"I have witnessed events so tiny and so fast, they could hardly be said to have occurred at all." - Dr. Manhattan

@mastershooter64

2 жыл бұрын

"The world's smartest man poses no more threat to me, than does it's smartest termite"

@josephallankugler

2 жыл бұрын

oooo

@tomasandel3795

2 жыл бұрын

i was 13 billions years lifeless and had no problem. Now i have to live for a slight moment in time of Universe. Then i die and again will be free. Nice experiment, but i dont understand the meaning of this action.

@albclean

Жыл бұрын

Yep, - Me.

@AJ.Rafael

Жыл бұрын

@@tomasandel3795 sigh

At 75 I am waiting. Mind you I do hope I don't spread myself all over the lounge.

@TheGuyclark1958

4 ай бұрын

lol bro!

@tomorowsnobodys

4 ай бұрын

You’re awesome

@SystemUnderSiege

3 ай бұрын

Eh, make a mess. Leave a mark upon the world.

Hearing Hank green in speaking in such a reserved tone is honestly quite comforting as opposed to his usual jumpy attitude. Not saying I don’t like his usual narration, but this is quite nice too.

@classydemongaming847

2 жыл бұрын

This voice is so fitting for the microcosmos exploration. Reserved for such a small scale

@Barnaclebeard

2 жыл бұрын

Honestly, hearing Hank Green at all takes me out of the content and makes me think about Hank Green; I don't like it.

@MM-vs2et

2 жыл бұрын

I've always heard Hank from the Crash Course series, and have always regarded him as the calmer one, as opposed to the more hyper older brother John

@raeandringa7260

2 жыл бұрын

So well put!

@michaelwerkov3438

2 жыл бұрын

oh. shit. no wonder its so familiar

The past few months I've lost quite a few family members. This video is oddly comforting. We don't all have the same experiences in life but from our unicellular ancestors billions of years ago to future generations of people, we all share in this. It is humbling and comforting. Thank you

@skandakumar2457

2 жыл бұрын

i lost my father a year ago...i know pain

@ShinigamisBlade

2 жыл бұрын

@@skandakumar2457 I'm sorry for your loss! I hope you can take comfort in this video too

@waterheaterservices

2 жыл бұрын

We without design?

@mustafaa.8886

Жыл бұрын

Hope you get well soon. Im sorry to hear that

@Jan96106

10 ай бұрын

Shakespeare thought so too.

I think this cured part of my nihilistic thinking. I was often so accustomed to being apathetic towards life because when you look at the world around you and all the humans in it, you feel like you are just a small inifinitesimal cog in a machine and if you were not there it wouldn't matter. But this video helps me look at life in the complete opposite. No matter how small you think you are, there will always be something else smaller than you. This organism will live a life much more chaotic and brutal than yours, and as every day passes - and as every breath passes you should be grateful for the relative stability, comfort and safety that allows you to sit in your house watching this video without the same level of danger that these poor organisms have to face.

@_dadas

9 ай бұрын

🫂

@elenamilitopingitore5044

4 ай бұрын

I am a cognizant cog though

@Juju_The_Dude

2 ай бұрын

Awesome way to look at it! It's also crazy how, even tho we're not consciously aware of it, a lot of what's shown in this videos is happening on us and inside of us.

I went down a KZread suggested video rabbit hole and I ended up here and I'm loving it so far! I usually go out into space but today im going into 'inner space'. Brilliant channel!

@jazzchatman2430

2 жыл бұрын

Yr name is nasty😳

@milevaeinstein2199

2 жыл бұрын

💞

@yubalzurita6226

Жыл бұрын

They both are so similar. Like if everything was a web 🕸 of life.

@SithMami

Жыл бұрын

Great screen name.🤢

@RajeshYadav-to5zq

Жыл бұрын

@@SithMami wassup chick

Watching Loxodes die... I saw that hundreds of times in infinitely more complex beings during my ICU career...that long, often sad, sometimes grateful, always inexorable, slide to equilibrium. "Equilibrium"... what an elegant description. Later in my career I read a doctor's end note. He referred to it as "electrocerebral silence". It never ceases to amaze me, whether one cell or trillions the process, even with all the infinite permutations, is essentially the same. Thank you for making me ponder tonight.

