The Bacteria That Made Life Possible Are Now Killing Us

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[@luluburka6930]

Hi I love your channel

[@666悪魔-j9v]

Very very great video

[@atulkamble7493]

Plz make more on human brain capacity how to study ...etc. ....human body science....science environment

[@Sivah_Akash]

Checking in to see whether any Climate Change deniers are going to say that the CO2 increase will be offset by the Cyanobacteria now! Hello? No one?

[@DeViceCrimsin_]

What we should do is teach those little buggers how to process our waste and be probiotic for the global ecosystem.

[@mkb6418]

Actually, humanity was the cyanobaterias' plan. They needed humanity to transform the environment in their favour.

[@DingXiaoke]

Holy sh*t

[@ronjayrose9706]

Big oof

[@soundninja99]

Holy shit, are we the white walkers?

[@chiranjeevsahoo4960]

Illuminati: holy shit you are right

[@AnkhAnanku]

Lol They’ve been playing the long game, like some ancient cosmic enemy

[@bobspivics502]

"I brought you into this world I can take you out"

[@ilikenaruto9828]

-My Mom

[@Ortorin]

Hi Mom!

[@Indoraptoad]

-Every Mom

[@SnowHertz]

OK KAREN

[@noradlark167]

No you cant..

[@resoprint]

"To keep cyanobacteria at bay, we need to stop warming the planet" Oh boy how screwed we are

[@kriegscommissarmccraw4205]

"Green new deal..." AOC whispers into your ear "It's the solution to everything" Please don't take this seriously, I don't like the green new deal

[@traveller4583]

We need clean energy and vertical clean indoor farming buildings that are sealed off from outside world

[@shroomoid9403]

@@Jermain-cz4bh Humans are still to blame, though. We can still change our ways which is good.

[@kiwibanana7590]

@@Jermain-cz4bh r/woosh

[@kkirschkk]

@@traveller4583 woot food costs going to rocket up in three.... two... one

[@manchest_hair_united1161]

Why do bacteria wait 5 seconds before touching food? They first need to skip an ad

[@ronjayrose9706]

Budum Tch

[@Catcat0]

Ba tum tss

[@NoobDoctor21]

Yesssss

[@munenex]

You're a hero by just this comment.

[@UnusualPete]

Finally, a decent comment... =)

[@TN-mz5gw]

Cynobacteria: I gave birth to you how could you betray me?? Humans: oh sorry here have some carbon dioxide and nutrition Cynobacteria: alright! now off the planet!! All of you

[@Johan_S4]

Good original joke

[@lih3391]

Fock

[@electronresonator8882]

make a lot of sense, cyanobacteria kill themselves first in the process, so killing all humans is just natural thing

[@TN-mz5gw]

@@Johan_S4 thanks

[@TN-mz5gw]

@@electronresonator8882 ikr

[@Brainstorm69]

I wish my biology teacher would have used star wars to explain cyanobacteria to us.

[@Brainstorm69]

@@sr.luisraytraceiii2422 take my like

[@marlonyo]

@@Brainstorm69from what i have seen when i was teaching: kids today dont get old starwars kids today are way more culturaly divided than ever althought minecraft and fornight stuff seem to be what gets more reactions

[@Brainstorm69]

@@marlonyo That is definitely true. We're getting too old haha. I guess we'll explain thermodynamics with minecraft then. Whatever works.

[@kayfactor6663]

@@Brainstorm69 use marvel

[@Brainstorm69]

@@kayfactor6663 exactly. Iron man is an ambassador of engineering and science anyways.

[@TheSpyGuy384]

It’s over cyanobacteria! I have the high ground!

[@OceanAce]

You underestimate my power!

[@TheSpyGuy384]

OceanA Don’t try it.

[@OceanAce]

@@TheSpyGuy384 (Rapidly proceeds to make the planet uninhabitable for humans)

[@electronresonator8882]

Cyanobacteria : "really?, pumping insane amount CO2 to the atmosphere, welcome to the dark side humans"

[@ronjayrose9706]

@@OceanAce (99% of humans die while the other 1% moves to Mars or the moon)

[@blitzwaffe]

You ever hear the tragedy of Darth cyanobacteria the poisonous?

