The Microbe That's Big Enough to Pet

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  • čas přidán 8. 09. 2024

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  • @remanjecarter2787
    @remanjecarter2787 Před 3 lety +1971

    "He said: 'it's squishy' "
    Not sure what I was expecting but it was an amazing way to describe it

    • @JamsGerms
      @JamsGerms Před 3 lety +67

      ahahaha I am a poet in a way! :D
      - James

    • @min_nad
      @min_nad Před 3 lety +42

      @@JamsGerms you are now an expert in microbiological petting now

    • @jimurrata6785
      @jimurrata6785 Před 3 lety +10

      Sounds _so_ Zefrank!

    • @bluesap7318
      @bluesap7318 Před 3 lety +4

      Love that word. I associate with cute and fluffy creatures though.

    • @Aya_Brea1998
      @Aya_Brea1998 Před 3 lety +2

      I wouldn't touch it. Clearly nobody here has seen the movie Life with Ryan Reynolds.

  • @JamsGerms
    @JamsGerms Před 3 lety +864

    If anyone needs some guidance on how to pet an amoeba, I am here for you!
    - James

    • @whizthesugoi
      @whizthesugoi Před 3 lety +35

      please, teach me the ways
      and also, pond tank video, pretty please

    • @F0X_H0UND
      @F0X_H0UND Před 3 lety +14

      Lay it on us James! My son and I love digging around in our pond and putting whatever we find under the microscope.

    • @JamsGerms
      @JamsGerms Před 3 lety +24

      @Oliver Judson you want to buy my Squishy McSquishface!?

    • @aphilosophicalnaturalist6245
      @aphilosophicalnaturalist6245 Před 3 lety +4

      Do I need to wet my hand with filtered pond water that the amoeba lives in?

    • @DFX2KX
      @DFX2KX Před 3 lety +3

      Why is the notion of an amoeba being 'pet' strangely adorable to me?

  • @trevinbeattie4888
    @trevinbeattie4888 Před 3 lety +1577

    “I shall call him squishy and he shall be mine.” - Dory

    • @Orlor
      @Orlor Před 3 lety +34

      Bad Squishy!

    • @budmeister
      @budmeister Před 3 lety +5

      HAHAHAHAHA YOU QUOTED LINE FROM MOVIE HAHAHAHAHAH THAT FUNNY

    • @tryambaknathjha7574
      @tryambaknathjha7574 Před 3 lety +10

      @@budmeister yes funny

    • @Aya_Brea1998
      @Aya_Brea1998 Před 3 lety +3

      I wouldn't touch it. Clearly nobody here has seen the movie Life with Ryan Reynolds.

    • @BobbinMcferry
      @BobbinMcferry Před 3 lety +8

      "And you shall be my squishy. Come here, squishy!"

  • @unvergebeneid
    @unvergebeneid Před 3 lety +1054

    It's crazy that a single cell membrane can hold this giant thing together, even when it's being touched!

    • @aomimezura11
      @aomimezura11 Před 3 lety +68

      Check out the "sailors eyeball"

    • @PopeGoliath
      @PopeGoliath Před 3 lety +31

      @@aomimezura11 Oog they creep me out.

    • @italucenaz
      @italucenaz Před 3 lety +31

      @@aomimezura11 in that case there is a very hard celular celulose wall beyond the membrane

    • @bicycleninja1685
      @bicycleninja1685 Před 3 lety +7

      It's like an anime monster that swallows up everything around it.

    • @italucenaz
      @italucenaz Před 3 lety +15

      @@nathansmith5266 they are not somatic cells, the ones that are just ovocites are not living beings, but the ones fertilized with a lot of cells are

  • @Dr_Tapeworm
    @Dr_Tapeworm Před 3 lety +642

    lol the stentor being absolutely dwarfed by this UNIT

  • @AccidentalNinja
    @AccidentalNinja Před 3 lety +650

    I'd heard that there was some lineage which had lost their mitochondria; it's neat to actually see one of them.

    • @ananadghose
      @ananadghose Před 3 lety +3

      ¹¹

    • @hornygiantess
      @hornygiantess Před 3 lety +68

      @Emily Balcer double a batteries

    • @iopvixens
      @iopvixens Před 3 lety +47

      @Emily Balcer mitochondria is the powerhouse, not the battery
      fun fact: mitochondria are actually bacteria

    • @wheresmycar9559
      @wheresmycar9559 Před 3 lety +54

      @@iopvixens They're the long split ancestors of bacteria. Mitochondria can't survive outside of the cytoplasm, but I see where you're coming from.

