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@melskunk

3 жыл бұрын

So I checked and I feel having a carbon footprint barely above the global average and a quarter of my national average wasn't the gotcha they wanted. Given they asked questions like how much money I spend on buying new appliances a MONTH with almost a hundred bucks being the 'low' option, I really don't think I'm their target audience here.

@Haplo-san

3 жыл бұрын

@@melskunk Yeah, same here. By looking those weekly and monthly consumption and traveled distance choices, my jaws dropped in shock. Some people are born to consume and suck the blood of the earth.

@scrambo6182

3 жыл бұрын

@@melskunk i think it's meant to be an average. like you spend a 400 dollars on a fridge, and that would count as 30 dollars a month.

@maksphoto78

3 жыл бұрын

@@melskunk LMAO. While it's nice to have your video sponsored, most if it is just fluff-talk.

@NumberOneHorseDrowner

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks, I missed the part of the video with the ad, and I also missed the ad in the description.

Landlord: "You're not allowed to have pets." Me and my sink:

@tobythehamster

3 жыл бұрын

on my way to walk my amoeba

@logancrisman3771

3 жыл бұрын

Good meme

@ant7699

3 жыл бұрын

Yep. Just casually taking a little stroll towards my bedroom sink. Me: Ah, just another perfectly normal sink..... Sink Monster: Arrghhhhhh!!!!

@KasumiRose77

3 жыл бұрын

Lol

@ant7699

3 жыл бұрын

Part 2. My Neighbour: What the fudge is that!!!?? Me with a giant bat on a rope: **Bat attacks neighbour! My Neighbour: Arrgh!!! Help.. Its bitten my leg...Scream!!!!

The real shower thoughts.

@azoncast

3 жыл бұрын

The Secret Things Living In Your Shower

@meetthecassiani

3 жыл бұрын

Omg. I get it. You are funny

@hamjudo

3 жыл бұрын

How did you know that I watch this in the shower?

@SirBeanMan

3 жыл бұрын

Lmao

@mgtowanonymous3120

2 жыл бұрын

This is why ur always afraid to get near the drain especially for ur buHtt to TOUCH the drain 🤭🤭🤭

In my parents house, mushrooms started popping through the grout in one of the showers. We'd pull them out and really clean the grout, but they kept coming back with amazing strength and regularity. Turned out that the fungus had formed a massive sponge like mass (it most closely resembled the thing from the 1980's horror film) inside of the drain. It was filtering out and feeding off the hair and shampoo and other dirt that was coming through the shower. After I destroyed it, the mushrooms stopped coming back... Even though it was gross and probably would have eventually started structurally damaging the pipes and the walls, I sort of feel guilty about destroying it - it was a marvel of nature. And who knows, maybe the mushrooms were edible... The could have also been poisonous... Not exactly microscopic at that point, but sort of on topic.

@mandelorean6243

2 жыл бұрын

Should've sent it in!!!# Probably was 4.3 billion years if evolution in their timeline.. Little people riding tardigrades!

@georgieman1910

2 жыл бұрын

yea I had a mushroom popping out between the tiles in the bathroom once. Just sprayed it with alcohol and it was gone.

@tophatvideosinc.5858

Жыл бұрын

Wait till you see the magic in between my toes.

@erikmarquez1951

Жыл бұрын

@TopHat Videos Inc. HAHAHAHA 😂😂😂

@nycbearff

11 ай бұрын

Yes, mushrooms are the fruiting bodies of a fungus living below (or beside) the mushroom. I lived in a rental house for awhile where mushrooms would sometimes pop up around the edges of the kitchen linoleum - the whole kitchen floor had dry rot, meaning a vast fungal colony was slowly eating the wood. I didn't even try to get rid of them - when mushrooms start coming out of your floor, that part of the floor (and probably the supports, the walls, etc) needs to be replaced.