[@a2e5]

No?

[@ronjayrose9706]

Poor Darth cyanobacteria had his world taken from the Jedi algae

[@freussurya4762]

@@a2e5 It's not a story the algae would tell

[@jakeariel3974]

It's a bacteria legend

[@dorol6375]

@@jakeariel3974 Darth Cyanobacteria was a dark lork of the Sith Cyanobacteria, so reactive and so nitrous, he was able to use the CO2 in the air.. to create.. Nitrogen.

[@carsonrush3352]

I think the big takeaway here is that we need to stop dumping fertilizer into the ocean. To do that, we need to alter the way that we farm, because our current system has long periods of time during which there are no roots to hold the dirt from washing away into the rivers and ocean. We can fix this by switching from monoculture farming to polyculture farming.

[@InspectHistory]

Really like your thumbnail, very creative :))

[@MinuteEarth]

Thanks!

[@aamirrazak3467]

An impressive thumbnail most impressive

[@vericko8278]

it isnt possible to ship aquatic cyanobacteria to other planets so we could make them liveable for us in some future time?

[@proton8689]

they need lots of CO2. Maybe Venus but that's a little too extreme for them

[@proton8689]

@Santiago Trestini let's make them airborne too

[@danilooliveira6580]

there are some legit ideas about using genetically engineered cyanobacteria to help terraform mars.

[@hebl47]

@@proton8689 Maybe if we cross cyanobacteria with tardigrade ... then it stands a chance on Venus.

[@proton8689]

@@hebl47 On the upper atmosphere perhaps, could be good experiment

[@duchi882]

*Cyanobacteria:* I've lived long enough to see myself become the villain

[@captain_code]

You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain. (COULDN'T RESIST TEMPTATION)

[@controlequebrado4455]

but they had already killed most life on the planet just by producing oxigen

[@electronresonator8882]

algae : "well, I lived that long as well, let's crush human together" Cyanobacteria : "agreed"

[@iapr18]

Them? Humans are the villain

[@Sivah_Akash]

@@controlequebrado4455, true!

[@Jess-pe8bq]

This feels like the plot of a movie - a hero seals away an ancient threat, before one of their descendants awakens the ancient threat again

[@mr2octavio]

Ah, between Kurzgesagt and minute earth my depression about the impending doom is completely normal

[@agoogleuser2507]

You watch kurzgesgt? Me too

[@derppickles1265]

@@agoogleuser2507 who doesn't

[@nothing-mm8ui]

@@agoogleuser2507 me tooooooooooo!!!!!!

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[@nothing-mm8ui]

@@jyotisrivastava1122 i was a subscriber for 6 on a different email

[@AverytheCubanAmerican]

0:31 Taste...the *Sun*

[@kamishin7135]

The sun is a deadly lazer

[@sokyu7723]

Avery The Cuban-American You can make a religion out of this

[@rexyjp1237]

@@kamishin7135 no the moon is

[@NerineSchuttringer]

The sun is a deadly laser

[@human8985]

Kevin Contreras no dont

[@bobjenz]

Wow this channel is great!

[@PranjalJain123]

Hey where are you from a year of so

[@imran_huseyn]

Past: Bacteria makes humans Present: Humans starts to make the bacteria again Future: No more humans we need to *stop*

[@meanncat3050]

I thought humans were bad?

[@electronresonator8882]

no dude, they lost the war against the algae, and now human path a way for them to win against the algae, we're helping the very bacteria that support us to breathe 02, killing them now is just simply ungrateful

[@hebl47]

And just how do you suggest we stop?

[@StonedWidowOnDoom]

or continue to fulfill a cycle?