@r.m.5548

Жыл бұрын

Why are people that work as nurses always trying to act like they know anything

@crylune

Жыл бұрын

@@r.m.5548 The truth is they probably do know a lot more than you do

@r.m.5548

Жыл бұрын

@@crylune ooo personal attacks when you have no response. The signature of a low IQ individual.

@aquagamez1415

Жыл бұрын

@@r.m.5548 Because they actually know their stuff?

@r.m.5548

Жыл бұрын

@@aquagamez1415 they don't, that's the point. I worked in a Skilled Nursing Facility and they all thought they knew everything but sadly they couldn't even handle their duties. If you press them on real world application, they get lost very quickly.

I could watch the final seconds of microorganisms for hours. There is something magic seeing life go from a moving, working machine to a bunch of inert goop in a matter of seconds. How can the light that burned so brightly suddenly burn so pale?

@officialspaceefrain

2 жыл бұрын

Low voltage.

@GearHeadedHamster

2 жыл бұрын

I find an inherent fascination in the breakdown of complex systems. All complex systems are nothing more then a large collection of simpler sub parts arranged in clever ways. From transistors on a microchip, to cells in a living animal, to manufactured parts in car, to people in a civilization. All sub parts must do there job for the system to work as a whole. (Homeostasis) But when the parts don't do there job as expected, the system can become "damaged." A damaged system can put undue stress upon other parts which, in turn, can fail and brake down. When enough parts fail, the system as a whole will cease functionality and "Dies." "Disasters don't just happen. They're a chain of critical events. Unravel the fateful decisions in those final, Seconds from Disaster." -Seconds from Disaster And it is thus, where my fascination lies. In the process by witch the dominos fall. How failure cascades through ought the system causing other failures in it's wake. And the mechanisms by witch these can occur. ... Ps. "All the world will be your enemy, Prince with a Thousand Enemies, and whenever they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you, digger, listener, runner, prince with the swift warning. Be cunning and full of tricks and your people shall never be destroyed."

@squishh7805

2 жыл бұрын

@@GearHeadedHamster didnt think anyone read watership down anymore tbh

@GearHeadedHamster

2 жыл бұрын

@@squishh7805 Truth be told, I still haven't. But I have seen the animated movie many times, and is among my favorite movies of all time. (Along with Secret of NIMH.)

@KingDuken

2 жыл бұрын

But it’s not magic... It’s science. Saying it’s magic implies something supernatural, which it’s not because it abides by the natural laws of our universe.

This video gave me a very uncomfortable sense of peace. There's something calming about the idea that Death is merely the inevitable coming to equilibrium we all face at the end of our lives.

It's nice to finally find a channel where the narrator actually knows how to use their voice and tone to tell a story.

Death is so real even in the microscopic level, i wonder how organisms with probably no emotions experiences it. Epic compilation!

@jebbsredemption

2 жыл бұрын

Some of these microbes have tiny little brains too. Like rotifers.

@skrimper

2 жыл бұрын

They don't experience anything, they're microorganisms..

@westondavis1682

Жыл бұрын

It's a machine that just grinds to a halt. Has no more awareness than a circular saw. The true line of life is gray, that is where does something become more than a machine, at what complexity does the machine become life?

@skyetc4317

Жыл бұрын

maybe they automatically just surrender and release?

@somewhataddicted7685

Жыл бұрын

@@westondavis1682 but it's considered living. Viruses are what you're explaining but are seen as not living.

Totally fascinating! Takes me back to my college days when I would spend hours and hours at the microscope, often the security guards would have to come get me when they had to turn off the building lights and lock up. I was a nursing major, but so wanted to change to microbiology...my family wouldn't have it. I was an older student and I have regretted some of my decisions...after all it must be hard to find a great college to teach in with a PHD in the areas of chemistry, anatomy/physiology, and microbiology. I was also invited to join an elite senior writer's group as a freshman. Boy that almost took me down a different path, and one I think would have suited me well. Nursing was a thankless yet rewarding career...it took my back and hips and I'm disabled now. Nursing should have a height requirement and physical ability requirement. Thanks for the video and sry for the long comment.

@untermensch787

Жыл бұрын

I'm really sorry that happened to you...

