6 Bacteria With Wild Superpowers

[@Khepriem]

DISCLAIMER: Contracting Gonorrhea will not give you superhuman strength.

[@Kobolds_in_a_trenchcoat]

Zephyrus Auron there goes my weekend plans

[@dylanashley4102]

Zephyrus Auron has me dead

[@CONGTHEGUERILLA]

Speaking from experience?

[@LizardVideoDude]

Well, not usually. But 1 out of 100 times...

[@protoncoccus3229]

It REALLY sounded harmful... Help me, science class!

[@n-wordjim1724]

"Do you even lift?" -Gonorrhea

[@AntonyKarlytzky]

Top kek.

[@TheTaintedWisdom]

I think the more appropriate phrasing would be: "Do you even pull/tug?" - Gonorrhea "Duh, how the hell do you think I've managed to avoid you all these years?" - Male virgins.

[@beth8775]

Best use of that nonsense. Lol

[@SlyPearTree]

I didn't think I'd get to see a video about how awesome gonorrhea is when I woke up this morning.

[@MacCoalieCoalson]

SlyPearTree lmao why is your pfp that guy who asked for child meat as his last meal

[@SlyPearTree]

Chromosome Extract I do not know who you are referring to but this is my own face. I do seem to have several doubles out there, once at a strip club a stripper approached my table looking really pissed off because she thought I was her brother. That was not the first time I was approached by peoples thinking I was someone else, heck I've seen a picture of "myself" on the web outside a PFK in a place I have never been wearing clothes I never wore. Edit: Okay, I found who you were referring too, that could be me younger, weighting a hundred pound more and being drunk or drugged out of my mind.

[@Kev376]

Yah... Awesome... until it's tugging on the inside of your wiener.

[@fajaradi1223]

Ah ... That grunt when you take pee pee. Gonorhea is the best.

[@andrewn8002]

*three years later* the more you know!

[@craigmooring2091]

Sorry, but I would have to classify N. gonorrhoeae as a supervillain.

[@bellajenkins5669]

As a dyslexic person , I really appreciate the different colours and fonts when the texts come up :) thanks.

[@Quroe_]

*_You must construct additional pili._*

[@OEpistimon]

I was searching for this specific comment...

[@norielsylvire4097]

The factory must grow

[@vannahray9773]

I want in on the comment lol someone explain to me ? What does this mean ? Just curious.

[@6anon]

'Just because something is tiny doesnt mean its not powerful' ill have to remind my girlfriend that next time i see her

[@smoking_hi5494]

yikes

[@arescet]

We shall sing of your wits sire, for as long as songs exist.

[@SayHelloHelli]

Short girls are beastly dude. This is no laughing matter.

[@umesstha4129]

HeyHay i think he was talking about his d*** size not his gf's height

[@jebolandutawacana]

Umes Stha, i think the same. I even wondered why others comment talk about her heigh.

[@musclehank6067]

I once won an arm wrestle with 6 bacteria with awesome super powers

[@crisgon9552]

Muscle Hank I love you but you are taking all the thumbs up man. Leave us some Muscle Hank!!!

[@FBI-ov7lb]

I beat 6 bacteria with awesome superpowers in a weight lifting contest

[@AngelSamael]

Muscle Hank is in fact the strongest organism alive, both relative to body mass and absolute strength.

[@clayblob2]

You may of won the battle, but the bacteria won the war

[@RoundPi]

Hexo Helium Do you mean: the bacteria _will_ win the war.

[@marcusolang]

"These marathon tugging sessions could last for hours..." This statement, while talking about gonorrhea. I can't speak to whether it was intentional or purely coincidental, but this is, hands down, the best line in a SciShow script EVER.

[@eliscerebralrecyclingbin7812]

9:30 “Remember, just because something is tiny, that doesn’t mean it’s not powerful.” 😳

[@doornumb]

​@@eliscerebralrecyclingbin7812i have a chance

[@ccggenius]

Heh, an STD that's peerless at marathon tugging sessions.

[@PunchAPeach]

Your comment is even funnier because your profile pic is Gene Starwind 😁

[@Master_Therion]

Marvel Studios should make movies for the MCU (Microbe Cinematic Universe)

[@massimookissed1023]

Master Therion , they could feature Tom Cruise, he's about the right size.

