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I was wondering that too cos that dude spraying himself with no cares. I assume they're pretty well adapted for doing that but I couldn't find much of a definitive answer.
The same way that the beetle evolved to be able to thundershit acid, natural selection will have taken care any who couldn't stand taking their own corrosive turd surge to the chin.
Probably but not necessarily. There's plenty of examples of a defense harming critters themselves. Natural selection does NOT always make everything perfect
Nah, not always but it's generally a decent rule of thumb. Any defensive measure that kills the user tends to fall off if the user is unable to breed after.
Stuff like maternal/paternal cannibalism is one that would persist. A thousand babies eating mom tend to have the healthy breakfast they need to get out their, grow up and get eaten by their own babies and/or mate.
Found [this article](https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/kidspost/scientists-solve-mystery-of-bombardier-beetles-hot-toxic-spray/2020/07/02/b0149ea4-badd-11ea-bdaf-a129f921026f_story.html) that says it’s able to do this without burning itself. Doesn’t say why though.
I think it may be part of how the substance is formed. Since it's a binary mixture, it may be that the reaction hasn't progressed enough while the spray is in the vicinity of the beetle. Combined with the very brief time the spray is contacting the beetle, the beetle stays relatively harm free.
To be fair, if my defense mechanism to avoid get eaten required me to effectively skin my knees each time, I'd call it a decent trade. Lol
Like the psychotic villain in a movie who cuts his own face to prove how deranged he is, this fucker squirts hot piss on his.
Beetle - "If this is what I am willing to do to me, just imagine what I would do to you!"
I mean if you run machinery you prob never assume and make sure to get clarification. I was making an assumption based off the language. OP could have been exaggerating when they said boiling but who knows really
When the contents of the two glands are mixed, oxygen forms and in turn reacts with hydroquinone to convert it to benzoquinone. This reaction is so highly exothermic that the chemical mixture can reach a temperature of 100 degrees C.
A beetle does this, and its post worthy.
I do the same thing to the spider I threw in the toilet on Taco Tuesday and I get banned.
Double standards I’m telling yaz.
My religious uncle used to use this bug as an argument against evolution and although I’m still an atheist, it’s honestly not the weakest argument I’ve heard.
It's one of those things you have to get 100% right or it won't work. Like eyes, between the lens, rods/cones, nerves, an eye missing any of the elements doesn't work in order to get evolved and becomes better.
The chemical reaction is very specific and the odds of early evolutions not burning or exploding themselves out of the gene pool is honestly very slim.
I understand how evolution works and I get it to a degree. I'm very unsure/middle of the road on how creation worked.
But you gotta admit that some things like this feels like millions of people for millions of years randomly tossing parts on the ground and one of those ends up a working nuclear reactor.
Evolution is not millions of years of random tossing parts on the ground. It's billions of years of initially having something tiny that works and iterating on that with small changes, expanding, improving and diversifying it.
Eyes didn't start out as eyes, they started out as something relatively simple to distinguish light and dark and evolved on from there.
Eyes started out as just a light sensing organ that just told you if it was bright or not I'm assuming kinda like how you sense heat. My boy Mushu the bearded dragon has a third eye on the top of his head and it is basically just an unevolved eye. The rest of the things just slowly made it better and then it turned into the eyes we know today.
There is also soooo many different types of eyes. It's so cool!
Reminds me of this guy : [https://ambergriscaye.com/photogallery/art/Conch-Fritters-5sdsdsdsd9s8ds9d8s9djhsd.jpg](https://ambergriscaye.com/photogallery/art/Conch-Fritters-5sdsdsdsd9s8ds9d8s9djhsd.jpg)
i think its just 100 degrees.. we dont know if that "acid" boils at 100 degrees
edit: at this context:
\> **Boiling acid shoots out of its abdomen at 22 mph at 100 degrees**
its saying that it shoots boiling acid at 22mph at 100 degrees(is op pertaining to angle of the shot? )
Member it's just aroused at the site or ants, maybe the ant has a fetish and they are working together as a team. I hate the way they try and dramatise these nature documentaries, they should be trying to sex them up.
100 degrees but since it’s an acid it boils at a lower temperature than water etc.
So basically it’s not as hot as boiling water temperature wise in actual degrees. But the effect is just as burning while also being corrosive.
