The Plankton Paradox

[@MinuteEarth]

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[@camolion7529]

Lmao

[@camolion7529]

@@naruitch9208 :'(

[@jonahjerryson4913]

How did you message 20 hours ago?

[@vcreativeart16]

E

[@Aunimations]

I swear each time you guys make the pokemon- I mean creatures more detailed its eventually gonna get yall copyright striked lol

[@nemodaremo9524]

Just gotta say, I love how Dr. Kujo keeps getting into the frames with any marine biologists at all

[@muymuymg71889]

Yea

[@ireallyhatemakingupnamesfo1758]

It seems strange that an expert on dolphins is so interested in Plankton. It might just be that they stand in the same kind of water

[@Hat_shaped]

@@ireallyhatemakingupnamesfo1758 The dolphin thing is mostly a meme right ? Because of his character design and all. In reality he's an expert of Starfish I think (Still doesn't make much sense with plankton I guess)

[@takenname8053]

missed oppurtunity to put FF in the video

[@tranquoccuong890-its-orge]

a character in jojo part 6, foo fighters, is a sentient mass of plankton

[@DreamsMom]

They're all competing for the same thing... The Krabby Patty Formula

[@1_3_37]

Fax

[@Yeahyoucanchangeyourhandle]

Truer words haven't been said

[@Ponera-Sama]

The Krabby Patty formula is crab meat Secret ingredient is brainwashing drug

[@meetaverma8372]

Agreed

[@Link-to-the-Smash]

Oh yeah mr Krabs.

[@josh11735]

MinuteEarth: That plankton may have a minor advantage that allows them to win over their competitors Plankton: “I WENT TO COLLEGE!”

[@philipmeisterl]

N is for no survivors

[@omaralghailani6287]

That actually explains a lot of things

[@checcmac8693]

@@philipmeisterl negus ethiopia king

[@pedropedrohan102]

@@checcmac8693 where is your n-word pass?

[@iluvmilktea3224]

YOU GO RANDOM PLANKTON! YOU GO TINY SEA CREATURE! YOU GO!

[@f3tsch906]

2:37 "the model is right, but it occasionally spits out something weird" Basically the explanation on how to science

[@SayaAensland]

0:19 That awkward moment when Flareon is the most competitively unviable Eeveelution.

[@usernametaken017]

And its also completely outclassed by arcanine

[@BosonCollider]

Prophet of dome

[@shoom7666]

he has to win SOMETHING yk

[@Namerex]

In terms of male humans and female pokemons-

[@blurrysuprisedcat8334]

@@Namerex so thats why... vaporeon survived

[@EvTheBadConlanger]

You betrayed me once more: that purple plankton was too suspicious.

[@enricobautista3844]

plankmogus

[@alyssrynsoffen4848]

yea u r right

[@gandalfthegray4144]

Don't you mean *sus?*

[@YouberChannel]

@@enricobautista3844 Planktogus

[@NowNormal]

pink*

[@legendarybroliz4578]

Krabs: you planted grass? Plankton: GRASS?! HAHAHA!

[@CallMeMimi27]

I WENT TO COLLEGE!

[@sq.u]

dont look at 1:28, worst mistake of my life

[@spycrab3723]

@@sq.u ding ding ding ding ding ding ding- ding ding ding.

[@lochie2804]

@@sq.u don't look at the thumbnail either

[@user-ck7yp1ry4g]

I think he needs to get off it lol

[@Kobolds_in_a_trenchcoat]

I love that flareon was the strongest eeveelution in this video when flareon has been competitively considered among the weakest due to it being a physical attacker while fire was, up until gen 4, a special type (also flareon having almost no good physical fire attacks even after that).

[@lulugaj5859]

i wanted to comment that but i found another pokemon nerd

[@galaxiaknight]

This is personally one of the most interesting videos you've made! I love seeing the equations I learnt in my Ecology course present in one of my favourite KZbin channels

[@ShortFuseNL]

Seems sad to me that we don't know more already.

[@galaxiaknight]

@@ShortFuseNL About what?

[@LostInForums]

Including a marine biologist like Jotaro Kujo in the intro was a nice touch.

[@AverytheCubanAmerican]

If this is Plankton's new Plan Z to get us to say *"ALL HAIL PLANKTON"* , it's definitely working

[@GiantsRTheBest1]

Dude I see you in every comment section wtf

[@jordandino417]

Y e s

[@Joe_Potts]

*ALL HAIL PLANKTON*

[@angrynoodletwentyfive6463]

that was such a strange leap in logic for the spongebob movie... Throughout most of the series all plankton wants is to run a successful resturaunt then all of a sudden he is trying to take over a country?

[@Joe_Potts]

@@angrynoodletwentyfive6463 to be fair, Plankton has never been the one to escalate things slowly. Putting Spongebob's brain into a fry cook robot after failing to win him over to #TeamChumBucket being one example

[@trumanbeland2000]

I expected better research, there’s no way Flareon would outcompete Jolteon. In all seriousness great video!

