How Do Microorganisms Reproduce?

[@vlogbrothers]

It's like you made this just for me. -John

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Is this a hint that this whole channel is just a dare between you two? ;)

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Hi John!

[@anthropomorphizedrock]

After watching the last couple of episodes I've been asking myself if you've been keeping up with them. Glad to see you are :)

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Now you gotta make a sports news only podcast as retaliation.

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John baby show us your feet...

[@MisterTalkingMachine]

I think I have a new favourite youtube channel.

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It's definitely up there. Will need more content before it can threaten Contrapoints and Philosophy Tube, but it's looking very promising.

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This channel is gonna blow tf up

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was about to comment the same thing lol

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This video is getting shown to my biology students when we get to micro!

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Biologize this.. 👊🤯

[@theorangecandle]

I wish my teacher was a Zelda fan too

[@euclideanplane]

perfect, it'll be so inspirational, great move teacher

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You sound like a nice teacher. 👍

[@fredeheerser7914]

Dont switch up tabs and open the freaky monster hentai

[@MasterCrander]

"Either that, or _The Mother_ is now *both of them.* ...and if _that_ is the case - Every, single, celled organism is _itself_ the same organism that has continued surviving since the very first cell reproduced itself billions of years ago..." Give me a minute to recuperate from the enormous existential implications of that real quick. Just gonna have a mild crisis about the fundamental axioms of my existence - and we're back. Man that really puts Love, Self-Loathing, Death, and Anti-Bacterial Soap into a whole new perspective.

[@gearandalthefirst7027]

this concept is actually what I based my personal belief system on. Additionally, as the first single-celled organism came from non-living material, we are also the Earth itself, not to mention our connection to it through food. This also extrapolates to the Sun and solar system and all the way back to the Big Bang where everything that currently exists (besides Hawking radiation, maybe???) was one entity.

[@SuperLoops]

its all just semantics anyway. there was a cell, it split into two, part of the cells contents went into one new cell, part went into the other. the first cell was alive, now the two cells are alive. what actually happened is really simple. ok really complex, but it was a simple series of overall events. all the added complexity of identity and is the first cell still alive or is it dead or are the new cells new individuals etc etc etc are mostly invented, to some extent anthropomorphising, and actually get in the way of rather than increase our understanding of things imo.

[@emmettdonkeydoodle6230]

Super Loops I thought it was a good way to put things in perspective We as humans can’t visualize anything over like 30 or 40 in terms of quantity And we can’t comprehend anything above 100 So to mention that this little microorganism is far older than anything we can ever hope to comprehend really adds to the complexity and fascination of life on earth imo

[@SaitamaProductions]

The anti-bacterial soap killed me

[@moonflower813]

Honestly, it's pretty crazy to consider that every living organism has an unbroken lineage that descends all the way to the beginning of life. Every single one of our ancestors survived every mass extinction, every predator, every illness, to live long enough to reproduce. It's honestly rather mindboggling.

[@canis2020]

"Don't want to hurt your brains too early" he says. As if it is the end goal? I need an adult!

[@TheNimaid]

More of an inevitable side-effect.

[@journeytomicro]

If you don't end up questioning your own existence, what's the point of watching a KZbin video about microbes?

[@TheNimaid]

@@journeytomicro When you get ego death from watching a rotifer die.

[@BrnoCs2]

Big Bopper Hello? is this thing on? am I all alone? is anyone there? i need a bigger gun

[@SlinkySmith59]

​@@journeytomicro exactly, you get it!

[@thethoughtemporium]

This channel is everything I need when I'm killing time in the lab. Chill, informative, beautiful and great music. What more can you want. Keep it up yall!

[@cheddarcheezit2647]

eyy it's the thought emporium

[@opame1560]

hank, why is your voice so soothing? andrew, why are you such a talented composer?

[@banan9782]

Practice makes perfect, I guess

[@paul.eduard]

in this series, it kind of has a morgany feel to it

[@samrusoff]

two things: 1) he is totally channeling a mixture of morgan freeman and carl sagan for narration, it's great. and 2) andrew huang makes the music for this series, he is super talented! (hank composes his own music for his band, but i figured you were referring to the music in this video)

[@opame1560]

sam rusoff i’ve follwed huang’s stuff for ages, so it was definitely a pleasant surprise to see his name in the credits!

