I for one welcome our new slime mold overlords

@tomf3150

6 жыл бұрын

Oh, shut up Kent Brockman.

@lorza6017

6 жыл бұрын

hurr durr

@purplesam2609

6 жыл бұрын

hurr durr me to. Accept them and they will spare us

@GiantPetRat

4 жыл бұрын

ALL GLORY TO THE SLIME MOLD.

@LarryPeteet

2 жыл бұрын

Democrats aren't new!

As an entrepreneurial slime mold, I appreciate being include in the beings you are attempting to sell square space to

@lilheinz9496

Жыл бұрын

Love ur stuff and had no idea u had been around so long, sad that yt doesn’t appreciate the great content u produce, u deserve millions of subs for sure

The title is an exact description of me during school

@AstroInvasionGaming

6 жыл бұрын

. . . we don't care

@cup_check_official

6 жыл бұрын

Danklomaniac he was a slime mold during his school. dont be mean to him.

@AstroInvasionGaming

6 жыл бұрын

i'm talking about the statement nicholas made, which has almost no relevance to the point Toxic was making

@renatao6330

6 жыл бұрын

Well played sir.

@raidennaz1590

6 жыл бұрын

hey what's up guys its scarce here

Slime Mold.. I call it Smold! Come smold we have much work to do..

Collective Intelligence is so cool.

@The_Original_Hybrid

5 жыл бұрын

This is swarm intelligence.

@Fridaey13txhOktober

3 жыл бұрын

You don't need neurons when you _are_ the neurons.

Coyote Peterson: I'm about to touch dangerous slim mold. *burns off hand* Mark: can you feel it?

@ThallanarRabidtooth

6 жыл бұрын

I'm Coyote Peterson and I'm gonna light my face on fire! Mark: Does it hurt?

@that1valentian769

6 жыл бұрын

I'm Coyote Peterson, and I'm about to eat a slime mold HOURS LATER: *vomiting blood intensifies* Mark: Are you okay?

@penguin_reader_yt9510

2 жыл бұрын

lol

I guess that means that if we look for life on other planets they might be intelligent in ways different than we might consider.

Wow, This couldn't have come at a better time. This has shown up in my mulch in a landscaping bed two days ago. I had told my wife to stay away as she has asthma and thought it could be a fungus and didn't want her to be around it. Thanks for the videos and sharing the information.

@ZaCloud-Animations___she-her

2 жыл бұрын

The spores they release could probably still aggravate asthma (just by virtue of being small particles that can plug up the little holes in our lungs that transport gas exchanges to/from our blood vessels, which are constricted worse in asthma sufferers). But it's pretty much only an issue if they are actively releasing those spores. If no spore-heads are visible, they should be alright, depending on what that looks like.

I am not saying its aliens... but...

@jedbenitez2808

6 жыл бұрын

But what

@osezgez2127

5 жыл бұрын

but... ITS ALIENS!!

@jacobbordenkircher3006

5 жыл бұрын

Slime mold evolved into The Thing.

@ZlPPENHAFT

5 жыл бұрын

​@@jedbenitez2808 your not familiar with memes.

I love coming back to this video for some reason, keep doing your thing!

Slime molds are really cool, and bizarre. In Botany we had to raise Physarum polycephalum and come up with a simple experiment involving slime mold growth and 'behaviour'. It was pretty fascinating. Apparently slime mold does not like white paper towels, but grow readily on the cardboard tube in the middle of the paper towel roll. It was also interesting to learn that slime mold is fond of powdered valerian root. Initially we were given cooked oats as food for the slime mold, but once the valerian root powder was introduced the slime mold would avoid the oats.

At school we grew them

@lucegoose

6 жыл бұрын

Omg thank you for ❤️-ing my comment!

Scientist are just like toddlers, They enjoy playing with Slime!!

@FederalBulgeInvestigator

6 жыл бұрын

Gabriel Angelos *And researching about how the universe appeared, quantum mechanics and classifying living things?*

@yummyzerg

6 жыл бұрын

Chrono Byte - In order to more efficiently make slime, duh.

@TheGrandMasterPotato

6 жыл бұрын

Chrono Byte So you're saying your toddler _doesn't_ do that?

@snowwolfsabertooth

6 жыл бұрын

That's basically what scientists are. Except they get paid and also have to do undesirable tasks like writing papers and managerial duties (to some anyway) :P

@spinnis

6 жыл бұрын

EVERYONE ENJOYS PLAYING WITH SLIME!!

*Looks at title* Me.

@Treemike1000

6 жыл бұрын

LUL

@DingDongDood

6 жыл бұрын

Kinky

@fossilfighters101

6 жыл бұрын

+

@AmoebaMan23

6 жыл бұрын

No, me.

