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Hargy89
The honeycomb shape is geometrically perfect for the job - it uses the least amount of wax for the maximum storage space.
Revergo
Jerry Seinfeld approves
dinosaurakadinosaur
thats weird somehow
gnarledhalo
ProxyPlayerHD
Bees = German
AleksandrBlazkowicz
Why do I hear this in Abathur's voice?
TridentRFC
Cookie1997
Bees and Germans think alike
myhumblecontribution
"Design must be simple. Elegant. [...] Flaws reveal potential. Always improving. Good." -Abathur
1414145691
In the past bee hives must have had all sorts of whacky hole shapes and those bees that built them died out with only hexagon-bees surviving
morgan0073
How would they make it round anyway, wouldn't be easier to just fill in the gaps
757packerfan
They actually do make them round and gravity pulls them together and creates the hexagons
squirrelrubbinghisnips
Actually the comb pattern is by accident, it is made round but physics and math makes it hexagrams, it happens with bubbles and rocks too
DittoDruid
I just hear Abathur in my head when I read this/
Unipopcorn
One of my ME teacher told us "the most optimal design? Observe nature. Everything evolved from millions years of optimization"
JudgementalMan
Hell no, nature is not optimized. Sure you get a few cool examples here and there, but natural selection does not optimize.
jeston42
Am I the only one bothered by the fact that this is a picture of a FLY?
KingOfTheImgurians
Hexagons are the bestagons.
MayorMcWeed
I read this in Johnny Five’s voice
docmarblerunnerbill
Allways upvote short circuit references
brainroast
Looks like the bee is just dreaming of cigarettes.
FuckingODYSSEY
You mean... Cigarette Daydreams?
Tassyr
He's trying to quit, okay? Give him a break.
trigonman3
GENTLEMEN
NinjasInPajamasAteMyToast
Me too, bee... (no not really)
uffuff
Wait, they aren't?
toxicchili
They probably are, they got addicted to the beekeepers smoker.
fskn
That was my first thought. Ever, in my life.
MemedtheStableBoy
IStoleALoafOfBread
so....bees are german?
Feyhao
Abathur would be proud
[deleted]
Satherian
"Improvise. Adapt. Overcome."
quadZe
ZERG LEMONADE
cryptonat
Honeycomb shapes are made by accident. The bees actually make cylinders. The wax moves reach the most energy stable state, becomes hexagons.
You can emulate this by adding similar soap bubbles next to each other.
ImgurCouncilOfLlamas
According to all known laws of geometry...
StartedAtTheBottomNeverLeft
manowar669
It's hip to bee square.
PunsThatMakeYouRuns
Bees actually do make theirs combs round, then gravity and friction start to take their toll and forces them to become hexagons to fill in
due to the heat of buzzing bees they kinda melt and combine into hexagons
Saw this on the nature documentary on netflix
AyeDuddits
Go Pack Go
GoldFrieza
Which one? There are a lot
Sakabashira
Bees, the original OCD.
MrDrProfScientist
OC-Bee... haha okay. Time to die.
Nalianna
i prefer CDO. It's the same as OCD, but the letters are arranged alphabetically, in the correct damn order.
quattroformaggix4
Hahahah
Oooh, I missed an ‘a’ at the end there. Redo. Hahahaha
Sauroctonus
And now the words they stand for are grammatically incorrect, which is worse.
Compulsive Disorder - Obsessive.
pinatafarmer
OG OCD
Speldrawng
OG OCD B
usersubbordercontrol
it's an OG OCD B, SEE?
2BEE or !2BEE
For programmers, that's FFEE.
IamMadeOfShamrocks
Nature is full of awesome design and engineering. Spiders' webs, beaver dams and lodges, puffer fish circles, termite mounds, birds' nests..