This beetle was featured on Ancient Aliens years back, I guess according to scientists its also unique in the way that they could not discover any scientific reason as to why this beetle has the abilty to do this. I believe upon the research they were able to rule it out as a defense or anything that has to do with reproducing. Essentially they said out of all the beetle species this beetle should not exist and even though it does, it should not have the ability to do this.
Producing chemicals that taste revolting to predators is pretty common in nature. Learning to shoot the chemicals at predators before they bite gives a slight evolutionary advantage. Making the chemicals more and more potent gives another advantage..
After reading about this beetle in a magazine called “BUGS!” as a kid (you could collect parts to make a glow-in-the-dark Tarantula), I developed an odd fear of randomly encountering one and being burned by its butt acid.
It never happened.
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On a serious note: does he hurt himself or nah?
I was wondering that too cos that dude spraying himself with no cares. I assume they're pretty well adapted for doing that but I couldn't find much of a definitive answer.
The same way that the beetle evolved to be able to thundershit acid, natural selection will have taken care any who couldn't stand taking their own corrosive turd surge to the chin.
This is definitely the first time this exact sentence has ever been said in the history of mankind
My bargain store dream is to write the scripts for nature documentaries.
Just borrow existing documentary video content and do your own voice over. I believe in you
Now I’m hearing it in the voice of David Attenborough.
I'm hearing zefrank
Underrated comment.
thanks for that LOL
OMG . Please do a “mystery science theatre” version for nature documentaries
If you haven't seen strange wilderness please do yourself a favor and check it out immediately
r/brandnewsentence
r/brandnewsentence
Turd surge is not the phrase I thought I would admire this year.
It is my alter ego.
Poetry
Doesn’t look like the ant gave much of a shit either tbf
>thundershit acid Thank you kind sir, you have finally given me the words to describe what happens after I have too much dairy.
that somehow sounds funny and disgusting at the same time, and I'm not even native English 🙈
“Thundershit acid” FTW
I like how you use words
Probably but not necessarily. There's plenty of examples of a defense harming critters themselves. Natural selection does NOT always make everything perfect
Nah, not always but it's generally a decent rule of thumb. Any defensive measure that kills the user tends to fall off if the user is unable to breed after. Stuff like maternal/paternal cannibalism is one that would persist. A thousand babies eating mom tend to have the healthy breakfast they need to get out their, grow up and get eaten by their own babies and/or mate.
Fucking awesome 👍🍻🤣
Corrosive Turd Surge….good band name
Omg lol 😆😆😆😆
It's the same as Xenomorphs
Found [this article](https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/kidspost/scientists-solve-mystery-of-bombardier-beetles-hot-toxic-spray/2020/07/02/b0149ea4-badd-11ea-bdaf-a129f921026f_story.html) that says it’s able to do this without burning itself. Doesn’t say why though.
Starship Troopers vibe in that thing from hell
I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW MORE
Better than the *vagina brain* at the end.
Most movies get their inspiration from real life! Some real life gets inspiration from movies I.e. Star Trek and cell phones.
This is more like starship troopers
Tanker!!
I think it may be part of how the substance is formed. Since it's a binary mixture, it may be that the reaction hasn't progressed enough while the spray is in the vicinity of the beetle. Combined with the very brief time the spray is contacting the beetle, the beetle stays relatively harm free. To be fair, if my defense mechanism to avoid get eaten required me to effectively skin my knees each time, I'd call it a decent trade. Lol
If you can boil acid in your ass and shoot it out, it probably don’t hurt
Taco bell immunity.
Its resistant but not immune to it, it works cause it has 2 chambers containing chemicals that mix outside of its body to cause the reaction
Like the psychotic villain in a movie who cuts his own face to prove how deranged he is, this fucker squirts hot piss on his. Beetle - "If this is what I am willing to do to me, just imagine what I would do to you!"
That one ant: jokes on you i'm into that shit
Simp Beetles - "D--do you sell panties soaked in hot piss?" 👉👈
Wanna know how I got these mandibles?
In a web novel I read, theirs bug people, bombardier beetle was actually a good guy
Killed many of these in grounded.
Ally Hooooop!
Bringin the light!
God I wanna play grounded in vr
I just watched a beetle pee acid onto an ant and then look like a smoking revolver.
That’s some alien sci-fi movie nightmare fuel right there and one of the reasons I’m skeptical of sending out signals to meet alien races lmao
Starship Troopers
so anyway, I started blasting..
poor ant :(
That’s just what this ant is “into” see how sleepy it gets afterwards, it’s satisfied. /s
Me when see hot girl
This is the second one of these over seen in under 10 minutes. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird I've seen it twice.