    • @tribiz6762
      @tribiz6762 Před 3 lety +8

      There’s actually a couple animals that don’t have mitochondria. They’re mm sizes members of the phylum Cnidaria, but they are animals that don’t have mitochondria and don’t breath O2

  • @TheRealFlenuan
    @TheRealFlenuan Před 3 lety +793

    Degenerate Protists should be my band name

    • @matheussanthiago9685
      @matheussanthiago9685 Před 3 lety +24

      hard to think a punkier name

    • @johnbush5325
      @johnbush5325 Před 3 lety +69

      Album name "Even my Mitochondria abandoned me"

    • @xilpes6254
      @xilpes6254 Před 3 lety +22

      Dysfunctional Protein

    • @dalbaeb4594
      @dalbaeb4594 Před 3 lety +18

      Proteus Vulgaris

    • @DementiaJhoBear
      @DementiaJhoBear Před 3 lety +8

      Lol when is the album coming out?😍😍😍😫
      Sincerely,
      An interested Microbiology degree holder

  • @kellydalstok8900
    @kellydalstok8900 Před 3 lety +230

    Maybe Pelomyxa isn’t degenerate. Instead it was just a bit absent minded when it lost its mitochondria.

    • @rosekay5031
      @rosekay5031 Před 3 lety +1

      Lol

    • @Microtherion
      @Microtherion Před 3 lety +3

      @@rosekay5031 It might just have put them down for a few thousand years, and it's going back soon. They move very slowly. :)

    • @businessproyects2615
      @businessproyects2615 Před 3 lety +2

      An strong independent cell needs no mitocondria

    • @MogofWar
      @MogofWar Před rokem

      Nah! Its mitochondria evolved into a different structure which they still possess.

    • @JaneXemylixa
      @JaneXemylixa Před rokem +1

      To lose one mitochondrion may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose all of them looks like carelessness

  • @sock2828
    @sock2828 Před 3 lety +79

    I've had these pop up in some of my fish tanks. Didn't realize they were single celled.

  • @jessicap4998
    @jessicap4998 Před 3 lety +36

    As someone who works in an environmental lab, I can tell you that 'sludge' is 100% real type of sample. No, I'm not kidding.
    Also, I have found my spirit animal.

  • @AyushBahuguna
    @AyushBahuguna Před 3 lety +317

    >"sludge may not sound particularly delicious"
    the metalhead community is requesting your location

    • @jackscully7986
      @jackscully7986 Před 3 lety +8

      Should've used some Acid Bath background music while talking about sludge - missed opportunity

    • @BlackMasterRoshi
      @BlackMasterRoshi Před 3 lety +1

      Eh, i could never get into sludge. too boring i guess.

    • @AyushBahuguna
      @AyushBahuguna Před 3 lety +1

      @@BlackMasterRoshi try the more prog oriented side of sludge then, like Intronaut or Ocean Collective

    • @shadbird8772
      @shadbird8772 Před 3 lety

      @@BlackMasterRoshi Ever heard of Mastodon?

    • @MrCantStopTheRobot
      @MrCantStopTheRobot Před 3 lety +4

      "sludge, goo, paste" and "slime" have gross connotations but a lot of what we eat could be classified as such. Usually "butter" or "sauce" is the euphemism.

  • @7pawr7
    @7pawr7 Před 3 lety +134

    I wholeheartedly thought the title said “Pelomyxa: Big Enough to be your Pet” and I immediately looked in the comments for Pelomyxa pet care tips

    • @mozarteanchaos
      @mozarteanchaos Před 3 lety +19

      i mean... i think you _could_ theoretically keep it as a pet? maybe?

    • @neoqwerty
      @neoqwerty Před 3 lety +20

      @@mozarteanchaos Just reproduce their ideal environment in a closed ecosystem. And figure out what actually turns into the sludge they nom.

    • @skyemorningstar166
      @skyemorningstar166 Před 3 lety +7

      @@neoqwerty seems like it's mostly mulm?
      Any fishtank should crank out a bunch of the stuff.