Ahh I don't want to show what lives in my drains because I don't want to know what lives in my drains! There could be a basilisk crawling in the pipes, I don't want to know. There is a really thin line between what I do and excessive hand washing. :P Ps. I hope everyone enjoyed my book! Thank you so much! -James

@Romanticoutlaw

3 жыл бұрын

I don't know James, it kind of sounds like you might have murder evidence in there :P

Birthday today, gettin a microscope. gonna scope out the microcosmos. Hella excited!

@mightymicroworlds4566

3 жыл бұрын

Your gonna love it!

@DiowE

3 жыл бұрын

Birthday today, getting a sniper. gonna scope out the macrocosmos. Hella excited. (Paraphrasing the original commentator.) [DiowE]

@Mrabc123

3 жыл бұрын

Whooo whoop 🥳 I bought one too !!!

@anpe75

3 жыл бұрын

@@Mrabc123 Same here, all thanks to this channel. So far mostly bacteria and plant life, but it's still cool, just need to learn more about the whole process :)

@kalsara001

3 жыл бұрын

Got a one 1 week back and still I'm amazed

So after just having cleaned my sink drainage pipes, I can confidently say: - Yes it's incredibly, astoundingly, mind-boggingly, logic-defyingly gross. - To my unpleasant surprise, the U-bend wasn't the problem, I found very little slime in there. The vertical pipes leading to and from it, however... different story altogether. - "Biofilm" is waaaay too cute of a description. In my sink's case it had accumulated to what I can only describe as an oyster mushroom-colored and textured Great Barrier Reef that let only the tiniest amount of water through. - James would've had a field day. And would've been emotionally scarred for life.

@SunnyvaleTrailerParkSupervisor

2 жыл бұрын

Excellent you should have collected some for dinner

As a child, I used to look into the sink and noticed that when water dripped from the little grates into the darkness it looked like a fishes eye flashing up when the droplet of water fell into depths. Told my mother once that a monster was winking at me in the sink, she replied with an upwards slicing slap attack across my ear with the words "Stop making things up! Your imagination will give you nightmares..." Think I will send her this video with a "TOLD YOU SO!!" meme attached...

@joshmyer9

3 жыл бұрын

In her defense, you may have just given me nightmares.

@uptoolate2793

3 жыл бұрын

Your mom was smart. And probably tired of your act.

@Michael-py8mx

3 жыл бұрын

That's neat, a kids imagination is truly wonderful :)

@rangerrick5660

2 жыл бұрын

I wish I had YOUR mom bro

@Ealsante

2 жыл бұрын

It's more likely what happened there was that the dripping water caused an antibubble - a pocket of water, trapped by air, which skims across the water. They appear bright because they refract light differently, and they are no less fascinating.

Wow, that shot of the blue rotifer with the starfield sweep of dust may be my favorite visual on this channel so far. Showstopping.

The biofilm at min 08:00 looks like stardust and galaxies and stars being born and it's the most beautiful thing I have seen this week. Thank you.

i just pulled a massive hair clog out of my drain about 2 hours ago, now time to learn what grossness i actually was touching!

@JeweledRoseStudios

3 жыл бұрын

Lol you pulled out a very tiny country!

@tissuepaper9962

3 жыл бұрын

The thing that lets me get on with doing the dishes and cleaning the toilet without getting grossed out is to remember that every single surface you touch outdoors has all the same microbes all over it.

@racookster

3 жыл бұрын

"Boil that hairball! Boil that hairball! Boil! Boil!" "But a person's a person no matter how small."

@ant7699

3 жыл бұрын

Me: Eugh. That's gross. Future me: Man, that microbe nearly killed me.

I work as a plumber in a hospital and I have to work a lot with EIP to help make my water systems are safe to use. You don’t have to be a doctor to be on the front line to battle disease!🤙🏽

@dreamsprayanimation

Жыл бұрын

Hey Super Mario was a plumber for a reason.