@vietnamkiddo8951

Жыл бұрын

Everything happens for a reason, but the most important thing in life is happiness. Have a wonderful day ❤️

@_dadas

9 ай бұрын

thank you for your service and im sorry at what it cost you. 🫂

The loxodes Magnus part was like watching a human age in a few minutes. It started off looking thin and capable and after it started shedding molecules like humans shed skin and fluids it got smaller and smaller like how some people say you shrink when you get older. Very interesting but also very depressing.

I don't know why, but I'm amazed to find that microbes have lives just like our. They live, eat, breathe, they mate, they reproduce, they die. I think maybe I thought they just existed without a parallel life template. Something about their similarity is touching.

@Centrioless

Жыл бұрын

Every single living being on this planet has to go through the same process: to survive and to reproduce

@crylune

Жыл бұрын

@@Centrioless I'll skip that reproducing part, thanks. Childbirth would kill me. And there shouldn't be any more CO2 producers on this planet.

@Centrioless

Жыл бұрын

@@crylune nature will always correct itself regardless what you do anyway

@skyetc4317

Жыл бұрын

@@crylune saaame.... more humans need to skip the reproducing part!

@anunluckyguy7586

Жыл бұрын

@@skyetc4317nah, the more the better

Good job, guys. You really killed it with this one!

@Jhakaas_Jai

10 ай бұрын

Literally...💀

@franki1990

9 ай бұрын

HEY!

A fitting video, in a strange way, to watch on the day I'm due to give birth, while waiting for labor to ramp up

@coal9205

2 жыл бұрын

So how's ya tiny human doing?

@-A-c

2 жыл бұрын

May all your cells have the strength to do what needs doing

@andrearupe8094

Жыл бұрын

​@Coal my tiny human is crawling now and he is a happy healthy human 💚

"The death remains the same" is a line you expect to hear from a death-metal vocalist, not Chill Hank Green.

@aaronengle9344

3 ай бұрын

No,... no, my friend.. Not a "Death Metal" but a "MetalCore" vocalist. 😅

I did not expect a philosophical discourse from a microbiology video

@franki1990

9 ай бұрын

When you go that deep into the matter the lines that separate both start to blur as well

@emiliotorres9303

9 ай бұрын

Science describes natural phenomena very well, whilst philosophy deals to the abstract. Both are important. Learn both.

Hank is the best teacher I know. He taught me most of what I know about chemistry and psychology. He’s a treasure!

I loved microbiology class! I also worked in the lab for my work study, preparing petri dishes with agar. It was fun and one day my instructor made an announcement to point out the the petri dishes I prepared were the cleanest she had seen lol Not a spec of contamination! I was so proud of that ☺️

Micro organism horror stories. Yeah, we need more of these.😂

Given that my physiology prof back in the 70s told us that LIFE is "an action potential," death defined as "achieving equilibrium", makes perfect sense.

I LOVE your Channel! This was one of the greatest Microbiology expositions I've EVER seen! Please keep up the outstanding work with your quality content & I wish u a lot of future success!!!

Every time when watching the cosmos or the micro cosmos, I forget about all my real life problems and only remember to appreciate life as it is and reminded to be present in Now. Delicate negotiation, beautifully said! Wonderful efforts for this video, biologically and psychologically! Thank you!

I remember watching the UV Blepharisma video a while back and thinking, "wow, those things are like the vampires of the microcosmos. And Hank is the narrator of a microscopic genocide." Beautiful.

This is really creative, visually interesting and the narration is descriptive and insightful. I really appreciated the added definition of life and death from a thermodynamic perspective. Thanks for sharing this type of top quality content and expanding our collective knowledge. More please! 😊

gotta say, the most terrifying part was the fungi one. just watching that worm squirm and try to escape, that is horrifying

You guys do such fantastic work! Thank you for making our own microscopic world available to our conscious minds!

Fascinating! Death is a beautiful release from pain, sometimes.

I've seen some cases where you ask questions about some organism or behavior you can't identify and there's comments debating or pointing out an answer. Do you think you could do a compilation of mysteries that you've managed to solve?

A wonderful narrative and superbly narrated ✅ Thank you everyone involved in showing me something I never would have got the opportunity to see

The talent and vision in this painless lecture...AMAZING! Should be mandatory in microobio classes!