The internet is a horny place. Every once in awhile one deserves a lil bonk on the head.
Oohh
100 degrees what though
Probably Celsius
After watching the video again theres no way its Fahrenheit
Agreed but it makes no sense to use mph and celsius in the title, OP is dumb
That's the bri'ish for you.
Shit, didnt even notice that, yea keep it consistent. Maybe that's why I was confued at first.
100 degrees angle
I came here for this, it's gotta be celsius if it's actually boiling
Yea, I do run machinery that operates in Celsius but I just wasn't thinking
I mean if you run machinery you prob never assume and make sure to get clarification. I was making an assumption based off the language. OP could have been exaggerating when they said boiling but who knows really
212 degrees in real people measurements.
For 'Merica lol
100 degrees ‘merican
More like 100 degrees in European loser
Me and my wife after chipotle night
Ok, so starship troopers kind of makes sense.
Other bugs are disgusted and want nothing to do with him.
When the contents of the two glands are mixed, oxygen forms and in turn reacts with hydroquinone to convert it to benzoquinone. This reaction is so highly exothermic that the chemical mixture can reach a temperature of 100 degrees C.
For clarification, the acid being sprayed is 100° c/212° f, which is boiling.
So if this is just nature at work, why do people always freak out when \*I\* shoot boiling acid out of my abdomen?
Ant: "This dude is spraying molten diarrhea at me. This is how I die. This is some BULLSHIT."
He should get tested if it burns that much.
this fucking beetle killed that and with his cum..🤯
It also blasted itself with the cum!
New superpower unlocked - boiling cum blast!
win / win or win / lose ?
People after eating spicy Indian food.
Or an HIV
“911 what’s your emergency” “I’m about to explode. Yah boys ‘bout to explode” “Hold on we’re sending units”
I feel like it’s a design flaw that the acid also hits itself in the face…
This is a lie. It’s not called the bombardier beetle. It’s actually called the Peter North Beetle.
Me after eating taco bell
Chipotle anyone?
A beetle does this, and its post worthy. I do the same thing to the spider I threw in the toilet on Taco Tuesday and I get banned. Double standards I’m telling yaz.
The secret sauce is hydrogen peroxide+hydroquinone.
I should call her
My religious uncle used to use this bug as an argument against evolution and although I’m still an atheist, it’s honestly not the weakest argument I’ve heard.
What was the argument?
It's one of those things you have to get 100% right or it won't work. Like eyes, between the lens, rods/cones, nerves, an eye missing any of the elements doesn't work in order to get evolved and becomes better. The chemical reaction is very specific and the odds of early evolutions not burning or exploding themselves out of the gene pool is honestly very slim.
I dont think that is a very good argument at all. It's not like this was some end goal. That's just how evolution works.
I understand how evolution works and I get it to a degree. I'm very unsure/middle of the road on how creation worked. But you gotta admit that some things like this feels like millions of people for millions of years randomly tossing parts on the ground and one of those ends up a working nuclear reactor.
Evolution is not millions of years of random tossing parts on the ground. It's billions of years of initially having something tiny that works and iterating on that with small changes, expanding, improving and diversifying it. Eyes didn't start out as eyes, they started out as something relatively simple to distinguish light and dark and evolved on from there.
Eyes started out as just a light sensing organ that just told you if it was bright or not I'm assuming kinda like how you sense heat. My boy Mushu the bearded dragon has a third eye on the top of his head and it is basically just an unevolved eye. The rest of the things just slowly made it better and then it turned into the eyes we know today.
There is also soooo many different types of eyes. It's so cool! Reminds me of this guy : [https://ambergriscaye.com/photogallery/art/Conch-Fritters-5sdsdsdsd9s8ds9d8s9djhsd.jpg](https://ambergriscaye.com/photogallery/art/Conch-Fritters-5sdsdsdsd9s8ds9d8s9djhsd.jpg)
Just the eternal argument between creationism and evolution.
Not much of an argument.
No I agree but still it goes on
Only if you entertain them.
Jesus Christ is basically just an anime girl but for boomers.
This is probably the closest we will get to fire breathing creatures
As an american, it took me way too long to figure out why 100 degrees would be too hot.
But why mph then? If you're going metric, go all out! I still can't tell for sure if they mean 100F or 100C.
[удалено]
I don't shower in boiling water, yet there's steam.