[@SnuuySnuuy]

Yea Flareon is the worse one out of all Eevees

[@youtubestudiosucks978]

Just burn em. Burned status does damage each turn

[@SnuuySnuuy]

Flareon would want to use its giant attack stat to flare blitz something not go for a status move

[@gloriagomez1088]

I thought that vaporeon was the best with it’s water absorb

[@pustota7254]

Your comment got liked 69 times.

[@bramvanduijn8086]

Interesting! I haven't thought of the Lotka-Volterra model in a decade. I'm glad to be reminded of it :) That chaotic semi-stability can only exist long term if the populations are humongous, since smaller populations are statistically more likely to go extinct through random chance.

[@npip99]

That makes sense though, Plankton number in the billions _of_ billions _of_ billions.

[@prathameshkapase2816]

Hahahah Jotaro Kujo the marine biologist

[@thatsmartkid]

time?

[@mythrilly]

@@thatsmartkid at the start, on the left side of the group of the biologists

[@thatsmartkid]

@@mythrilly oh i see, nice

[@travcollier]

This multiple species complex (quasi) equilibrium was a result that came out of artificial life experiments (simulations) back in there early 2000s. Multiple resources are the key, but instead of getting a single species optimized for each particular resource, you get them optimizing for combinations. Adding in randomness (eg a bit of stirring) is also pretty important as it selects for a degree of generalization.

[@Hinyousha]

I don't want the amongus plankton to win, you wont be able to rely on planckton anymore

[@user-dz9ew8pf9m]

o hel neaw plamktol gmt beted by pig plicton

[@HansLemurson]

I always thought it was due to viruses. If a species reached a critical density, they'd be vulnerable to a species-specific viral outbreak that would decimate their population.

[@plapin3538]

Ohhhhhh so that’s why Hillenburg’s company, that made spongebob, is named United Plankton.

[@LordKittenfish]

0:22 Vaporeon sure tried something “different” alright…

[@gnochhuos645]

Did you know that Vaporeon

[@skeepodoop5197]

Me after having the 3rd among us induced panic attack this week; "Goodbye everyone, I'll see you all in therapy."

[@isaquedopao6667]

ok?

[@acerIOstream]

mogus

[@skeepodoop5197]

You wouln't get it.

[@bluemarineboy3091]

when the imposter is a plankton

[@lontongtepungroti2777]

su monga ?

[@noodlesthe1st]

For the second hypothesis could you put all the plankton types in a simulated environment and see if A) they separate into different areas to live or B) one plankton wins out and the rest don't survive.

[@gusty7153]

now that's a good idea

[@garg4531]

One factor to consider though is that many plankton are just the larval form of other sea creatures, so what’ll happen when they reach maturity and no longer become plankton?

[@fongus6420]

1:22 do you see the plankton on the left? it looks a little s- GET OUT OF MY HEAD GET OUT OF MY HEAD GET OUT OF MY HEAD GET OUT OF MY HEAD

[@huyhuy8247]

SUS

[@Profesor_Taho]

Among us

[@youtubeaccount5673]

I really like the last interpretation Instead of just saying the model is wrong it brings up this unique beautiful chaos that probably has some fascinating secrets to it I wonder what could be derived from these chaotic, weird answers

[@alphaapple1375]

The Pokémon featured in this video are Vaporeon, Jolteon, Flareon, Espeon, Leafeon; the Bubble Jet, Lightning, Flame, Sun, and Verdant Pokémon. All of them evolve from Eevee, the Evolution Pokémon.

[@pakihcetus]

i love that there's a jotaro with the other scientist

[@OtakuUnitedStudio]

He IS a marine biologist.

[@pakihcetus]

@@OtakuUnitedStudio yes that is why i love the reference, it wouldnt be nearly as good if he isnt one

[@TojiFushigoroWasTaken]

The red plankton 2:17 looks like he is about to steal a certain crabby patty recipie

[@pedropedrohan102]

and the other looks pretty SUS

[@Core_Of_The_Void]

SHELDON PLANKTON!

[@mrbakeryx7358]

Everyone talks about plankton Me: *looks at pink plankton* Also me: AMONGUS

[@ortherner]

haha amogos plesae lauf i said mogos sussy imposter amogus haha AAAAAAAAAA

[@ethandollarhide7943]

Jolteon: " Goes Extinct" Me: "Noooooooooooo! It should have been Flareon!"

[@Dr._is_sleepy]

RIP Jolteon

[@Funky_Duncy]

amen

[@bivcbmtgstgtssscqcrddgtrsm2257]

Flareon is the best Eeveelution.