[@USSAnimeNCC-]

The incredible gonorrhea

[@Master_Therion]

Bacteroides-Man. Not the hero we deserve, but the hero we need.

[@shawneeg214]

An original funny comment you have my approval

[@crusaden2434]

am i the only one which has niticed that the narrator is a little wierd?

[@mikehuber4150]

"Aquifex already sounds like a superhero name". Yeah, a superhero that loses your social security information.

[@SonicXRage]

Breaking news: Millions of credit card numbers STOLEN from Aquifex! The CEO Of Aquifex expresses his commitment to the prevention of another hacker attack.

[@LexoG33]

I may be able to find a paper on one of these to use as the topic for my microbiology presentation. Thanks, SciShow!

[@tawon1984]

I'm headed to the local brothel now to get some of that sweet Gonorrhea protein power.

[@kristensmith11]

Awesome.... These specific bacteria have changed my view about them completely.

[@angelaabeyta4849]

awesome video! our instructor for Microbiology shared it when discussing Deinococcus radiodurans.

[@marcofreire]

Do a video about Bacteriophages. It will blow your mind.

[@chasesmith7826]

Michael! Yay, I'm way too excited. So happy to see you.

[@Sturdy_Penguin]

I think I remember from my sex ed class in high school that Gonorrhea were super good at sticking to things so they wouldn't get flushed out of the urethra when one urinated...so they probably evolved that way to not get pissed out, if I had to bet on a theory.

[@MilesDeighton1]

You can include good old fashioned c. botulinum which can be boiled in water and basically pheonix its way back into existence via spores

[@lizerdspherex]

"Bacteria, they're never going to officially become a superhero". Leezle Pon is a intelligent smallpox virus and is a member of the Green Lantern Corp., while his enemy Despotellis is a sentient artificial virus that joined the Sinestro Corps.

[@fossilfighters101]

Lizerdspherex +

[@thatguy2377]

that's cool but bacteria and virus are different things

[@AidanRatnage]

Who knew STDs themselves were marathon tuggers?

[@zacm.2342]

"Gonorrhoea might just be superman's kryptonite, which is a sentence I have never said before" I had to restrain myself from laughing at that part 😂. Really good video regardless though, like that superglue one, and the thermophile one that can use oxygen. Information that I will likely never need in my life but really interesting and possibly useful in a pub quiz or something maybe, ta scishow.

[@Tonatsi]

These guys are actually very smart. I a not talking about the content of the video, but did you know that they lengthened the video by using the full intro? Now it doesnt feel like they are trying to lengthen it, and we get a nice song too!

[@RyanBrosnahan]

This made me think of flagellum in the context of irreducible complexity. That would be a good video to explain (and debunk)

[@adricortesia]

Honorable mention: Thermus aquaticus the hero of microbiology .. at least in the humble beginnings of PCR :)

[@TheReggaeMortis]

8:45 "These marathon tugging sessions could last for hours, and end up pulling ten times harder than when they started" LOL get on my level gonorrhea

[@craigdeblock3421]

STDs in "marathon tugging sessions". (snicker). Yes, I'm mentally 13 sometimes...

[@limepop340]

Dallas Trimble the “marathon tugging session” is used as a euphemism for sex

[@confusedwhale]

Nope, male masturbation. Also, asexuals masturbate. It's a spectrum like anything else.

[@appleappington7346]

Hah well I'm really 13 take a backseat pal

[@satanas6740]

@Dallas Trimble wow, I was a about to call the original poster pathetic but then i read your comment and you take that title.

[@davidbuschhorn6539]

"Wow. Gonorrhea is pretty strong." [gives the clap a standing ovation]

[@Alexagrigorieff]

Slow clap

[@patrickmccurry1563]

The electricity producing bacteria are fascinating for being a potential way to power future devices. Feed it literal food and it recharges your phone battery.

[@SuryaTejaKarra]

Patrick McCurry so how many lootboxes should I buy for food?

[@jonasstrzyz2469]

Pretty sure that it would be extremely difficult to the point of being impractical to make use it for such a purpose.

[@gibranhenriquedesouza2843]

Bacterias can feel their environment and grow substances, I really want to know how can bacteria feel the world and how can they decide the build their houses!