BitchButcher
human's memes...
krownd
boobs
EmanonInverse
We didn't light the fire!
shhep
Nature is like Stalin. Kill basically anyone you can, rest will come up with some crazy useful tech, eventually.
joedirty1
..your mom's milkshake
eroso
Not to mention human houses
Tarlon
Unlike Humans, they've had hundreds of millions of years to perfect their craft.
hofbrauhauss
....obtuse, rubber goose, green moose, guava juice. Giant snake, birthday cake, large fries, chocolate shake
Dominomotion8
The vagina
PyroAvok
Blue skies, bouncy springs, we just named a few awesome things. A Nobel prize, a piece of string, You know what's awesome? Everything!
pchong03
Including that one pufferfish that wrote send nudes
ctzn07
the math behind tree branch and flower petal angles is fascinating
DownVoteVerifier
Settle down Don burke
NyanDroid
Some WEB design going on there
PunjabiMacgyver
i'm all about mounds and beavers yo
Imnogod
Human houses
agumonkey
then there's https://imgur.com/kwnZxzc
WarmGlowingWarmingGlow
: \
it's biologically interesting, apparently eyes are on both sides at birth, but later one migrates ...
ThisMeansALot
Bukukkae
override367
R'lyeh
rockycoolcatjr
I thought it said thermite mounds
ChilledOutEntertainer
Extended phenotypes!
JadeMcLeod
Giant snake, birthday cake, large fries, chocolate shake.
Elbowdeepinabeepbeepsheep
Obtuse, rubber goose, green moose, guava juice.
steve714
Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnnie Ray South Pacific, Walter Winchell, Joe DiMaggio
NotTheSharpestSpoonInTheDrawer
IIIIIT'S THE END OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT! AND I FEEL FINE!
Gayforbae
I think you fucked up the spoken word section of Vogue....
MayorDeweyMayorDewey
ryan started the fire
qolume
ROY MOORE! YOU FORGOT ROY MOORE!
DoubleSecretAgent
And there's fire burning fire burning on the dance floor
WeylandYutaniCorp
We don't need no water, let the mfr burn. Burn mfr. Burn.
HaggisBaconAndIrnBru
Odd parents! Fairy god parents, wand and wings, little crowny things...
RogueLanguageModel
motherfucking magnets, how do they work...
Trogglehumper
What else do I have to say....
shamoii
Sunflower, 3 to the Right, 4 to the Left, Rainbow
bazookasoup
Knees weak, arms spaghetti.
evilgendo
I said it I meant it I broke my mama's credit sock me in the stomach 5 more times
arms are heavy, mom's spaghetti
DetectiveSherlockHolmes
Arms are spaghetti, mom's heavy
Knees spaghetti, arms spaghetti. Spaghetti spaghetti. Call the bondulance
AntLionBlack
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzH8TNjkG94
millenniumfalcor
Hotel? Trivago.
ElbowDeepInACat
This whole website is on crack
iamwang
...yo mama's ass
Poodlebrain
...yo papa's vulva
TachyonCode
The sad thing is, a lot of this is simply the result of natural forces, like chemical interactions and gravity, manifesting their influence.
So how much of this is the work of actual intelligence is unlikely to ever be perfectly clear.
All the examples were of complex things animals made deliberately. Not sure what you're referring to...?
2) So the question is, why do bees all produce that particular shape? Are there artists and engineers among bees, or just clever machines?
5) doing nothing but what their bodies are naturally built to incline them to do. So what I am saying is, there are two types of "makers" in
The structure of a honeycomb is maintained primarily by the chemical bonds used to produce it; the bees just produce the initial shape.
3) An equally-phrased question: when grocers stack fruit on the shelf, are they just doing what appears to work, or are they engineering it?
4) Some animals must actually study and learn in order to optimize designs they make out of found objects, while others seem predisposed to
6) the animal kingdom, and only one of them seems to be intelligent past a certain point.
7) The other, then, simply exploits natural principles to create its designs, and may not even be conscious of its efforts.
Whether by instinct or intelligence, the 'natural force' here is the animals' work. It's not atoms bonding or trees falling down.
Well, not being made of trees, I can say their falls have nothing to do with it. But everything has to do with atoms bonding, on some level.
2) I suppose you could say my curiosity is more observational. Popular notions about animal intelligence are sadly very ignorant.
ShirouBlue
Human's creations are part of nature itself, why people still ignore that?
If you include all of man's creations as "nature" then the term "artificial" has no meaning at all.
ameriki
Men build things. Then we die. It's in our *** DNA! That's what we do! And when it all falls down... We build it right back up again.
2 But this time bigger. Better! Look! Look what we can do. Look how *** beautiful we are.
3 You think the men that built all this had it easy? Hard men! Doing hard ***! And that gives me a hard-on!
Lamech777
AMERIKI, FUCK YEAH! GUNNA COMMENT ON THE MOTHA FUCKIN' POST YEAH
That is a quote from Boondock Saints 2.