Welp. This is the first episode where I've read the title and *didn't* want to find a quiet place for 10 minutes of chilling with Hank Ross.

@sueandwarren

3 жыл бұрын

I waited a day to watch this one.😬

so am I correct in the assumption that each household could have their own unique "drainage ecosystem"? or fingerprint?

@rianantony

3 жыл бұрын

I'm not even sure those quotes are necessary, it's kind of truly a little ecosystem? (idk what that actually means sory)

@the_hanged_clown

3 жыл бұрын

@@rianantony I'm not sure I've ever actually used quotes correctly lmao

@Mate397

3 жыл бұрын

Would make sense, each household would give a different source of microscoping life.

@moconnell663

3 жыл бұрын

I use mostly traditional soaps at my sinks, as opposed to synthetic detergents, so I would expect my drains to have a rather different environment from others. It also depends on the foods you eat, and how you like to get your hands dirty in the first place.

@PopeGoliath

3 жыл бұрын

@@the_hanged_clown "correctly"

I'll have to let that information *sink* in for a moment...

@Z4RD4N34

3 жыл бұрын

Hahaha. You said "sink."

@ant7699

3 жыл бұрын

Me: Hold my sink... My work here is done. Looool

@HumanTooth

3 жыл бұрын

You know, puns like these are kind of a *drain*

@ant7699

3 жыл бұрын

@@HumanTooth Oh, trust you to start piping up.

@comicsansgreenkirby

3 жыл бұрын

fffffffffffffunny.

Seeing James' book reminded me of a deep memory of looking at ancient history picture books with my Dad.

I would love more of these - I think it's critical to demonstrate locations often neglected for hygiene, so we can inform people of more effective methods of cleaning. Also, many parts of the world have plumbing standards for prevention of backflow - i.e., keeping the u-bend from allowing anything from flowing back up the wrong way, using something more than a prayer.

The technical name for the "U bend" is a P Trap.

@ilikegrapes6399

3 жыл бұрын

Penis trap

@Volodimar

3 жыл бұрын

UTube

James I purchased your book! A great read 👍 and Yes, showing up at a pond with a jar and turkey baster does worry some people! 😂 keep the great video’s coming!

Hey if you see this you should do one about microorganisms living on your skin. Also I love your videos :)

@HannesSwanepoel

2 жыл бұрын

And in the nose. And in the ear. Etc.

@JRyan-lu5im

2 жыл бұрын

I'd actually like to see to see the Gatroitestinal biomes in people - seeing as they're a massive and important part of human functions and health.

I'm ordering the book so I can read my daughter bedtime stories about protists :)

I read there are little things living on our eyelashes. Can you show them to us?

@tichu7

3 жыл бұрын

Also, can Hank answer whether those critters are, as we would like to believe, only in dirty faces, or in (to our dismay) everybody's faces?

@limiv5272

3 жыл бұрын

I'd love an episode about them. Here's a link to more info about their genus if you're interested: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demodex

Our weather reports: “Clouds in the morning but sunny skies by afternoon.” The biofilms in my drain’s weather reports: *”A flash flood warning is in effect, and we’ll have regular darkness and dampness unless a plumber pries open our world again...”*

i would love to see a video on the setup you use to see this spectacular microscopic universe so i can one day (hopefully) do something similar like this at home as this has become a hobby of mine! ;)

Not only is your video absolutely amazing but the audio also is. The well-written narration is very concise, informative, and easy to understand. And the narrator's voice is clear and crisp. Thank you folks!

Just ordered the book, can't wait to read it!

I knew it. When I was a little kid I always knew there was something lurking in the drain just waiting to get me. I protected myself by always using a drain plug.

Imagine solving a murder by analyzing the microbes in the victims drain

@sharonolsen6579

3 жыл бұрын

I imagine in the right circumstances the drain could be a treasure trove of forensic information.