[@admickey4568]

Go to MARS

[@TheScienceBiome]

A Star Wars themed Minute Earth Video??? *My life is complete now.*

[@tuipaopao]

Wait, didn’t the algae swallow the Cyanobacteria WHOLE!? (Endosymbiosis Theory)

[@naturegirl1999]

Yep. Also, plants evolved from algae that clumped together and eventually gained multicellularity

[@AnkhAnanku]

You might even say it’s just that family of Cyanobacteria that “suited up” that are the real eukaryotic success story: that basically all those big organic mechas you see walking around today are just a product of trying to make and host more mitochondria and chloroplasts

[@CorbiniteVids]

I was gonna say

[@Moicke_]

Isn’t this just basically algal blooms, but with Cyanobacteria

[@ms.morales3479]

THANK YOU so much for making this video! This is a super helpful resource for my students who are currently studying cyanobacteria!

[@TableExtract]

biggest example of "I brought you into this world and I can take you out of it" ever

[@Corruptedhope]

Even the bacteria’s name sounds like cyber space

[@AwesomeAsh99]

Might be interesting to see if we could engineer a variation that doesn't produce toxin and effectively make an effort to consume the CO2 and other chemicals we're dumping

[@schuylerpablico8300]

Yes but the still die in mass. Still not good for oxygen-loving aquatic life

[@staringgasmask]

Algae do that already. In fact, Algae produce more Oxygen and consume more CO2 than all trees on Earth combined. Around twice as much, in fact.

[@OakleyKulu007]

Imagine if this actually wiped out all life on earth and made it what it seemed like 3 billion years ago :O Life could restart and I would type this in the next 3 billion years :O

[@tarinm9430]

Plot twist: this is the 69420th time you write this comment

[@andreiryancaballero8327]

@rem brandt It will restart, trust me. They literally gave you oxygen!

[@PhilTruthborne]

The consequences of polution really do get more and more serious and i really hope we can stop it soon enough...

[@nottbriann]

2:35 "i have the high ground"

[@DA-bm2mj]

well this video went from 0 to 100 real quick

[@someguyeban]

cyanobacteria: I am your father. Humanity: *NOOOOOO!*

[@katrook]

The thumbnails and info is solely why i love this channel also

[@nhancao4790]

The reference is strong with this one.

[@Marlin123]

Trying Brutal difficulty first time VS 2nd

[@newtowncollege1636]

So they can convert CO2 into oxygen, help breakdown runoff fertilizers and is a potential food source??? I hope people are working to put these bacteria to good use in a controlled matter like water treatment and such.

[@Butterflylovely5]

But how do we detox from this Cyanobacteria, how do we remove this from our body??

[@thatonerandomguyontheinter4971]

What made me confused is that the bacteria is already a living itself and so life was possible even before them

[@xponen]

but different one because all those life didn't breath oxygen.

[@realrunningdog_5812]

So if we could evolve them to NOT create poison we would be safe?

[@amandahart2564]

Great educational video as always!

[@NetarAlt]

So in Conclusion: The Cyanobactria give us Our Existence, We give them Opportunity today.

[@cubeofcheese5574]

Leaving key search words in the video description is such a cool thing for you to do.

[@inconvertibleatheist8833]

Love your videos.......and references

[@roy4173]

Could you do a short video on some of the solutions or maybe ideas of solutions we're toying around with to help combat this?

[@alex.mojaki]

Manure and fertiliser from the meat industry (which also significantly contributes to global warming) is the main cause of these ocean dead zones: www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/aug/01/meat-industry-dead-zone-gulf-of-mexico-environment-pollution So one solution is to eat less meat.

[@robertdraxel7175]

This was GREAT!

[@juliankirby9880]

Well, if you inoculate the plants on your property with mycorrhizae and root symbiotic bacteria, lots of nutrient will stay in place instead of wash away into rivers and streams.

[@arkhaic1792]

First global warming, then coronavirus outbreak, now prehistoric bacteria outbreak...

