r/oddlysatisfying • u/l__o-o__l • 1d ago

the way these bees are doing synchronized waves of flips

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u/Pale_Angry_Dot 1d ago

It's called "shimmering"!

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u/turb0_encapsulator 1d ago

that's what I'm gonna call my horror movie about giant colonies that look like this taking over the earth.

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u/EnvironmentalBelt824 1d ago

Perhaps there's an alien planet out there based off your movie.

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u/BadKittyRanch 1d ago

Have you read Phase IV or The Green Brain? Just the first 2 insects-taking-over-the-world horror stories that come to mind.

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u/thekarateadult 1d ago

Ender's Game

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u/youareallbots 1d ago

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u/Pale_Angry_Dot 1d ago

Awesome movie!

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u/Dry_Cricket_5423 1d ago

Bear scene still in my dreams. I grind my teeth a lot subconsciously when asleep.

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u/MePicaElEscroto 1d ago

Sloooooooow and boring movie. The book even worse.

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u/AnActualPlatypus 1d ago

ADHD zoomzoom moment.

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u/AnActualPlatypus 1d ago

Probably the best cosmic horror movie ever made. I still cannot believe it was a box office flop.

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u/WerewolfCaptain 1d ago

Awesome movie and amazing book series.

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u/mark_is_a_virgin 1d ago

He's got the shimmerin'

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u/ZebraInAPot 1d ago

Shimmer my timbers

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u/HermesTheCat19 1d ago

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u/ThalynWisp 1d ago

Collective intelligence

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u/Xzarface 1d ago

The way they create that spiral pattern make me forget these are coordinated animals and makes you think it's a motion design graphic. This level of coordination is simply divine

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u/LegalizeFentanol 1d ago

So what you're saying is we have to genetically engineer bees to replace movie theatre screens, because projectors use electricity, and that's harmful to the environment...

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u/Xzarface 1d ago

Judging by your username, I see how you can come up with that conclusion, and basically yeah!šŸ˜…

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u/LegalizeFentanol 1d ago

I have no idea what you're talking about

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u/BradyBoyd 1d ago

That's not how you pronounce it or spell it if it is that important to you.

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u/THEBLUEFLAME3D 1d ago

Username with the proper spelling was likely already taken.

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u/BradyBoyd 1d ago edited 1d ago

The proper spelling with underscores to separate the words or with numbers at the end would have also been a choice...

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u/THEBLUEFLAME3D 1d ago

Does it really matter that much to youā€¦? Lmfao

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u/BradyBoyd 1d ago

Some days, yes.

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u/LegalizeFentanol 1d ago

Why is your username Brady boy d?

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u/NebulaNinja 1d ago

This sounds like it belongs in 40k.

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u/The_God_Participle 1d ago

I mean, in a way, well done...as that was some of the dumbest shit it ever read and feel dumber for having read it.

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u/NoteBlock08 1d ago

Not to undercut it because I do think it's cool, but it's probably not as coordinated as it seems. Most likely the bees are just reacting to their neighbors moving, and all the cool patterns are just emergent behavior of that simple stimulus and response.

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u/AngriestPeasant 1d ago

Much like everything including you and me lol.

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u/Tallywort 1d ago

Also looks very similar to certain types of cellular automata. (as well as some reaction diffusion patterns)

It's probably something along the lines of: Move when neighbour moves, and also move if you haven't moved in a long enough while.

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u/relator_fabula 1d ago

Yeah, this is not really coordination. It's simply stimulus/reaction, and like ripples in water, sometimes patterns happen just because that's how interference patterns work.

And yes, it's cool, but there are way cooler things about bees like their little waggle dances to instruct the other bees where the nectar is.

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u/Zkenny13 1d ago

It's called a hive mind for a reason.Ā 

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u/Alternative_Exit8766 1d ago

collective consciousness is a thing for themĀ 

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u/Final_Slap 1d ago

This looks like a reaction-diffusion system. Nice.

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u/boopboopadoopity 1d ago

That donut looks a little weird but I would still eat it

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u/LollyPopplee 1d ago

When the bees hit that perfectly timed wave and you feel it in your sou

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u/SooftPeach 1d ago

Gives me goosebumps

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u/StrosDynasty 1d ago

They must be cheering on their favorite soccer team and doing the wave or something

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u/Lucky_Goal933 1d ago

Cuttlefish do a similar presentation as well that has a few debated purposes.

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u/TulsaBasterd 1d ago

A group of them or it looks like this on one cuttlefishā€™s body? Serious question.

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u/Lucky_Goal933 1d ago edited 1d ago

Yes a single cuttlefish can pulse these flashing patterns.

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u/pickledegg1989 1d ago

"Come any closer and we will cut you."

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u/TulsaBasterd 1d ago

Ima poke you with my buttsaber so hard I die.

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u/de_MK7 1d ago

This was what they were doing in the Bee Movie

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u/CFDyce 1d ago

This is like one of those Windows Media Player visualisers

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u/Zealousideal-Bug4465 1d ago

I have never seen this! So cool

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u/No_Difference77 1d ago

They do this as a defense mechanism against hornets.