@mini_skinny0296

3 жыл бұрын

I was thinking at this when reading someone else's comment that said every household might have a specific group of microorganisms in the pipes, depending on owner's habits.

@dickJohnsonpeter

2 жыл бұрын

There was a guy who got caught because a plumber discovered he had chopped up a body and tried to flush it all. I suppose if the body parts had made it to the sewer and was found there maybe they could have matched the microbes from his toilet drain to his personal gut microbiome to convict him but it makes me wonder if there is any precedent for that if it would be allowed as evidence.

@jarvis5552

2 жыл бұрын

As someone taking a forensics class, I will ask this question to my teacher :)

And while the task of pipe-scraping isn’t full of splendor, at least we can rest assured knowing James’s book is!

This is awesome. I just pulled out some sink water from a soaking dish to show my girlfriend under the microscope a few days ago. Way too much life

I am still waiting for a deep dive with Archaea video thank you.

I dunno... a stranger's bacteria seems less appealing than my own bacteria to me.

@tissuepaper9962

3 жыл бұрын

The only thing worse than finding out you've got MRSA hanging out in your sink is *not* finding out that you've got MRSA hanging out in your sink. I would definitely be checking my own sink because I wouldn't be able to stop asking myself "what if?" questions lol.

@limiv5272

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, but would you share your own drain microbes with the world?

@tissuepaper9962

3 жыл бұрын

@@limiv5272 yeah. What can you really tell about a person from germs in their drain? I would be willing to guess that it's just about nothing.

Just bought the book! Thanks James Weiss You should do a video where you drop a microscope slide into an aquarium. Then, after a month, take it out and see what grew on it.

I'm 5 months late but THANK YOU, JAMES You have made personal sacrifices in the name of science and knowledge. I salute you.

Microcosmos can both satisfy me, and make me unsettled lmao

I just got the book, one of my best purchases I've made. This is exactly what I was looking for to help me classify organisms and understand what they are, did a good thing publishing this book

No one thought to check a kitchen drain? Because I've a feeling that's where the action is.

@ryn.999

2 жыл бұрын

yeah thats what i thought they meant. i imagine kitchen drains are grossss regardless of how clean you keep the sink 'bowl'

Hey, Journey to the Microcosmos 7:12 This is what Green Drain helps to prevent! the Green Drain is a waterless trap seal for drains (:

Now I know I'm being watched by millions of creatures every time I have a shower

@alvaronavarro4895

3 жыл бұрын

@@trentbielefeldtaw shit I knew that that Red light on the drain wasn't a desing option

@limiv5272

3 жыл бұрын

They don't have eyes though

@alvaronavarro4895

3 жыл бұрын

@@limiv5272 And you destroyed the joke

@limiv5272

3 жыл бұрын

@@alvaronavarro4895 My evil plan worked!

Thank you. Fascinating as always. And James, your book is sitting right here on my coffee table.

My journey to the Microcosmos has circled. My interest of microorganisms started years ago. When I was a child, I wondered what could possibly live in the drains and pipes where water and waste go. So I searched, and I received the knowledge of life that lives unseen to most eyes. Life that lives in more places than just our homes. Different parts of the Earth, sea, land, air, hospitable and inhospitable, some even reached space. Then back to our homes. But, my journey to the Microcosmos isn’t over.

Thank you James we appreciate that you do the dirty job so we can see the beauty of the sinkcosmos

I just bought the book and I’m so excited to read it! I have just made my third ecosphere and am loving learning about what it is I am seeing.

This is one of the best videos of the channel. Great work 👌

I watch your channel not just for the quality and it's content but because of the narrator and the calm music. I fell asleep once with this on and my wife said I'm crazy lol

@shellypatterson6519

3 жыл бұрын

I do the same, frequently.

Thank you for this awesome video! 👍😘

I fully understand and agree with James' desire to not learn what is living in his own u-bends. Sometimes ignorance is truly bliss.

