It's Weirder Than I Thought! How Cicadas Make Noise (In Ultra Slow Motion) - Smarter Every Day 299
Added 2024-06-02 14:23:09 +0000 UTCComments
A little late to the game here- but THIS IS GREAT! Growing up in flat open Indiana, we talked so much about Cicadas, how noisy they are, and how cool they are. It seemed like every few years we got to rediscover something interesting about them. A few years back I had a neat opportunity to time-lapse one hatching from its shell. I’d love to share that video somehow. It’s a cool, low tech compliment to this video. Right now it’s just living on my Facebook 🤦🏼♂️. Keep up the good work Destin!
Kurtis Moss
2024-06-22 05:28:24 +0000 UTCHere in the UK we don’t have Cicadas. But this made your video no less fascinating. We have grass hoppers but nothing like on the scale in the US. They are no where near as loud or as many in number. Great video.
Robert Thompson
2024-06-19 22:29:56 +0000 UTCTHANKS Destin!!! God bless your servant leadership in teaching us about nature that is all around us!!!
Joe A Powell
2024-06-14 13:27:48 +0000 UTCI’m getting smarter every day ! Thank you for honing our perceptions of the things happening all around us with your high speed videos. I still think your solving of the mystery of the Prince Rupert’s drop of “unbreakable glass” is the best teaching tool for explaining the benefits of residual compressive surface stresses. We are applying the same principles to Martensitic steel heat treating metallurgies by using the teachings from the DANTE Solutions FEA modeling tools. The DANTE models enable the heat treater for the first time to “see” the thermal expansion and shrinkage in the metal’s grain structure in “real time” and then to optimize the heat transfers to make higher levels of beneficial residual compressive surface stresses in the part during quench cooling that remain after tempering … “super-strengthening” a given part mass and making the distortion predictable so it can be managed in the green size to Quench2FIT.
Joe A Powell
2024-06-14 13:26:13 +0000 UTCFirst off the cicadas throughout in your office were great. It gave me an early morning chuckle that was very needed. I was curious, maybe my adhd led me astray but was it ever discussed the differences in frequency coming from the same organ? Is it vibrating in two frequencies or are the two organs with the hollow echo chamber only responsible for the sound we all regularly recognize? Here in central NC we had the 13 year brood this year and it was insane. Similar to your video, I could hear both frequencies. I have tinnitus from a trauma that left me with a chronic CSF leak so its off the charts at times and the lower frequency (the railroad car ) was driving me off the walls the past few weeks. They have all gone almost as of now so that's good news at least. Keep up the good content bud!
Adam Edmundson
2024-06-08 01:09:04 +0000 UTCagreed! very fun. Makes me feel a little smarter everyday, lol
bill miller
2024-06-07 18:58:30 +0000 UTCThis was incredibly fun to watch Destin, great work!
Adrian Waldron
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Smarter Every Day
2024-06-06 16:01:39 +0000 UTCThis reminds me of your video on a mantis shrimp. It looks like you could try to recreate this sound using a flexible soda straw.
Travis Boop
2024-06-05 14:06:20 +0000 UTCDestin, Consider my observation. In the first weeks after the cicadas shed their exoskeletons, the only sound I noticed was the lower frequency sound from the immature "soft" cicadas. As the season continued on, the higher-frequency sound emerged & became more prevalent. I postulated from this observation that the lower frequency sound came from the softer, less mature cicadas, and the higher frequency sound came from the more mature, hardened cicadas. I appreciate your thoughts on this. Thanks for what you do for us!
Robert Keiser
2024-06-04 20:15:58 +0000 UTCI would love slow motion files.
Kevin H Capone
2024-06-04 01:11:26 +0000 UTCHey Destin. I downloaded a spectrum analyzer app for my phone. I'm located in the Chicago suburbs and whatever brood this is I'm only seeing the higher frequencies and not the peak lower down. Edited to add: the amplitude is synchronized too - every 5 or so seconds it reaches a peak. I don't remember if you mentioned this in the video or not.
David Pickard
2024-06-03 20:53:15 +0000 UTCHey Rick, I seem to be able to watch the video in fullscreen mode using the Patreon app. Could you maybe try again? Do you see the fullscreen mode button in the video player? It's usually in the lower right corner
Samuel Hatton
2024-06-03 20:30:30 +0000 UTCMakes me think of those accordion style expandable plastic containers and tubing. They make a similar popping sound when expanding and contracting.
J L
2024-06-03 18:14:13 +0000 UTCThis is why I started supporting Smarter Every Day. You are an amazing man, Destin. I laughed out loud the first time a cicada started crawling on your shirt. You are so clever and quietly hilarious. Psalm 96 was a perfect chapter to end the video with. I've never met you, but I love you. Thanks for making these videos all these year.
