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@thesilentone40242 жыл бұрын
Can you show us some Extremefiles please 🙏.
@flosslittle52312 жыл бұрын
Thank you💚
@hamnonox2 жыл бұрын
Pleasantly surprised to see one of my fav orgs sponsoring one of my favorite shows
@magscat31612 жыл бұрын
While I was pregnant, I was binge watching the play lists to this channel. I often rested my phone on my belly because a baby belly doubles as a table. Because I often fell asleep watching these videos, I'd play them over and over again. ...Now that the baby is here we have discovered that Hank's voice soothes her when she's fussy and she is mesmerized by the footage. She loves Journey to the Microcosomos. Thank you Hank, James, and the team!
@DinnerForkTongue2 жыл бұрын
Does she react to Deboki's voice?
@magscat31612 жыл бұрын
@@DinnerForkTongue not really. She still likes the moving shapes but only Hank's voice has that baby silencing magic. She even prefers Hank over my husband.
@DinnerForkTongue2 жыл бұрын
@@magscat3161 Dang 😶
@CocoumKelsPerson Жыл бұрын
This would make for a fascinating case study for the making of a professional in utero, as you've inadvertently made baby a microbiologist, lol. I think I did the same with mine, as I was a chemist when I was pregnant and she is heavily invested in it, even though I hadn't talked about it much during her infancy and toddlerhood, having become a stay-at-home mom.
@CocoumKelsPerson Жыл бұрын
Also, hope you and baby scientist are doing well a year later!
@SciShow2 жыл бұрын
This was riveting. Thanks for the incredible story, JTTM team!
@KalebPeters992 жыл бұрын
It's funny how attached we can get to a little microbe with just a bit of good storytelling and some whimsical music ✨
@electricharmonyac73542 жыл бұрын
Needs your voice Mr Scishow. Her voice is pretty but its not the same. Your voice and Wongs synth "tickles" make these videos magic
@tomoyboy2 жыл бұрын
What a wild ride, its still to this day amazing to me how there is this entire universe of creatures living, dying and being born just out of our sight. Love your work guys!
@wannabewyvern2 жыл бұрын
this was honestly heartbreaking, I feel so bad for that poor baby who did all that work to escape from the cilliate only to be trapped inside the body of their mother
@rotifer2 жыл бұрын
*Many beings question the fearlessness of us Rotifers. Why we aren't screaming in terror when being captured by an Amoeba or caught in the jaws of a Stentor. The truth is, all of those tragedies pale in comparison to a Mother's wrath. After all, Mama Rotifer always told me that she brought me into this world and she can take me out of it. Never question Mama Rotifer.*
@monkemind4202 жыл бұрын
😓
@sudstahgaming2 жыл бұрын
Hail baby rotifer glorious lord
@megatronyeets2 жыл бұрын
The great Rotifer hath spoken.
@Blueface694202 жыл бұрын
Who are you
@CrossbredManiac2 жыл бұрын
NEVER QUESTION MAMA ROTIFER
@AlfredPros2 жыл бұрын
This was the most intense and emotional journey ever from Microcosmos. Absolutely awesome find and I'm glad I watched the whole thing!
@Catastropheshe2 жыл бұрын
There was one about sudden death by getting dissolved too 😶
@eddyb59802 жыл бұрын
The dramas captured at such microscopic levels are always astounding to me! This video in particular has elements of story and irony that you seldom see in modern cinema. The fact that the carcass of its own mother kept it safe in the food vacuole to the point where it could escape the Loxodes only for that same Mother’s carcass (ps great name for a band) to be the poor infant Rotifer’s inevitable undoing by keeping it trapped after its initial escape is amazing! Keep up the great work @JourneytotheMicrocosmos , these videos make me want to quit my day job and become a microbiologist!
@nyrdybyrd17022 жыл бұрын
Publicist perhaps?. if not, could have a combo calling.. excellent writ, Eddy. 👍
@chillsahoy26402 жыл бұрын
You've made me feel emotionally invested in a microscopic creature, the sort of creature I would easily kill without a second thought if I'm cleaning the house or disinfecting the kitchen counter.
@IchorX2 жыл бұрын
What an incredibly powerful and thought-provoking story... The microcosmos are so surreal to us macroscopic creatures, yet they can still show us life's poetic duality in its immense cruelty and beauty, coexisting as if it were only ever so. Such a breathtaking video, the best one on this channel in as long as I can remember. I'm at a loss for meaningful words and I can only give all of my praise.
