Mind-blowing Discoveries About Viruses and Their Relationship With Us

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0:00 Viruses and their world
1:47 Viruses that suddenly switch to help plants instead of killing them
3:50 Bacteriophages inside our guts act like vitamins
6:40 Some bacteriophages are very strange - long tails
8:20 Some viruses found new strategies
11:40 Giant viruses are the strangest out there - medusa
13:40 Biggest viral genome is bigger than bacterial
14:25 Yaravirus - never seen before viral DNA
15:25 Zombie viruses from permafrost
16:30 Reviving viruses from 1000s of years ago
17:40 Space travel reactivates viruses
18:20 Some animals eat viruses directly
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[@greenthumb8266]

The anemone of my anemone is my friend.

[@The1stDukeDroklar]

lol

[@LordMondegrene]

I'm my own worst anemone.

[@baomao7243]

Plankton was here

[@jameshart2622]

No, no, no! The anemone of my anemone is my anemone's anemone. Nothing more. Nothing less.

[@greenthumb8266]

@@jameshart2622 😁

[@spidalack]

Another example of how "it's not that simple" applies to so many things. Shows how keeping an open mind to new information is important.

[@douglaswilkinson5700]

Astrophysics is also complex yet I see so many comments that show a lack of basic knowledge e.g. stars produce energy by fusion.

[@slartibartfast7921]

Existence is stranger than we can all imagine. Normalcy bias is essentially insanity.

[@matthewdavies2057]

Sounds like AI is coming along right on time.

[@bobriquardo5317]

@@slartibartfast7921 i really like that

[@markopecinovic4475]

​@@matthewdavies2057 It's already here....I just had a argumentative conversation with the customer service AI from Canada Post. It freaked me out. I was grateful in the end to talk to a real person.

[@sebguyader]

Hi, I’m a scientist working with viruses and fungi, and I congratulate you for making this nice video. Intelligible, factual information, and no wrong interpretation of scientific results and discoveries.

[@timothyjenkins3704]

Thank you for your service.

[@LordConstrobuz]

HI IM A SCIENTIST AND I APPROVE UR VIDEO no one cares, nerd

[@deborahosborne9426]

I look after the fungi on the farm. It makes hell of a difference.

[@LordBlk]

I wonder what you think about those that argue virus theory is obsolete. Or poorly formed from the start and lacking in evidence apart from inference.

[@davidmontoya1400]

Accept for the millions of years part which is stated as a fact when it is not a fact.

[@ericlawrence9060]

This makes sense. I was a wastewater operator at a very old defective plant for 3 years. I was never so healthy. my allergies disappeared forever and I was without illness for 3.5 years but got sick as a dog a few days after I started the job. We had guys there with over 20 years of no sick days. All the operators never got sick and were mega healthy and robust.

[@qdeqdeqdeqde]

maybe Survivorship bias ? maybe there were people who got sick and left the work and you don't know about them?

[@sortasurvival5482]

Homeless diets are luke this too. After 10 yrs of esting sketchy foods I dont get as sick as my coworkers when things come around. I swear by eating day old tacos that have sat on the counter for 24hrs to get my guts back to 'normal'.

[@avirei98]

​As à😮

[@CalebDiT]

There is a correlation to shortened life span as the cost of such "strength."

[@cubertmiso]

@@CalebDiTtoo stringent immune system attacking itself or what you mean?

[@armin7515]

it's kinda mind blowing how anton can go through all these deep scientific papers and making a summary of it and making a video about it every day. thank you for the lots of information you provide.❤ watching from iran

[@georgesheffield1580]

You haven't been around a top Physicist .

[@nycgweed]

It’s a robot😂

[@michaelhayes3627]

He is remarkable.

[@Maywek]

@@georgesheffield1580Yes, and I believe most people haven’t for any extended period of time. Anton’s videos are very easily digestible.

[@chrissears9912]

Surely someone must publish a paper on this anomaly one day...

[@JamesQMurphy]

If viruses help their host, they are also helping themselves.

[@The1stDukeDroklar]

Symbiotic relationship.

[@cthymnn2010]

Wish humans were as smart as viruses and understand that by helping planet earth, their host, they are helping themselves.

[@jameshart2622]

Yep. It's not a good idea to dismantle your home while you still need it.