NotACop1515IsMyAgeNotACop
Puffer fish circles?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B91tozyQs9M
nanyatenyaa
Nature - you don't think it do, but it do, it do.
BarnibusSwarleyStinson
That's real neat
JunWasHere
It's also full of parasites that do unspeakable things like burrow out of children's eyeballs.
graou13
Slime mold networks
iAML8
Even so, carbon fiber is based on the idea of multiple spider webs layered on top of one another.
filben7
Large Hadron Collider, internet, CRISPR gene editing, smart phones. Dont forget humans are part of nature too.
GnomeEinAim
Net Neutrality. One of man's best creations.
TheGrateLordSibbles
Actually CRISPR is system taken from bacteria
True, and the most complex thing in the universe (that we know of) is the human brain.
I would say the nature of the universe as a whole is more complex.
The nature of the universe is more a question than a thing. I was referring to objects.
Wanderingmaniac
.... According to the human brain
accujimmy
which have been known to lie
The most complex thing in the universe is understanding how antivaxers and flat-earthers survived until now with their level of stupidity.
Crowlands
With the help of all the other people.
42.
raminagrobis
That's just rubbish, lots of things are more complex than a brain. Ecosystems, coastlines, black holes, wind patterns, galaxies, etc.
Depends on your metrics. I mean complexity in terms of function. Consciousness is the ultimate complex function.
You typing out that sentence exhibits more complexity than any ecosystem, coastline or wind pattern could ever display.
Not at all. Granted, our language is the most complex of the animal kingdom, but the complexity of the task does not imply that of the tool.
4. atoms. You may need to know that the quote about the brain being the most complex thing was made by psychiatrists, not scientists.
2. Our brain is only a big circuit board that can and will be replicated artificially, then surpassed. It is a marvelous one but only made
3. of about 100 billion neurons. Lots of systems in the universe are made of many more items than that. A single neuron is made of far more
Fairly sure society is exponentially more complex than human brain, as far as research goes.
If by society you mean the whole collection of human brains on the planet, then of course, yes. Even two brains are more complex than one.
Depends on what you define a "thing" as. Is society a thing or a collection of things?
Society is the production of behavior and artifacts, and the residue thereof, as a product of relationships and needs.
IZ42
Yes
Says the human brain. That thing is totally lying to us. If anything I would say the internet including phones would beat it.
heartofimpetus
The internet is basically optimized smoke signals on a basic level, just because it's big doesn't mean it's complex.
The internet was created by human intelligence. It is a mere toy compared to the organ that invented it.
umpbumpfizz
But it wasn’t one single brain that invented it. If you count the content it’s MILLIONS of brains. No one single brain could product it.
Noaaaa
I don't think the internet being created by the human brain necessarily means that it's less complex
GadenKerensky
I love the honeycomb pattern; not only does it make something look advanced or high-tech, but structurally speaking, it's incredibly useful.
Treblaine
I like it because it reminds me of sweet sweet honey.
maskedhobo
I've always noticed that too. If you want something to look high tech, make sure to have the logo and other items contain hexagons.
Or even a surface be covered in noticeable or subtle hexagons.
DorthLous
Max area per vertice in a repeating limited tiled pattern. Useful when the area matter differs from the vertice one.
GingerLaird
I wonder if bees create the pattern, or if it's just a natural shape of circular beeswax tubes being tightly pressed against each other.
clnoy
It's the latter. It occurs in 2d (circles becoming hexagons) and 3d (spheres becoming truncated octohedra). All about physics.
Zahnradfee
Graphene has a honeycomb-pattern. "Graphene is the strongest material ever tested, with an intrinsic tensile strength of 130.5 GPa and a >
flavivsaetivs
Carbyne's actually stronger. It's something like five times that.
Young's modulus of 1 TPa (150000000 psi)." Bees know about high-tech.
mondanmondan
Man I only had a 2.8 gpa
TheGame364
Upon 4 or 5?
TristanBomb
That stands for gigapascals, a unit of pressure. For reference, atmospheric pressure is 100 kPa, or 1305000 times less!