I’m watching this the night before Halloween and it’s easily more unsettling than any of the “horror” I’ve watched this week.

That's so weird how quickly they explode or disintegrate, like hitting an off-switch.

This channel is wonderful, so much love making it, love into it and for it! From us as viewers. Greatings from Venezuela, keep it up guys!

Thank you for the great narration. I often walk away from educational videos annoyed by there smug, know it allness. Your narration is sort of humble and poetic.

I find I am quite saddened by the deaths of these tiny creatures. Damn you, menopause 😵

A compilation video! I am so excited and proud of this channel. 😁

Best video yet. Many thanks for your time well spent 🙏🏼

This is incredible! Only subscribed because it was mentioned in the census and then thought I’d try the video when it popped up - can’t wait to watch more

The great mystery of life: How did a bunch of chemicals in a system ruled entirely by entropy suddenly assume a form capable of resisting that entropy?

@eroraf8637

2 жыл бұрын

Very clever ways of shedding that entropy into the environment. All derived in some way from sunlight.

@mrsupremegascon

2 жыл бұрын

We don't assume it, we all know we can't. But we try to resist as long as we can anyway.

@imnotdavidxnsx

Жыл бұрын

it's actually not a huge mystery in modern times. On the grand scale of the universe, we tend toward entropy. But on the small scale of places like the earth, we're a system being constantly fed energy from our sun which is why we grow more complex instead of chaotic. Entropy assumes a closed system, i.e. without a constant supply of external energy, which is not the system we have on earth.

In my lab about 15 yrs ago, I have seen an exactly similar organism like the one you presented here. I have never seen it before and I drew it and contacted the seniors. Allas no one was helpful. It was an extremely rare chance to see it.

This could be a relaxing night time audio book. Both deep and soothing. 💗 Except "funji" that pronunciation FREAKS ME OUT 😭😂

This put me in a peaceful, yet terrified, trance-like state. I love it! :D

I'm surprised youtube hasn't labeled this a snuff video, with how crazy they are about taking stuff down recently.

@SeleneBeatty

23 күн бұрын

H

Why did it take me so long to find you?? Thank you. Your humour and content is outstanding.

Hands down the best video I’ve seen in awhile❤I absolutely live for this stuff. I love being alive. I want to know EVERYTHING❤

I wonder if some being i couldn't even begin to comprehend will witness my death from above.. Well, i suppose that's much less likely than a being that i can atleast somewhat understand witnessing my death... but then understanding death is even harder to understand. Im high af.

In all seriousness though -- this was an amazing and informative video! :)

Strangely enough your soothing voice is very catchy it makes death peaceful.

The way you described life was so concrete and accurate… and it… I don’t even know what to say… this video gives me a lot to think about

Thank GOD Hank is back

@Barnaclebeard

2 жыл бұрын

Disagree.

I am too depressed to watch this video. I love the Microcosmos videos but I have seen too much death and destruction lately. Even though these organisms are tiny I still feel for them.

@NGC1433

2 жыл бұрын

There is no time to be depressed. You will die soon. We all will.

@enzonazzaro2156

2 жыл бұрын

death implies life our own death is an extant form of life, especially on a microcosmic scale. its all the same energy and matter playing out each life form and being distributed into the environment to form again in the event of death. Don't get too worried about one half of duality life and death they define each other.

@_dadas

9 ай бұрын

🫂

Watching those cells at ~28:00 is crazy because it looks like a spaceship detonating in a scifi movie. That's insane and I'm here for it.

Thank you, quite captivating and amazing! Instructive, sobering, everything good.

These videos help me sleep at night, but NOT because they're boring or anything, no, quite the opposite! These videos are mesmerizing and hypnotic, and even though the topic, here, is death, I'm more than intrigued and calmed, simultaneously. Life is so vast and diverse and my views aren't held back by arbitrary "definitions". I feel at peace, when watching this channel. I swear, sometimes, that some of these organisms are self aware. They must be, to some extent. Otherwise, active predation might not exist in the microcosmos. What is the current criteria for "Awareness"?

Excelente, me encantó. Te felicito!!!!!

The perfect length and soothing voice for a Sunday nap.