@elizabethlucatero3630

6 жыл бұрын

Candy Horse Doctorfoxwolf aaahhhh i got the joke

What was the baby slimes first words? Goo-goo

@genessab

6 жыл бұрын

60 Second Success awww

@vampyricon7026

6 жыл бұрын

+

@huverdoose

6 жыл бұрын

Stop trying to tug at heartstrings. They're just clumps of cells.

@Ghorda9

6 жыл бұрын

the heart is actually made up of muscle fibers/strings which are individual cells them selves.

@huverdoose

6 жыл бұрын

We're all just big clumps of cells.

This is absolutely fascinating

This is one of the coolest SciShow vids of all time!!!! 😃 I'm interested in the underground fungus networks that connect trees together. Thanks guys!!!

The path finding might be similar to how ants figure out the best way to food by leaving a pheromone trail.

Frikkin' fascinating subject matter that was really well presented and easy to understand. I dig it.

This was very interesting and it reminded me of my intro to biology at the university I attended. Just looking at it with the naked eye you saw no movement, but when observed under a microscope you could see a lot of movement going on. Really neat.

Is this how a Kardashian is grown?

@commandogregor2426

6 жыл бұрын

Physics Only probably

@omnisaki9686

6 жыл бұрын

why would you insult slime mold by comparing kardashians to it

@binky2819

6 жыл бұрын

The slime mold is smarter than all the kardashians combined.

@goodcarer1965

6 жыл бұрын

they dont seem smart though.

@marcuscarr8717

6 жыл бұрын

They keep a Kardashain farm within the deepest depths Area 51.

Bacteria in your body apparently do the same thing. I recall seeing an article a while back that was covering something in your gut... yeast or some other bacteria. It found that when it was attacked (by yeast killer or whatever), chemical signals indicating distress went out... and could travel around your body. Other clusters of bacteria (like yeast attacking your face or other parts of your body) would get the message and start to adapt, becoming more resistant to whatever was happening. The creepy bit was that those clusters that became highly resistant would then send more chemical signals back around your body, and then any clusters still alive would get the memo and become much more resistant themselves. The resistance grew quickest away from where the yeast killer was doing its damage, then travelled backwards towards it. Gotta be some sort of communication going on there. Makes me wonder if neurons are the only thing that results in being self aware?

Great vid ('cept the ad). Thanks for the knowledge.

AWW HELL YEAH SCISHOW GOT THEM SLIME MOLD FACTZ FOR US TO-DAY, Y'ALL! I freakin' _love_ slime molds; I've been waiting for this episode for forever!

I love you as a host!

Awesome. Im lying in bed about to sleep and slime mould just blew my mind. Thanks sci show. 😀

I wish I was a slime mold! ;) THANK YOU SCHISHOW! Love this channel and love the video!

Nice video!. Working together- this slime. Smarter than humans.

Surprisingly interesting

This is the most fascinating thing I've ever learned

good ol science, learning something new eryday ; so much stuff we still do not understand, especially in the intra-cellular world

What a soothing voice you have! Oh and these fungi are also quite amazing =)

Well, that was... Surprisingly interesting.

I've come across that dog vomit stuff in my garden before. I always wondered what it was...

I didn't know I wanted to learn about this

Could the 'memory' be Epigenetic perhaps?

@RyanMartinezUkulelelessons

6 жыл бұрын

Empathy Lessons you're saying it can just alter it's DNA?(had to Google that)

@empathylessons2267

6 жыл бұрын

Well all organisms experience epigenetic gene silencing/expressing. I'm just curious if this is its mechanism of learning since it wouldn't require a brain.

@significantvloggers6033

6 жыл бұрын

Empathy Lessons I'd focus on RNA as the culprit--at least, that could float around in excess and remain inactive until triggered.

@hanshintermann1551

6 жыл бұрын

Reminds me of the Yrr in "The Swarm"

@empathylessons2267

6 жыл бұрын

Significant Vloggers Interesting! Is there an activation mechanism for RNA? The closest I know of is microRNA, perhaps that is involved.

It's my understanding that brains first evolved for the sake of mobility and interacting with the environment. Cognition and learning is a bonus. I guess it's possible to forgo having a brain and still learn.

Very cool, I hope this leads to discoveries in the development of early life. The way they can join together and form a single cell with multiple nuclei is very unusual. Still a bit of a mystery how cells evolved their nucleus, currently its thought they evolved separately as something like a virus and joined with another type of early lifeform to create a single cell as we understand it.

Fun fact, in Norwegian the Dog Vomit type is called ''Trollsmør'' which means troll butter

But why is there slime mild arou- no

@Treemike1000

6 жыл бұрын

Oh...