[@nothanks9503]

Organism is too long a timeline for viruses a bacteria is as big to a virus as we are to a bacteria the virus doesn’t have the evolutionary foresight to help the host the host is an individual cell not the organism

[@GhostScout42]

almost like mankind is cursed

[@Whittz.Youtube]

They just seem like organic programs. Used in the right places in the right way, it's a life saver and vise versa

[@FkSeditiousChristofascists]

it is part of the program of planetary evolution, a giant computer.. it has a virus.

[@TheCollectiveHexagon]

its programs that are like inorganic viruses

[@BTChanOSRS]

rogue .exes are called viruses for a reason

[@mrxcs]

Like ways to control the simulation without tracking.

[@symbolsarenotreality4595]

From a great enough distance of scale we might appear as such to creatures that make our suns seem like the size of atoms relatively

[@Sniperboy5551]

I had an assignment in school where I had to write a short post about JWST. I mentioned Anton and got 10/10. I’d love it if some of my classmates started watching!

[@Mithra53]

Beautiful slave

[@myndos007]

This episode will go viral

[@slartibartfast7921]

Daaaaaad!

[@tesles7848]

😂

[@jessicabeall537]

Noice! Creation blows my mind! Much love, Anton!!!

[@MCsCreations]

I hope it doesn't go pandemic...

[@aurelienyonrac]

😅

[@DominicRyanOsborne]

So what you're saying is some virus behave like tenants in an apartment block. Some don't pay rent and can set the world on fire.. while some pay rent, fix the place up and do maintenance, and some go beyond just saying they own the place they start renovating everything and participating in regional politics?

[@DominicRyanOsborne]

Also... Who's the virologist that's going to save the world by hijacking or creating a virophage to combat Corona Virus

[@DominicRyanOsborne]

So dialysis by sponge bob can delete most of the viruses in human blood? Did I hear that right? I'll ask that black market ripperdoc about a saline pouch with such a sponge bob inside just in case

[@DominicRyanOsborne]

So dialysis by sponge bob can delete most of the viruses in human blood? Did I hear that right? I'll ask that black market ripperdoc about a saline pouch with such a sponge bob inside just in case

[@rey_nemaattori]

Basically, they have a role akin to bacteria...

[@Fido-vm9zi]

Sounds like the world.

[@hell_pike9150]

I had my own symbiotic relationship with COVID. It did make me sick, but it also removed my craving for nicotine and I was able to quit smoking. I looked it up and there were actually studies about this confirming it.

[@Yupppi]

Recently I heard how there's been some attempts and reports on using parasites to slow down/stop MS from progressing, or previously observing MS not progressing with people with parasites. Apparently the immune system was so focused on fighting the parasite that it "forgot" to destroy itself. The virus finding on the plants made me connect the observations how at times our natural enemies are also beneficial to us.

[@kubhlaikhan2015]

That's very interesting but ironic. The leading cause of MS is almost certainly the Epstein Barrvirus.

[@cthulhufhtagn7520]

I've heard that story with a doctor prescribing cigarettes to someone for that reason. The damage by the cigs keep the immune system occupied

[@kubhlaikhan2015]

@@cthulhufhtagn7520 Is that why they kept asking me to take up smoking NHS reefers instead of diagnosing my Epstein Barr syndrome?

[@orcoastgreenman]

Would that be Dr William Parker’s work on helminths? His recent work on Acetaminophen’s harms, is frightening as to what has been ignored/covered up previously.

[@mttlsa686]

What's MS?

[@luipaardprint]

“You and I are not […] cabbages” - Anton Petrov, 2024.

[@dimitarivanovski6322]

Truer words have never been spoken.

[@darkhorseman8263]

Speak for yourself. I, sir, am a cabbage.

[@goaty.]

did he just assume i was not a cabbage, in 2024?!

[@Appletank8]

my cabbages!

[@Tapecutter59]

Humas are about 50% cabbage

[@TheLavenderLover]

Thank you for giving such a different perspective to us regarding viruses. Many have never imagined a virus having a symbiotic relationship with plants or animals. I knew this about bacteria, but not viruses.