@charleycurtis39542 жыл бұрын
the rotifers survival instinct was fascinating, something so small, yet capable of something like that was incredible to watch, it was heartbreaking to watch the failure of the baby rotifers survival, and i must admit , made me sad. Thanks for the great videos as always
@plane15man2 жыл бұрын
I've never shed a tear over a rotifer before today.
@Bladavia2 жыл бұрын
I've never rooted so hard for a microbe in my life
@Skeptical_Numbat2 жыл бұрын
I've watched lots of these trips into the Microcosmos, but it only rarely strikes me that these organisms lack nearly all of my senses, knowing only touch & smell/taste (these two senses being perhaps still intertwined at their level of development). A rare few may include a rudimentary awareness of light/dark, but more functional vision eludes them... Their entire existence is in darkness, knowing only what contacts their cilia/skin, other sparks of life only a jostling movement in the dense fluid medium surrounding them. Do they smell/taste the presence of approaching death from a predator, or sense the trail of a potential mate? It's surprisingly difficult not to anthropomorphise these organisms, giving them a complexity of consciousness as we observe the trials of their lives. Do they 'feel' or 'know' at all? They do certainly far more than just react, so I suspect that in their own infinitesimal way they do have some awareness of self - which is both wondrous & fascinating.
@sianmilne48792 жыл бұрын
Reminds me of "Lineland" from the movie/book Flatland! How consciousness and awareness would be different with different senses/dimensions 🤔
@spiercephotography2 жыл бұрын
I’m 2 minutes in, and i’m cheering on the rotifer 😱 its like an alien movie. Edit: whoa, fascinating and sad
@zekayman2 жыл бұрын
I've never felt so profoundly sad for a microorganism. Imagine your own mother saving you only to be the very cause of your demise.
@Marispider2 жыл бұрын
I thought this video was being overdramatic. I did NOT expect to have my jaw actually drop when that turn of events came. Absolutely insane that this was all caught on video, it's amazing.
@ellium11472 жыл бұрын
Oh wow.. that was emotional.
@Sevenigma7772 жыл бұрын
My lord this was one of the most nerve racking suspenseful things I have ever seen in life. Plus that music made it all the more intense lol
@pattiwicksteed37312 жыл бұрын
Wow! This footage demonstrates the expertise James brings to Journey to the Microcosmos. To maintain camera tracking while constantly adjusting the focus - amazing. Thank you all so very much for this channel. Epic.
@alanwelch92162 жыл бұрын
Incredible story's happening all the time in the micro and macro cosmos's
@brendanhall37382 жыл бұрын
Aye, I ordered a microscope from your store and just got it today. I’m excited to use it. Thank you for your work
@HSPGelton22 жыл бұрын
Best one yet! Thank you, James, for the time you put into capturing these incredible moments.
@jackz4665 Жыл бұрын
I've given a like because you've put the um measure in the bottom right and the magnification in the top left... This is the only video I've seen caring about it, thank you a lot it gives more understanding about the size of the organisms we are watching
@GordonFreechmen2 жыл бұрын
More gripping than most Hollywood films today
@securatyyy2 жыл бұрын
Who needs sleep when there are unborn rotifers to mourn?
@MaryAnnNytowl2 жыл бұрын
Wow, this definitely took a turn I didn't expect, and then took another turn I didn't expect! Though this lady's voice did a good job at the task at hand, it definitely wasn't Hank's soothingly velvet voice. I often plug in several Microcosmos videos in a row, and get soothed to sleep by that velvet voice! Thanks, ItM, for what you do! ❤️ ❤️
@Colaris992 жыл бұрын
I am amazed that a micro creature has a developed enough nervous system in order to sense danger and enage a fight/flight reaction. I never knew, great video.
@KaitoKR-er4ii2 жыл бұрын
There are many lessons to be learned in this story, one of them is to never celebrate early, and despite all the effort you make you still may fail.
@Thor_the_Doge2 жыл бұрын
I was not expecting to see a sad story of defeat, fighting back, success, triumph, escape, a plot twist, heartbreak, giving in and true defeat while watching a goddamn video about microscopic creatures
@maryannswanson38322 жыл бұрын
Wow that was intense! All that work to get out! Then being stuck! I was rooting for it! Amazing thing to catch on camera. BRAVO 👍
@peterkraus22492 жыл бұрын
Talk about a plot twist at the end!
@fredericfillion61482 жыл бұрын
This was riveting, many thanks!