Unravelled
I think he was just making a joke
Haha. Yeah. A joke..
Falanxzealot
However, due to the thermal equilibrium of defects, large samples can't even come within severla order of magnitude of that.
nclu
So... no graphene space elevator
1.) It is unlikely. We keep hearing of ever greater incremental improvements in nanotubes, but the reality is, the strongest sample above
2.) 2 *millimetres* in length is about half the strength of ultra high strength steels we can make in several inch section.
We're working on it, but in the meanwhile it's great for electronics. I worked with Supercapacitors based off of Graphene.
I know we are. But the thing about thermodynamics is its limits tend to be very hard. It has micro applications aplenty. Just no big ones
Yeah unfortunately. Allegedly a scientist in Cali figured out how do it by using that method of growing it on sheets of copper.
I'm curious, why exactly was this downvoted?
But I haven't seen any follow up to that.
DJNinja
The hexagon is the strongest natural shape. Devil's post pile, bug eyes, and honeycombs. All hexagons and it doesn't stop there.
Triangles called. They'd like a three-sided word.
CottonTShirtz
Hexagonal lattices are also the optimal 'Centroidal Voronoi Tessellation' in 2D. (2/2)
Triangular and hexagonal lattices are duals of each other with the hexagonal lattices taking less material. (1/2)
EE10000
I don't think there are any natural triangles, though?
NickRivieraMD
there are things that are pretty close based on a google image search. maybe the points are too susceptible to breakage
BurgerAndCries
Mountains
TobiOfTheAkatsuki
Mountains are cone-shaped you ninny.
Hargy89
The honeycomb shape is geometrically perfect for the job - it uses the least amount of wax for the maximum storage space.
Revergo
Jerry Seinfeld approves
dinosaurakadinosaur
thats weird somehow
gnarledhalo
ProxyPlayerHD
Bees = German
AleksandrBlazkowicz
Why do I hear this in Abathur's voice?
TridentRFC
Cookie1997
Bees and Germans think alike
myhumblecontribution
"Design must be simple. Elegant. [...] Flaws reveal potential. Always improving. Good." -Abathur
1414145691
In the past bee hives must have had all sorts of whacky hole shapes and those bees that built them died out with only hexagon-bees surviving
morgan0073
How would they make it round anyway, wouldn't be easier to just fill in the gaps
757packerfan
They actually do make them round and gravity pulls them together and creates the hexagons
squirrelrubbinghisnips
Actually the comb pattern is by accident, it is made round but physics and math makes it hexagrams, it happens with bubbles and rocks too
DittoDruid
I just hear Abathur in my head when I read this/
Unipopcorn
One of my ME teacher told us "the most optimal design? Observe nature. Everything evolved from millions years of optimization"
JudgementalMan
Hell no, nature is not optimized. Sure you get a few cool examples here and there, but natural selection does not optimize.
jeston42
Am I the only one bothered by the fact that this is a picture of a FLY?
KingOfTheImgurians
Hexagons are the bestagons.
MayorMcWeed
I read this in Johnny Five’s voice
docmarblerunnerbill
Allways upvote short circuit references
brainroast
Looks like the bee is just dreaming of cigarettes.
FuckingODYSSEY
You mean... Cigarette Daydreams?
Tassyr
He's trying to quit, okay? Give him a break.
trigonman3
GENTLEMEN
NinjasInPajamasAteMyToast
JudgementalMan
Me too, bee... (no not really)
uffuff
Wait, they aren't?
toxicchili
They probably are, they got addicted to the beekeepers smoker.
fskn
That was my first thought. Ever, in my life.
MemedtheStableBoy
IStoleALoafOfBread
so....bees are german?
Feyhao
Abathur would be proud
[deleted]
[deleted]
Satherian
"Improvise. Adapt. Overcome."
quadZe
ZERG LEMONADE
cryptonat
Honeycomb shapes are made by accident. The bees actually make cylinders. The wax moves reach the most energy stable state, becomes hexagons.
cryptonat
You can emulate this by adding similar soap bubbles next to each other.
ImgurCouncilOfLlamas
According to all known laws of geometry...
StartedAtTheBottomNeverLeft
manowar669
It's hip to bee square.