[@JocofAllTrades]

Glad to know they’re catching up to us

[@VestedUTuber]

You know, this actually just gave me an idea... Now, obviously we don't want this stuff just everywhere. But what if we cultivated large quantities of cyanobacteria in properly contained artificial pools? It could help extend the amount of time we have to figure out and implement a permanent solution to anthropogenic climate change.

[@atulkamble7493]

Ur channel is really helpful...

[@metadragon7500]

Plot twist: the cyanobacteria kill all life on earth and this cycle repeats forever

[@marblelibrarianlibrarian4983]

Great, persuasive vid! I hope it gets lots of play.

[@ohyeahyeah3164]

Good job minute earth for creating a great video

[@regular-joe]

3 minutes of gold, thanks guys!

[@iquemedia]

me before the video: oh yeah me after the video: *oh noooooo*

[@Gothead420]

Awesome video explaining eutrophication!

[@gustavofreitas4320]

amazing, as always

[@lucasmendoza7576]

As a Godzilla fan, all I have to say is "History has shown again and again that nature points out the folly of man!!"

[@AnkhAnanku]

Lucas Mendoza a fellow man of culture. Did you recognize this as Destoroyah?

[@Abetca_09]

The first star wars reference pun was the funniest out of the all🤣😂🤣🤣

[@thejeran]

My favorite part of each video is talking about Minnesota at the end :D

[@plaidpenguin1820]

“We need to stop heating our earth” I’m not sure of u noticed but we’ve been trying to get people to do that for years now and very little progress has happened.

[@gwensmith7439]

Wait, but wouldn't more cyanobacteria take CO2 out of the atmosphere?

[@ewqwebabandoningship6026]

So you’re telling me if natural selection didn’t evolve oxygen burping then all of the animals would actually be thriving with these greenhouse gases? Thanks nature, thanks.

[@richardrahl1919]

i had an aquascape before,and cyanobacteria is covering up all of my plants. i gave up on my tank before. its i got so tired of competing with it. it was my first aquascape. it turns out i was giving to much light and co2 and wrong amount fertz dose.

[@Kenshi_2900]

Perfectly Balanced.....as all things should be

[@kodabaldan2794]

Did anyone else see Flounder and Sebastian in the ocean?

[@rabbitpawstudios6815]

“Let’s go outside!” “No.” “Why?” “thE sUn iS a DeAdLy LaZeR”

[@mohammadshaikh8936]

Congratulations on getting 2 million subscribers

[@MariaMartinez-researcher]

Exactly what's happening in Petrel Lake, Pichilemu, Chile. The water turned bright green and slimy. And the people polluting it look away.

[@greensteve9307]

Well done! I think this will be a really great explanation of eutrophication for non-scientists.

[@TheNoblood12]

Farms are always causing some kind of trouble don’t they. They really out to be reinvented to be an in door monitored process in a vertical setting.

[@j-mlion3424]

I like that they included a cartoon of Darth Plagueis at the end amongst the dark side users, haha!

[@jorgealexandre4616]

By the way, green algae can do photosynthesis 'cause it have "shallow" cyanobacteria decedents, in a event know as "endosymbiosis"

[@jorgealexandre4616]

Some cells have "eaten" mitochondria, algae cells've eaten cyanobacteria

[@TheGreatAli02]

As dark as I may sound, maybe earth will be better off without us anyways😬

[@PieterPatrick]

I hear this statement a lot, but what's better: - All life without us and they dying out when the sun goes Red Giant? - Or only us without other life on earth, but being capable to escape the planet without dying out. ... But humanity will be gone in a few hundred years, so you're getting what you want: Earth and her nature will go further without us. :-) Humanity and its history will be like tears in rain. :-/

[@Caue113_]

With humans or not, Earth can just laugh at our face, since we're only destroying biological things and somewhat it's surface, which, well it's actually nothing since we *may* know our end.

[@danilooliveira6580]

earth doesn't care, its just a muddy rock. and life has seem it before, more than once a living organism caused its own mass extinction, but life just adapted. we are not nearly as impressive as we think we are. some may even argue that what we are doing is good for life, because we are resetting earth's condition and releasing a lot of nutrients locked underground from a era where decomposers didn't exist. and when 99% of life is extinct, there will be a post-Holocene explosion of life.