@Mrcheekymonkeyisback Жыл бұрын
7:38/7:39 whats that pink organism?really curious about that thing...why pink? maybe do a video covering these odd things
@Kammerliteratur2 жыл бұрын
wow. stunning. and yet so depressingly tragic.
@Blackmark522 жыл бұрын
*This one was a bit of a nail-biter* and no Hollywood happy ending, which to be honest I was expecting.
@TheRogueWolf2 жыл бұрын
Opening: "Jeez, you two, get a slide!"
@SitnaltaErif2 жыл бұрын
I don't think I've ever been so gripped by something on KZbin before until I watched this. I was utterly glued to my phone screen. It's so fascinating to watch the drama we're used to seeing on nature channels at the micro level. I feel bad the little guy didn't make it. Once it managed to get free, I was ready to cheer. But it was an amazing effort to stay alive.
@florato93872 жыл бұрын
I'm now petrified that my digesting food would fight back and tear out of me...
@Lou-Mae2 жыл бұрын
Welp, so now I can say that I've cried at the death of a rotifer.
@JossOwX2 жыл бұрын
This is the most intense episode ever
@ira61332 жыл бұрын
After watching this chanel I started notice that I no longer perceive a drop of water as an ordinary thing, instead I see it as a whole another universe full of life. There's so much fascinating things going on around us that we don't even acknowledge.
@Tanookicatoon Жыл бұрын
Amazing how many of these things must end up in your stomach whenever you drink anything.
@leyrua2 жыл бұрын
"seems like a small miracle" Microscopic, in fact.
@chillausmc Жыл бұрын
Well that was better than any TV program. Skill and patience for the footage. Bravo. Great story telling blended with awesome visuals. Im have to see what is living in my fish pond..
@mewkaryote6492 жыл бұрын
It's terrifying that a single celled organism can eat a multicellular animal.
@everettehungerford28582 жыл бұрын
Wow, what a parable.
@Fregmazors2 жыл бұрын
What astonishes me about this is when I start to wonder whether the rotifer was aware of what was happening to it or not. It really seemed to be making the decision to dig its way out; Its actions seemed deliberate. So Is the rotifer acting to defend its own life, thereby indicating that it is _aware_ of of its predicament and capable of some degree of self-awareness? Or are all of its actions and movements purely predetermined responses to light, contact and pressure, which cause changes in biochemistry and fluid dynamics, collectively affecting all of the cells that make it up, which we interpret as Rotifer Escape Plan Alpha?
@eroraf86372 жыл бұрын
While it’s hard to quantify awareness even for macroscopic animals, it’s more likely that rotifers do not possess more than the most basic awareness of their immediate surroundings. They almost certainly do not possess the kind of self-awareness that even insects demonstrate. This is not at all surprising when you consider that rotifers have only ~200 neurons, whereas a typical insect brain has about a million and human brains have about 80 billion neurons.
@borischan52522 жыл бұрын
Holding hand, vore, guro, unbirth... all in one video... wow....
@wittywarbler11172 жыл бұрын
Holy shit what a fuckin twist, god damn. Awesome
@1.41422 жыл бұрын
Most intense episode ever.
@kenchesnut4425 Жыл бұрын
Wow.. ..the writing and narration and music...set the mood...FANTASTIC...MUCH LUV FROM N.AUGUSTA S.C
@Nik.No.K2 жыл бұрын
Wow this was a roller coaster ride
@KingXOreo2 жыл бұрын
Recommended by SciShow and now a subscriber!
@suzannegroenewald9964 Жыл бұрын
Wow! What a riveting story! That was amazing, thank you for sharing this amazing story with us.
@jebus6kryst2 жыл бұрын
Wow! That story was more traject than anything from Shakespear.
@massimookissed10232 жыл бұрын
Have you read Romeo & Juliet ?
@SkywalkerSamadhi Жыл бұрын
Damn. Made me tear up over microbiology. Well played, James and Lady Hank. Well played.
@MrGustavier2 жыл бұрын
Unbelievable images. I am so glad you're out there.
@shelavery78332 жыл бұрын
This absolutely emotionally destroyed me
@ProjectDarkWolf2 жыл бұрын
What a journey this was...
@cba997755332 жыл бұрын
Utterly amazing footage!
@albertmarti27182 жыл бұрын
What a plot twist!
@massimookissed10232 жыл бұрын
_"Get in mah belleh !_ _I'm higher up tha foood chain than yoo !"_
@nickcosimano50282 жыл бұрын
Best video in a while, and on my birthday. Thanks for the present.