    • @hotaruishere2133
      @hotaruishere2133 Před 3 lety +6

      @@skyemorningstar166 I clearly don't know what I'm doing here, because WHAT THE HECK IS "MULM"???? XDDDD

    • @skyemorningstar166
      @skyemorningstar166 Před 3 lety +14

      @@hotaruishere2133 biomater. Fish poop, rotted food, bacteria, shed leaves from live plants, dead algae, etc. The brown goo that builds up in the substrate and filters.

  • @curtis7428
    @curtis7428 Před 3 lety +61

    I was expecting some expert descriptors there. "it's squishy" took me by surprise a bit.

  • @Nexus_545
    @Nexus_545 Před 3 lety +47

    Loved seeing Pelomyxa next to what we've been considering to be "huge Stentor".

  • @anonyb0b414
    @anonyb0b414 Před 3 lety +609

    FInally, I can pet a microorganism!

    • @Shenron557
      @Shenron557 Před 3 lety +42

      If its size is in the millimeter range, is it still a microorganism? 😅

    • @PersonaRandomNumbers
      @PersonaRandomNumbers Před 3 lety +66

      @@Shenron557 Maybe it's a milli-organism?

    • @user-mh2bw4hu3o
      @user-mh2bw4hu3o Před 3 lety +18

      Macro-organism

    • @kishikun
      @kishikun Před 3 lety +10

      It's just an organism I guess...

    • @WobblesandBean
      @WobblesandBean Před 3 lety +13

      You can pet other microorganisms, too. _Valonia ventricosa_ is a single celled algae that reaches up to two inches in diameter, making it the largest eukaryote. Then there's _Thiomargarita namibiensis,_ the largest prokaryotic cell, which look like little chains in the water where they live. You can see them with the naked eye, they're absolutely massive!

  • @myrmatta1
    @myrmatta1 Před 3 lety +203

    Its weird for a Stentor to look so small on this channel.

  • @TheRogueWolf
    @TheRogueWolf Před 3 lety +138

    "...and while 'sludge' may not sound particularly delicious, sapropel is made up of decaying organic matter...."
    ...which also does not sound particularly delicious. (But then again, I'm not a giant amoeba, despite what some might say about me.)

    • @neoqwerty
      @neoqwerty Před 3 lety +18

      Isn't yogurt technically decaying organic matter? Fermenting ANYTHING, too. Had overripe bananas multiple times, they're surprisingly delicious.

    • @thighmeat6034
      @thighmeat6034 Před 2 lety +1

      thank god you are not a amoeba! Was afraid that my brain would be eaten in one bite by a giant amoeba

    • @shubh.bapi_9423
      @shubh.bapi_9423 Před 2 lety

      Duse obviously you're not an amoeba you're a wolf!

  • @Deeplycloseted435
    @Deeplycloseted435 Před 3 lety +104

    Dude....I know you’ve been a part, or are a part of several channels. However, THIS channel, stands out from the rest. Seeing the microbiome in HD video as opposed to photo or diagram, is SO much more interesting. The music choices could be better, but the laid back feel and presentation are excellent.
    Definitely one of my top “I’m high” channels.

    • @FriedFreya
      @FriedFreya Před 3 lety +7

      Same. I'm p much constantly stoned and I love Journey to the Microcosmos and Sci Show, along with some other educational channels.

    • @Rabcup
      @Rabcup Před 3 lety +4

      @@FriedFreya vibes

    • @scottydu81
      @scottydu81 Před 3 lety +27

      I kinda like the chill music

    • @madil2259
      @madil2259 Před 3 lety +4

      @@scottydu81 me too. 😊

    • @DreadDeimos
      @DreadDeimos Před 3 lety +27

      > The music choices could be better
      Are you kidding? It's perfect!

  • @MrQwint22
    @MrQwint22 Před 3 lety +34

    I feel I need to give a heartfelt thank you for making these videos. These past 12 months have been particularly hard for folks like me with pre-existing anxiety issues. These videos are not only soothing, but are almost an existential salve. They remind me of the grand scale of the world and the ultimate smallness of these troubled times.
    I doubt I'm the only one you've helped pull through in extraordinary and uncertain days, so, truly, thank you.

    • @gray42069
      @gray42069 Před rokem

      Seriously I love this series so much. I've always had a fascination with aliens, and this channel feels like its exploring a whole other world (which, I suppose is kind of the point) and it's so soothing and comforting to me.