This was the best documentary ever! Covered all my favorite topics :D

Might report for bacteria abuse. That Blepharisma did nothing to you !

It’s funny. I had an experience a couple days ago where someone pointed a gun at me and threatened to kill me. And now, after watching this video, I’m just left thinking these microbes do not care. They function, they act with the sole purpose of maintaining higher complexity and physiological function, but we humans have a special gift to perceive the world around us and feel sheer joy and sheer terror at the infinite complexity of life and the universe around us. Yet as humans, we are so ready and willing to take that gift away from each other without hesitation. What is wrong with us? Why are we so clouded in poor judgment that we might threaten each other with death, why can’t we take a step back and realize the value in preserving life and experiencing it? I don’t know I didn’t think I would ever have to live through that experience. I don’t know why anyone ever has experience that sheer terror.

@waterheaterservices

2 жыл бұрын

Sin

@LowPassMountain

Жыл бұрын

As presented in the video, killing is as normal as eating. It can be a bullet or fungal infection. It's been happening for billions of years and sadly the gun has been created by creatures that want an easier kill. Terror comes from the fear of death but there's nothing to fear. You were already dead before you were born.

@catsarerude

Жыл бұрын

Love the way you said all of this. I'm glad you are still here to experience life. ❤

@pianospeedrun

Жыл бұрын

I find it miraculous that we even care for each other in general

@_dadas

9 ай бұрын

🫂

One of the best things about exploring the microcosmos is - no fossil fuel needed AND - just as extraordinary!!

I have not been so thrilled with these videos since my father, a Fellow of the Linnean Society, showed me views down his microscope when I was a teenager in the late 50s. The thrill was extended when I started studying zoology at London University and saw Paramoecioum, Amoeba, Hydra and others. The extraordinary colours of sea slugs stay in my mind. So thank you for the wonderful adventures that allow us to accompany you as well as for the philosophical introductions about the progression from life to death. (A small point: please indicate the exact source of the water samples. Noah would have had a difficult time collecting all the specimens for his ark!).

A veces me pregunto si los seres microscópicos tendrán alguna especie de conciencia o si tiene no se algo como un alma. Decir que un ser es vivo es algo muy complicado, pero los que tenemos en común todos es la muerte.

@lisandrocombin8813

Жыл бұрын

Hablando desde lo poco que sé, podría decirte que no. La conciencia al igual que los pensamientos y muchos otros factores y comportamientos, no son más que conexiones sinápticas generadas por neuronas y almacenadas, de una forma u otra, en el cerebro. Pero más allá de eso, tu planteo es súper inquietante, y también llegué a pensar eso... Creo que tendemos a ese pensamiento porque desde lo humano nos cuesta creer que los microorganismos se manejan solamente por estímulos sin procesamientos complejos como los que realiza nuestro cuerpo. Es asombroso.

@Caterinak84

Жыл бұрын

Eso que te pasa se llama antropomorfismo, das imoortancia humana a esas cosas?

Fascinating what goes on in a drop of water, a different world. Your narration is excellent, engrossing and calm. I seem to recall your voice from another channel, but louder and slightly jarring if I'm being honest.

@friendlyoldpieceofapoppedp711

2 жыл бұрын

It’s Hank green (I believe?) he’s a really cool dude, and I agree that hearing him so calm here is startling but quite comforting.

@Jake1973_

2 жыл бұрын

@@friendlyoldpieceofapoppedp711 that's it! Thanks

Just bought my first scope and I have this channel to thank!

Wow, this is so great. The narration, the writing the footage.

Would a group of bacteria turn into a plume of micro dust in a uv light? If so I need to see that!

_Смотреть этот канал, он правда блестящий, но меня не затянуло... То-ли устала сегодня, то-ли не мое ,но мне одного раза достаточно, там посмотрим. Я знаю, есть человек , который может часами наблюдать за этими микроорганизмами и от этого будет ловить кайф._

Fascinating. ..I've never seen such clear and detailed videos. ...😮

was supposed to be doing my final biochemistry lab report but now im having an existential crisis

I always wonder if in some strange way these creatures realise they are dying, whether through being eaten or just naturally coming to an end. It is often stated that the need to eat, reproduce, danger avoidance etc. is only instinct. But where can such exist in single cellular animals? I've always been fascinated by death in a morbid way (no I'm not a serial killer...), I find it strange to think one day I will cease to exist, (which as a middle aged, smoker is probably nearer than average). I'm not afraid of my own death, as I see it as a new adventure. If there is an afterlife of some form, what may that be? If there is only oblivion then I wont even notice so it wont matter. In case someone comes along and either gives me their religion's version or the opposite but equally unprovable atheist answer, know that I am agnostic so neither is a satisfying explanation. But either way, watching something die no matter it's shape, size or form is rather sad and profoundly moving.