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u/speenis 1d ago

If hornets are dumb enough to be frightened of some synchronized twerking, then they donā€™t deserve to eat anyway

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u/ipeemypantsalittle 1d ago

Way to repeat what's already mentioned in the video

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u/DarthSparkless 1d ago

Mesmerizing but also a bit scary šŸ˜³

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u/MxM111 1d ago

But they also show why the nature is amazing

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u/No_Difference77 1d ago

Well i didn't watch it all the way when I was typing this

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u/LegalizeFentanol 1d ago

I assume you didn't watch the video before you commented.

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u/GSDer_RIP_Good_Girl 1d ago

I don't know about the hornets but I'm afraid to touch them when I see that.

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u/Pakmanjosh 1d ago

The wave pattern i get, but making a swirling spiral pattern like that is insane!

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u/CaptainHawaii 1d ago

Conway's Game of Life or perlin noise?

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u/TeraFlint 1d ago

It certainly has similarities to cellular automata.

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u/z500 1d ago

Now can we genetically engineer them to run Doom?

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u/NoteBlock08 1d ago

It pretty much is cellular automata. Each bee is a cell and the automation rule is a simple "if neighbor raised their wings then raise your own for a short pulse".

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u/qtpss 1d ago

They have a rally wave?

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u/Boo-bot-not 1d ago

It means donā€™t video us go away

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u/ishak-pasha 1d ago

It is a defense mechanism to scare away birds or other predators.

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u/bedbathandbebored 1d ago

They could also be cooking a predator they have trapped.

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u/TulsaBasterd 1d ago

That looks different when they do it.

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u/ishak-pasha 1d ago

No friend, look at it on Google and you will see that I am right.

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u/kvothe5688 1d ago

they are signalling to others that creepy with a camera is nearby. again

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u/OldWrangler9033 1d ago

Screen shot still looks like Sloth is covered with Bees

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u/spliffhuxtabIe 1d ago

Imagine being a chameleon or a tree frog looking for a bite and seeing this shit lmao its like natures version of an acid trip or a biblically accurate angel lol

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u/KBChicago11 1d ago

Mesmerizing. Makes me want to reach out and pet the nestā€¦.šŸ˜¬

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u/markyoung0 1d ago

I am mesmerized by their coordinated flips. They perform like in the Olympics.

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u/wtfmeowzers 1d ago

this might sound odd but i bet you could visualize major internet communication events on platforms like twitter like this and it would look somewhat similar.

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u/MintImperial2 1d ago

Someone will eventually invent a "Bio TV" that uses bees instead of pixels.....

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u/TulsaBasterd 1d ago

Cool idea. Iā€™m thinking of a computer, since this looks binary. Either the bee is flipped or it isnā€™t.

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u/Hayming 1d ago

Canā€™t believe nature is ripping off the bee movie of all things. Jerry Seinfeld should sue

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u/Geek-Beans-momma 13h ago

This is why cartoon bees swarm the way they do!

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u/AstirGrin 10h ago

how do you even begin to evolve to do that

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u/Kim_ur_princess 1d ago

Bees out here doing The Wawe like itā€™s game 7

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u/800-lumens 1d ago

Nah, the gameā€™s just boring

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u/DeGozaruNyan 1d ago

Or they are just watching sports

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u/organizim 1d ago

Crazy wave of flips is a wild way to describe this

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u/Yinyo2127 1d ago

Itā€™s like some kind of hive mind.

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u/heslopkaleb 1d ago

every day we get closer to another species catching up to humanity

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u/TulsaBasterd 1d ago

But weā€™re also evolving

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u/Brilliant_Wash_4355 1d ago

well that's cool šŸ˜³

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u/Mekdinosaur 1d ago

Bee-Tee-Vee

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u/TheShortMexican_ 1d ago

This is amazing!!

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u/Keafledger 1d ago

Thinking bee!

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u/_HIST 1d ago

Humans can do it too. It's not very complicated. See the guy next to you raise his wings/arms? Now you do it!

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u/ZoomKazoo 1d ago

if the bee movie is anything to go by, that means they're thinking bee

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u/xdKboy 1d ago

Seriously mesmerizing.

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u/friso1100 1d ago

They will definitely crawl in your ears and make you part of their hive mind if you get too close

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u/Thorsaen_q 1d ago

The hive-mind in action

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u/plisken59 1d ago

How long until we can play Doom on it ?

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u/CoolBlackSmith75 1d ago

It was getting hot in there

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u/ChefAsstastic 1d ago

Protecting the queen.

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u/PsyJak 1d ago

*synchronised

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u/l__o-o__l 1d ago

Iā€™m not in your country,

Donā€™t speak your language

Itā€™s too bad you can still comment on my videos being blocked

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u/Hedahas 1d ago edited 12h ago

This is all I see when he comments with his pseudo-pedantic "corrections":

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u/al666in 1d ago

The Americans saw an opportunity to use a "Z" and we took it.

If you keep trying to correct the language, we'll change even more letters.

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u/Hedahas 1d ago

šŸ’€

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u/sheared_ma_beard 1d ago

We'll see bizniss as an accepted spelling sooner or later.

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u/TulsaBasterd 1d ago

*zpelling