Engineering a black hole that SWALLOWS REALITY!
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Tasty Planet Forever, a game where you learn about the smallest units of measurement as you grow a black hole that can only swallow single atoms at a time to one that ends the entire universe as it swallows reality!
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I am honestly surprised Matt has never heard of a tardigrade. I don’t know much about biology or chemistry but I know what a tardigrade is. They look like bears in a space suit. They are quite famous I think.
@MergeMechanic7395
10 ай бұрын
Bears, hence the nickname "Water bears." They can survive months, if not years, w/o water. They can survive the most extreme of environments, such as space, volcanos, the deep sea, and even Ohio.
@MergeMechanic7395
10 ай бұрын
Also I forgot to say that some very few people are able too them with the naked eye.
@Arighan86
10 ай бұрын
and there is a reason for them to be famous. They are the most resilient beings we know. Able to survive practically everything including nuclear war.
@hoebare
10 ай бұрын
"Water bear don't care!"
@MergeMechanic7395
10 ай бұрын
@@Arighan86 Yup. They're truly amazing, and I believe(bet) if we're ever gonna start life on Mars, those tartigrades are gonna be the first test. In relatively closed captivity, of course. No exploring too far the Martian lands, at least a large glass dome, like a greenhouse. Or the moon, or some other potentially habitable world.
"This is an atom of water" water is certainly an element, yes Matt 👍
@fuzzyotterpaws4395
10 ай бұрын
Yes, obviously, h20 is water. What are you trying to say?
@thepuppet7021
10 ай бұрын
Water isn't a atom, that's a molecule
@bigshot103
10 ай бұрын
@@fuzzyotterpaws4395 there are no water atoms only molecules its made of 2 hydrogen atoms and 1 oxygen atom
@Jorja_47
10 ай бұрын
it’s a molecule 😊
@nobody.of.importance
9 ай бұрын
@@fuzzyotterpaws4395 Lol. It's okay man, we all goof up from time to time.
Its confirmed RCE is an architect "everyone knows architecture is bacterial infection" and proceeds to save bacterias from phages
@notthatbad42
10 ай бұрын
At least he did eat the bacteria as well afterwards... but yes, still stupid
@meklu
10 ай бұрын
It's right there in the name bacteriophage too - a thing that eats bacteria.
@darko_ii7813
10 ай бұрын
The au - astronomical unit killed it for me
@sabrinatasrib
10 ай бұрын
That baby rat is real They live in your skin
@gimma_ubtube1171
9 ай бұрын
I thought exactely the same🤣 and dies of laughter
"Wet Black Hole" was something Matt never needed to say...
@seriousseth11
10 ай бұрын
Wot
@Talderas
10 ай бұрын
Better than "Oh boy, I'm about to eat your Uranus and I am excited."
@davidaugustofc2574
10 ай бұрын
I thought Matt had a wet white hole, but I was wrong
@JavierSalcedoC
10 ай бұрын
"water atoms"
@Malco.S
10 ай бұрын
when tho
No neutrons in a typical hydrogen nucleus. The game got that wrong. It’s illustrating deuterium, a rare H isotope.
@CaTastrophy427
10 ай бұрын
Game also got the diameter measurement wrong, he was twice the mass of the sun when he discovered mountain ranges.
@YMandarin
10 ай бұрын
@@CaTastrophy427 nah the mass of the black hole doesnt matter here the diameter measurement is kinda accurate, though I think its radius instead of diameter
@Geerice
10 ай бұрын
@@YMandarin The mass determines the diameter of the black hole. A black hole the size of a golf ball is more massive than the earth.
@Juliemc
10 ай бұрын
I mean it depend so. What you mean as black hole becouse if your talking about a singularity, then ot has no size
@theanomynusguy
10 ай бұрын
how do i vaguely understand this
The scariest thing about this game is the amount of things that can remove mass from a black hole 🤔
@nobody.of.importance
9 ай бұрын
Kurzgesagt recently did a video on how to destroy black holes. Worth checking out!
@syzko3387
8 ай бұрын
Tardigrade always wins
@larusaronhoffmann4621
8 ай бұрын
Ævig lvl
"Coccus" is one of the words used to describe a bacteria's shape. It means round or spherical. There's also "Bacillus", which is rod-shaped (long and thin) and spiral shaped ones simply called "spiral bacteria".
