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In a new study announced today, researchers describe how foraging ants act just like the internet.
First, let me explain the internet to the elementary school students and any women who may be browsing this site with their husbands. When a file or message is sent from one computer to another, it uses a protocol (a set of rules) called TCP/IP. The TCP portion is the part we will focus on here.
Suppose you want to send an email to the RNC telling them that you will donate your time and money to get a Godly candidate elected. Your computer breaks the document into a bunch of "packets". Just like real parcels sent through UPS or Fedex or that other service, each packet is wrapped with a label explaining where it came from, where it's going, and so forth.
The packets follow various routes to their destination. As they arrive, the recipient sends a receipt to the sender. Meanwhile, the recipient uses the wrapper info to figure out whether all the packets have arrived, to put them in their correct order, and finally to reassemble the document. Transmission Accomplished!
The best part is the flow control. The sender starts by spraying out some packets and timing how long it takes to get a receipt for them. (Sort of like sending young missionaries to Haiti and Africa and seeing how long it takes them to collect tithes.) If the receipts come quickly, the sender sends more packets at a time. If the receipts come slowly, the sender sends fewer packets at a time (even stopping cold, if necessary). And since there's an ongoing flow of shipments and receipts and timing, the sender can avoid flooding the network but can also avoid letting bandwidth go to waste!
Now here is where the study comes in. Researchers at Leland Stanford Junior University have discovered that Harvester Ants have been using TCP all along. From the press release:
Awesome, no? God is truly great. Obviously, this is a sign from Him that the internet is a tool for his good works. He even told us in the Bible about the internet.:
Wait…what? Did you just see that? Holy Jesus! How awesome is God? The Bible has been telling us about the internet for over 2,000 years! Wow!
Only God and the Holy Bible can make such predictions. Of course, the islamo-fascist mafia will claim their scribbling also predict scientific discoveries made later. But get a load of what they call “predictions”:
The quaran says “Iron was sent to earth by God” [57:25]. Islamists will say that this means that the quaran predicts that iron came to earth from asteroids. WRONG! While iron is a truly powerful substance (Judges 1:19), nothing in the Bible says that iron was “sent” to Earth. Iron was Made in America, baby. Try again, towel-heads!
The quaran also say “The heavens and the earth were one before they were ripped apart. Life started in the water and living things are mostly water.” [21:30] Camel-jockeys say that this predicts the fact that humans are made up of 98% water. However the Bible says no such thing. Humans are, of course, made up of 100% God’s breath and women are made up of 99% rib. (1% is sugar, spice, and everything nice!)
I could go on and on with crazy muslim claims about how their texts predict things that were obvious. But you all know the story. They hate God and America and are wrong. The simple fact of this stunning Biblical prediction of the internet is proof positive that it is the Bible that is the only reliable source of predictions and prophesy. What could be easier to see?
First, let me explain the internet to the elementary school students and any women who may be browsing this site with their husbands. When a file or message is sent from one computer to another, it uses a protocol (a set of rules) called TCP/IP. The TCP portion is the part we will focus on here.
Suppose you want to send an email to the RNC telling them that you will donate your time and money to get a Godly candidate elected. Your computer breaks the document into a bunch of "packets". Just like real parcels sent through UPS or Fedex or that other service, each packet is wrapped with a label explaining where it came from, where it's going, and so forth.
The packets follow various routes to their destination. As they arrive, the recipient sends a receipt to the sender. Meanwhile, the recipient uses the wrapper info to figure out whether all the packets have arrived, to put them in their correct order, and finally to reassemble the document. Transmission Accomplished!
The best part is the flow control. The sender starts by spraying out some packets and timing how long it takes to get a receipt for them. (Sort of like sending young missionaries to Haiti and Africa and seeing how long it takes them to collect tithes.) If the receipts come quickly, the sender sends more packets at a time. If the receipts come slowly, the sender sends fewer packets at a time (even stopping cold, if necessary). And since there's an ongoing flow of shipments and receipts and timing, the sender can avoid flooding the network but can also avoid letting bandwidth go to waste!
Now here is where the study comes in. Researchers at Leland Stanford Junior University have discovered that Harvester Ants have been using TCP all along. From the press release:
…the rate at which harvester ants – which forage for seeds as individuals – leave the nest to search for food corresponds to food availability.
A forager won't return to the nest until it finds food. If seeds are plentiful, foragers return faster, and more ants leave the nest to forage. If, however, ants begin returning empty handed, the search is slowed, and perhaps called off.
…They also found that the ants followed two other phases of TCP. One phase is known as slow start, which describes how a source sends out a large wave of packets at the beginning of a transmission to gauge bandwidth; similarly, when the harvester ants begin foraging, they send out foragers to scope out food availability before scaling up or down the rate of outgoing foragers.
Another protocol, called time-out, occurs when a data transfer link breaks or is disrupted, and the source stops sending packets. Similarly, when foragers are prevented from returning to the nest for more than 20 minutes, no more foragers leave the nest.
A forager won't return to the nest until it finds food. If seeds are plentiful, foragers return faster, and more ants leave the nest to forage. If, however, ants begin returning empty handed, the search is slowed, and perhaps called off.
…They also found that the ants followed two other phases of TCP. One phase is known as slow start, which describes how a source sends out a large wave of packets at the beginning of a transmission to gauge bandwidth; similarly, when the harvester ants begin foraging, they send out foragers to scope out food availability before scaling up or down the rate of outgoing foragers.
Another protocol, called time-out, occurs when a data transfer link breaks or is disrupted, and the source stops sending packets. Similarly, when foragers are prevented from returning to the nest for more than 20 minutes, no more foragers leave the nest.
Psalms 6:6
Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise.
Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise.
Only God and the Holy Bible can make such predictions. Of course, the islamo-fascist mafia will claim their scribbling also predict scientific discoveries made later. But get a load of what they call “predictions”:
The quaran says “Iron was sent to earth by God” [57:25]. Islamists will say that this means that the quaran predicts that iron came to earth from asteroids. WRONG! While iron is a truly powerful substance (Judges 1:19), nothing in the Bible says that iron was “sent” to Earth. Iron was Made in America, baby. Try again, towel-heads!
The quaran also say “The heavens and the earth were one before they were ripped apart. Life started in the water and living things are mostly water.” [21:30] Camel-jockeys say that this predicts the fact that humans are made up of 98% water. However the Bible says no such thing. Humans are, of course, made up of 100% God’s breath and women are made up of 99% rib. (1% is sugar, spice, and everything nice!)
I could go on and on with crazy muslim claims about how their texts predict things that were obvious. But you all know the story. They hate God and America and are wrong. The simple fact of this stunning Biblical prediction of the internet is proof positive that it is the Bible that is the only reliable source of predictions and prophesy. What could be easier to see?
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