6 Bacteria With Wild Superpowers
You might just think of bacteria as the little beasties that get us sick-but bacteria are so much more! Through evolution, bacteria have developed some pretty incredible abilities. While they may never star in a big summer movie, here are six bacteria with amazing superpowers. Join Michael Aranda for a new episode of SciShow!
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"Do you even lift?" -Gonorrhea
@AntonyKarlytzky
6 жыл бұрын
Top kek.
@TheTaintedWisdom
6 жыл бұрын
I think the more appropriate phrasing would be: "Do you even pull/tug?" - Gonorrhea "Duh, how the hell do you think I've managed to avoid you all these years?" - Male virgins.
@beth8775
6 жыл бұрын
Best use of that nonsense. Lol
DISCLAIMER: Contracting Gonorrhea will not give you superhuman strength.
@Kobolds_in_a_trenchcoat
6 жыл бұрын
Zephyrus Auron there goes my weekend plans
@dylanashley4102
5 жыл бұрын
Zephyrus Auron has me dead
@CONGTHEGUERILLA
4 жыл бұрын
Speaking from experience?
@LizardVideoDude
4 жыл бұрын
Well, not usually. But 1 out of 100 times...
@protoncoccus3229
3 жыл бұрын
It REALLY sounded harmful... Help me, science class!
I didn't think I'd get to see a video about how awesome gonorrhea is when I woke up this morning.
@MacCoalieCoalson
6 жыл бұрын
SlyPearTree lmao why is your pfp that guy who asked for child meat as his last meal
@SlyPearTree
6 жыл бұрын
Chromosome Extract I do not know who you are referring to but this is my own face. I do seem to have several doubles out there, once at a strip club a stripper approached my table looking really pissed off because she thought I was her brother. That was not the first time I was approached by peoples thinking I was someone else, heck I've seen a picture of "myself" on the web outside a PFK in a place I have never been wearing clothes I never wore. Edit: Okay, I found who you were referring too, that could be me younger, weighting a hundred pound more and being drunk or drugged out of my mind.
@Kev376
5 жыл бұрын
Yah... Awesome... until it's tugging on the inside of your wiener.
@fajaradi1223
5 жыл бұрын
Ah ... That grunt when you take pee pee. Gonorhea is the best.
@andrewn8002
3 жыл бұрын
*three years later* the more you know!
Sorry, but I would have to classify N. gonorrhoeae as a supervillain.
'Just because something is tiny doesnt mean its not powerful' ill have to remind my girlfriend that next time i see her
@smoking_hi5494
6 жыл бұрын
yikes
@arescet
6 жыл бұрын
We shall sing of your wits sire, for as long as songs exist.
@SayHelloHelli
6 жыл бұрын
Short girls are beastly dude. This is no laughing matter.
@umesstha4129
6 жыл бұрын
HeyHay i think he was talking about his d*** size not his gf's height
@jebolandutawacana
6 жыл бұрын
Umes Stha, i think the same. I even wondered why others comment talk about her heigh.
As a dyslexic person , I really appreciate the different colours and fonts when the texts come up :) thanks.
I once won an arm wrestle with 6 bacteria with awesome super powers
@crisgon9552
6 жыл бұрын
Muscle Hank I love you but you are taking all the thumbs up man. Leave us some Muscle Hank!!!
@FBI-ov7lb
6 жыл бұрын
I beat 6 bacteria with awesome superpowers in a weight lifting contest
@AngelSamael
6 жыл бұрын
Muscle Hank is in fact the strongest organism alive, both relative to body mass and absolute strength.
@clayblob2
6 жыл бұрын
You may of won the battle, but the bacteria won the war
@RoundPi
6 жыл бұрын
Hexo Helium Do you mean: the bacteria _will_ win the war.
Heh, an STD that's peerless at marathon tugging sessions.
@PunchAPeach
4 жыл бұрын
Your comment is even funnier because your profile pic is Gene Starwind 😁
*_You must construct additional pili._*
@OEpistimon
6 жыл бұрын
I was searching for this specific comment...
@norielsylvire4097
2 жыл бұрын
The factory must grow
@vannahray9773
2 жыл бұрын
I want in on the comment lol someone explain to me ? What does this mean ? Just curious.
"These marathon tugging sessions could last for hours..." This statement, while talking about gonorrhea. I can't speak to whether it was intentional or purely coincidental, but this is, hands down, the best line in a SciShow script EVER.
@eliscerebralrecyclingbin7812
Жыл бұрын
9:30 “Remember, just because something is tiny, that doesn’t mean it’s not powerful.” 😳
@doornumb
7 ай бұрын
@@eliscerebralrecyclingbin7812i have a chance
"Aquifex already sounds like a superhero name". Yeah, a superhero that loses your social security information.