Matt is saving the architects: if architecture is a bacterial disease, then destroying bacteriophages (viruses that infect bacteria) is helping the bacteria to grow and multiply.
@theonewhofcks7650
10 ай бұрын
I'm glad someone said it 👍
@acaseymonster
10 ай бұрын
I thought that too 😂 I was really having a time with the misidentification of viruses and bacteria!
@gimma_ubtube1171
9 ай бұрын
I died there of laughter🤣
@thevoicestoldmetoagain4627
9 ай бұрын
I imagine bacteriophages to some extent unintentionally help some bacterias evolve into tougher species.
The biology talk made me feel a deep pain. I imagine it feels the same as Matt listening to architects
@photoo848
9 ай бұрын
And how does he not know what an Astronomical Unit (AU) is?
@freewayross4736
6 ай бұрын
@@photoo848Bro he was a civil engineer for roads what you expect
@photoo848
6 ай бұрын
@@freewayross4736 I expect him to have read the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy as part of his course material on constructing intergalactic by-passes.
8:50 Matt you've probably eaten spirulina before and not even known, it's extract is "No artificial ingredients" blue food colo(u)ring.
Tardigrades are also known as water bears, so you probably have actually heard of them at some point. They're the little things that can survive extreme temperatures, radiation, suffocation, dehydration, starvation, and outer space.
@fuzzyotterpaws4395
10 ай бұрын
Nope. Never heard of those. The American education syetem doesn't teach us about things like that lol
@WackoMcGoose
10 ай бұрын
They're what almost ate Hank Pym on his trip to the Quantum Realm.
@dollydoll6284
10 ай бұрын
@@fuzzyotterpaws4395 Nah they teach us about lgbtq+ because they need to be 'ReCoGnIsEd' but jokes aside, its some knowledge that is lying around on youtube shorts
@TwiliPaladin
9 ай бұрын
@@dollydoll6284They don't teach that either, but that just helps more to drive the point home. The American education system as a whole is a hundred years behind the rest of the world.
@zacross8504
2 ай бұрын
The best description of them I have ever heard is that they are an anti-mage build in a world without mages
Fun fact: if the earth turned into a black hole, it would have a diameter of roughly 2 centimeters.
@InfiniX0001
10 ай бұрын
Still bigger then my co-
@Friendly_Neighborhood_Dozer
10 ай бұрын
That’s more than I thought
@Goldendroid
10 ай бұрын
@@Friendly_Neighborhood_Dozerif you think about how much stuff is compressed into those 2cm, that’s very very small.
@SullySadface
10 ай бұрын
@@GoldendroidStill a fuckload of mass.
@Friendly_Neighborhood_Dozer
10 ай бұрын
@@Goldendroid I still thought it would only be a couple mm
Matt not knowing what a typical virus looks like killed me
I feel personally attacked by the ability to consume only one quark without causing a massive explosion.
@elder_j_gaming721
8 ай бұрын
I mean it’s not colliding with another but being torn apart on an even smaller level. So ion think there would be an explosion. When he got big enough to eat multiple in one gulp tho. Good question. I’m no scientist or nothing. So please educate.
@IabesQ
8 ай бұрын
@@elder_j_gaming721 quarks can't exist solo, the amount of energy require to pull one off a pair or triad is enough to create a new one. You can *never* have a lone quark.
@elder_j_gaming721
8 ай бұрын
@@IabesQ fascinating. So if one is pulled away via black hole. Does the universe just glitch and spawn another there?
@IabesQ
8 ай бұрын
@@elder_j_gaming721 sorta! It's the E=mc² thing; at some point there's so much energy that you have enough mass to pop fresh particles into the universe.
@elder_j_gaming721
8 ай бұрын
@@IabesQ isn’t that what some believe to be dark matter? The ability of a mass able to just exist and not exist?
Despite some errors, this game (and, even more surprisingly, Matt) is pretty accurate on the quantum, particle, molecular, and other sciences. The existence of the electron probability clouds was a level of accuracy I did not expect.