@d_wang9836

6 жыл бұрын

Lanky Giraffe yes yes YES

@meowtherainbowx4163

6 жыл бұрын

Let's put slime mold in a TV show and wait for Rule 34 to kick in!

@TheDragonfriday

6 жыл бұрын

Lanky Giraffe wow just realized that guy stop commenting that on every video. He was easy to forget

@RubixB0y

6 жыл бұрын

OHHHHH SWEET BABY JEYSUS! Has the joke finally run its course?

3:45 - It must be the soul.

Scary. I'll never look at slime the same way again.

1) "most organisms are brainless" having been in the service industry, that is absolutely true about customers. 2) the brain isn't the simplest entity to give commands, the nucleus in each cell is. 3) maybe the cells are just exhibiting swarm behavior. it's like looking at an expressway from an overhead bridge. you see a snake of cars but each car is controlled by a different driver who acts according to their own surrounding.

Gotta disagree with you Mike, "Slime mold" is more of a fantasy RPG vibe.

"When food is scarce." *_Hey, what's up guys, Scarce here._*

And now they are science rockstars even the discoveries are years old.

Slime mold is more awesome than everything else ever!

What i see on the freeway now makes sense!

the video doesn't explain how it became president of the United States

@greensteve9307

6 жыл бұрын

Oooh, burn! I like you!

@SomeGuy1117

6 жыл бұрын

misanthropiclusion As a slime mold I am offended you compared your president to me and my great heritage.

@tomf3150

6 жыл бұрын

Because lesser slimemold accepted a long time ago that empty states should weight more during election ?

@bearcatben4762

6 жыл бұрын

By promising people things they want and delivering on those promises

@GarthMurray1

6 жыл бұрын

Because scum voted for slime!

Slime Mold Cell: You will be assimilated.

I guess they exchange information because they are group of cells and each can generate at least a bit information, like the movie Lucy where all the cells communicate with each other and form network

Great. Something else we need to keep an eye out for in the future to make sure it doesn't evolve and overthrow mankind.

A great movie about this is The Creeping Garden :)

I'm an aspiring slime mold thank you

This is really crazy... but it’s still likely can be explained by group dynamics & chemical signals... Especially as they are likely to all be closely related, which is shown in plants to occur in similarly bizarrely intelligent ways. It’s still crazy stuff & reminds us all to keep an open mind about even crazy claims (but also rigorously study it). Adam

Well, you have to remember that neurons are not the only thing that stores values as weights. Your spine stores weights for muscle activities that are triggered by signals from your brain. This is why if a chicken loses its head it can still run around AND it is why a boxer might continue to try and punch or fight after losing consciousness. There are controllers in the spine for each limb and these store weights for all the muscles in that limb. And so even if it is not a neuron like a brain cell - it is still storing weights. These cells become more specialized to perform whatever activity you do. The more you do something, the less these weights have to re-adjust and therefore the more coordinated you become.

I seen a tv program on Quest. It showed how this type of slime it showed about the test of the slime( when the food for slime set out in a pattern of Tokyo it looked very similar to Ariel pictures of the train tracks system, also the slime was placed on a special designed pcb boards on a primitive motorized device and the slime was able to make the connections needed to make it move . Soon there will be proper biological computer chips able to run very sophisticated devices. How Very Awesome is that.

@therebel1375

6 жыл бұрын

Thomas Allardyce sorta like the voyager ship in star trek!

I'm thinking of "Odo" from Star Trek "Deep Space 9"

So where is the slime mold king so I can level up

So, a species of slime mold was placed in a petri dish with bits of food laid out to mimic towns near Tokyo. The slime mold figures out where the food is located in the dish, then contracts leaving branches between food lumps to transport nutrients more efficiently throughout the cell. Comparing slime mold network to a map of Tokyo shows that it was very similar to the way engineers laid out the subway line. Engineering is a science. It uses math, formulas and models to design and construct. In the same fashion that other scientists have used formulas and models to make predictions such as when eclipses will occur and discovering Neptune. This is why science is not a "belief system" as it is labelled to discredit its accuracy and authenticity. Beliefs can not make predictions in reality. Branches of science used in conjunction with each other can. And the human mind can figure these things out. Its amazing if you stop to think about it. Maybe I'm wrong, but perhaps this is more evidence that math is the language of the universe. Vaped a nice bowl and got to thinking while watching this vid. Love this channel.

@LeeMinhaoTheMinsterLee

6 жыл бұрын

tkal17 is math related to science?

@tkal17

6 жыл бұрын

Math is a science so there for there is a relation I suppose, though I wouldn't necessarily word it like that.

