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choad · 2010-10-27 05:23:33

I learned the simple method American colonials employed to locate honey by triangulating bee flight paths from two sugar water traps and was stung head to foot for my trouble.

Unless I'm mistaken, the same conclusion took high priced science and centuries.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/oc … g-problems

fnord · 2010-10-27 06:23:55

edit: fixed fnord's ink

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Fled · 2010-10-27 09:12:38

When you think about it, a beehive acts something like a computer or maybe a cloud.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/20 … 121800.htm

Emmeran · 2010-10-27 10:55:35

Fled wrote:
When you think about it, a beehive acts something like a computer or maybe a cloud.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/20 … 121800.htm

Gee, kind of like people.

**Edit: Oh and please don't say "cloud", it makes you sound like a tech wannabe. Fucking tech buzz words should only be used by salesmen and twits, and either get's thrown out of the meeting pronto.

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Fled · 2010-10-27 11:56:47

Emmeran wrote:
Fled wrote:
When you think about it, a beehive acts something like a computer or maybe a cloud.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/20 … 121800.htm
Gee, kind of like people.

**Edit: Oh and please don't say "cloud", it makes you sound like a tech wannabe. Fucking tech buzz words should only be used by salesmen and twits, and either get's thrown out of the meeting pronto.

People are way too autonomous and uncooperative to be compared.

**Edit: Thanks for the gratuitous advice. I am no techie and, if forced into a sales meeting, would be happy to be thrown out.

Emmeran · 2010-10-27 12:14:27

Fled wrote:
People are way too autonomous and uncooperative to be compared.

I'm not so sure, people tend to be very predictable overall and particularly so in their individual tribes; modern technology seems to confirm that more than minimize it

We like to think that we are different, special and individualistic; but mostly we're just boring. Even the social rebels merely switch from the normal tribe to the rebel tribe where they immediately begin to mimic the behavior patterns of the "rebel" tribe (which really are the same behavior patterns of the "normal tribe")

Fled · 2010-10-27 12:21:32

Emmeran wrote:
Fled wrote:
People are way too autonomous and uncooperative to be compared.
I'm not so sure, people tend to be very predictable overall and particularly so in their individual tribes; modern technology seems to confirm that more than minimize it

We like to think that we are different, special and individualistic; but mostly we're just boring. Even the social rebels merely switch from the normal tribe to the rebel tribe where they immediately begin to mimic the behavior patterns of the "rebel" tribe (which really are the same behavior patterns of the "normal tribe")

You have a somewhat more benign view of mankind than I perhaps. We may be predictable, but we don't work together as consistently or effectively as bees. When a bee tells its tribe "turn left at the big rock," the others tend to follow directions. Human responses to the same guidance will vary.

Emmeran · 2010-10-27 15:09:46

Fled wrote:
You have a somewhat more benign view of mankind than I perhaps. We may be predictable, but we don't work together as consistently or effectively as bees. When a bee tells its tribe "turn left at the big rock," the others tend to follow directions. Human responses to the same guidance will vary.

Have you considered that you may be taking a situational view, observed traits in times of abundance can be misleading; I think you would probably observe very little variance in behavior during more demanding times.