@joemcdabster1502 жыл бұрын
This is why you were told to always thoroughly chew your food
@LordBummingtonThe3rd2 жыл бұрын
A cruel twist to make the grecians weep
@osmia2 жыл бұрын
Well, that was intense!
@skivvy35652 жыл бұрын
Good thing we knew what was gonna happen and there was no suspense and she reminded us exactly how it was going to be ok a few times throughout
@lilheinz9496 Жыл бұрын
Lol clearly u didn’t watch it before commenting lol that was foolish
@AlexanderRoux2 жыл бұрын
This was incredible. Thank you for my Tuesday evening relaxation
@Libbyyyyyyyyyy2 жыл бұрын
That was jawdropping.
@oneshotme2 жыл бұрын
Enjoyed your video and I gave it a Thumbs Up
@clintparsons3989 Жыл бұрын
I’ve never been so emotionally invested in a rotifer.
@narrowonflow2 жыл бұрын
holly fuck wut a twist marvel aint got shit on this
@Robert-xp4ii2 жыл бұрын
I thought another was going to eat it right after escaping the first by how it was worded. Poor thing. "But I don't wanna be a sammich!"
@nerdymaple26372 жыл бұрын
This whole thing seemed very poetic somehow.
@lonewretch2 жыл бұрын
Feeling loopy from a lack of sleep, that was the freakiest thing I've ever seen. I kept seeing a tiny human stretching, even with a face at times, and then deforming back into a nebulous blob.. Poor wee Mister Geppetto, no Pinnochio to save you from the whale.
@NewMessage2 жыл бұрын
Well now I'm depressed. Must be Monday.
@AmericanCaesarian2 жыл бұрын
This was a baby rotifers revenge
@jenniferbailey22142 жыл бұрын
And I thought I had problems!!! So amazing, great job James!!!
@eatemadfanaee59542 жыл бұрын
meanwhile her momy:jack I always told you, you should chew your Rotifer before swallowing it
@Keepturbo2 жыл бұрын
Hold up, where is Hank's ASMR narration...
@I.____.....__...__2 жыл бұрын
Unfortunately, this was one video where Hank's ASMR voice was most required. 🤦
@bradleygibson45582 жыл бұрын
I like her voice better. Who is she by the way
@brendakrieger70002 жыл бұрын
Always relaxing and endlessly fascinating💚🔬🦠🦠
@kurtflint642 жыл бұрын
Wonderful! The microverse has chestbursters just like the movie Alien!
@Efsiksotu2 жыл бұрын
Very interesting
@Steaphany2 жыл бұрын
You need to do a series of how=to tutorials for subscribers to aim their microscopes at puddles and video record what they find. If just 1% of the subscribers here start recording what they see, that will be 6000 to 7000 new views on the microcosmos. Just imagine the potential for new species identification and the capture of rare events
@sentientflower78912 жыл бұрын
Incredible as are all of your videos, and the book, too!
@noeldenever2 жыл бұрын
Here I am, grieving an unborn wee rotifer 🥲 Thank you JTTM, this is a suspenseful and heartbreaking one.
@Alondro772 жыл бұрын
When you consider how many BILLIONS of these little critters die every single day...
@SitnaltaErif2 жыл бұрын
Same. 😢 All that amazing effort, only to be stuck in what's left of its mother.
@Beryllahawk2 жыл бұрын
Same, can't believe I sat here and rooted for it for nearly fifteen minutes and now I'm crying my eyes out over a critter so small I wouldn't even see it, if not for James. Amazing and wonderful and terrible all at once.
@rot_studios2 жыл бұрын
Ah yes. It's time for the Journet to the Microcosmos guarantee: an existential crisis :D
@anthonyhaynes87382 жыл бұрын
"I'll keep quiet and chime in as the events take place" *talks the entire video* haha how interesting indeed
@anthonyhaynes87382 жыл бұрын
I was wrong
@brianbarrett24872 жыл бұрын
This following up on the poor exploding blob...these are great!
@RobertoCarlosM2 жыл бұрын
An insight into what happens to all of the eaten alive animals. Still moving in the bellies of those that ate them.
@user2552 жыл бұрын
Brutal af.
@CosmicShieldMaiden2 жыл бұрын
Stoned and ready for a nap, perfect finding this 💨
@calvinwitt9552 жыл бұрын
this one made me cry
@seananderson68912 жыл бұрын
this is why i always chew my food.
@edman3d5932 жыл бұрын
incredible
@wendyitw50032 жыл бұрын
I’m kinda having an indigestion while watching this ... still, I can’t imagine the “discomfort” this loxodes went through ...