[@Oh_So_Based]

Always good to see studies that actually benefit (or can) benefit the human condition itself

[@ralphwiggum3463]

same thing with some parasites

[@user-ow2yr4nu4z]

Our relationship with some bacteria are almost a life or death relationship, our appendix is actually a little bunker, bug out shelter for when we have diarrhea. They have seen the bacteria migration into the appendix during a event to wait out the storm and then repopulate the gut. It seems out body our entric nervous system purpose built the appendix and also the entric nervous system may actually have ways to communicate with the bacteria thru chemical signals. The entric nervous system is actually the largest concentration of neurons outside the brain, having more neurons that even our spine and the total count of neurons are more than that of a house cats brain, so imagine it may have a type of intelligence, makes decisions in regards to the gut and forms alliances with bacteria and we are genetically born hardwired to form these symbiotic relationship. Ancient peoples of the middle east actually learned that if they wanted to survive they had to ill be blunt about this eat camel shit and the fresher the better old dried up would not work since the bacteria would die. But the idea of a virus that's a stalwart friend that has our and its best intrest in mind is kinda cool, kind of like the nano machines in scifi that can reanimate damaged/dieing tissues. They say the first person to live beyond what's been recorded has most likely already been born and i.could see viruses playing a role in that.

[@pyros4333]

Should stop listening to Western science and medicine in the form of recommendations. They are misleading often

[@livelongandprosper6577]

@@user-ow2yr4nu4z mindblowing information. thanks

[@cht2162]

You may not be a cabbage, Anton, but I was born in a cabbage patch. My favorite doll was also from the cabbage patch.

[@Bobcatspiritdude]

Look up Mind Unveiled and the Cabbage Patch conspiracy!! 🤯✌

[@TedLedner]

We still get the odd case of anthrax in cattle occur along the old cattle drive routes in the Australian Bush. Anthrax is a spore forming organism, it will survive entire glaciations and interglaciations. A real time capsule.

[@mzeewatk846]

I remember watching a documentary about how bacteriophages could potentially be used as an alternative treatment for resistant infections. That must have been 20 years ago, and I haven’t heard the word since. Thanks for the update. : )

[@marlan5470]

What is a White Blood Cell....?

[@m.j.debruin3041]

If you can't make it more dangerous for human life, there won't be funding for it somehow.😎

[@75willo]

In Georgia (the Country, not the State) bacteriophage therapy is a standard treatment for resistant infections. I don't know why, even 30 years after the collapse of the Sovjet Union, our Western scientific community is still ignoring nearly seventy years of research done in this field.

[@paulbarclay4114]

​@@75willothey arent ignoring it They are covering it up Western medicine failed to evolve past the early 1800s and blood letting

[@BartJBols]

The update is that we use them, but only in very special cases and therapies. They are too much of a hassle and antibiotics too effective to bother with them unless as a last resort.

[@traverserred]

I feel like viruses are symbiotic with life. I still consider viruses life but even if they arent they are at least puzzle pieces that interact with life.

[@The1stDukeDroklar]

I also think they are a life form. They just "outsourced" their reproduction and some other aspects of what we think of as life. By doing so, it seems they achieved immortality.

[@The1stDukeDroklar]

Also, they may be a good candidate for panspermia since they would most likely be able to endure the rigors of space.

[@tuckerbugeater]

I think Covid was created by Vincent Munster and Ralph Baric. But no one cares what I think. And Swine Flu was created by Ron Fouchier. And HIV was created by Jonas Salk and his minions. Have fun. @@The1stDukeDroklar

[@paladinsmith7050]

I agree, makes one wonder why some would try to delete their host...

[@lacklvster4512]

parasitism is a form of symbiosis

[@jonreiser2206]

So, I can’t help myself from wondering… could the Fermi Paradox be solved if we discover biological beings can’t be separated from their host planet long term because of what it can’t bring with it? At minimum I would not be even a tiny bit surprised to discover there are many unknown physical challenges to doing things like colonizing Mars.

[@spracketskooch]

It's not even a paradox, but it's been solved in my opinion. Many people just don't believe the answer. It's been pretty clearly demonstrated that some type of non-human intelligence is flying things around in our skies. Also, we've checked such a minuscule part of the visible universe that it's foolish to assume that there are no signs of life out there. It's like checking for wood in a mansion, but you've only checked one or two atoms, not found any wood, and then asked, "where's all the wood?"

