EPISODE INFO
Monster(s): The Glyphids
Featuring: David, Adam, Libby
Rating: Mature (for some offensive language and adult themes)

SUMMARY
ROCK AND STONE! Every now and then, the Cinematica Team veers off from movies and plunges straight into an alien planet as a team of space mining dwarves. Join Adam, Dave, and Libby on this special episode with a video game near and dear to our beer drinking, Doretta loving hearts: Deep Rock Galactic (2020). We look at how blind cave dwelling glyphids might smell a pungent dwarf from afar, how crazy yellow ants spew “acid” at cows, and why video games are an interactive book. Oh, and of course, for Karl!

TIME POINTS
00:00:42- Introduction and News
00:04:39- Game Introduction
00:10:24- Trivia
00:13:11- Science Discussion- Tracking Prey In The Dark
00:23:36- Science Discussion- Spitting Acid
00:32:38- Science Discussion- Bullet Resistance
00:34:31- The Importance of Story in Games
00:40:29- Final Thoughts and Sign Off
00:44:28- Cinematic Discord Setup

REFERENCES

Moles and Smelling In Stereo:
Catania, K. Stereo and serial sniffing guide navigation to an odour source in a mammal. Nat Commun 4, 1441 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms2444
https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms2444

Acid Spitting and Ants that Clean:
Brütsch T, Jaffuel G, Vallat A, Turlings TC, Chapuisat M. Wood ants produce a potent antimicrobial agent by applying formic acid on tree-collected resin. Ecol Evol. 2017;7(7):2249-2254. Published 2017 Mar 6. doi:10.1002/ece3.2834
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ece3.2834

Lobster Armour
J. Wu, Z. Qin, L. Qu, H. Zhang, F. Deng, M. Guo#, Natural hydrogel in American lobster: a soft armor with high toughness and strength, Acta biomaterialia (2019)
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1742706119300893

DISCORD LINK
Cinematica Animalia Discord: https://discord.gg/PcSNby8s

VIDEO GAME LINKS
Deep Rock Galactic: https://store.steampowered.com/app/548430/Deep_Rock_Galactic/