  • @grimiskitty1120
    @grimiskitty1120 Před 3 lety +14

    "He said: It's squishy"
    Yeah That's, that's what I'd expect. I wonder if its traumatized from being petted though.

    • @SlightlyAboveAverag3
      @SlightlyAboveAverag3 Před rokem

      Imagine that. An creature that is all powerful in its environment being taken out and treated like a bunny. That would be a weird experience for sure

  • @MrLense
    @MrLense Před 3 lety +334

    What? A microorganism that doesn't have Mitochondria? My high school textbooks have lied

    • @limiv5272
      @limiv5272 Před 3 lety +50

      Bacteria are microorganisms too...

    • @BlackMasterRoshi
      @BlackMasterRoshi Před 3 lety +1

      @@limiv5272 me 2

    • @topsecret1837
      @topsecret1837 Před 3 lety +4

      @@limiv5272
      Bacteria caused mitochondria to exist, what’s you expect?

    • @j.l.5913
      @j.l.5913 Před 3 lety +30

      In the supergroup Excavata of Eukarya, Parabasalids and Diplomonads doesnt have mitochondria. Still have hydrogenosomes and mitosomes respectively witch are degenerated mitochondria and evidence of horizontal gene transfer.

    • @carlsm95
      @carlsm95 Před 3 lety +4

      Prokaryotes (bacteria and archaea) don't have them.

  • @JohnSmith-xf1zu
    @JohnSmith-xf1zu Před 3 lety +57

    I've got a killer headache, and a relaxing journey through microcosmos was just the thing I needed

    • @dreamsprayanimation
      @dreamsprayanimation Před rokem

      Maybe watching a video about Amoebas isn’t the best idea when you have a headache if you
      catch my drift.

  • @NewMessage
    @NewMessage Před 3 lety +332

    My youngest just lamented that 'Our town's pet store is so boring!'.

    • @min_nad
      @min_nad Před 3 lety +54

      Bored of mainstream pets? Pet a microbe instead

    • @mastercharlesdiltardino8058
      @mastercharlesdiltardino8058 Před 3 lety +26

      Pets are boring, get that kid some livestock.

    • @STOPSYPHER
      @STOPSYPHER Před 3 lety +22

      @@mastercharlesdiltardino8058 livestock gets boring and tedious, get him on drugs

    • @mslightbulb
      @mslightbulb Před 3 lety +14

      @@STOPSYPHER drugs are to popular, get him something more... avant-garde, like nuclear waste.

    • @TheRealSinisterPurple
      @TheRealSinisterPurple Před 3 lety +11

      @@mslightbulb your kid will love having four arms! Get it now for just 5.99$

  • @dracoaestas
    @dracoaestas Před 3 lety +6

    The visual of the vast arm of the Pelomyxa orbited by a flurry of comparatively tiny microbes is just gorgeous. It's as majestic as an elephant with a cloud of oxpeckers, or a whale diving through a school of fish.

  • @tuomasjarvenkyla6739
    @tuomasjarvenkyla6739 Před 3 lety +48

    I love the songs used in this one! For me this channel is really the perfect audiovisual experience while also being so incredibly interesting. Always excited when a new video drops.

  • @hyperactivehyena
    @hyperactivehyena Před 3 lety +19

    These little guys look like prank rubber barfs, in a very pleasant sort of way

  • @d4v0r_x
    @d4v0r_x Před 3 lety +100

    we all have a story, something once had then lost. we're all degenerates

    • @preferablygeneric
      @preferablygeneric Před 3 lety

      omg the name of r/wallstreetbets members, "degenerates" makes sense now

    • @MrCantStopTheRobot
      @MrCantStopTheRobot Před 3 lety

      I'm a regenerate.

    • @razi_man
      @razi_man Před 2 lety

      LMAO as soon as I heard him say that they are called degenerates because they lost their mitocondria, I immediately understood what the insult degenerate meant.
      It is referring to people who have lost some part of their personality, more likely used for people who loses their innocence.

  • @Irobert1115HD
    @Irobert1115HD Před 3 lety +155

    who else is for reclasifiying everything single celled that is larger than 1mm to macrobe?

  • @Worldsawesomestguy
    @Worldsawesomestguy Před 3 lety +87

    Love your videos. They're really interesting and calming. You have a very soothing voice.