PunsThatMakeYouRuns
docmarblerunnerbill
757packerfan
Bees actually do make theirs combs round, then gravity and friction start to take their toll and forces them to become hexagons to fill in
ProxyPlayerHD
due to the heat of buzzing bees they kinda melt and combine into hexagons
757packerfan
Saw this on the nature documentary on netflix
AyeDuddits
Go Pack Go
GoldFrieza
Which one? There are a lot
Sakabashira
Bees, the original OCD.
MrDrProfScientist
OC-Bee... haha okay. Time to die.
Nalianna
i prefer CDO. It's the same as OCD, but the letters are arranged alphabetically, in the correct damn order.
quattroformaggix4
Hahahah
quattroformaggix4
Oooh, I missed an ‘a’ at the end there. Redo. Hahahaha
Sauroctonus
And now the words they stand for are grammatically incorrect, which is worse.
Nalianna
Compulsive Disorder - Obsessive.
pinatafarmer
OG OCD
Speldrawng
OG OCD B
usersubbordercontrol
it's an OG OCD B, SEE?
docmarblerunnerbill
2BEE or !2BEE
Speldrawng
For programmers, that's FFEE.
IamMadeOfShamrocks
Nature is full of awesome design and engineering. Spiders' webs, beaver dams and lodges, puffer fish circles, termite mounds, birds' nests..
BitchButcher
human's memes...
krownd
boobs
EmanonInverse
We didn't light the fire!
shhep
Nature is like Stalin. Kill basically anyone you can, rest will come up with some crazy useful tech, eventually.
joedirty1
..your mom's milkshake
eroso
Not to mention human houses
Tarlon
Unlike Humans, they've had hundreds of millions of years to perfect their craft.
hofbrauhauss
....obtuse, rubber goose, green moose, guava juice. Giant snake, birthday cake, large fries, chocolate shake
Dominomotion8
The vagina
PyroAvok
Blue skies, bouncy springs, we just named a few awesome things. A Nobel prize, a piece of string, You know what's awesome? Everything!
pchong03
Including that one pufferfish that wrote send nudes
ctzn07
the math behind tree branch and flower petal angles is fascinating
DownVoteVerifier
Settle down Don burke
NyanDroid
Some WEB design going on there
PunjabiMacgyver
i'm all about mounds and beavers yo
Imnogod
Human houses
agumonkey
then there's https://imgur.com/kwnZxzc
WarmGlowingWarmingGlow
: \
agumonkey
it's biologically interesting, apparently eyes are on both sides at birth, but later one migrates ...
ThisMeansALot
Bukukkae
override367
R'lyeh
rockycoolcatjr
I thought it said thermite mounds
ChilledOutEntertainer
Extended phenotypes!
JadeMcLeod
Giant snake, birthday cake, large fries, chocolate shake.
Elbowdeepinabeepbeepsheep
Obtuse, rubber goose, green moose, guava juice.
steve714
Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnnie Ray South Pacific, Walter Winchell, Joe DiMaggio
NotTheSharpestSpoonInTheDrawer
IIIIIT'S THE END OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT! AND I FEEL FINE!
Gayforbae
I think you fucked up the spoken word section of Vogue....
MayorDeweyMayorDewey
ryan started the fire
qolume
ROY MOORE! YOU FORGOT ROY MOORE!
DoubleSecretAgent
And there's fire burning fire burning on the dance floor
WeylandYutaniCorp
We don't need no water, let the mfr burn. Burn mfr. Burn.
HaggisBaconAndIrnBru
Odd parents! Fairy god parents, wand and wings, little crowny things...
RogueLanguageModel
motherfucking magnets, how do they work...
Trogglehumper
What else do I have to say....
shamoii
Sunflower, 3 to the Right, 4 to the Left, Rainbow
bazookasoup
Knees weak, arms spaghetti.
evilgendo
IamMadeOfShamrocks
arms are heavy, mom's spaghetti
DetectiveSherlockHolmes
Arms are spaghetti, mom's heavy
bazookasoup
Knees spaghetti, arms spaghetti. Spaghetti spaghetti. Call the bondulance
AntLionBlack
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzH8TNjkG94
millenniumfalcor
Hotel? Trivago.
ElbowDeepInACat
This whole website is on crack
iamwang
...yo mama's ass
Poodlebrain
...yo papa's vulva
TachyonCode
The sad thing is, a lot of this is simply the result of natural forces, like chemical interactions and gravity, manifesting their influence.