"The insides of a drain can be breathtaking" You're breathtaking!

god! this is the first time ive watched this channel in 4k, very impressed

"A microbial guestbook if you will" . Love it

Can't wait for the music used on this show to be relreased! I've never been more desperate yet completely unable to spend money before in my life :p

@ramous5182

3 жыл бұрын

I found it in the music streaming app I use (Napster), but I guess you want to support the artist directly...

@niall_sanderson

3 жыл бұрын

The soundtrack of this channel sounds a lot like the soundtrack of Spore. I wonder if that's intentional.

Because of this informative video I'm going to get my bathroom sink pipe fixed immediately because there's a crack right in the bottom of the "U" so I just keep a large bucket under the sink & only have to dump it every few months but sewer gas seeping out explains that sulfuric fart smell that only comes from that sink, I initially thought it was the sulfur in the well water but that smell doesn't happen with any of the other pipes in our house so this must be the most logical explanation. Thank you for making me a tiny bit smarter.

@laanaalove

2 жыл бұрын

Yep

as a custodian who cleans up after college students, this is both fascinating and horrifying

You have such an amazing way with words. Great job!!

I love sleepy voices

I would love you guys to take a look a the bacteria involved in the nitrogen cycle of common fish aquariums, as well as maybe see some of the other unexpected pets we might have in our tanks.

There are many things I watch before going to sleep. This is by far the best channel for it

I bought a Swift SW380B after finding this channel, and the first sample I took was from my kitchen sink. I was not prepared to see these things with my own eyes, dear god I'm going to have nightmares. There's a difference between seeing this stuff on your computer screen, and actually seeing it with your own eyes in a sample you took from your own home.

thanks for the channel.... ordered the book! yay

Thank you James ! Thank you Wren !

The U bend... It also will CATCH stuff like oh I dunno, earrings, meds, little things you may keep in (and therefore lose in, too) the bathroom. Falls in, doesn't go straight away and so you can take apart the pipes, remove the filthy item, reconnect pipes, ta-da!! Amaz-az-zing!

Really love these videos .. so interesting

This channel is on another level.

My momentary dyslexia read the title as “what’s living in your skin?” And I felt like John for just a second

I didn't know microbe could be fluorescent really cool

Ah yes, a fortune cookie and a condom live in my drain.

@onetdev

3 жыл бұрын

classic you

Enjoyed your video and I gave it a Thumbs Up

Thanks, James

I too looked at my shower drain. First encounter with the beloved rotifera!

I hope this is the first of a series. Sink drain, shower drain, roof gutter, street drain, rainwater collection butt, plant pot, doormat, toothbrush, mattress, refrigerator...

You guys are the best

I'd love to see a video showing life in a freshwater aquarium filter. I've seen you describe rotifers and other critters that small fish and fry love to eat, so i know they'd be in there. There's also plenty of different bacteria in an aquarium converting ammonia to nitrite and then to nitrate. Plus a plethora of algae and other stuff. Planted aquariums might have different and more or fewer of certain critters...it would be cool to see samples from both!

Microbial guestbook, I love that

Ok seriously. I'm intrigued. As an Indian doctor, I feel tempted to sample the waters in our drains and see the microbiological records!! Lovely video!

Everything, by the look's of it !

I’m highly suspicious those blue auto-fluorescent bits are optical brightening agents: they’re found commonly in any white paper, including paper towels. In addition they can be found in lots of clothing and some detergents.

Had to buy your book.

I usually like a lot your videos and I regularly see them more than one time. They are very entertaining, educational, and even calming. Narrator way of talking is very important and IMO this was different in a way that I couldn’t keep my attention to the beautiful images with so much words and deviations. I hope not to offend. And keep with your great job guys.

I have a strong stomach for this kind of thing. I've done things as a home owner that made a plumber wretch. And I was all cool with this-- eating spaghetti while watching-- and then the mention of Hospital drains. Not that it put me off, but there's something I never considered, pathogens in our sewers from hospitals.