[@aurelian6313]

I recently read a very interesting book about bacteriophages. The book is called “The Good Virus: The Amazing Story and Forgotten Promise of the Phage” by Tom Ireland (2023). I highly recommend it.

[@az8560]

As a bacterium, I find this information extremely concerning.

[@nunoferraz5426]

😂

[@dvoiceotruth]

potyvirus is coming at you

[@timothyjenkins3704]

You damn near killed me with this one. lol

[@soaringblackbird4431]

Dear Anton, thank you for your videos.

[@aussietaipan8700]

We have so much to learn, it should never stop. This video needs to be shown in schools to inspire the next generation of medical scientists.

[@chetcreates]

When my son suffered from bacterial meningitis, I attempted to have him treated with phages. Unfortunately, the company producing them in Ukraine was closed for vacation for a month...a leftover policy of the Soviet era. We had to use a soup of antibiotics which resulted in further brain damage.

[@spracketskooch]

Damn dude, I'm actually sorry to hear that. I hope your son is doing as well as he possibly can.

[@zweispurmopped]

What the Medusa viruses do makes me wonder: If there had grown to be a symbiosis between some archaea and some more modern DNA based bacteria, could the virus have established a steadily reproducing system of them and could the whole have been the original Eukaryotes?

[@gplustree]

really enjoying your recent forays into broader topics!

[@majermike]

we love you Anton!

[@yvonnemiezis5199]

Agree

[@SadhuTravels]

Ordered a Tee to support you Anton! You are such a great educator.

[@user-ji6fg9wu5z]

Wonderful Man! Many thanks. I will be sure to check out your other videos.

[@SmallWonda]

Fascinating... Very interesting how dormant viruses can wake up in space - there's a movie plot waiting to emerge...

[@CAPSLOCKPUNDIT]

Ice Pirates, 1984 classic camp sci-fi. Never forget to check the fine print of the manifest, and alert passengers to exposure risk.

[@goUkraine]

@@CAPSLOCKPUNDITSpace Herpes!

[@NimmiCat]

Andromeda Strain

[@TheYear-dm9op]

I think it's more like a flare up due to stress. The human body is really struggling with zero-g. You would also suffer a flare up in opportunistic infections here on earth when your body (or even you mind) experiences stress. So I think that's nothing special here.

[@willemakkermans4067]

Herpes 9: A New Frontier

[@JoeReynolds153]

I love your channel brother. Always look forward to your content.

[@edithdriver2094]

“ It’s life Jim but not as we know it” Live long and prosper 🖖

[@lexusgalavan1410]

Excellent video as always, thank you Anton! Much love

[@richb2229]

What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger! …Except when it actually doesn’t, so watch out for those things.

[@Veeger]

It always seems like the more we know, the less we know! Truly fascinating!

[@TheKrispyfort]

Just read your handle 👍 for the Star Trek reference

[@XL-5117]

The more we become aware of, the more there is to discover! 😂

[@Veeger]

@@XL-5117 Exactly! 😄

[@bardigan1]

Great episode, many thanks for all your work on the channel.

[@vinceprice4089]

Anton, thank you for creating this channel and keeping us informed. You are educating the public.

[@SamtheIrishexan]

I love when Anton talks about whats inside me.

[@snapman218]

Your dad

[@spracketskooch]

@@snapman218 Since it seems like you'll appreciate this dad joke, "your dad loves everything about Michael Jackson, except his music." Take it and use it.

[@stevengill1736]

Amazing to think how many bacteriophages there are!! Gosh darned PSV almost got me this year - very minor for most people, but it's still causing bronchitis six weeks in. At least there's good days now and the end is in sight, but that one really scared me.. probably was a paleolithic version... May your viruses be kind...cheers!

[@ChromaticTroubadour]

Fascinating topic(s)!! Have heard of a few, but others are completely new and stunning for me... Thanks for the great and succinct summary! Nice editing, too... Love your content - idk, it feels like I've been following you for an eternity, haha... Looking forward to your next video... All the best!!

[@aniksamiurrahman6365]

Thank you wonderful Anton. What an wonderful episode!