    • @jakobraahauge7299
      @jakobraahauge7299 Před 3 lety +3

      In the early videos Hank uses his voice in an even more soothingly dreamy way - I miss those days

    • @endorchild6086
      @endorchild6086 Před 3 lety +2

      I agree, would absolutely love a podcast of this series 💗

    • @coralely879
      @coralely879 Před 3 lety +2

      These videos are borderline ASMR

  • @WinterGray8888
    @WinterGray8888 Před 3 lety +6

    You’re voice is so nice, its like the sound form of the concept of smooth

  • @Dogmicspane
    @Dogmicspane Před 3 lety +15

    At around 1:25, who here said to themselves "squishy" and was validated when he said it's squishy.

  • @new_romemusic4212
    @new_romemusic4212 Před 3 lety +8

    Hold up, hold up. THATS WHAT THOSE ARE?! I've been seeing those my whole life and thought they were worms!

  • @robgraham5697
    @robgraham5697 Před 3 lety +7

    My first thought when you stated they had multiple nuclei was these protozoans were precursors to slime molds. After statement about their loss of mitochondria perhaps they share a common ancestor.
    How do these animals reproduce? Through mitosis? Or do they bud offspring?
    Thanks for this channel. I learn something new every time.

    • @Dragrath1
      @Dragrath1 Před 3 lety +1

      multiple nuclei seem to be a trait that has convergently evolved in large Eukaryotes so I don't think it implies a common ancestor.
      Also note that they aren't animals as animal is a specific linage of Eukaryotes of which we are members

    • @robgraham5697
      @robgraham5697 Před 3 lety

      @@Dragrath1 Thanks. I knew animal was the wrong word but I was too tired to worry about the correct one.

  • @SaturnD
    @SaturnD Před 3 lety +173

    *sees amoeba*
    Me: I would like to tuch it

  • @nftmonkey4506
    @nftmonkey4506 Před 3 lety +6

    Wow, the pure aesthetics of this video are amazing. When the microcosm is presented like this, it becomes way more interesting than what we get to see in a school lab for example.

  • @instaperil
    @instaperil Před 3 lety +15

    These videos are like watching art in motion.

  • @jerponemyce9497
    @jerponemyce9497 Před 3 lety +2

    Sometime I think of these microbes as pokemon. I already even costumized one in my crazy imagination.
    *My dream cell*
    • Eukaryotic
    • Has cell wall
    • Can detect and respond to light
    • About 30 * 50 microns in size
    • move by means of cilia
    • Has these symbionts:
    - chlorophyll
    - mitochondria
    - nitrogen fixing bacteria
    • Can tolerate a wide range of:
    - Temperature
    - PH
    - Salinity
    - Pressure
    • High radiation tolerance by means of:
    - Having 4 sets of it's genome
    - Producing antioxidants (which it can share to it's symbionts)
    • Can communicate using interspecie quorum sensing

    • @KombuchaBuzzed
      @KombuchaBuzzed Před 3 lety +3

      Mine would be like a water bear.. walking aimlessly about.

  • @Klathael
    @Klathael Před 3 lety +2

    When you showed them floating in the tank, I near on screamed!!!! I have been in a geothermally heated stream near my home town and had a few of these get tangled up in my leg hairs. Haven't been back since (got to another hot pool now lol) and now I know what they are. I can absolutely confirm that they are squishy lol. I thought they were a short worm trying to get at my skin to latch on xD

  • @TheCatAteMyShoe
    @TheCatAteMyShoe Před 3 lety +26

    I shall name him Squishy and he shall be mine!

  • @lightbridge8833
    @lightbridge8833 Před 3 lety +7

    I actually laughed out loud in my workplace when you called the Pelomyxa degenerate!

  • @adamdubin1276
    @adamdubin1276 Před 3 lety +5

    Am I the only one who finds Hank's voice to be incredibly soothing?

  • @madil2259
    @madil2259 Před 3 lety +16

    6:43 "they are degenerate"
    Me: Don't you insult my pet pelomyxa!

    • @pattheplanter
      @pattheplanter Před 3 lety +1

      Not even true. They have evolved beyond the need for mitochondria, unlike us primitives.

    • @jzlazy1057
      @jzlazy1057 Před 3 lety +1

      @@pattheplanter I wish I was a degenerate...