@SonicXRage
4 жыл бұрын
Breaking news: Millions of credit card numbers STOLEN from Aquifex! The CEO Of Aquifex expresses his commitment to the prevention of another hacker attack.
I'm headed to the local brothel now to get some of that sweet Gonorrhea protein power.
Who knew STDs themselves were marathon tuggers?
Marvel Studios should make movies for the MCU (Microbe Cinematic Universe)
@massimookissed1023
6 жыл бұрын
Master Therion , they could feature Tom Cruise, he's about the right size.
@USSAnimeNCC-
6 жыл бұрын
The incredible gonorrhea
@Master_Therion
6 жыл бұрын
Bacteroides-Man. Not the hero we deserve, but the hero we need.
@shawneeg214
6 жыл бұрын
An original funny comment you have my approval
@crusaden2434
6 жыл бұрын
am i the only one which has niticed that the narrator is a little wierd?
"Gonorrhoea might just be superman's kryptonite, which is a sentence I have never said before" I had to restrain myself from laughing at that part 😂. Really good video regardless though, like that superglue one, and the thermophile one that can use oxygen. Information that I will likely never need in my life but really interesting and possibly useful in a pub quiz or something maybe, ta scishow.
I may be able to find a paper on one of these to use as the topic for my microbiology presentation. Thanks, SciShow!
Do a video about Bacteriophages. It will blow your mind.
Awesome.... These specific bacteria have changed my view about them completely.
awesome video! our instructor for Microbiology shared it when discussing Deinococcus radiodurans.
Michael! Yay, I'm way too excited. So happy to see you.
8:45 "These marathon tugging sessions could last for hours, and end up pulling ten times harder than when they started" LOL get on my level gonorrhea
Super! This was a totally heavy episode, kudos!
I think I remember from my sex ed class in high school that Gonorrhea were super good at sticking to things so they wouldn't get flushed out of the urethra when one urinated...so they probably evolved that way to not get pissed out, if I had to bet on a theory.
This made me think of flagellum in the context of irreducible complexity. That would be a good video to explain (and debunk)
You can include good old fashioned c. botulinum which can be boiled in water and basically pheonix its way back into existence via spores
These guys are actually very smart. I a not talking about the content of the video, but did you know that they lengthened the video by using the full intro? Now it doesnt feel like they are trying to lengthen it, and we get a nice song too!
"Bacteria, they're never going to officially become a superhero". Leezle Pon is a intelligent smallpox virus and is a member of the Green Lantern Corp., while his enemy Despotellis is a sentient artificial virus that joined the Sinestro Corps.
@fossilfighters101
6 жыл бұрын
Lizerdspherex +
@thatguy2377
4 жыл бұрын
that's cool but bacteria and virus are different things
Honorable mention: Thermus aquaticus the hero of microbiology .. at least in the humble beginnings of PCR :)
STDs in "marathon tugging sessions". (snicker). Yes, I'm mentally 13 sometimes...
@limepop340
6 жыл бұрын
Dallas Trimble the “marathon tugging session” is used as a euphemism for sex
@confusedwhale
6 жыл бұрын
Nope, male masturbation. Also, asexuals masturbate. It's a spectrum like anything else.
@appleappington7346
6 жыл бұрын
Hah well I'm really 13 take a backseat pal
@satanas6740
5 жыл бұрын
@Dallas Trimble wow, I was a about to call the original poster pathetic but then i read your comment and you take that title.
"Wow. Gonorrhea is pretty strong." [gives the clap a standing ovation]
@Alexagrigorieff
5 жыл бұрын
Slow clap
Michael, this could be the best video that SciShow has put out. This is exciting!
Bacterias can feel their environment and grow substances, I really want to know how can bacteria feel the world and how can they decide the build their houses!
@patrickmccurry1563
6 жыл бұрын
Chemoreception. Smell and taste are chemoreception senses as well.
Bringing nature's and man's ingenuity together to solve problems. Brilliant!
He is finally becoming an adult. I'm so proud.
Lmao... had to get in that joke about size didnt you...so well placed and very dry in delivery.. perfect.
This is really neat.
“Everytime a kid jokes about me- i do 1 pushup” - Gonorrhea
Have you done a show about mitochondria yet? Or the thermophilic bacteria in compost?
We need a name! How about Bac-Man?
@massimookissed1023
6 жыл бұрын
and Gonorrhea Girl.
@pyrotheevilplatypus
6 жыл бұрын
Sublime. He already exists in the Marvel universe.