[@GlenSwartwout]

Very nice tour of recent findings in virology, alternatively considered the study of the function of exosomes. Just as our health is intimately intertwined with our microbiome, we need exosomes to maintain health and function. People who get cancer have often thought they were the healthiest person around as they didn't get any colds, flus or fevers for 20 years. These are generalized tissue cleansing activities of the healthy immune system!

[@katiekane5247]

PhD JJ Couey has interesting perspectives on this.

[@tekannon7803]

Thank you. So much work to bring us so much new knowledge!

[@Whydoibother943]

Lots of new information we didn't know about until...we watched your video Anton! Thank you this was both facinating and enjoyable.

[@adrianmannion3966]

I really enjoyed this one, one of the best imo! Mind blown several times over! Love it, keep up the good work! 👍🏼

[@Ipbulldog]

Anton: Your massive breadth of knowledge is so appreciated so you can explain at least the basics of these new research findings to those of us on the opposite side of the spectrum! Thank you for introducing us to the wonders of biology and the cosmos about which we’d never know enough to even recognize they were a “thing”. - George -

[@The1stDukeDroklar]

Good episode Anton, thanks for the info. Very interesting.

[@Dynamofoe]

Another great video thanks! How do you manage to put out a video every dang day! Mind blowing 🤯

[@silvergreylion]

That has got to be the most positive video about viruses, ever. Thanks, man. Big thumbs up 👍

[@bigsilverorb3492]

This smells an awful lot like a potential mechanism for adaptive evolution.

[@ydanay4652]

Which in turns smells like the backstory of a zombie apocalypse

[@susanm9124]

Thank you!

[@camoTiaras]

Wow, the things we learn are incredible. Thanks for sharing this knowledge Anton.

[@geosko13]

Hi Anton. Thank you for your very nice and informative videos!

[@patrickaussieMilartry]

Great content Anton ! Extremely informative something I had never known existed on and in the Human body.👍🇦🇺

[@markharwood7573]

That is a whole lot of amazing in just a few minutes. Thank you, Anton.

[@robst247]

Fascinating. I'm very grateful to you, Anton, for investing so much time and effort to explain these new discoveries to us so clearly and engagingly.

[@lumencg]

This was an excellent and deeply fascinating review. Thank you so much!

[@rezadaneshi]

We're a battlefield for an ongoing war of resources between single life organism and parasitic life living in us, dead or alieve. I wonder if the psychological effects of which side is winning, explain a small percentage of some of our behavior

[@VelociJX]

the second mind of the human body is the gut/stomach (not really lol but what we eat and consume DOES have an affect on how we are/act)

[@mugennojin3513]

Yea it does, gut bacteria can make you crave some types of food. They also affect you mental health in some ways. I think Anton even made a video about this.

[@user-ln9dh2bq8j]

Candida is related to alcoholism. You should look into how parasites release hormones.

[@VelociJX]

@@mugennojin3513fellow Champloo fan, love to see it.

[@moustachio05]

​@@VelociJX Samurai Champloo and Cowboy Bebop are some of the best pieces of art ever made

[@demonsorrows]

I had this theory a long time ago, that viruses evolved from an early complex life's not so great immune system. It wasn't consistent or specialized to defend just its original host because variations weren't complex enough to discern one from another. They didn't respond to itself alone as safe, foreign cells as intruders/unsafe, and could continue functioning if it entered other organisms taking in proteins. It responded to certain protein markers to clean them up, but broken/failed/mutated RNA transferred during mitosis and infected some creating a proto-virus. It caused the proto-virus to be drawn to organisms and attach "believing" to also be part of the organism and melding into it like a parasite, mixing it's genes with the host, leading to reproduction when mitosis and gene transfer occured. Over time, variation, mutations, and different adaptations evolved them further to be more solid, protected, and more specialized based on the organisms they spread to.

[@aspcia]

It's kind of a sad story 😢

[@georgebond7777]

A really good story, like evolution.

[@JaySmith91]

Another fantastic video. Thanks for making the research more accessible.

[@N30K4L]

I'm amazed how well you can articulate these complex journals in layman's terms so that the average Joe can stay up to date on scientific advances. Keep up the good work!

[@orlagskapten9829]

even viruses aren't safe from viruses

[@persalmelin7169]

Tack!