  • @KOKO-uu7yd
    @KOKO-uu7yd Před 3 lety +7

    Aaahhhhh!!!!!!!
    I've got to go THREE WEEKS with NO "Journey to the Microcosmos"?!?!😱😱😱
    I'll have to rewatch the archives 😍

  • @RobertMilesAI
    @RobertMilesAI Před 3 lety +6

    They're kinda like dolphins! They evolved mitochondria/living on land, and then went "actually naaah"

    • @nahometesfay1112
      @nahometesfay1112 Před 3 lety +1

      I still can't believe some birds gave up on flight. Like I get that it's not a decision (well I guess birds could select mates purely on flight skills) and flight can be very costly, but... How do you give up flying‽

    • @EungsuLee
      @EungsuLee Před 3 lety

      @@nahometesfay1112
      By... Not flying...?
      Seriously, walking IS easier than flying when you have legs.

    • @nahometesfay1112
      @nahometesfay1112 Před 3 lety

      @@EungsuLee That's not necessarily true. Gliding is much more efficient than walking.

    • @EungsuLee
      @EungsuLee Před 3 lety

      @@nahometesfay1112
      I'm not talking about effectiveness.
      If there's no pressure to do so, why bother?
      Walk and chill.

    • @nahometesfay1112
      @nahometesfay1112 Před 3 lety

      @@EungsuLee I didn't say effectiveness I said efficiency. Why waste energy walking when you can glide without moving a muscle?
      Glide and chill.

  • @Hoshimaru57
    @Hoshimaru57 Před 3 lety +1

    I was today years old when I learned that the pleasant soothing voice narrating this series was Hank Green. How on earth did I never manage to pick out his voice before?

  • @singlikeyoumeanit3261
    @singlikeyoumeanit3261 Před 3 lety +6

    "I've always wanted an amoeba. I hear they're quite friendly!" - Binky Barnes

  • @cliff8459
    @cliff8459 Před 3 lety +2

    i think i have unknowingly killed many paleomyxa thinking they were worms in our tank, so thank you @microcosmos you saved my pond ecosystem!

  • @mattclark7752
    @mattclark7752 Před 3 lety +10

    we need a video about the pond tank.

  • @MattJett
    @MattJett Před 3 lety +1

    Ooohh! I've seen those little tiny things in the water tank I kept my turtles in when I was a kid. I always thought they were tiny worms or just some weird tiny parasite in the dirty water. Nope! I was looking at a microorganism. 🤯

  • @jasonlay2836
    @jasonlay2836 Před 3 lety +6

    Journey to the Microcosmos has some amazing narration hahaha, it's so relaxing as well i love it.

  • @benny_lemon5123
    @benny_lemon5123 Před 3 lety +8

    Me: wow I want to pet a pelomyxa so badly rn
    My dog: * tilts head in confused betrayal *

  • @That80sGuy1972
    @That80sGuy1972 Před 3 lety

    Thanks for the food for thought. I wrote a little "documentary" as a science fiction thing for a sci-fi race of a P&P game we used to play called Star Frontiers called Ameoba planet as the origin of Dralasites. Dralasites are single-celled organisms the size of humans that are very flexible in form. You just proved that Dralasites, a thing I fan-fictioned (not my creation) are actually possible.

  • @kisnpisn4919
    @kisnpisn4919 Před 3 lety +5

    great video as usual! interesting, soothing, captivating, informative, i just can‘t get enough of this channel.

  • @smooshpopper2
    @smooshpopper2 Před 3 lety +2

    I feel like i'm playing the cell stage of Spore, and the stentor is something that used to be very big and threatening but now the pelomyxa is my new predator

  • @DieSmart
    @DieSmart Před 2 lety +1

    This is brilliant! Thank you guys, it's unreal great job!

  • @matsveritas2055
    @matsveritas2055 Před 2 lety +1

    Thank you for producing this journey for us.
    A true treasure trove for those many without a proper microscope on their desk, and with soothing eloquent... poetry... to accompany it.
    Once more, thank you. 🙇🏼‍♂️
    🙏🏼 1ove 💚

  • @MyFairDinkum
    @MyFairDinkum Před 3 lety +1

    Wow. I am so glad the CZcams algorithm brought me here. Subscribed! (Either it's getting better, or I'm branching out to better content subconsciously)

  • @defenderofwisdom
    @defenderofwisdom Před 3 lety

    This exploration of the life of the tiny universe is honestly one of the best things on CZcams. It is incredible, beautiful, relatable yet so alien, distant but ever present and just amazing. There is very little like this project. My regret is I cannot share these videos with my nephew and niece because of COVID.