@I_XuMuK_I
10 ай бұрын
As a chemist I totally would be a jerk about the form of the clouds and relative sizes of molecules xD
@phluid61
10 ай бұрын
@@I_XuMuK_I something something d orbitals? (I don't remember high school chemistry, that was the '90s)
@fuzzyotterpaws4395
10 ай бұрын
I don't know any of this. I blame the American education system lol
@Wodan94
10 ай бұрын
But it gets complete off and fucked up on larger scales...
@thevoicestoldmetoagain4627
9 ай бұрын
@@fuzzyotterpaws4395Then blame yourself and your parents. I learned half of this in middle school. Whats your excuse?
I lost it when Matt “I’m about to eat Uranus and I’m excited” 😂😂😂😂😂😂 15:04
11:07 that size of black hole would probably have like the mass of jupiter... So "very large" is an understatement 😂
In atoms, "the thing around" is not a "magnetic field" (as per Matt the Wise), but rather electrons in the form of "electron density cloud" (because in this state, electrons exist more like a wave rather than like a particle).
Iron oxide is just rust I think. Tardigrade is also called a water bears. They are super tough. They can be released into the vacuum if space for years then brought in and they will come back to life with a bit of water
5:34 says he is curing architecture, "which is a bacterial infection", when he is eating a type of virus that infects bacteria. My biology teacher would be disappointed...😅
Civies are landscapers that passed calculus
@RealCivilEngineerGaming
10 ай бұрын
Wash your mouth out young man!
@ignaofficial1353
10 ай бұрын
@@RealCivilEngineerGaming we need bridge compilation from city skylines.
a black hole that small (at the beginning) would disappear in a instant through hawking radiation.
@sampyuays
10 ай бұрын
🤓
14:59 had me dying 😂😂
I thought RCE would know more about physics being an engineer. I guess he's secretly been an architect the whole time
@IcedReaver
6 ай бұрын
The direction of intelligence is clearly Physicist > Engineer > Architect
Your knowledge of particle physics was impressive
@GummieI
10 ай бұрын
His knowledge of metric units, was concerning though
Matt butchering biology is my new favourite thing to watch 🦆
18:02 fucking love that they included the one true god in the game. The Flying Spaghetti Monster.
I like the idea of three universes forming some quarks
Thank you matt for this....i am a science professor and i was dying of laughter the whole way🤣 lets say you got some notion of science but i wouldn't wanna have you as my doctor😂😂😂
@gimma_ubtube1171
9 ай бұрын
You know what matt i will make this a science exam to point out the inconsistencies....it will be hilarious
Have you ever played the Dyson Sphere program? I think it'll really fit your style and as an engineer I can confirm you'll enjoy it too.
6:05 that is quite a strong shape for the bacteria and viruses to make
17:20 A parsec is a unit of measurement. They are approximately 3.26 light years or 3.0857×1016 Meters. The reason in Star Wars Han stated he made the Kessel run in 12 parsecs is because he's an extremally skilled pilot. It normally takes people 20 parsecs to complete. FTL in the Star Wars universe is complicated. To complicated to explain in a simple comment.
"'m like a wet blackhole now" @ 3:15 - is it just me?😂
Matt has never heard of: staphylococcus, probably the single most famous bacterial infection, and spirulina, which is sold in every Tesco (or Waitrose, if he's posh).
@CST1992
10 ай бұрын
You mean staph? Food poisoning?
"...shortly we should be eating protons and neutrons. But for now, it's just yummy, yummy Quarks." After all this time, his brother Rom finally gets to inherit the bar. If only Nog had lived long enough to see it.
@ChiaraWatson
10 ай бұрын
You made me sad now. RIP Nog.
A Picosecond (ps) is a unit of time equal to one trillionth of a second, or 10^-12 seconds. It is typically used to measure very fast processes, such as electronic transitions or chemical reactions at the atomic and molecular level. A Zeptosecond (zs), on the other hand, is an even smaller unit of time, equal to one sextillionth of a second, or 10^-21 seconds. It represents an incredibly brief period of time, often associated with subatomic processes, particularly in the field of quantum physics. Similarly, picometer (pm) and zeptometer (zm) are units of length used to measure distances at different scales. Picometer is equal to one trillionth of a meter, or 10^-12 meters, while zeptometer is equal to one sextillionth of a meter, or 10^-21 meters.