[@Atok595]

😂😂😂

[@TheFifthWorld22]

😜

[@oliverearnshaw6189]

Mug 🤣🤣🤣

[@diegoalberto1071]

I would strip everything. Make sure Natural windows are unimpeded. Breaking down unnecessary walls enlarging all rooms while maintaining structural integrity, Painting all rooms an easy-on-the-eyes cream. Make all floors large-slab hand-matched marble in white. Then for furniture I would custom order solid Lignum vitae from South America for the all Beds, sofas, chairs, table, cabinets, and corresponding thick Italian leather upholstery would go on top. Then and only then would I buy some peculiar art to hang and a few standing pieces to jazz up the place.

[@windfoil1000]

This was a particularly interesting presentation, Anton. Good job!

[@dwdei8815]

The whole world of interactions between "pathogens" (in its broadest definition) and us creatures is mind-blowing. Evolution would of course select for viruses that do not kill their host - without having some way to escape what has become a dead-end. And even more so for viruses that strengthen their host. And a few million years of trial and error come up with some astonishing solutions. So great that you include talks on microbiology too. Thanks!

[@waterinferno2071]

I've been wondering this for years, thank you. Its never made sense to me that viruses would be so negative, and I figured it was conformation bias where I never hear about the few symbiotic viruses

[@laulaja-7186]

True there seemingly should be a strong evolutionary pressure towards parasites benefiting their hosts. Maybe neutral and beneficial viruses simply tend not to be identified?

[@BlackHoleSkimmers]

Really enjoy your videos. Thanks for posting.

[@tomfull6637]

Thx Anton for your work!

[@michaeljohnson1805]

This is intriguing…now for sure if all these strange organisms live here on planet earth this seems to increase the chances that some types of organisms can survive on other planets or moons in our solar system

[@Agapanthah]

Thank you, Anton. Excellent presentation, as always.

[@richardlilley6274]

Thank you for sharing Anton

[@iansmith9554]

Love the channel. Thank you.

[@NollieFlipX]

Wait so if temperature changes so much how viruses behave maybe fever not only kills stuff but tries to make some viruses switch gears? Just wondering... and maybe by letting our bodies cool more naturally during the night we switch other viruses? I mean we usually have blankets to keep us warm right, maybe it is interesting to cool off a bit more?

[@ipatsa]

Hello Wonderful Virus

[@aether-elephant]

love ur vids anton, thankyou 😁

[@carlwhite8775]

Beautifully done. I especially like the illustrations.

[@byronsmith1982]

I'd like to know the methodology used for the isolation and identification of these species.

[@josephvictory9536]

​@iamalive82 this information is about 80 years old. Save for a few studies mentioned. It seems more likely that your government sheltered you from any knowledge about this.

[@matthorrocks6517]

So we are actually viruses space ships?

[@spracketskooch]

We are viruses and bacteria. There is no clear delineation between "you" and those things that have been present in "your" body from the moment "you" were born. If you really think about it, there is no "you" to be found anywhere. Life on Earth is just one big "thing", a process that has diversified it's forms in order to propagate. The concept of "we are all one" takes on a new meaning when you think about it like that. Just as a cell in your body can be considered an individual entity, or a part of you, so can we be considered individual entities, or parts of the organism that is life on Earth.

[@punditgi]

Anton delivers the goods once again! 🎉😊

[@ashleyobrien4937]

I recall learning about the cell membrane lipid bilayer, and a further outer coating called peptidoglycan which serves as a more protective slimy layer to help keep invasive agents out...but isn't it freaky to think that there's more individual; cells of foreign identity than our own bodily cells ? !

[@jeffreymiller3295]

Ever since I found out about bacteriophages when I was a kid I thought they were really cool but I had no idea.

[@marksuplinskas3474]

Thanks!

[@qixxxz]

Outstanding video as always!

[@juanlapuente833]

Great compilation of very well illustrated data, thanks!

[@ivocyrillo]

Valeu!

[@timsullivan4566]

Confusing but none-the-less fascinating! Thanks for this, Anton! 👋👋👋🙏🙏🙏

[@soulinspire]

Thank You Anton , very informative and amazing.