  • @theshermantanker7043
    @theshermantanker7043 Před rokem +2

    To put their size into perspective, these Amoeba are wider than the armour is thick on all but the heaviest of the heaviest tanks from World War I

  • @biggreenblob
    @biggreenblob Před 3 lety

    You should consider making an episode based around wastewater treatment. Sometimes 80-90% or more of the treatment of domestic sewage is achieved through microbial processes - sometimes aerobic, sometimes anaerobic, sometimes both at once. Maybe try asking around with your local wastewater treatment facilities. More than likely one of them would allow you to see some samples, and provide some insight, possibly even an interview or two.

  • @lolzyking656
    @lolzyking656 Před 3 lety

    About the mitochondrial molecules being found in some, theres still some contention that it was due to contamination, that it simply had ingested them recently, not naturally formed them.

  • @diego6237
    @diego6237 Před 3 lety +1

    All of your videos move me and I tear up thinking about the beauty and complexity of everything. Thank you 🖤

  • @sombrero4316
    @sombrero4316 Před 3 lety +37

    pff, I could have guessed it was squishy, the real question is what does it taste like?

  • @zyxzevn
    @zyxzevn Před 3 lety +5

    Reminds me of "the Blob".
    Just be careful not to grow them too big.

  • @jennahmirrim3787
    @jennahmirrim3787 Před 3 lety +1

    I love this channel. it is totally visiting another world! Thank you!!

  • @IanGrams
    @IanGrams Před 3 lety

    Wow, that shot at 2:10 is an amazing look into the scale of the Microcosmos. Pelomyxa can't even fit in view, the stentor looks tiny in comparison, and it looks as if there's a small swarm of what I presume to be bacteria to the left of the pelomyxa. All this across a few square millimeters. Life is truly remarkable. I can't thank all of you at JttM enough for giving me a whole new appreciation for microorganisms.

  • @JohnMichaelson
    @JohnMichaelson Před 3 lety

    The scales of and orders of magnitude of life are so amazing. Here you have this gargantuan field-filling microbe just a few mm in size on the slide and yet also visible with it and the Stentor at 2:10 are swarms of microbes or bacteria so tiny they are like mosquitos flying next to a blue whale.

  • @nzuckman
    @nzuckman Před 3 lety +20

    Good lord it's like a living booger

  • @GordonFreechmen
    @GordonFreechmen Před 3 lety +2

    Looks like our favorite squishy stentors just got out-squishied.
    Edit: Awww, the video ended just as the song was about that play that very last note.

  • @henryseldon6077
    @henryseldon6077 Před 3 lety +2

    Sure wish I could have seen a giant one in a human hand, a picture paints a thousand words.

  • @Self-replicating_whatnot

    Lol it's like pet rock but it also moves from time to time. Also, talking about microbes and sludge made me want to play Oxygen Not Included again, last colony having died to sludge.

  • @nickcosimano5028
    @nickcosimano5028 Před 3 lety

    This was the first video I watch on the channel. 4 months later and I have watched them all

  • @F.RO.H
    @F.RO.H Před 3 lety +1

    "Here is my pet!"
    "Where?"
    "Right there!"

  • @GrowlieDave
    @GrowlieDave Před 3 lety +1

    WHHHOOOOOO! Season 3 down. Well done guys, you always amaze. See uou in series 4

  • @EnzomusPrime
    @EnzomusPrime Před 3 lety

    Hank Green talking in a calm and soothing tone. Can't get any better than this!

  • @iliterallywillcommentoneve6875

    Narrator: _"Did you do it?"_
    Josh: _"Yes, and it's squishy."_
    Narrator: _"What did it cost?"_
    Josh:
    *"Amoebiasis."*

  • @brain.eating.amoeba
    @brain.eating.amoeba Před 2 lety +1

    Pelomyxa is also called Chaos and I LIVE for that

    • @SlightlyAboveAverag3
      @SlightlyAboveAverag3 Před rokem +1

      There’s a species legit called, Chaos Chaos. The Jevil references that could be made are limitless