[@patrickmccurry1563]

Chemoreception. Smell and taste are chemoreception senses as well.

[@X2yt]

He has a superpower of not blinking

[@rareram]

Was about to call them out for missing the bacteria that grew in total darkness, underground, without an atmosphere... Then realized they made the video before it was discovered. New video please =)

[@rareram]

@organizemyroom k well, there is the obvious mass murder of poly-cellular life forms... But yeah, bacteria aren't all evil or common. The Danakil depression even has super super bacteria with poly-extremophiles.

[@kevinn4038]

He is finally becoming an adult. I'm so proud.

[@XiaosChannel]

4:24 and thus fulfills the prophecy of CGP Grey: if it stays long enough, something is gonna learn how to eat it.

[@controlequebrado4455]

This sounds wrong

[@gracegottago3471]

“Everytime a kid jokes about me- i do 1 pushup” - Gonorrhea

[@nnamdi8775]

We need a name! How about Bac-Man?

[@massimookissed1023]

and Gonorrhea Girl.

[@pyrotheevilplatypus]

Sublime. He already exists in the Marvel universe.

[@miriam3848]

Lokibacillus

[@macbuff81]

Bringing nature's and man's ingenuity together to solve problems. Brilliant!

[@andrewjames4346]

Lmao... had to get in that joke about size didnt you...so well placed and very dry in delivery.. perfect.

[@cestlavegan5793]

Being such a fastidious organism, I definitely didn't expect to see N. gonorrhoeae on here

[@MyplayLists4Y2Y]

What's with the life-vest? Cold in the studio? Forget to pay the heating bill? .... kidding aside, great info!

[@GenJotsu]

Humans are here thinking they're so superior creating rocketships and such, but guess who gets to have a free ride and can survive much better out there in space?

[@sashisasj3850]

just because something can survive in space does not mean it can thrive. It needs a source of energy and chemicals to keep it alive and reproducing.

[@vbgvbg1133]

Neptune Neptune Just you wait, we may be squished and killed unknowingly by being stepped on by snails, but when the gamma ray shooting absolute zero asteroids blast earth to nothingness we’ll see.

[@satanas6740]

So you're comparing humans to bacteria? Wow you're a true idiot.

[@eugenetswong]

Michael, this could be the best video that SciShow has put out. This is exciting!

[@kvd1]

The only problem with this plastic eating bacteria is that it can a long time for the colony of bacteria to break down plastic, up to several weeks. And another problem is that the plastic bacteria needs to survive in saltwater, and if you try to put that bacteria in seawater, the bacteria could dry up and die?

[@retosius7962]

Yeah about that marvel/DC thing, there is actually a hero who is basically a living influenza virus. Forget her name but she and her species just straight up control viruses and she often even just infects her allies. Not as bad as the guy who uses his arm as a club or the guy or dog welder

[@chillsahoy2640]

Super! This was a totally heavy episode, kudos!

[@TestECull]

C. crescentus could be the trick to keep the tires on my RC Cars from flying off the bead hahahaha

[@eyobwalid2332]

Scientists should find out what chemically makes up the acids that break down the plastics, play around with their elemental components that make up the acids, harvest vast amounts of the stuff, and use it to get rid of the bad plastic. If someone can get this to a REAL chemist, please do because to me( maybe not you or anyone else), this is a really good idea. Also, I would want my credit!

[@norielsylvire4097]

Imagine superman being tied to a chair of wall using modified gonorrhea bacteria, and then he goes: Ugh! What is this sorcery?! It is gonorrhoea. I'll do you one more: why do superheroes not get ill? Like they're never sick. Okay the flash has super speed but does he also have a super immune system?

[@InstrucTube]

About gonorrhea: "These marathon tugging sessions could last for hours". Well, that's a thing that was said.

[@CallMeMimi27]

"this microbe usually colonizes wet surfaces like butt holes" o_O'

[@Iwtbaf]

can you do an episode tasing about current medical research and how we as a community can help?

[@eliscerebralrecyclingbin7812]

@Marcus Olang’ 9:30 “Remember, just because something is tiny, that doesn’t mean it’s not powerful.” 😳

[@plasmawave2565]

Number 5 doesn't sound like a superhero; it sounds more like a laundry detergent.

