

@nlpayne4

no we know how the pyramids were built.

[elboulegou]

esto simplemente es fenomenal!!!

[zerfsun]

it's burning sand

[Rocket7910]

it really must be difficult to find good help these days.

[Seigu007]

its amazing what humans can create in this 21st century. Its alien, practically.

[nomel23]

...think of it as guiding a swarm of squirrels to bump into beach balls, then it doesn't seem so alien.

[D0g63rt]

What? Now there's aliens?! Warglblarg!!

[KTCutUp]

@nomel23 i wAnnA sEe tHaT viDeO!

[KTCutUp]

@nomel23 i wAnnA sEe tHaT viDeO!

[georgieHenleyfan1995]

@Seigu007 yeah maybe,but when i was aroung 7 years old i realized by myself that we maybe would have better technology than aliens, but now i don't believe there r any if u understand what i'm sayin

[zhimingmo]

Ahhhhhh, black smoke from LOST got loose.....

[fuby0]

hmm.. black smoke from lost explained

[cfrock]

Great old school Windows clock

[merlinjimmy]

To Spunkypunk:

From NanoRoboyics Laboratory:

The bacteria, of a type known as magnetotactic, contain structures called magnetosomes, which function as a compass. In the presence of a magnetic field, the magnetosomes induce a torque on the bacteria, making them swim according to the direction of the field. Place a magnetic field pointing right and the bacteria will move right. Switch the field to point left and the bacteria will follow suit.

[TheSpunkypunk]

in fact this is just natures "Wooly Willie."

[TheSpunkypunk]

can anybody explain how this was a robotic micro-assembly process? Since the bacteria is a magnetotactic bacteria and it acts simular to a "compass", how did they make them move? A magnet? They already form chains. not so amazing unless someone can explain otherwise.

[XenoPredator]

@TheSpunkypunk Movement of the swarm is controlled by applying a magnetic field in the desired direction (most likely an electromagnet).

[XenoPredator]

@TheSpunkypunk I forgot to add, the magnetic field merely controls the direction of propagation. The cells themselves each contain two flagella bundles that can generate a force greater than 4 picoNewtons used for propulsion. Essentially they still move normally but we're directing their movement by using the magnetic field.

[Coelacanth1938]

How about a tiny sphinx to go along with the pyramid?

[TOAFN]

If there was no profit in cancer industry, it would be cured already.

If there was no profit in oil/war industry there would be peace already.

These technologies will be used for evil with current Type 0 humans

[XenoPredator]

@TOAFN You obviously have no idea how hard it is to cure cancer. The funding is needed for research which is pretty darn difficult to do.

[bobviously]

I don't know if the last one posted.

gizmodo. com/5501103/this-is-the-future­-of-the-fight-against-cancer

[BigCheese00001]

Totally wrong on cancer. Can you imagine how much money you could get for distributing a cure for cancer? Thousands of times what anyone could make selling today's remedies.

[RachelBartlett]

Totally wrong on cancer. Cancer cures are available, and they are dirt cheap.

Have a look into vitamin B17, for instance.

Also: "Cancer deaths 'could be halved' by vitamin D" -- vitamin D you get from exposure to the sun. Of course big pharma wouldn't make any profits from that, so this kind of knowledge is surpressed.

And that is just two cures. There are lots of others.

[BoredInfidel]

@RachelBartlett Rachel, that's bullshit. Sorry. Might be nice if it was that simple, but this is reality, and there is no magic cure.

[RachelBartlett]

@BoredInfidel Thank you for flagging me as spam. I am deeply impressed with your argumentative skills.

[00oiio00]

TOAFN, i'm a researcher and I'm always amazed when I hear people saying dumb things like this. Please inform yourself before talking of things you don't know.

"Cancer" is not ONE disease. There's 100s of different types of cancer, due to different causes.Even if they give similar symptoms they may not have the same cause.

That's why it's so difficult to find a cure. And that's why there will NEVER be ONE cure for cancer.You want a disease that is not cured because it's not profitable? Malaria.

[FreePlay]

@TOAFN cancer is not a single disease. it is hundreds of diseases with the same effect. there CANNOT be a SINGLE cure for all cancers.

[iluvraywjohnson]

@FreePlay i agree...that my my grandma is dead :'(

[mtf61291]

What the FUCK?

What THE FUCK?

WHAT THE FUCK?!?

All I can say is...

Science!

[FreePlay]

@mtf61291 Fuck YEAH, science!!

[yamaha69x]

@mtf61291 hill billy

[mtf61291]

@yamaha69x

?

[Devilboy668]

Holy shit

[Ansecos]

SCIENCE!

[ArtDamage911]

All of this is so fascinating!! Just think of all of the things in the future that computer controlled bacteria and nanobots can do for us! Such as curing cancer and other serious diseases that plague the human race... Think about it.

[IGoByJAC]

What about spreading cancer and other serious diseases FOR EVIL!... Think about it.

[ArtDamage911]

@IGoByJAC Very true

[SuddenCatharsis]

@ArtDamage911 "Such as curing cancer and other serious diseases that plague the human race"

Right, because there aren't already enough humans on the planet. We need to increase the population even more!

[GrandHighGamer]

@SuddenCatharsis Kill yourself, help save the population.

[ArtDamage911]

@GrandHighGamer rofl

[zeratul1987]

@SuddenCatharsis I know fucking assholes had to find a cure for the plague! God damn scientists taking jobs away from grave diggers! Dey Took yer Jeeerb!

[Npowell01]

@SuddenCatharsis

The average annual GDP of food in developed nations alone could feed the entire world multiple times over, for a year. I'm not saying overpopulation is a myth, I'm saying that it's exaggerated as a problem. Your misanthropic suggestion (if it was a suggestion) that we should let people die of terminal illness to keep the population manageable is misguided.

Plus, there are far easier ways to keep the population down. Like, idk, encouraging contraception use?

[pr0pr0]

@Npowell01 The issue isn't even population, it's density. Everyone wants to live in the same place.

If we perfected nano-construction, overpopulation wouldn't even be an issue, through molecular deconstruction, followed by reconstruction, a rock could be assembled into a hamburger.