[@dakshk3982]

Interesting video!

[@i_am_me1238]

I finally learned how to pronounce Syyenobactariea!! YAYY!!

[@zoebigmac01]

"Human, i am yoir father" "Nuuuuuuu"

[@peterfrancis2330]

over population -> over abuse farmland -> degrade soil -> more fertilizer -> cyanobacteria bloom see what we can solve?

[@mancheetah5610]

What I got from this is that it will all be alright in the end.

[@Troe1505]

loooooved this video!!!

[@pizzahubert]

Humans:" you were the chosen one"!!! "You were meant to create life not destroy it"!! Cyanobacteria: "I hate you!!!!" Humans:"you were my brother cyano..." "I loved you..."

[@GauravSharma-dy8xv]

Well this video made me remember the theory of PACIFIC RIM movie😅

[@SergioBobillierC]

Except that the Pacific Rim theory had absolutely no ground, since the only reasons Dinosaurs could grow so big was because the atmosphere was so oxygen rich.

[@rohitkalaikumar3059]

It’s just depressing and painful to know they’re still people who won’t believe you when you tell them evolution is real.

[@Cornefeu]

Nah we must return the planet to cyanobacteria, we owe them everything, they deserve to rule the world once again. Keep on going humans and save our creators!

[@ninosegers]

The releasedate for "Return of the algae" is in another billion years or so

[@EMAngel2718]

I feel like we could make use of cyanobacteria to help combat CO2 production and maybe even as some step in food and/or fuel production if we can figure out what to do about those toxins

[@arthas640]

I wish the US government would do more to cut back on fertilizers leaching into rivers. Where i live farms do have fertilizers that wash into the rivers, lakes and ocean, but public parks and other government owned land is probably responsible for the majority of the run off. There's a river near my home surrounded by housing developments and a couple small farms and you can see algae blooms occasionally but theres another river that passes through 3 public parks and that river is brown and green most of the year and dead fish wash up shore on a semi regular basis at the lake it feeds.

[@AmIWhoIThinkIAm]

Great! Had my secretary take a note. Any more complaints?

[@acctsys]

Can they be harvested and used as fertilizer?

[@Zalamedas]

This channel is so good and educational, I'm sure it would be forbidden in Brazil

[@lonelyPorterCH]

Bacteria be like: Our creation is doing bad, lets kill it again

[@Some_Shark]

"You said that you would defeat the Sith not join them"

[@freussurya4762]

"You were the Chosen One CyanoBacteria !"

[@Some_Shark]

"I hate you!"

[@Some_Shark]

"You were my brother, CyanoBacteria" "I loved you"

[@snekkoheckko4466]

0:59 good job you played yourself

[@leafgreensniper13]

i wish all organisms had smily faces

[@sarahkat650]

I love your stick figure scarf! Doctor Who for life!

[@DaniLovesMusic]

I’m only 12 years old but Ever since I was 5 and found out what we are doing I have been wanting to stop this stop ppl from killing the planet and help but I don’t know how..

[@ACE_GAMER242]

Luv ur vids

[@viewer_discretion0]

Now the question is How did we figure this out..?

[@AtomicFrontier]

Lots of inference based on geological records and current samples. I looked into it a while ago in a bit more detail in my video on Thrombolites.

[@viewer_discretion0]

Atomic Frontier interesting. Thank you 😊

[@lazice]

am I the only one that thought the thumbnail said 'megalo strike back'?

[@wollowa]

Ever thought about what the bacteria wanted, huh?

[@pedroff_1]

Aren't dynoflagelates, a group of microscopic, algae also releasing toxic substances on the sea due to excess of nutrients?

[@TheGreatCooLite]

What creature wouldn't want to harm humans if they could

[@dragoncurveenthusiast]

Domesticated ones.