@miriam3848
6 жыл бұрын
Lokibacillus
This is so fascinating.
Woohoo Michael is back!
I'm not sure why this came up in my recommended but it was really cool, so uh thanks for that??
I Love your videos....thank you!
very informative video
The electricity producing bacteria are fascinating for being a potential way to power future devices. Feed it literal food and it recharges your phone battery.
@SuryaTejaKarra
6 жыл бұрын
Patrick McCurry so how many lootboxes should I buy for food?
@jonasstrzyz2469
5 жыл бұрын
Pretty sure that it would be extremely difficult to the point of being impractical to make use it for such a purpose.
What's with the life-vest? Cold in the studio? Forget to pay the heating bill? .... kidding aside, great info!
can you do an episode tasing about current medical research and how we as a community can help?
Humans are here thinking they're so superior creating rocketships and such, but guess who gets to have a free ride and can survive much better out there in space?
@sashisasj3850
6 жыл бұрын
just because something can survive in space does not mean it can thrive. It needs a source of energy and chemicals to keep it alive and reproducing.
@vbgvbg1133
5 жыл бұрын
Neptune Neptune Just you wait, we may be squished and killed unknowingly by being stepped on by snails, but when the gamma ray shooting absolute zero asteroids blast earth to nothingness we’ll see.
@satanas6740
5 жыл бұрын
So you're comparing humans to bacteria? Wow you're a true idiot.
He has a superpower of not blinking
COOL VIDEO .... AND NICE SUPERPOWERS .....!
Number 6 is terrifyingly awesome!!!
Long but good, I liked this one.
Best script I have seen till date
More bacteria videos please!
Gotta love ur videos
Thank you sci show😊
4:24 and thus fulfills the prophecy of CGP Grey: if it stays long enough, something is gonna learn how to eat it.
@controlequebrado4455
4 жыл бұрын
This sounds wrong
Really good info!!! Why don’t you make a video on the alternative theories about the Universe on KZread this would be interesting and good for the KZread community!!!
@DrunkenAussie76
6 жыл бұрын
The theory that describes our universe is called Big Bang Theory, and there are no other theories. The misconception many people have with the word theory leads to more than a few tin foil hats in the world. A theory is commonly referred to as an idea or thought by many people, whereas in science theories are the epitome of knowledge, often describing why and how the facts that we observe are the way that we observe them. Georges Lemaître is often credited with the discovery that the universe can be traced back to a single location in 1927 and just about all evidence collected since then shows the same. For something to challenge Big Bang Theory someone must explain the evidence already collected more accurately... and noone has done so for nearly a hundred years, Kind of like reinventing the wheel really now that I think about it.
We need to upscale the gonorrhea arms into a design for ultra hardcore exosuits
this is awesome!!!!!
Number 5 doesn't sound like a superhero; it sounds more like a laundry detergent.
Was about to call them out for missing the bacteria that grew in total darkness, underground, without an atmosphere... Then realized they made the video before it was discovered. New video please =)
@rareram
4 жыл бұрын
@organizemyroom k well, there is the obvious mass murder of poly-cellular life forms... But yeah, bacteria aren't all evil or common. The Danakil depression even has super super bacteria with poly-extremophiles.
C. crescentus could be the trick to keep the tires on my RC Cars from flying off the bead hahahaha
About gonorrhea: "These marathon tugging sessions could last for hours". Well, that's a thing that was said.
I'm curious to what would happen if made contact to each of them, so scary.
Bacteria is where we came from and it is so resilient and awesome...except when it causes infections haha. Always love your videos. Hello from Australia!!
@patrickmccurry1563
6 жыл бұрын
Most likely we, as in eukaryotes, are archaea "infected" by cyanobacteria.
@budgetbogans1257
6 жыл бұрын
I don't even know what means...I didn't do science at school, I just like learning stuff in less than 15 mins and being entertained whilst doing so.
@mookosh
6 жыл бұрын
Remember: the bacteria in existence today are as evolved as we are (if not moreso due to shorter generations). We didn't evolve from these guys, we share a common ancestor with them :p They just followed a different path.
@budgetbogans1257
6 жыл бұрын
interesting...
@Marina-sd3uy
6 жыл бұрын
Budget Bogans Didn't know Australians came from a bacteria! You should've kept some of their superpowers, they seem pretty handy!
"These marathon tugging sessions could last for hours"
Can you guys do a video about how the hormones/antibiotics that are used in live stock/meat production/dairy and egg production does to humans? Last time I was this early to a video I was like 15 years old!