Never stop doing this 😌

Thank u James vary much

Me: Enjoys the video. Also me: Looks askance at his kitchen sink.

That wren app is amazing

I once changed the u bend in my bathroom. I wasn't too careful with my hands and might have touched my face before I washed my hands. Got a fever that evening, which was gone next morning. I can see why now...

Just a note, that "U-bend pipe" you talk about is not called a "U-bend pipe". It's called a P-trap. The more you know. 🌈🌟 The P-trap replaced the older, and now illegal, S-trap, which looked a little different but did the same thing. The reason the S-trap became illegal is because S-traps can easily accidentally be emptied by the siphon effect, and when empty sewer gas can get into your living space. While rare, it was possible for enough gas to enter the space for the concentrations of certain gases to become high enough to be dangerous. For example, hydrogen sulfide can build up to toxic levels quite quickly, and sewer gas can contain enough methane to become explosive. P-traps prevent this siphon effect by introducing a long horizontal section of pipe in the middle of the S-shape which makes it very difficult to get enough flow to create a siphon in the first place and when the siphon is over, some of the remaining fluid in the horizontal section will flow back into the P-trap, refilling it even if you are able to get a siphon going. This gas problem is one of the reasons that all drains need to filled with anti-freeze if you are leaving a house or building unattended for a long period. The water it the P-traps can evaporate, leading to gas buildup, but anti-freeze doesn't evaporate nearly as easily and so will prevent gas buildup for much, much longer.

Boiling a big pot of water .. every drain in the house is getting a serious pour over ... I don't know if it will help, but it is going to make me feel a whole lot better as I try to sleep tonight.

@limiv5272

3 жыл бұрын

Try bleach and ethanol

Can you guys make a soundtrack of all these episodes? The music plus the narration is what helps me sleep, but none of my devices will stay charged long with the screen on. Or maybe Hank can read my college microbiology book out loud 😁

Love me some living drain sauce

Haha love these videos also a plunking channel ahha

Am I the only one who doesn't understand why someone would care about other people knowing what microbes they have in their drain? Why would that matter?? 😂

Microscopic gest book!!

My ADD distracted me so much that the biofilm at 7:40 made me think it was a galaxy or nebula. I'm not at all disappointed by this.

Love One Another God Bless Everyone

9:51 Can we just talk for a moment about how cute his door lip(or how do you call this thing?) looks?

You're so brave! You did what plumbers do every day... What a hero...

While it may be disgusting to look at from a macroscopic point, think that every time you wash your dishes, every time you wash your hands, you are cycling and renewing an entire microverse, adding new matter and life and taking away the old stuff. It is beautiful

4:11 would this be fluorescence of coenzyme f420 in methanogens?

@ScienceBang

3 жыл бұрын

Could be optical brightening agents found in paper and detergents

@ant7699

3 жыл бұрын

I think it would be rapid photoascenxion of pathogenic blooms. Same coenzyme, same microbe pool but yet still not even close. We're talking grown ups biology now kid. Bedtime now for you isn't it...

@Trypanosoma_

3 жыл бұрын

@@ant7699 you just managed to write so much but say absolutely nothing. Amazing

@ant7699

3 жыл бұрын

@@Trypanosoma_ loool. Did you like my new word? ... Photoascenxion 😊

@Trypanosoma_

3 жыл бұрын

@@ant7699 very creative 🤡 < this u

archaea are not more primitive than bacteria, but rather more complex (and closer to eukaryotes in certain aspects).

I keep my hot water heater set at max temperature. 150f . I recommend you once a week or so fill your sinks all the way with very hot soapy water and then pull the stopper. This will help flush all the crap out of there.

7:00 This image helps prooving my theory that " what is define as small, can be defined as big for others " If you asked someone that doe'snt know where it comes from.." what is this image ? " I bet that a lot would say " it's an Hubbles image of space ".