@greenanubis

6 жыл бұрын

I think our brain is not evolved to distinguish between science and belief systems. Sure, i agree there is a big difference, and i know that on an abstract, intellectual level, but i still have to do alot of concessions and compromises in daily life and that is not science, i cant act confidently on science because there is always non zero possibility for everything. See Boltzman brain for extreme example.

@osezgez2127

5 жыл бұрын

"math is the language of the universe" you just said it... it's awesome that we can understand the universe through maths, its a shame that I'm not able to solve a simple equation XD

They are smarter than players in agar.io.

I hate the way people try to avoid saying outright that slime molds are smart. They are really intelligent but people can't let go of their former notions of what intelligence is. They sound like they think intelligence only comes in one form, ours. This even happens with the people I thought wouldn't be so close minded.

"All slime molds start as single-celled organisms". Thanks SciShow, you just made me scared of my house.

My wife gets lost driving in the neighborhood we've lived in for thirty years and here some single-celled semi-animal can create a map of Tokyo. Right on.

Dr. Cockroach: As you can see he has no brain. B.O.B.: Turns out you don't need one!

In the future, we ill be using giant slime molds to carve efficient metro routes on Mars

Slime mold proves there’s hope for my brother.

Awesome!

You know they're no joke when they're on every continent...including the Antarctic.

It's like they ARE a brain rather than HAVING one.

Now I want a pet slime mold.

"Most organisms on the earth are brainless." Replace organisms with humans and it would still be true.

@theincarnationofboredom207

6 жыл бұрын

metaphorically, yes. Physically, unfortunately no...

@skbartistry2473

6 жыл бұрын

technically speaking, humans are organisms too, as animals are just highly advanced organisms..

i guess doing complex tasks to get food is pretty much a no-brainer

Why does this guy never blink

The kingdom Protista is no longer widely accepted in Biology. It was generally a "wastebin taxon" - a rather haphazard grouping of unrelated organisms that have been classified together out of convenience. Now that we are learning more about these organisms, we are starting to reclassify them under more appropriate clades.

Could they hold a 3D shape if not what if they had assistance via a sturdy supports or something?

Well, obviously slime molds can be smart - one of them was a chief X-Men villain!

Can you please do every HFS you're my favorite!

I remember the first video I watched on this channel, and he had just gotten his hair bleached in the front. And look at it now.

I love this sort of thing. We think we're soooo smart, but then a slime becomes President.

Fascinating creatures

It's alive! It's ALIIIIIVEEE!

That path finding can be done with bubbles, though.

Just like me - completely unaware of how awesome it is... wait...

i just watched a story on NOVA about slime mold.the first thing that came to mind was GLIOBLASTOMA and how it spread and had veins and liked sugar. i wonder if research on slime mold could come up with a cure for cancer?

Don't throw away that old bread! It's smart.

The title describes me on a spiritual level.

It looks like earth has been hit with the protomolecule

The force is confirmed.

He is slowly darkening his skunk hair. Looks like he's getting rid of it, but slowly fading it away. Good

Moyashimon. an anime/manga about microorganism. one episode mentioned the same experiment. about molds finding the shortest route in a maze. cool.

My new favorite animal.

After reading some of the comments, I now have this mental image of Erdrick wandering around a forest stomping on slime molds, just for the penny they have undulating within them.

I would love to see a city plan out their public transport this way just to see how it would work and how efficient it is compared to one designed by an expert lol

It's been an old tradition of biologists upon discovering a new species to eat it and describe what it tastes like, dig in you guyz!!!

It's honestly not that surprising that they can find efficient paths like that. I wrote some A* recently, and it's not too complex. I can see how a large bunch of organisms could use chemicals to do that. Though what they're doing seems closer to Dijkstra's algorithm, which is even simpler, though much less efficient.

This is probably going to be a question someone has talked about somewhere, but I haven't seen it on here. Is there any research on whether these slime molds could be a possible step between single and multi-cellular life? I'm imagining that as more and more of these molds came together, it's possible that natural pressures could have selected for groups where individual cells began specializing, with some becoming transporters of nutrients, others becoming like small factories processing the nutrients, and eventually, as things got more and more complicated, a decentralized group of cells began communicating across the molds until, after some amount of time, one individual cell could no longer function apart from the rest. Any videos or research articles would be appreciated, and go ahead and debate away.

First saw this on It's Okay To Be Smart.

could the solving of exponentially complex problems in linear time indicate the same sort of quantum optimization algorithm found in things like photosynthesis?

intelligence is one of the things we really don't understand - yet. there are several kinds, slime-mold seems to have it's own proto-intelligence.