[@saumyashah7978]

Why do these bacteria have such complex names? Can't they have names like, I dunno, Mr. Plastic Eater or something?

[@miladsammouh4741]

Saumya Shah I'm not sure if this is a joke, but if it isn't, then you're an idiot.

[@miladsammouh4741]

Apemanwithcalculator You're an idiot too.

[@Sharyf]

They do, just in latin language

[@SonicXRage]

@Gavin We should rename carbon "life glue".

[@weaponizedhyperfocus]

The idea of using Latin names is used to create an "universal name", so anywhere you go it'll just be the same. And if you actually look at the translations, those scientific names are actually silly too, but just in another language

I think gonnorrhoeae is everyone's kryptonite, not just superman

[@cabbagemontage6999]

So, Gonorrhea is what made Saitama so powerful. His body learned it's ways.

[@protoncoccus3229]

If all of the pathogens had a tug-of-war competition, Nisseria gonorrhoeae would win, hands down Tiny Hercules ahahah

[@JohnSmith-td7hd]

Hey SciShow- Please talk about how astronauts can make O2 using life. I keep seeing astronauts dying in space movies due to lack of oxygen and keep wondering why they don't have plants or genetically engineered oxygen-producing, CO2-consuming bacteria or algae or something. Also, how will real astronauts do it? From big machines or big gardens maybe?

[@paularueda6329]

This is so fascinating.

[@williamoldaker5348]

Number 6 is terrifyingly awesome!!!

[@grimreaper1542]

I'm not sure why this came up in my recommended but it was really cool, so uh thanks for that??

[@miriam3848]

so, I've got this theory. Banner had gonorrhoea, and it was gonorrhoea that mutated. so when he turns green, he's basically, Gonorrhoeaman

[@ironvanguard7219]

Chuck Norris arm wrestles superpower bugs daily.

[@HoradrimKnights]

CORRECTION: Captain America's costume is not a cool costume, it is America's costume.

[@liberlibera]

It would be great if you talk about superpower of bacteria that cause human diseases

[@Dominus_Potatus]

That PET eater seems dangerous. I mean... as you said all people use PET everyday. And imagine that bacteria somehow melt all the PET in the world

[@patrickmccurry1563]

Taking 6 weeks to digest an ultra thin film isn't going to dissolve your bottles while you hold them.

[@Dominus_Potatus]

Patrick McCurry It is bacteria, it can evolve... The potential is there

[@SuryaTejaKarra]

Actually I'd love to see a future with these bacteria eating plastic from landfill sites.

[@Dominus_Potatus]

Surya Teja K Well... I would love to.. in a controlled space. Better if the bacteria can produce derivates or even energy from it.

[@hamstsorkxxor]

KevinMulia No need to worry. We have bacteria that eat just about everything else, and we still use stuff like wood or steel, even though bacteria can eat those things. Finding PET eating bacteria was a welcome surprise, because we didn't know of anything that could biologically take care of all our plastics. Now we have an ally in the fight against trash:)

[@MireVale]

What the hell did the plastic eating bacteria eat before we started throwing plastic everywhere?

[@theGreaterAwareness]

You can also use oyster mushrooms to break down anything made from petroleum.

[@BethanielThe3rd]

Bacteria Man, in theatres soon

[@budgetbogans1257]

Bacteria is where we came from and it is so resilient and awesome...except when it causes infections haha. Always love your videos. Hello from Australia!!

[@patrickmccurry1563]

Most likely we, as in eukaryotes, are archaea "infected" by cyanobacteria.

[@budgetbogans1257]

I don't even know what means...I didn't do science at school, I just like learning stuff in less than 15 mins and being entertained whilst doing so.

[@mookosh]

Remember: the bacteria in existence today are as evolved as we are (if not moreso due to shorter generations). We didn't evolve from these guys, we share a common ancestor with them :p They just followed a different path.

[@budgetbogans1257]

interesting...

[@Marina-sd3uy]

Budget Bogans Didn't know Australians came from a bacteria! You should've kept some of their superpowers, they seem pretty handy!

[@deshpoed]

dear scishow, IS WATER WET!?!?