[@derekhasabrain]

This channel is a combination of my entire adolescence. Hank Green being my crash course educator, Andrew Huang being my tutor while I was learning how to use FL Studio, and my favorite class in junior high, Biology. This gives me such a sense of magnificent peace that no other channel on KZbin does

[@CrowdingFaun624]

Wow, I just found this channel and another video has been published already!

[@mihailoradovanovic7283]

Too

[@marekbykowy1107]

Same here!

[@iassen1]

Same, I just watched a video about the Stentors. Very cool channel!

[@daniellee2965]

@iassen1 same here

[@Iheartdgd]

It’s a very new project :)

[@zelenoye]

this idea "you kissed someone and walked away a genetically different person" - a great idea for Sci-Fi! Especially about alien species! I always get sad when aliens are too humanoid, so probaly it's a good idea to look into microcosmos for alien inspo!))

[@MaledictGaming]

Check Annihilation(2018) ;)

[@dandanthedandan7558]

Tbh that make sense cause they can get your DNA from the cheeks cells in your spit. This also means that drinking blood will work just as well! :D Or eating peeled-off skin... Or swallowing down locks of hair... Or biting off whole fingernails... Maybe even drinking piss as well, idk about that. Why do I think of these gross possibilities?

[@patrickturner6878]

Much of the Ender's Game series of novels after the first revolves around a deadly virus that achieves an odd form of "sentience".

[@marxtheenigma873]

Too many humanoid aliens is a problem with many shows. You'd think with the greatly improved special effects technologies people have now that would be a lot less of a problem. Be glad to inform you there are a wide variety of shapes for the species I've met in my universe.

[@abramthiessen8749]

@@dandanthedandan7558 The idea of taking genetic information from dead discards is actually used by some bacterium species like E. coli. They usually exchange plasmids with other living bacteria, but sometimes they will even take plasmids from dead ones. And some other bacteria share plasmids using special viruses.

[@daniellee2965]

8:14 Wait, Hank Green was the one talking this whole time? And Andrew Huang was the one creating the music this whole time? Damn, my 2 favorite youtubers doing stuff on the same channel.

[@sujalumrikar]

Just found the channel, binged all the episodes, and then when I go to the channel page, a new video pops up. Thought I was hallucinating for a second!

[@kennymartin5976]

Well, time to put my phone down and- OR THAT CAN WAIT 8 MINUTES!!

[@taylortisaac]

Kenny Martin I DID THE SAME THING HAHA

[@persomnus]

I was just about to water my garden. Lmao they can wait 10 minutes I suppose

[@tylerblackstock6452]

Put your phone under a microscope, Ding, all new episode

[@nolanwestrich2602]

@@tylerblackstock6452 Or anything else, for that matter.

[@Grimwalkerx]

why are u so upset pinky:(

[@marekbykowy1107]

That one person who press "dislike" could use a genetic-changing kiss.

[@noahshomeforstrangeandeduc4431]

dang

[@Petr75661]

i wanted to give you a like, but you already have 69 for this comment...

[@noahshomeforstrangeandeduc4431]

Nice

[@brianseimandi2755]

*Clicks on video* "Oh man, the last two videos have been very informing and soothing to watch at the same time! I hope this one's no differe--" *"Death is inevitable"*

[@tanchristhoper3832]

My new favorite type of asmr... the music, the sound, so relaxing... until the ads plaaaaying soooo loudly!!!

[@Greenfire44]

shout out to Andrew Huang for making the music!

[@itsrachelfish]

Use adblock lol

[@Azzarinne]

"Beautiful bags of chemicals" applies to all of us, I guess. I'm okay with that. :)

[@vigilantsycamore8750]

Technically, us multicellulars are more like bags of piles of bags of chemicals

[@clray123]

Everyone may be a bag of chemicals, but not everyone is a beautiful one.

[@tdoge]

@@vigilantsycamore8750 "us multicellulars"

[@zuthalsoraniz6764]

@@vigilantsycamore8750 Even unicellular eukaryotes, with their membrane-bound organelles, are already bags of bags of chemicals

[@keon200]

Well, your fat and probably filled with cheetos and other processed garbage. speak for yourself.

[@patrickturner6878]

You guys are excellent microscopists. In some of these scenes you can catch the formation and breakdown of microtubules and see individual groups of kinesins moving within the cytoplasm during mitosis. That is amazingly detailed microscope work.

[@jayamiheiyang1602]

It's mostly one guy, James Weiss. His Instagram has tons of footage like this and is well worth a good, long look.

