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@Grist

2 жыл бұрын

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it makes sense that microbes would have defenses against the sterilizing effects of fire. The fires that pass through my area can melt aluminum and glass, and only deep rooted plants survive.

this channel explains complex concepts that are kinda beyond my understanding really well, in an interesting manner too. hope i can watch you guys grow

Hum, this makes me wonder. Is this exclusivly life forms that grew on or near the burning materials that's just *surviving* the fire, or does *some* lifeforms actually *thrive* and reproduce in the smoke, kind of like a algea bloom in water when nutrients are added? I find the former more likely then the later, but if you're going to investigate this you should consider both possibilities. One or the other might be true in some places without being true in other places.

@Grist

2 жыл бұрын

Great question. I think that's one of *many* open questions about the impacts of microbes in smoke. Another current study from Leda's lab is investigating how smoke might play a role in the larger microbial ecosystem. For example, whether the smoke plumes play an important role in transporting microbes, and how these microbes affect soil ecosystems when they land back on the ground. This will certainly be a field to follow in years to come! -Jesse

@cptnbinky

2 жыл бұрын

If it's spores then it's probably surviving, not growing, in the smoke. The microbes likely grow on dead wood and have adapted over time to use the smoke from the fire burning that wood to disperse their spores (which are often hard to destroy in general) to new areas. Growing/reproducing in smoke would be a much harder prospect due to minimal water content, lack of a consistent habitat, etc.

@Luredreier

2 жыл бұрын

@@cptnbinky I find that likely as well. However given that even the *idea* of *any* form of life in smoke is new, we *need* to ask those questions rather then just making assumtions. Is there life forms out there capable of reproducing and forming *new* cells in smoke? If we can identify the life forms in question we could make a experiment using sterile enviroments (cleaned with radiation, chemicals, heat the lot), then you can introduce smoke in as pure a form as possible. Just the component chemicals added, essentially artifical smoke. Then introduce the life forms in question, and observe if they increase in number.

So, in a nutshel, smoke from burning debris is bad for one's health, assuming that the debris is compromised of natural material only.

Wouldn’t the microbes, etc. in the smoke be identical to whatever microbes, etc. in the material being burned?

Wow I was brought to this channel by another video but chose to check this one out instead and I'm happy I did lol.

Great work, Jesse!

Thank you for the great content!

Hmmm 🤔....? Very interesting and possible. Heat rises and so will small particles.

Fascinating. Those microbes and fungi really are hustlers, always doing work!

@Grist

2 жыл бұрын

Indeed they are, Brad. Indeed they are.

The video was dated in January 2022, fully 2 yrs after Covid-19, yet everyone in the video acts as if smoking is harmless ... WTF ... and these people are 'supposed to be' professionals.

This makes me think about the potential for soot from fired precipitating down. A veratsium video I watched on E. coli found that given an ideal scenario where the only advantageous abilities where that for multiplying they found that they evolved to consume citrate. We know rains following a fire typically are acidic and so I posit the question. What if the rain following a fire can also contain some of these same microbes and even perhaps a mutated and evolved form?

This just makes life on Venus allot more plausible

Also live in Forest Service country where they burn every every year and there are forest fires everybody is getting treated by that smoke

Fought fought fire for 30 years with a Fed in Montana and everywhere in the in the West I've always had respiratory problems when you eat smoked do you figure that's this at the smokes fault but now we got another reason to think about that living in my FEMA trailer don't help I guess

@5:49 -- the guy without a mask -- Is he nuts? -- "A prescribed burn in rural Idaho" -- Is the government agency nuts for not enforcing their workers to wear a mask? -- This guy is literally playing with fire, like smoking 20 cigarettes at once.

Well, it makes sense because hot air rises and entrains particles with it

This reminds me of panspermia and immigration

everytime i see such incredibly well produced video with genuine work makes me wonder who its funded by (bill gates and the rockfeller foundation apparently) and it strikes me that its quality is what points out the external funding. no hate, there's no way to solve such an issue, nor does it need a solution.

omg wait this is really cool

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Related to pollution & microbes? Seems like it.