  • @fabanano6158
    @fabanano6158 Před 3 lety

    I love how he sounds so bored, but yet, so interested in what he's talking

  • @mjmajin
    @mjmajin Před 3 lety +1

    Journey to the Microcosmos is my favourite channel and will always be. THANK YOU infinitely eternally for your passionate work.
    Love you all

    • @mjmajin
      @mjmajin Před 3 lety +1

      i love the patient "let's ride our awe" planetarium vibe

    • @mjmajin
      @mjmajin Před 3 lety +1

      and of course the thorough information giving

  • @khangsabb3752
    @khangsabb3752 Před 2 lety +1

    It's amazing that these have a single cell

  • @jerkfudgewater147
    @jerkfudgewater147 Před 3 lety +1

    I would love to see some kind of comparison between Amoebas and Predatory Slime Molds (they seem to me, a layman, to be almost the same... but the mold is ‘very fast’ and seems almost like the Raccoon to the Amoeba’s Opossum) idk much about them but i’d love to see a tiny wildlife documentary about them 🤗

  • @dodiswatchbobobo
    @dodiswatchbobobo Před 3 lety

    I do love that there’s nothing actually KEEPING microorganisms microscopic.

  • @somethinginthewalls388
    @somethinginthewalls388 Před 3 lety +1

    almost 1000 likes and 0 dislikes
    exactly what this channel deserves

  • @SethShaperoHomes
    @SethShaperoHomes Před 3 lety

    Can you give a little detail about your pond tank? I am an aquarium keeper and I would like to set one up. Size? Filtration? plants? Inhabitants? Water type? Maintenance?

  • @matthiasmorse5263
    @matthiasmorse5263 Před 3 lety +1

    aww i'm sad s3 is over but also so excited season four comes out the day after my birthday!

  • @garyisok1
    @garyisok1 Před 3 lety +1

    brilliant. also love you have no dislikes - never seen that on a youtube video before

  • @purplehaze2358
    @purplehaze2358 Před 3 lety +3

    I feel physically dirty watching this quality of content for free.

  • @Beryllahawk
    @Beryllahawk Před 3 lety

    It has been one of the worst days for me. This video and all the comments have been a balm to a bruised spirit.
    I am going to go sleep tonight with the phrase "It's squishy" still in my brain, and I am glad of it.

  • @mrchordstriker
    @mrchordstriker Před 3 lety +2

    One big stomach roaming around.

  • @ian_b
    @ian_b Před 3 lety

    I feel a great sense of kinship with this Pelomyxa for it too is larger than a tardigrade.

  • @feliksjakubow8372
    @feliksjakubow8372 Před 3 lety

    I love this channel and the music you choose for the videos is amazing!

  • @MasterBaker2020
    @MasterBaker2020 Před 3 lety

    I have been on this channel since literally day 1, and I have never been disappointed. I also don’t think I ever will be disappointed with this channel.

  • @recklesflam1ngo968
    @recklesflam1ngo968 Před 3 lety

    I love how compared to the Pelomyxa's the Nauplius were zooming around in and out of the camera shot

  • @RookwingsKirk
    @RookwingsKirk Před 3 lety +1

    John Hegley wrote a song in the 80s about having an amoeba as a pet and now he actually can!

  • @acrazyweeb7225
    @acrazyweeb7225 Před 2 lety

    Pelomyxa: **Exists**
    "Superior" Human: I will pet you.

  • @excuseyou7198
    @excuseyou7198 Před 3 lety

    5:08 the mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell

  • @randomplit183
    @randomplit183 Před 3 lety +1

    teach me what this thing eats, what environment this blob prefers to live in, and where to find one, all so that I can make it into my pet.

  • @sapelesteve
    @sapelesteve Před 3 lety +1

    Very interesting JTTM! I always thought that Mitochondria were a prerequisite to all life forms on Earth. Now I know better. 👍👍😉😉

  • @Tilier
    @Tilier Před 3 lety

    I have two desires from this channel.
    1) Do an episode on micromites/naupilus. I always see them scooting by at high speeds in the edges of the frame and it makes me so curious.
    2) Do, or explain why you can't, an episode on non-aquatic micro-organisms. How are they seen under a microscope? Is it even possible?

  • @chrismpbuchholz
    @chrismpbuchholz Před 3 lety

    Mr. Amoebio: Look in your closet there's a mitochondria for you! Don't like em? Then neither do I! Get the hell out of here! Ever see a guy say goodbye to a mitochondria?
    James: Yes, once