[@kimmagennis634]

As a child in school, science was beyond me. Anton, you make everything you present super interesting and very understandable. Thank you

[@Yezpahr]

I'm glad you also do biology on the side. At school I enjoyed biology and chemistry, it captivated me, but at the age of 13-15, a frequency of just once a week and with the other classes being far more important for passing exams, those classes fell between the cracks. I still regret that I didn't take that school more seriously, some teachers hated me for being uninterested yet knowing it all, not doing homework at all but finishing it in class in 5 minutes. It drove them insane that I did so little effort yet aced enough classes to not have to worry about failing. Their brittleness made me feel powerful, yet it was a facade that only damaged me in the end. Now I'm a lazy bum.

[@craigpennington1251]

Chemistry & biology were great if my teachers weren't absolute douche bags.

[@chinookvalley]

Yep. I went far, got a great job, but in the end a car wreck turned me into a bum. Don't beat yourself up. You are where you are, doing what you are doing for a reason. You are not done, you still have a mission.

[@robertschlesinger1342]

Excellent video, as always. Very interesting, informative and worthwhile video.

[@TheTubejunky]

This was very informative. Ty Anton

[@persalmelin7169]

thanx for your hard work. :)

[@salinagrrrl69]

❤THAT YES❤I still ache for the loss of his baby boy👼 He's so wonderful....it hurts.

[@mjinba07]

Good point about taking care of our home on earth instead of planning to inhabit outer space. In addition to space's effect on our own viral microbiome, not to mention loss of gravity, we would no longer be exposed to the helpful, earthly viruses that we evolved with and depend on. Probably not an issue short term but long term might be a different story. Space and planetary exploration is super important. Let's just not plan on living out there.

[@podunkest]

I like the idea in principle but a smaller group of people can work on pioneering and colonizing space. If we wait for the world to figure it's bs out we might as well just scrap space travel, etc. Be more angry that we aren't doing both. Humanity is capable if we, your average people, had different priorities.

[@Drone_Depopulation_Gaming]

Other solar systems are too far away anyways we are never leaving.

[@mjinba07]

@@podunkest 50 years ago there was a big push in the U.S. to reduce pollution, reduce waste, start recycling. "Earth Day" got started and there was plenty of enthusiasm for it - media coverage, community projects, tree planting, etc.. When there were gas shortages in the '70's people started ride sharing, buying smaller cars, speed limits were lowered. Small, high gas mileage cars are common now. Cigarette use was greatly reduced due to knowledge of its health impacts. Most states and territories have legislated a clean indoor air act... We're very capable of prioritizing necessary changes. If we're informed and demand the leadership for it.

[@IwinMahWay]

​@@Drone_Depopulation_Gamingnot with that attitude

[@Drone_Depopulation_Gaming]

@@IwinMahWay If the sun was a golfball the nearest star would be 750 miles away, even if starship gets to orbit we will still need generation ships for tens of thousands of years. Its sci fi fantasy man

[@danondler8808]

Great video Anton.

[@loriazevedo5994]

I loved this video, very cool. Keep up your great work.

[@Kargoneth]

What? I am full of viruses? Oh my.

[@0MVR_0]

yes, you have every type of environmental virus

[@lunam7249]

yes my friend !! were just big giant bags of bacteria , poop, viruses

[@philshorten3221]

You mean "we" are living inside a mamal!... Oh my! 😂

[@0MVR_0]

every virus that exists is present in every person's body

[@0MVR_0]

every virus that exists is also present in all human bodies and domesticated animals. The water cycle and moisture in air acts as a vector of spread, yet most of them lie dormant or below a threshold.

[@the80hdgaming]

See... Virii aren't always the bad guys.. 😂😂

[@gplustree]

in another subset of the multiverse, I have a career as a virologist ... always been fascinated by the topic, and we've learned so much in the past couple decades which reveals them to be even more interesting than I imagined

[@eyewonder6448]

The flaw in the logic is that 1 is assuming that the viruses were exclusively helpful when you are just looking at the ones that survived. A frame of reference is absent especially on a dramatic time scale.

[@Tore_Lund]

Happy Birthday Anton!

[@zeeshan419]

Virus Commander: lets kill this human. Virus army: "aaaaaaaaAAAAAaaaa" Virus Nelson Mandela: "wait wait, if he dies we die!!!!" Virus Commander: "Change in plan, save em at all costs"

[@SpiritusMundi3]

😂😂😂 love it