@BelldofersMatlack
10 ай бұрын
The difference between how far light travels in a picosecond (ps) compared to how far it travels in a zeptosecond (zs) is massive. In one picosecond, light travels approximately 0.3 millimeters (mm). This is equivalent to 3 x 10^-7 meters or 3 x 10^-4 kilometers. On the other hand, in one zeptosecond, light only travels a minuscule distance of about 0.0000000000003 millimeters or 3 x 10^-16 meters. Comparing the two, we can see that light travels about 10^9 times further in a picosecond than it does in a zeptosecond. This vast difference in distance highlights the incredible speed at which light travels and the extremely short time intervals involved in measurements at the zeptosecond scale.
@BelldofersMatlack
10 ай бұрын
A rotifer is a microscopic multicellular animal that is found in freshwater environments, as well as in marine and damp terrestrial habitats. They are typically 0.1 to 1 millimeter in size and have a unique feeding mechanism known as the corona, which is a set of cilia located at the anterior end of their body. Rotifers have a complete digestive system and are typically filter feeders, consuming small particles such as algae, bacteria, and other microorganisms. They are important organisms in aquatic ecosystems and play a significant role in nutrient cycling. Here are some common names for rotifers: 1. Wheel animalcules 2. Rotifers 3. Bdelloid rotifers 4. Philodina 5. Brachionus 6. Lecane 7. Collotheca 8. Asplanchna 9. Keratella 10. Notommata These are just a few examples, as there are over 2,000 known species of rotifers with different common names. They can also be confused with tardigrades but rotifers and tardigrades are 2 different phylums.
0:31 as a German, I know that “Quark” is curd cheese.
16:11 I will tell you what a galaxy might taste like.... Probably like a milky way..
7:03 pretty sure that’s an animal cell 😂
Single protons are hydrogen, double protons are dihydrogen, a proton with a neutron are deuterium (a hydrogen isotope), the big blobs like you called them are fluor atoms because they have 8 protons and 8 neutrons, witch mean element #8 (because 8 protons). At 8:30 it’s a tartigrade, the strongest living thing in existence. It can survive pretty much anything, harsh conditions of space (no pressure, no atmosphere, high radiations, very hot and cold), dehydrated environments, etc. 1 mega meter is 1 000 000 meters. 1 au is the distance between earth and the sun, witch is about 150 000 000 kilometers 1 parsec is a unit of distance, it is about 3,26 lightyears, one lightyear is the distance light travel in one earth year, witch is about 9.461x10^15 meters or 9,461e+15, 1 meters. 1 parsec sould be about 2,8382e+16 meters. (It’s a very big distance)
always good to see archuitechts simp over the engineer
Your biology teacher must have been an architect in disguise
Totally got the BBC Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy reference in the audio, at the end. Gave me a chuckle. Loved that mini series.
As a biologist who feels like didint learn anything about chemestry and microbiology during university, this video made me realize that I did indeed learn stuff xD thanks XD
9:17 apparently Motorway Matt has not seen the Moss Piglets episode of South Park or watched Star Trek: Discovery. Interesting. 🤔 I'm starting to have some doubts about his engineering credentials
@rachelcookie321
10 ай бұрын
I love Star Trek but Star Trek discover kinda sucks. I stopped watching it during the first season, I couldn’t watch anymore.
Hey RCE love your content. Watching you play always makes me want to play the same games too! It would be really helpful if you could link the games played in the video in the description too
tardigrade or waterbear Are really cool animals. They can survive almost anywhere they can even survive in space for a limited time
i was genuinely so excited to see the tardigrade (at 9 ish min) - if you don't end up looking it up further in the video, you should! They're so cool!
Bacteriophage is not a bacteria, but the things u ate next are.
Next video you should make a planet full of architects and destroy it
I'm am attorney, but actually got my BA in astrophysics (not a lot of job opportunities in astrophysics these days 🤷♂️). All these things (like spirulina and tardigrades) are real things. I missed the day on space manta rays and spaghetti monsters but don't doubt they're out there somewhere. You can actually see tardigrades in basically every water source - and they're super durable and can live in a vacuum as I recall. Very cool little creatures. But having a background in astrophysics, if a black hole that size was near a human, it would be all over for the human and everything else... A 1millimeter blackhole would have a mass roughly 10% earth's mass. That would mean about of 1/3 our planet would be immediately available as food and would start being pulled towards it and form an accretion disc with a temperature of 1billion degrees Kelvin (999,999,727 Celsius or 1,799,999,540 Fahrenheit). The sun's surface is only 6,000 kelvin and it's corona is 1million kelvin for comparison. If it had a relative velocity of 12km/s or less it would orbit earth with its accretion disc causing havoc and destruction for everything. A 1mm black hole cannot form in the current universe but it would have been possible shortly after the big bang and would have fit in the upper range of allowed mass.