TachyonCode
So how much of this is the work of actual intelligence is unlikely to ever be perfectly clear.
IamMadeOfShamrocks
All the examples were of complex things animals made deliberately. Not sure what you're referring to...?
TachyonCode
2) So the question is, why do bees all produce that particular shape? Are there artists and engineers among bees, or just clever machines?
TachyonCode
5) doing nothing but what their bodies are naturally built to incline them to do. So what I am saying is, there are two types of "makers" in
TachyonCode
The structure of a honeycomb is maintained primarily by the chemical bonds used to produce it; the bees just produce the initial shape.
TachyonCode
3) An equally-phrased question: when grocers stack fruit on the shelf, are they just doing what appears to work, or are they engineering it?
TachyonCode
4) Some animals must actually study and learn in order to optimize designs they make out of found objects, while others seem predisposed to
TachyonCode
6) the animal kingdom, and only one of them seems to be intelligent past a certain point.
TachyonCode
7) The other, then, simply exploits natural principles to create its designs, and may not even be conscious of its efforts.
IamMadeOfShamrocks
Whether by instinct or intelligence, the 'natural force' here is the animals' work. It's not atoms bonding or trees falling down.
TachyonCode
Well, not being made of trees, I can say their falls have nothing to do with it. But everything has to do with atoms bonding, on some level.
TachyonCode
2) I suppose you could say my curiosity is more observational. Popular notions about animal intelligence are sadly very ignorant.
ShirouBlue
Human's creations are part of nature itself, why people still ignore that?
IamMadeOfShamrocks
If you include all of man's creations as "nature" then the term "artificial" has no meaning at all.
ameriki
Men build things. Then we die. It's in our *** DNA! That's what we do! And when it all falls down... We build it right back up again.
ameriki
2 But this time bigger. Better! Look! Look what we can do. Look how *** beautiful we are.
ameriki
3 You think the men that built all this had it easy? Hard men! Doing hard ***! And that gives me a hard-on!
Lamech777
AMERIKI, FUCK YEAH! GUNNA COMMENT ON THE MOTHA FUCKIN' POST YEAH
ameriki
That is a quote from Boondock Saints 2.
NotACop1515IsMyAgeNotACop
Puffer fish circles?
IamMadeOfShamrocks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B91tozyQs9M
nanyatenyaa
Nature - you don't think it do, but it do, it do.
BarnibusSwarleyStinson
That's real neat
JunWasHere
It's also full of parasites that do unspeakable things like burrow out of children's eyeballs.
graou13
Slime mold networks
iAML8
Even so, carbon fiber is based on the idea of multiple spider webs layered on top of one another.
filben7
Large Hadron Collider, internet, CRISPR gene editing, smart phones. Dont forget humans are part of nature too.
GnomeEinAim
Net Neutrality. One of man's best creations.
TheGrateLordSibbles
Actually CRISPR is system taken from bacteria
IamMadeOfShamrocks
True, and the most complex thing in the universe (that we know of) is the human brain.
DetectiveSherlockHolmes
I would say the nature of the universe as a whole is more complex.
IamMadeOfShamrocks
The nature of the universe is more a question than a thing. I was referring to objects.
Wanderingmaniac
.... According to the human brain
accujimmy
which have been known to lie
graou13
The most complex thing in the universe is understanding how antivaxers and flat-earthers survived until now with their level of stupidity.
Crowlands
With the help of all the other people.
accujimmy
42.
raminagrobis
That's just rubbish, lots of things are more complex than a brain. Ecosystems, coastlines, black holes, wind patterns, galaxies, etc.
IamMadeOfShamrocks
Depends on your metrics. I mean complexity in terms of function. Consciousness is the ultimate complex function.
IamMadeOfShamrocks
You typing out that sentence exhibits more complexity than any ecosystem, coastline or wind pattern could ever display.
raminagrobis
Not at all. Granted, our language is the most complex of the animal kingdom, but the complexity of the task does not imply that of the tool.
raminagrobis
4. atoms. You may need to know that the quote about the brain being the most complex thing was made by psychiatrists, not scientists.
raminagrobis
2. Our brain is only a big circuit board that can and will be replicated artificially, then surpassed. It is a marvelous one but only made
raminagrobis
3. of about 100 billion neurons. Lots of systems in the universe are made of many more items than that. A single neuron is made of far more
shhep
Fairly sure society is exponentially more complex than human brain, as far as research goes.