@codename9824
6 жыл бұрын
Daniellec Clarke livestock on antibiotics aren’t put in production pools until they are free of the medication. Meaning that they aren’t slaughtered nor is their milk used. The hormones are not present in quantities that have an effect. Many stories have attributed the rise in precocious puberty to hormones in milk, it’s a catchy story but ultimately false. The main factor in the rise in precocious puberty is the incredible amount of nutrition available to the modern child. Puberty is usually triggered as a child reaches an age/body composition that can support reproductive organ function, historically this was 15-18 200 years ago with the ranges becoming younger( 11-13 today) as people had access to greater amounts of nutrition. If you look at cases of precocious puberty you find children with family history of early puberty and almost always a BMI in the obese range for their age/height.
5:50 say that 10 times... quickly
What I suggest is that you guys make some scale comparisons of the abilities these bacteria have. Like, how much weight would a human pull if he had as much strength as Neisseria g. for body weight.
@LendriMujina
Жыл бұрын
A human could pull about 6.2 gigagrams if they had the same proportional strength. That's about 60 blue whales stacked on top of each other.
Sounds..... sciencey.
Why do some bacteria occur singly while others are found in various arrangements (for example streptococci, staphylococci)? Does cell grouping have any advantages?
Being such a fastidious organism, I definitely didn't expect to see N. gonorrhoeae on here
Lol... Gonorrhea is the Superman's Cryptonite
Check out the iGEM competition to learn what's possible with bacteria.
"These marathon tugging sessions could last for hours and end up pulling ten times harder than when they started." What do my weekend plans have to do with gonorrhea?
Question. What do dogs here when they're here speakers because I could have voices playing like your show pretty loud and then somebody will say something and the dog will bark?
1:57 That's pretty _rad_
Hey SciShow- Please talk about how astronauts can make O2 using life. I keep seeing astronauts dying in space movies due to lack of oxygen and keep wondering why they don't have plants or genetically engineered oxygen-producing, CO2-consuming bacteria or algae or something. Also, how will real astronauts do it? From big machines or big gardens maybe?
Are they good bacteria or bad bacteria?
dear scishow, IS WATER WET!?!?
@amcat8015
6 жыл бұрын
Susie Martinez Well, one molecule of water is not wet for the definition of "wet" is for something to be saturated with water, also known as getting soaked. For something to be wet there needs to be the object in question and water in contact with said object, in this case our object is a water molecule. Since our object is water but only one molecule of it, it is not wet. But usually when we say water we refer to millions of molecules at a time, in contact with each other. From this conclusion, water is wet.
@Argonak1
6 жыл бұрын
Arthur Smith Murray h20 (water) isn't wet, its gains the property of wetness when it has gathered in quantity.
If all of the pathogens had a tug-of-war competition, Nisseria gonorrhoeae would win, hands down Tiny Hercules ahahah
So, could Gonorrhoeae set itself free from that superglue that other bacteria produces?
"....Join earth's mightiest heroes! Thor, Iron Man, The Hulk and Gonorrhea. In their quest too....."
'Remember, just because something is tiny doesn't mean it's not powerful.' Me, a dwarf: :)
The one I found scary is the one we cannot kill with radiation (i.e. the first one shown)
Cant we get a series of bacteria battle?
Bacteria Man, in theatres soon
@8:49 "marathon tugging sessions that last hours and hours" i have those multiple times a week
Yay
Why do these bacteria have such complex names? Can't they have names like, I dunno, Mr. Plastic Eater or something?
@miladsammouh4741
6 жыл бұрын
Saumya Shah I'm not sure if this is a joke, but if it isn't, then you're an idiot.
@miladsammouh4741
6 жыл бұрын
Apemanwithcalculator You're an idiot too.
@Sharyf
5 жыл бұрын
They do, just in latin language
@SonicXRage
4 жыл бұрын
@Gavin We should rename carbon "life glue".
@weaponizedhyperfocus
4 жыл бұрын
The idea of using Latin names is used to create an "universal name", so anywhere you go it'll just be the same. And if you actually look at the translations, those scientific names are actually silly too, but just in another language
You can also use oyster mushrooms to break down anything made from petroleum.
Can you make a video about 432hz tuning in music? Does it really sound better than 440hz? If so why everyone uses 440hz
Yeah about that marvel/DC thing, there is actually a hero who is basically a living influenza virus. Forget her name but she and her species just straight up control viruses and she often even just infects her allies. Not as bad as the guy who uses his arm as a club or the guy or dog welder
Is it cold in the studio or something?
Maybe we can use these to generate power
Pretty sure making it burn when you pee simple by having contact is a super power too.
KZread thanks for recommending this *2 years* later...
"Gonorrhea is awesome" - Michael Aranda, 2018
Oh God I love this