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00:00 The bees are being summoned by a secret signal,
00:03 one that causes them to act with a single mind.
00:06 Swarms are made from thousands of organisms,
00:14 but they work by acting as one.
00:17 By understanding the swarm's secret language,
00:27 it's possible to make them do the most extraordinary things.
00:31 100,000 bees are summoned every year.
00:35 They're the first of their kind.
00:38 They're the first of their kind.
00:40 They're the first of their kind.
00:42 They're the first of their kind.
00:44 They're the first of their kind.
00:46 They're the first of their kind.
00:48 They're the first of their kind.
00:50 They're the first of their kind.
00:52 They're the first of their kind.
00:54 They're the first of their kind.
00:56 They're the first of their kind.
00:58 They're the first of their kind.
01:00 100,000 bees cover his body,
01:03 creating a living suit.
01:06 He has such control over the bees,
01:17 he rarely suffers a single step.
01:20 He is a professor of entomology
01:27 and has been studying bees and their communication all his life.
01:31 By covering his body with a pheromone
01:37 that the queen bee uses to control her hive,
01:40 he has them at his command.
01:42 They react by protecting him with their bodies.
01:45 To them, he is the queen bee.
01:57 Using science, he has learned to control what most of us dread,
02:01 and the result is quite disturbing.
02:04 As he brings a swarm into our world,
02:12 people are forced to confront their fears.
02:15 They also see that with knowledge,
02:21 such an incredible force of nature
02:23 can be controlled.
02:26 When swarms invade, we are inevitably separated
02:29 by an invisible barrier created by our different senses and perceptions.
02:34 Swarms may share our world,
02:38 but the gulf between us couldn't be greater.
02:41 To control the swarm,
02:49 we need to understand how they interact with us.
02:52 We need to understand how they see the world.
02:55 But swarms not only experience things differently from us,
03:01 they think in a different way too.
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