[@MinesanityServer]

It's funny how this is all basic biology we've learned in school, but it's been so long that it feels like a new concept 🤣

[@acvaticlifE]

"we living things, we reproduce" That's where you're wrong Boiii *cries in forever alone*

[@johnarbuckle2619]

The cells that constitute your body reproduce.

[@masonpalmer1752]

shut up nerd

[@MaledictGaming]

@@masonpalmer1752 *watches a documentary* *proceeds to call someone a nerd*

[@ghoulbuster1]

bruh moment

[@lukericker8325]

Hetzer Hasser Ha! You sound like an incel. Or should I say an... Incell..ular organism. I’ll leave.

[@lalika]

..OR MAYBE THEY ARE ONE BEING THAT HAS NEVER DIED. NEAT. I love this channel already:)

[@PinataOblongata]

Wait 'til you find out about mitochondrial DNA...

[@noahdacheese839]

Hank Green is becoming the new David Attenborough and I'm jealous

[@alexruddies1718]

His pacing and wording reminds me of Carl Sagan.

[@adamwilding9520]

Noah Da Cheese omg that’s so true

[@claytonpaisley9721]

Lol its his same lilting, frenetic, lispy delivery as always just slooooowed down. It makes me both cringe, and smile as it warms the cockles of my heart. There's only one hank.

[@GeorgeNoiseless]

I... I might actually start using Instagram because of Jam’s Germs.

[@JamsGerms]

😂 I would appreciate that!

[@Iheartdgd]

Love this channel so much, 1 of 3 channels I have notifs on for.

[@viliussmproductions]

I'm already in love with this series. A wonderful thing to come back to from work.

[@viliussmproductions]

@Boco Corwin Brutal, but true.

[@zeec7439]

@Boco Corwin love doesn’t have to be mutual bro

[@dinkledankle]

I don't care if it takes a million episodes, please explore the entire microcosmos. I need to see _all of it._

[@JJJthebest]

Please just make 45 minute videos with awesome visuals and Hank just ASMRing about random stuff

[@EsMiZo]

As a non english-speaking viewer, thanks for speaking with such clear pronunciation and with an adequate speed. For people who know "a little" of English and are learning more, this together with the subtitles has a great value. All this in addition to content, explanations and images, which are simply awesome. Thank you.

[@lagduck2209]

That footage, commentary, music. Just perfect

[@Ms666slayer]

This channel is awesome, I had seen other videos of microorganism but mostly are low quality and without much expplanation, this channel, not only has good quality footage, but the narration it's awesome, so keep doing this awesome job, and almost 100K in like a month that's awesome.

[@iassen1]

We tend to forget how our own bodies are a huge composition of cells. Nature and life is truly amazing! Everything we have ever done, felt and experienced is thanks to the cells!! :) Peace and light

[@Tenajeh]

I love the narrator's voice! It's so cozy, it makes me want to absorb his micro-nuclei.

[@martijnboot4971]

Hi Hank, I would like to say I love the way you present this, much better than in scishow!

[@paulnuske2625]

As a space cadet in the Microcosmos you provide up-to-date, science-based, factual information that is difficult to obtain and when you do, it is nowhere near as entertaining as you guys. Love your work, keep it up.

[@JonnBenny]

Science, soothing music and Hank. What more are you looking for? Best new channel out there, thanks for the vids.

[@FaultAndDakranon]

Jonn Benny Also, soothing Hank. Rarest of Hanks.

[@catarinabarbosa2247]

tapping andrew huang to do the soundtrack for these was a genius move

[@James-gm9cs]

Shame Microorganism fossils are difficult to find, we would've been able to fill in so many of the missing links of evolution before the Cambrian explosion happened.

[@BeckBeckGo]

Most of what we figured out was from a geological and geochemical perspective and the effects critters had on the world around them. But yeah, it’s a fascinating period in history. The great oxidation “FU anaerobes” is favourite epoch.

[@fakjbf3129]

I usually watch KZbin videos on double speed, but for some reason this is one of the few channels that I feel like I have to watch on normal speed.

[@williamhardway6436]

I specifically come here for the brain-hurty stuff

[@StevenCasteelYT]

7:11 the sound design matching the spinning cycle of lil' turbo is top notch.

[@littleitaly7203]

The only channel I’ve pressed the bell for haha

[@aeyedeyen]

With enough of these in a row, we'll have a full length documentary in no time at all! Wonderful work from all involved :)

[@300Eels]

Neat. Loving the series so far (I've always been interested in microbiology), keep it up!