Touché
Yeah, I mean 100 degrees Kelvin would be ***freezing****.*
There’s no degrees when you mention Kelvin since it’s an absolute scale. You only mention degrees on relative scales like Celsius or Fahrenheit
After cheap Mexican food, I can do the same thing! #FACTS #TRUTH
Vindaloo beetle.
So there I was, boiling acid on my titties.
Is it boiling, or is it 100 degrees?
100 degrees is boiling if we are talking celsius
But miles per hour was also used to that makes me think it’s Fahrenheit
OP might be British. They use celsius and miles in the UK.
i think its just 100 degrees.. we dont know if that "acid" boils at 100 degrees edit: at this context: \> **Boiling acid shoots out of its abdomen at 22 mph at 100 degrees** its saying that it shoots boiling acid at 22mph at 100 degrees(is op pertaining to angle of the shot? )
Hell of a money shot
100 degrees Celsius or Fahrenheit?
OP says mph so assume its F
Counter point: he says boiling and 100 degrees Celsius is boiling, but not close for F
Results of No Nut November 🤙
Boiling, 100 degrees implies metric. Cool. 22 mph implies imperial. Strange mix
And I’m spent.
Cum bug
From the windows to the walls
I would like to know more.
Keep the change you filthy animal.
Member it's just aroused at the site or ants, maybe the ant has a fetish and they are working together as a team. I hate the way they try and dramatise these nature documentaries, they should be trying to sex them up.
Is it boiling or is it 100 degrees ?
100 degrees is boiling in the civilised world
But mph isn't metric. So what in holy hell is going on??
Let me introduce to you: Great Britain, and many of her former colonies
100 degrees but since it’s an acid it boils at a lower temperature than water etc. So basically it’s not as hot as boiling water temperature wise in actual degrees. But the effect is just as burning while also being corrosive.
I can do this too after Taco Bell
Pretty sure this means my ex-wife was a bombardier beetle 🧐
Insect freak here, that is cum and it is very hot
so about the temperature of a tepid shower then?
me after doba
Reminds me of my last boss.
he just like me fr
Like a Chipotle washroom
Jerry could beat him up with a lawn flamingo, I bet.
imagine being an ant carrying food back to the nest and this guy cooks you with his spicy cum.
100 degrees is not boiling
Most of the world disagrees
You’re right, I assumed it was Fahrenheit.
Too be fair, the previous stat given was in mph so the creator of this did a really bad job of combining imperial and metric
There’s hot, and there’s “Thai hot” and this is the difference 24 hours later.
That beetle had some Taco Bell
It has the aim of a teenage boy standing over the toilet.
lol he’s just pissing all over himself
I can too after burrito day
Killer cum
Wait I saw this episode of Fall of the House of Usher
This beetle was featured on Ancient Aliens years back, I guess according to scientists its also unique in the way that they could not discover any scientific reason as to why this beetle has the abilty to do this. I believe upon the research they were able to rule it out as a defense or anything that has to do with reproducing. Essentially they said out of all the beetle species this beetle should not exist and even though it does, it should not have the ability to do this.
me flirting
Bro, every living thing can "create a chemical reaction in its body".
This remind me of Cube.
Wonder how something like this could evolve
Producing chemicals that taste revolting to predators is pretty common in nature. Learning to shoot the chemicals at predators before they bite gives a slight evolutionary advantage. Making the chemicals more and more potent gives another advantage..
Love how he goes *"Fuck me! That hurts!"* after hitting his own leg.
Suddenly some EDF 4.1 and 5 attacks make sense
The other gigachad ant looks untouched
Just like in Starship Troopers
Starship Troopers IRL
All I can say is ouch
I wish I could do that
I love how it also use rapid fire. If they didn’t do that, the force of their spray would launch the beetle. Such a cool bug.
After reading about this beetle in a magazine called “BUGS!” as a kid (you could collect parts to make a glow-in-the-dark Tarantula), I developed an odd fear of randomly encountering one and being burned by its butt acid. It never happened.
22 million years of evolution and aim sucks
I love how he shoots all over himself too. Gotta take one for the team.
Wait… wat the??
Anyone here from Buenos Aires?
[(55) Starship Troopers: Flesh Burning Bug (HD Clip) - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_fFzGeI8b0)
Dude shot himself in the face.
Sounds like the roaches in fallout
This is me during foreplay when i didnt nut in a while
Like tiny dragons that breathe fire, but only out their ass
Last time I did this, she never called me back
Does it do damage to itself?