[@amcat8015]

Susie Martinez Well, one molecule of water is not wet for the definition of "wet" is for something to be saturated with water, also known as getting soaked. For something to be wet there needs to be the object in question and water in contact with said object, in this case our object is a water molecule. Since our object is water but only one molecule of it, it is not wet. But usually when we say water we refer to millions of molecules at a time, in contact with each other. From this conclusion, water is wet.

[@Argonak1]

Arthur Smith Murray h20 (water) isn't wet, its gains the property of wetness when it has gathered in quantity.

[@ideoformsun5806]

Have you done a show about mitochondria yet? Or the thermophilic bacteria in compost?

[@mohnish7653]

Best script I have seen till date

[@Dominus_Potatus]

Lol... Gonorrhea is the Superman's Cryptonite

[@Ben786]

"Gonorrhea is awesome" - Michael Aranda, 2018

[@Dyslexic-Artist-Theory-on-Time]

Really good info!!! Why don’t you make a video on the alternative theories about the Universe on KZbin this would be interesting and good for the KZbin community!!!

[@DrunkenAussie76]

The theory that describes our universe is called Big Bang Theory, and there are no other theories. The misconception many people have with the word theory leads to more than a few tin foil hats in the world. A theory is commonly referred to as an idea or thought by many people, whereas in science theories are the epitome of knowledge, often describing why and how the facts that we observe are the way that we observe them. Georges Lemaître is often credited with the discovery that the universe can be traced back to a single location in 1927 and just about all evidence collected since then shows the same. For something to challenge Big Bang Theory someone must explain the evidence already collected more accurately... and noone has done so for nearly a hundred years, Kind of like reinventing the wheel really now that I think about it.

[@organd9184]

KZbin thanks for recommending this *2 years* later...

[@scp--0017]

This is really neat.

[@CheeseTaterson]

Sure, as you said bacteria never became heroes in Marvel or DC, but a collection of plankton became a heroine in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure; close enough...?

[@brian554xx]

"These marathon tugging sessions could last for hours and end up pulling ten times harder than when they started." What do my weekend plans have to do with gonorrhea?

[@mr.dr.genius2169]

Who else got "Nature's most amazing animal superpowers" by It's Okay To Be Smart in the recomended?

[@OmegaMegalodon]

very informative video

[@therollsroycetrent9863]

There really are Good Bacteria.

[@Thurgor_Supreme]

"These marathon tugging sessions could last for hours"

[@MrCubFan415]

Reminder: There are some bacteria that humans can’t live without.

[@VR_Wizard]

Check out the iGEM competition to learn what's possible with bacteria.

[@Apostate_ofmind]

well tho, its easier to be stronger when youre smaller. Isnt that a phisical law?

[@hufflepunk9562]

Generally, the smaller something else, the more dense it is, and thus stronger. It is the logic behind Ant-man and the Wasp.

[@lightsidemaster]

Woohoo Michael is back!

[@IamGhede]

Pretty sure making it burn when you pee simple by having contact is a super power too.

[@herlescraft]

I too have one, it's called staphylococcus and his superpower is "the ability to not getting killed by M.F. antibiotics"... sry... just had to put it out there :P

[@Evghenios79]

The one I found scary is the one we cannot kill with radiation (i.e. the first one shown)

[@bullsquid42]

Would be a nice superhero origin story: Caught an STD. Got super strenght.

[@WhiteCollarCrimeDNB]

My marathon tugging sessions last for hours and end more vigorously than they started too. Does that mean I have gonorhea?

[@StarSpawn06]

Another factoid: Aquifex pyrophilus is one of the most ancient known species of bacteria. :)

[@PennyDreadful1]

"....Join earth's mightiest heroes! Thor, Iron Man, The Hulk and Gonorrhea. In their quest too....."

[@MaxBrix]

Often we use plastic because it can't spoil. imagine if plastic started rotting. I guess we will have to go back to using glass.

[@Dlippincott8607]

So for I Sakaiensis, could we theoretically just dump a bunch of the chemical it uses into the ocean in hopes of breaking down the plastic contaminants?

[@ChrisD4335]

there are defiantly super bacteria in comic books

[@berlytan9575]

I'm curious to what would happen if made contact to each of them, so scary.