[@TheRealFlenuan]

This is the fastest a channel has ever grown on me. I just discovered it two days ago and now it's my favorite.

[@aviasegel]

This is fascinating in the strangest of ways. No, wait, it's strange in the fascinating-est of ways. Fascinatingly strange? Either way, it's wonderful.

[@naota3k]

The calm tone of Hank's voice makes this very pleasing.

[@JLocke573]

No one: Hank: "Hey look at these wiggly bois!!!

[@JanetStarChild]

Stop.

[@deeliciousplum]

The background music presses upon me to imagine an apartment filled with tarot card readers. Placing that gently to the side, these Microcosmos mini-documentaries are exceptional. Thank you for making and for sharing these. 🌻

[@slav1616]

are we gonna ignore the spinny thing called urocentrum *turbo* at 5:09?

[@TheTNTerminator]

I just got myself a new microscope on Amazon! I can't wait, but in the meantime I'll be watching this channel.

[@Koboto]

Imagine that you gave someone a kiss and then walked away...a different organism...THAT is how the Paramecium Bursaria do.

[@speedweed683]

Hi Frank!

[@MarcusAgrippa390]

I absolutely love this channel! The videos, the music, the toned down narrative all put together in such a calm and relaxed manner that I always come away with a better understanding and appreciation of the microcosm as well as being more relaxed after the video than I was before it. Thank you for making this channel.

[@BricktowneMedia]

these presentations need to be longform...im just saying...30 minutes...45....somewhere in there....this is some of the coolest shit ive seen and the narration/presentation/research is of the highest quality. can't get enough and look forward to the next vid!

[@gwen8972]

These are the most mesmerizing videos on KZbin.

[@lookdownimthere]

If someone had described this channel to me with words, I would never had thought it would be the thing I was most looking forward to and excited to see in my subscription box. I am so glad you did the intro video on vlogbrothers or I may have never become so obsessed.

[@wabznasm9660]

I know this has been said a lot already, but everything about this channel’s content is just right. Calm, confident and slightly playful delivery, detailed yet lyrical script, and breathtaking footage that demonstrates the vivid three dimensionality of the microscopic world. Just ace. Thank you.

[@merunasg]

I love this channel soooo much!!! It's like discovering a new part of the universe, literally

[@fredeheerser7914]

like whole new category on pornhub you overlooked all these years, this could go for hentai

[@chinito77]

Hank sounds so professional and calm. Kinda like that Dr you want to have when they have to explain to you bad news. Thank you Doc, I know understand why my cells decided to call it quits.

[@ErgoCogita]

I am soooooo glad this channel exists. I've spent many a year peering through scopes at microorganisms and learning to identify and photograph/video them. I'd love to see a video done by you guys which explains to people how to get started: acquire samples (aquarium filter mulm, ponds etc). how to identify protozoans, algae, fungi, helminths, copepods, etc. In all my years, I've never actually met anyone IRL that enjoyed it as a hobby like I did and sometimes still do.

[@anthropomorphizedrock]

There are so many philosophical answers woven into these videos... and it's all effortlessly articulated

[@elliecraig8428]

I know it's not very groundbreaking for someone to remark that they really like a youtube channel, but I really feel the need to say that this channel touches me on an emotional level. It may be Hank's calm tone, the delicate yet alien background music, or the delicate yet alien creatures swimming around onscreen; but something abput this content makes me truly, deeply happy, and I hope it continues for a very long time.

[@meneeRubieko]

Opened this video at random just now. Instantely subbed. And now I realise the narrater is this Hank dude and I’m subscribed to all of his channels without knowing they were connected lol. Love this concept

[@hadogenes5049]

I’m sitting in the living room watching this next to my family watching the voice and I dont want to say that my choice of entertainment is superior to theirs but it is, there’s a gradient of quality in entertainment with almost everything on cable being at the bottom while shows like this represent the complete other end of the quality spectrum.

[@123TeeMee]

I have to say I'm quite happy that three youtubers I already like made a channel together, that being jam's germs, hank and andrew huang

[@kay486]

Please go deeper into topics like this, there is enough material to cover to make a whole series!

[@unenglishable]

I've had trouble getting interested in the micro world through reading and looking at diagrams; these videos give an entirely new and exciting perspective. Being able to see the living microorganisms in action - with commentary - is so interesting, it's making me want to get my own microscope setup. Amazing content so far, keep them coming! :)

[@adamborg1]

It is such a privilege to get this abundance of interesting high quality microscopic footage. And also awesome new information about life on this planet. Thank you for making this channel!!!