IamMadeOfShamrocks
If by society you mean the whole collection of human brains on the planet, then of course, yes. Even two brains are more complex than one.
IamMadeOfShamrocks
Depends on what you define a "thing" as. Is society a thing or a collection of things?
TachyonCode
Society is the production of behavior and artifacts, and the residue thereof, as a product of relationships and needs.
IZ42
Yes
filben7
Says the human brain. That thing is totally lying to us. If anything I would say the internet including phones would beat it.
heartofimpetus
The internet is basically optimized smoke signals on a basic level, just because it's big doesn't mean it's complex.
IamMadeOfShamrocks
The internet was created by human intelligence. It is a mere toy compared to the organ that invented it.
umpbumpfizz
But it wasn’t one single brain that invented it. If you count the content it’s MILLIONS of brains. No one single brain could product it.
Noaaaa
I don't think the internet being created by the human brain necessarily means that it's less complex
GadenKerensky
I love the honeycomb pattern; not only does it make something look advanced or high-tech, but structurally speaking, it's incredibly useful.
Treblaine
I like it because it reminds me of sweet sweet honey.
maskedhobo
I've always noticed that too. If you want something to look high tech, make sure to have the logo and other items contain hexagons.
GadenKerensky
Or even a surface be covered in noticeable or subtle hexagons.
DorthLous
Max area per vertice in a repeating limited tiled pattern. Useful when the area matter differs from the vertice one.
GingerLaird
I wonder if bees create the pattern, or if it's just a natural shape of circular beeswax tubes being tightly pressed against each other.
clnoy
It's the latter. It occurs in 2d (circles becoming hexagons) and 3d (spheres becoming truncated octohedra). All about physics.
Zahnradfee
Graphene has a honeycomb-pattern. "Graphene is the strongest material ever tested, with an intrinsic tensile strength of 130.5 GPa and a >
flavivsaetivs
Carbyne's actually stronger. It's something like five times that.
Zahnradfee
Young's modulus of 1 TPa (150000000 psi)." Bees know about high-tech.
mondanmondan
Man I only had a 2.8 gpa
TheGame364
Upon 4 or 5?
TristanBomb
That stands for gigapascals, a unit of pressure. For reference, atmospheric pressure is 100 kPa, or 1305000 times less!
Unravelled
I think he was just making a joke
mondanmondan
Haha. Yeah. A joke..
Falanxzealot
However, due to the thermal equilibrium of defects, large samples can't even come within severla order of magnitude of that.
nclu
So... no graphene space elevator
Falanxzealot
1.) It is unlikely. We keep hearing of ever greater incremental improvements in nanotubes, but the reality is, the strongest sample above
Falanxzealot
2.) 2 *millimetres* in length is about half the strength of ultra high strength steels we can make in several inch section.
flavivsaetivs
We're working on it, but in the meanwhile it's great for electronics. I worked with Supercapacitors based off of Graphene.
Falanxzealot
I know we are. But the thing about thermodynamics is its limits tend to be very hard. It has micro applications aplenty. Just no big ones
flavivsaetivs
Yeah unfortunately. Allegedly a scientist in Cali figured out how do it by using that method of growing it on sheets of copper.
Falanxzealot
I'm curious, why exactly was this downvoted?
flavivsaetivs
But I haven't seen any follow up to that.
DJNinja
The hexagon is the strongest natural shape. Devil's post pile, bug eyes, and honeycombs. All hexagons and it doesn't stop there.
Falanxzealot
Triangles called. They'd like a three-sided word.
CottonTShirtz
Hexagonal lattices are also the optimal 'Centroidal Voronoi Tessellation' in 2D. (2/2)
CottonTShirtz
Triangular and hexagonal lattices are duals of each other with the hexagonal lattices taking less material. (1/2)
EE10000
I don't think there are any natural triangles, though?
NickRivieraMD
there are things that are pretty close based on a google image search. maybe the points are too susceptible to breakage
BurgerAndCries
Mountains
TobiOfTheAkatsuki
Mountains are cone-shaped you ninny.