BBC Home Making: Termites

[Galv140577]

decentralized power structure nobody tells anybody what to do they just get on with it why cant we be like that? instead we have banksters taking all our resources & using them to wage wars so we kill each other while they just get richer & richer & all we get is worthless pieces of paper called bank notes that become more & more worthless every f**king day

[itsanillusion100]

Check out Eugene Marais' book "The soul of the white ant"

[Quaid1947]

who told engineering to this blind insect?

[behnamasid]

The termite queen is a slut. lol

[AntiKythera108]

And here we see the Nigerian termite exhibit architecture of a much more sophisticated level than indigenous sub-Saharan Africans have ever constructed.

[djsufferthing]

@AntiKythera108 I lol'd.

[Godshelper707]

Absolutely amazing

[MRmagnatron]

There's only one way to find out......SNAP!

[renajsh]

Over 20 years later, this is still one of the most profound bits of TV ever broadcast.

[ChristianPainter]

I think I know where the master plan came from.

[deviskation]

if you like this you should read a book called 'the soul of the white ant'. it is an in depth study of these termite colonies and it will blow your mind

[bardocksupersaiyan3]

i swear the queen looks like something straight from a monster movie

[ninelivecat]

@bardocksupersaiyan3 Prob inspired the Queen Alien in Aliens 

[monsieurgazerina]

@bardocksupersaiyan3 it reminds me of jabba the hutt

[LotharVonPittinsberg]

I prefer ENGINEERS over TERMITES.

[zZDarkTrioZz]

lol this shows insects are much more clever than humans :P

[ksNanoSquid]

ENGINEERS build their TELEPORTERS according to a master plan

[DonnZ0r]

@ksNanoSquid though how they are able to do so, we don't begin to understand.

[VoonlapseMertigo]

@DonnZ0r

Stigmergy. Look it up, absolutely fascinating.

[keyonte0]

Unlike bugs, people are stupider collectively.

[capeman6666]

ze spy was here!

[Hochspeyer8993]

I feel like dropping some dynamite into one of those colonies.

[TheReasonWhyGuy]

At the end, it reminds me of the thought, of what would happen, if we all worked together... yet capitalism is in direct opposition to that, since working together, would mean no competition...

[Rataro0102]

Living like a termite would suck. Your life would be meaningless, even if you were the queen.

[TheReasonWhyGuy]

@Rataro0102 lol, seriously?

You have an overblown sense of human importance.

We're not some perfect life-form, and most of us accomplish nothing anyway.

Most of what we do is sustain ourselves, and sometimes sustain a family. Beyond that only a select few actually do something which stands out, and most of the time those accomplishments are quickly forgotten.

So tell me, how does life suck :P

By working for yourself alone, you rarely accomplish anything.

[normalil]

This is the most fascinating thing he ever showed us. I have never forgotten it from when it was first on TV.  Great to find it here. Thanks.

[unireality]

@normalil ur welcome....

[normalil]

Thankyou. I meant it.

[kojak1two]

I agree. This is the exact video I was looking for!!! :D

Great to see it again.

[perceival]

Complete mind blowing experience. I love to see D. A. crawling in the termite basement...

[MSBSpectator]

+5 for Attenborough

a very nice vid overall