[@tylerblackstock6452]

Completely stunning. Cant wait for more. Could totally make the videos twice as long and ill still want to see more. Not much of this out there on the web.

[@GD-ji7wy]

Every time I watch these, I'm astounded when the time comes to an end. It's passed in a blink.

[@goodsoupdoodle]

As a scientist who studies and mates tetrahymena thermophila regularly, it is so cool to see single celled organisms and their reproduction explained in a way for everyone to understand! Love these videos!

[@tommyrosendahl7238]

This is the scientific equivalent of poetry and high art. Thank you, Hank!

[@FreakBellSeven]

There's something weirdly comforting about being called Fellow Traveler, especially in an educational context like this. We're just traveling through space together, learning about some amazing little wonders in the world around us.

[@jodinha4225]

I’m speechless at just how great these videos are

[@smashino]

This is so fantastically relaxing and interesting. Hearing Hank speak in this way is great. Thanks!

[@timonvader]

Here we find the perfect synthesis of velvety-voiced narration, beautiful visuals and sublime soundscapes. Such creativity through the lens of a microscope!

[@TheDevler23]

quickly becoming my favorite channel to watch before bed. Soothing, beautiful, educational. It's perfect.

[@furankusama]

Ok this channel is already blowing out of proportion.

[@hollyxat3748]

that 1am video feeling? When you watch stuff you never knew you wanted to? Love it.

[@etykespeer2230]

Ever thought of making an hour long streams of microscopic life? I could watch this for days and 10-15 minutes just isn't enough. Great videos though, went through all of them and can't wait for more content! Keep up the great work guys, this place is a lot of fun. You'll get subscriptions in no time ;)

[@ultimateo621]

I think this is the best channel on KZbin.

[@LandoCalrissiano]

Even if one ignores the content of the videos the presentation itself is beautiful. I can't wait for more videos.

[@subesube040]

Very great video to watch! I have a suggestion though, could you put a scale bar instead of the lens magnification? because if you put the lens magnification for example 100x, it's quite ambiguous. for example one that watch your video in a mobile phone and in 30 inches TV will still show 100x, but if we want to rationalise the original size of the microorganism, which one should we use? the Tor the phone screen? Using scale bar will definitely help! Thanks!

[@ghostboy152]

Hank Green here is like the Attenborough of microorganisms

[@leklin1478]

Wow…didn’t imagine Hank’s voice in this soothing calmness... , but it’s nice....I enjoy the show very much....thank you!

[@ShadowKick32]

I didn't immediatly recognised Hank's voice, in scishow he's always very energetic and now he sounds like an ASMR channel.

[@diagoalarcongonzalez2332]

This cannel has great potential, I'm happy to discover this channel! Thanks, youtube algorythm

[@ANTdentarg]

Watched before going to bed. I feel like I've been read a story and now I'm ready for sleep. Such a soothing voice, thanks hank.

[@sapelesteve]

So glad that I found this channel! The Microcosmos is indeed fascinating...........

[@ShaunMahabeer]

I love the depth that's so subtly incorporated into this channel lol HURT MY BRAIN !

[@noldaddyy]

I cannot express how excited I am for this channel.

[@Azmodaeus49]

I love this man, i wish someone could create a channel showing visuals of the human microbiome in action and looking at certain strains and studying what they actually do.

[@marbleswan6664]

Literally just watched you and your brothers interview on 60 seconds.

[@quintinzamora3610]

I really hope this youtube channel gets a lot more attention. Very informative, intriguing, and interesting content.

[@moonmusicgrl07]

These videos are all so calming. Some combination of Hank's voice and the musical composition is just perfect

[@Raylen_Fa-ield]

My new favorite KZbin series. I love love love this show

[@MegaPhester]

This channel is so cool. The visuals, the music, the soothing narration (chill Hank Green is a rare and delightful treat). Also you learn things that are stupidly interesting from watching, so over all one of the hottest new channels on youtube right now! Keep it up!

[@TheRealFlenuan]

Hank's voice in these videos is lowkey ASMR

[@adriananto5499]

I'm loving these videos, you guys show me things i wouldn't normally be able to see and i love looking at microorganisms and their interactions

[@regular-joe]

Hank, you give a voice to the voiceless. They are not unheard now.

[@AMcAFaves]

I'm enjoying Hank's different, calmer style of narration in this series. For fun, while watching this, imagine it is Agent Smith from the Matrix speaking the voice over with Hank's pattern of speech.