@deaclavilis6760
4 ай бұрын
Probably a 1mm black hole would immediately fall into the inner parts of the Earth with its emerging accretion disc which is destructively shining and crushing everthing on its way. Then it wrecks the whole surface due to the complete planetary destabilization through the destruction of everything inside within the Earth while it follows its orbit that shakes the whole planet. As the result, there would be only left some hot pieces of rock and molten metal as the remaings of the once planet Earth around the insanely spining and shining black hole.
"Go away squishy boob! I don't like you." Is something I'll never say... ever.
This is definitive proof that engineers have no bio classes
@user-ff7gt5sk9b
Ай бұрын
So ?
there is a absolutely amazing size comparison video (on youtube) called "Star Size Comparison 3 ( Vortex )", which goes from below Quarks to Galaxy super clusters (and back). Really cool and contains many the x-ometers. It also has a title that massively undersells, what it is.
@smilemore1997
10 ай бұрын
Bro.... that video is... intoxicating.. thank you so much for referencing it. It gave me chills dude...
9:14 Tardigrades are famous for being able to survive in extreme environments. They can survive: 1 at the bottom of the sea next to lava. 2 without food for ages. And 3, In the vacuum of space! They are some of the smallest animals (,yes they’re animals,) in existence! You can find them just about anywhere!
@espneindanke9172
10 ай бұрын
Bärtierchen ^^ (the german word for them) It means "(smal, little, cute) bear animal"
BRB, converting all these measurements into imperial units.
@LadyLexyStarwatcher
10 ай бұрын
Funny thing, I am in the USA and on those scales in the early game make more sense to me in metric units because in all fields of science we use metric. It is easier for me to visual Zeta and Femto meters than 7/8th inch.
13:12 Fun fact! The structure of atoms is remarkably repeated constantly as you increase in size. Our cities and towns develop in a similar structure. As does our solar system. And our galaxy. And the universe as a whole That orbitin of smaller bodies around larger bodies is what makes the Universe, from the smallest of scales to the largest of scales
Thank you for playing - I forgot of this game series' existence! I had used to play it all the time ages ago
Even architects know tardigrades aka waterbears. Those are like the cutest thingies! And they might even survive nigh anything!
Imagine how many quarks you get when you eat a nebula
@tres909
10 ай бұрын
That number would be astronomical
@phluid61
10 ай бұрын
At _least_ 3.
If reality as we know it exists in three spacial dimensions, that must make this the first ever top-down 4D game.
RCE, this game reminds me of an older game called Solar 2. You should take a peek at it as it is very similar. Doesn't start *that* small though and you don't start as a black hole (in fact you have to run away from them until later... then you eat them).
1:55 You're wrong about everything! LOL.
always fun to watch :)
Thats what all the dongdong are for The big BLACK hole😂
au is an Astronomical Unit, which is the average distance between the Earth and the Sun. Parsec is derived from parallax-arcsecond, and is equivalent to a little over 3 light years
This game seems to have been made by a biochemist, and not a physicist. Truly the architects of the hard sciences.
For proper engineering, there should be an option for engineering notation instead of scientific prefixes.
So Matt, is a naval architect an engineer or and architect?
@sampyuays
10 ай бұрын
NO ARCHITECT THATS FORBIDDEN ARCHITECTS SUCK
Elements are determined by the number of protons. The number of neutrons is variable, as elements have isotopes. Various bacteria and protozoa. AU are astronomical units, or the distance from the sun to Earth's orbit. 93 million miles, or there about. Parsec stands for 'parallax second.' So if you observe an object, note it's location, and then look it again in six months, you've taken two sightings with a base of Earth's orbit. If it shifts a second of arc, that's a parsec. Or about 22 light years.
hi nice vid like always just for ur info one "au" its called Astronomnical Unit its the middle distance earth to Sun so its round about 150.000.000 km
Fun fact:A tardigrade can survive anything and everything
@brandonlaird6876
10 ай бұрын
Some say those tardigrades in the black hole can still hear Matt's maniacal laughter to this day...