"What is death" is actually an easy question to answer. Death is equilibrium. Entropy.

@marzipanmango

2 жыл бұрын

That's what sometimes happens to matter after death (if it doesn't get taken into another organism) but the moment of death of an organism is different I think.

@rustyshackleford9888

2 жыл бұрын

This is addressed in the second video starting at 8:40, and specifically addressed at 14:01, where Hanks says that death isn't equilibrium, it's "the moment when the system that maintains the far from equilibrium state [of life] ceases existence." E.g., a decaying corpse is certainly dead but it hasn't reached equilibrium yet. However the system of biological processes and mechanisms that normally maintained the body far from equilibrium with its environment during life have ended, so it is on it's way toward reaching equilibrium.

This was a great episode! I enjoyed it very much 👍🏼👍🏼

Lovely. Thanks for making these awesome videos.

It's the commentary that makes this channel so special

Utterly fascinating- liked and subbed. And I'm totally idiot on biology. This was excellent production very good narration, honestly better than 99% of discovery channels etc.

Fantastic video. Subscribed straight away. Stretches the mind

I feel like every other week is a video about "death in the microcosmos" 😅 keep em comin!!!

This is one of the most amazing videos that I watched. And this prompted the idea of ​​why we live. Linus Torvalds wrote that the ultimate goal of Human is pleasure. But pleasure is a traveler of life. The ultimate goal is the development and accumulation of experience.

Awesome. A 34 minute video? So Ready to enjoy this. 😄👍

Great verbal expression. The one thing that viewers would benefit from even more, would be the use of a pointer device or more detailed reference when discussing a particular entity or area, since most of us may not know which organism we should be observing. It would help for better comprehension.

ive been waiting for this one for a while

@16:00 I also found it amazing that this Cellit had the distinction Front and back , as it swam along !

What a unique channel, never seen anything like this before.

This is INCREDIBLE content!

Dude. I remember seeing David Attenborough and his way of showing how life plays out and was really captivating. Your channel reminds me of him but on the microcosm scale.

You’re a dark horse, Hank. Thank you for this channel, which constantly renews my wonder at the endless variety and unending tenacity of life. There’s a fascinating similarity between these microscopy images, and the footage from the deep-sea submarines. These otherworldly creatures, sometimes very alien in appearance, and often translucent. These discoveries renew my sense of wonder about our world. ❤

Wonderful video. As a biology student I love this.

Hooray. Lovely narrator is back. I noticed maybe %50 of the reason I follow this channel is the expertise and beauty of the narrator's narration. Or is this a collection of old videos?!

Your voice your presentation pure poetry. Thank you.

Thanks for sharing this story..

Wonderful Episode

the video was very helpful ..... good way to learn

i watch alot of youtube and that was 16:10 that i was GLUED to the screen and i dont know why. I almost made me think of space and chemicals, stars, dust, flying around just becoming stardust again. I almost makes death seem like a honor.

9:06 what is it that touched that Loxodes and started it dying? It is a little cylindrical structure that it touches before it starts to die? It seems like it irreparably damaged the cell membrane, it momentarily repaired but then just started meling again. The older I get the sadder I become knowing that my short life is never going to be enough to fulfill my thirst for knowledge! Life is a bunch of chemicals that take in energy to keep each other from reaching equilibrium. Dude this is the most mind blowing description of life ever! Great video guys, thank you for sharing!

Precioso vídeos. Gracias por vuestro trabajo, seguro que detrás hay muchas horas de preparación y edición.

I hope I can get an infinity microscope for DIC one day. The footage produced here is so good!

this is like the best thing i have ever watched

This was extraordinary!! Thank you