Sean T Maguire
2024-06-03 13:58:02 +0000 UTCI really look forward to the resolution of this, I hope an academic paper is made along with Destin. Explaining my enthusiasm for this is difficult lol some wild Alabama engineer has this thing for these bugs right... lost most people right there. Also I wonder if something special is coming with episode 300. Silly maybe, but I'd love to buy/support something to celebrate the occasion. Think about it 300 episodes of multi layered deep dives into science and engineering. When Nasa made their decision and you made yours, even if we take away the learning, just the respectful human interaction is something I think we all enjoy, and it shows light. From dark ops rooms of subs to dark rooms in Finland. Friggin awesome.
Luke G
2024-06-03 06:49:41 +0000 UTCThe wobbles remind me of a symbol wobbling and the sound that the wobble produces is different than the note initially produced when struck.
Steven Arterburn
2024-06-03 01:12:33 +0000 UTCThe slowmo is amazing and it sounds like you are shuffling a deck of cards.
Timothy Thiele
2024-06-03 00:58:54 +0000 UTCIt would be nice if you could post your videos to Patreon in a format that allows the Patreon subscriber using the Patreon app to view in full-screen mode. Since your videos are uploaded to Patreon or linked to YouTube from Patreon, full-screen mode is not offered. If I follow the Patreon link to YouTube, I can select full-screen but now I am interrupted by YouTube advertisements. I have viewed other Patreon providers’ videos from the Patreon app in full-screen mode. Please consider changing your methods to accommodate full-screen mode in the Patreon app. Thanks. I love your videos!
Rick Gonzales
2024-06-03 00:32:12 +0000 UTCwe need a betting pool. is the transporter noise the sound of the wiggle, the reset or some weird overtone
Inco
2024-06-02 19:17:05 +0000 UTCI thought the cicadas were too loud in the video. So then I paused it and realized they decided to move into the tree next to my house 🥲🤧
Jonathan Boring
2024-06-02 18:54:21 +0000 UTCalso, the cicadas crawling on you are totally giving me the heebie jeebies.... lol
Deanna C
2024-06-02 18:06:44 +0000 UTCI wonder how deep fried cicadas taste compared to deep fried crickets (I could not resist with the "NO CICADAS WERE EATEN IN THE PRODUCTION OF THIS VIDEO." tag in the video)
Elmer Fud
2024-06-02 17:58:04 +0000 UTCSuch a cool video! Psalm 96 is such a great chapter for this video! Great choice! Specifically verse 12: "Let the field exult, and everything in it! Then shall the trees of the forest sing for joy..." Love the work you do Destin! Semper admove ante
Nate Dunlap
2024-06-02 17:54:59 +0000 UTCAlso, they live around trees according to the.ecologist who did that forest preserve presentation. Farmland without trees tend to have fewer cicadas.
Deanna C
2024-06-02 17:53:17 +0000 UTCYou have the 13 year cicada. I believe Brood 19. I have the 17 year ones here in Chicago. Brood 13. The two broods are overlapping in central Illinois. The southern brood is the largest. The shells are the exo-skeletons. Here is a great video on the life cycle of the cicada from my local forest preserve district. https://youtu.be/-SmnXlpWmLg?si=6D1jGbQb9zay94i9
Deanna C
2024-06-02 17:51:29 +0000 UTCThe slow-mo video is awesome. Since you know the framerate and the playback speed, you can directly map the tymbal movement to frequency with a little math.
Rob Windsor
2024-06-02 17:08:33 +0000 UTCSo friggin' cool. I had a science teacher in high school that would be geeking out right now. He used to tell us about cool insects especially, like the Bombardier beetle, then exclaim, "Now tell me there's no God!?" ha He'd love this.
Renmeleon
2024-06-02 16:45:02 +0000 UTCI thought the same thing.
Fredi Reiher
2024-06-02 16:00:57 +0000 UTCWould love it if you were able to make the audio capture samples available for download to review. Also the slow motion capture to compare against. Not an entomologist but am interested.
HappyHeuristic
2024-06-02 15:54:49 +0000 UTCThat is so cool. Did you hear about the rare Blue eyed one that was found in Indiana or Illinois? I think the 17 year brood is in Indiana and Illinois.
Nashguy207
2024-06-02 15:31:09 +0000 UTCReference the conversation at around the 17 minutes mark... My observation is that it looks like similar action you get from a bendy straw bending or extending.
Jeff Allmond
2024-06-02 15:03:06 +0000 UTCMore Coast Guard coming or is the series closed?
Edward Burton
2024-06-02 14:29:42 +0000 UTCFinally! Thank you!
Edward Burton
2024-06-02 14:28:43 +0000 UTC