@AllThingsRuckus
10 ай бұрын
10x global extinction champion?
7:50 - I knew it… Matt is gay
@friendlygamerwhale9967
2 ай бұрын
well, he does talk about the "strongest shape" a lot
5:51 No in recent years phage treatment has begun and these phases only attack enemy bacteria, AKA non-friendly’s to the human body
“Au” = Astronomical Unit, the average distance between the center of the earth and the center of the sun (149.6 million kilometers). --------- 1 parsec = 3.26 light years = 206,245 Astronomical Units (au) = 30.9 trillion Km Since space and time exist as space-time, a parsec could be said to measure distance… or relative distance when traveling at a different speed than the observer. Side note: Han Solo wasn’t necessarily wrong when he claimed to have “…made the Kessel Run in 12 parsecs.” That be a way to state how fast the Millennium Falcon was going in warp speed, only experiencing 12 parsecs of distance due to the speed, even though the actual distance was farther.
as a doctor is so funny to hear an engineer talking abut cells and stuff hahaha love you dude!
for those wondering: 'coccus' and 'bacillus' are names for bacteria that denotes what shape theyre in. 'Coccus' means 'sphere shaped' and 'bacillus' means 'rod/pill shaped'. theres also spiral shaped ones with are further split into two groups, depending on whether theyre rigid and stiff or flexible known as spirillum (rigid) and spirochete (flexible)
2:38 No, that’s the Electron cloud/Field/Ring/Whatever, just that the Electrons move so fast. Not a magnetic field.
Hey RCE nice knowledge of chemistry but the field around the atoms are not magnetic but are the electron clouds and the brighter/ concentrated outer line is were there is more possibility of finding the electron .
RCE eats stuff he never heard of before. I thought that’s what architects do for breakfast.
The Pastafarions are celebrating the confirmation of the great spaghetti monster.
A tardigrade is a cellular organism that (maybe) eats other cellular organisms, they are quite easy to find and observe, due to their slow speed and accessible habitat, which is moss on trees.
This video is a gold mine for out-of-context Matt
9:13 How the heck Matt is on the internet AND never heard of tardigrades?
I wasn't expecting that great reference to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
This man has never stepped in a biology class ever.
2:40 it is actually the electrons. The lates model of atoms doesn't potrayed electrons as small ball that orbit nuclues anymore. They potrayed it as area of possibility where the electrons might exist at any given time, since electrons just move that fast that they practically could be almost everywhere on the atom's surface in less then a second.
au (Astronomical Units) being pronounced as awws was brilliant lol.
For the mesurments an au is short for astronomical unit where each one is the distance of the earth to the sun
>surrounded by individual stars >sees nebula "are these galaxies?"
1 AU (Astronomical Unit) = The distance from the Sun to the Earth, or about 8 light seconds Didn't expect that to be useful knowledge. Thanks, David Braben.
@drunkenDOG87
10 ай бұрын
no its 8 Ligth minutes
@Dionysus4776
10 ай бұрын
was about to reply about the same, minus the time it took in lightspeed
tardigrade is more commonly known as the 'Water bear'.....this random fact has been brought to you by a weird black cat
Watching this after a bunch of Journey to the MircroCosmos was an interesting experience
this primordial black hole somehow maintain and even getting larger
Following what the editor said, au is astronomical unit, which is the length between the sun and the earth, approximately, 150 million killometers.
16:21 could have used the forehead smack clip lol
Femotometers show up now and then in science fiction dealing with the matter you can make if you have magnetic monopoles, which enables you to build molecule-like structures using particles that are much smaller and denser than atoms. It then of course gets called "femtotech" to differentiate from "nanotech".
hey mat coccus is a family name and trnalates to ball (all ball shaped bacteria) there are also other geomteric family groups like: Bazillus (sticks or pill shaped) and spiral Bacteria.
AU stands for Astronomical Units, basically the distance between the Earth and the Sun
Crazy that he's managing to rip quarks apart, what a beast!