[@lgitsx9665]

@@bivcbmtgstgtssscqcrddgtrsm2257 That's not how you spell vaporeon

[@tudoraragornofgreyscot8482]

@@lgitsx9665 best in terms of human male compatibility

[@sohkaswifteagle2604]

I'm not an expert marine biologist, but during my biology degree, I remember that plankton reproduces SOO fast and because "predators" are soo much bigger than them, they break the model or something like that. They reproduce so fast that by the time one species get an advantage, the other species have already "evolved" ahead of them. They reproduce so fast, that by the time predator start eating them, more plankton is already born. Then because animal-like whales are for all intended purposes an extinction-like event for the plankton of a region, the plankton ecosystem is constantly restarting stage where no species have time to exploit their advantage over the other. Imagine your tarweed and rosinweed example, but each time the rosinweed starts getting ahead, a human came by and killed all the plants except 1 tarweed and 1 rosinweed, leaving them to restart their fight, and when Rosinweed start getting ahead again, humans come back again and kills everything except one of each again

[@SupremeLeaderKimJong-un]

The tree at 0:44: In the colors of the Armenian flag Turkey and Azerbaijan: *We don't do that here*

[@cardiepie9157]

i edited this comment to confuse people

[@jongyon7192p]

@@cardiepie9157 Off topic, wrong thread?

[@sneakyspy103]

@@cardiepie9157 he said Armenian not American

[@Eleora1997Msia]

i can heard Plankton's evil laugh , of how he rule the sea with his micro body ....

[@Alverant]

I gotta go with the last one. Multiple resources, ever-changing environment, fast reproductive cycles, and a huge area (I bet there are trillions of plankton in a 1m*3 volume of seawater) keeps one from dominating. I'm not sure how any microorganisms can go extinct in the ocean given the sizes involved.

[@ezminj]

Not gonna lie, that last line, "We have a plankTON more to learn" winked at me so hard I clicked the like button just to ask for its phone number.

[@ARVash]

So I guess for game design sometimes it may be good to have at least 5 characters and 3 resources. I wonder if this is similar to nontransitive dice.

[@painzockt]

I always love to see the yeen in the intro, abd I also love to learn new things I even don't know they exist or stuff I would never had think about.

[@TreeLMFAO]

1:30 plankton sus

[@cerilious]

I can't help but notice that my town has a multitude of tall evergreen trees that seem to fill the same ecological niches. I wonder that it's the same thing with them. The trees in question Pine (multiple kinds), Douglas Fir, incense cedar, redwood, and others.

[@EebstertheGreat]

The trees might be managed to some extent (home owners, associations, the town, or whatever). But the trees also might actually be occupying different niches. Niches don't just depend on location. The trees could be vulnerable to different predators or parasites for instance, or they could have slightly different growing seasons, or they could require different organic compounds in the soil. What is unusual about the plankton is that there are thousands of species that don't seem to be differentiating themselves from each other hardly at all after hundreds of millions of years.

[@cerilious]

@@EebstertheGreat That's a good point. The Redwood and Sugar Pine are probably planted. I can imagine the Ponderosa Pine, Incense Cedar, and Douglas Fir having different little advantages. I expect trees are more complex and have more ways they can diversify compared to plankton. It's just interesting to see all three of them growing right next to each other being roughly the same size and competing for many of the same resources.

[@quitlife9279]

@@cerilious an interesting things about long lived trees is that most of the actual competition is already over once you're looking at the established tree, because once mature they're unlikely to be overtaken by another tree due to shading/roots etc. The real competition would be when they're all seeds/seedlings competing for the same space, and myriad factors could come into play such as predator, disease, seasonal weather conditions etc, and these conditions can be significantly different year to year. So the presence of a given mature tree could actually be the result of a few years of changeable conditions 100 years ago that allowed it to become established. And the trees growing next to each other in a forest could have faced and succeeded in different conditions centuries apart.

[@naruitch9208]

01:41 I dunno man kinda sus 02:17 even sussier

[@Moosh_]

I like how you used Jotaro’s stone ocean design in a video about an ocean

[@OtakuUnitedStudio]

He's a marine biologist, after all.

[@Ascend777]

Additionally: The ocean is extremely diverse. Water and sunlight are natural food sources for many species in there. Land, on the other hand, is less diverse because (well) soil, air, and sunlight aren't natural food source for many species. So basically, diversity correlates with the availability of resources. Edit: Also, species that can eat sunlight (such as planktons) are naturally more diverse.

[@Stealthsilent1337]

Water isnt a food. You mean a takeaway of a need

[@Ascend777]

@@Stealthsilent1337 I've heard that saying before, but it seems dated. food: any nutritious substance that people or animals eat or drink or that plants absorb in order to maintain life and growth. "Water" fits the definition.

[@thebrickinquestion]

Me, visibly crying: *WHY IS EVERYTHING SUS???!!?!*

[@Ddddddddddd381]

I think the most unrealistic part of this video is flareon succeeding over jolteon and vaporeon lol

[@supernukey419]

*cries in Flareon favourite eeveelution*

[@mr.minnesoulja1257]

Jolteon is a beast

[@SMon42]

Yeah, vaporeon would drown Flareon, and jolteon would electrocute vaporeon.

[@KarlaO711]

I thought the same. Wasn't Flareon the worst of those Eeveelutions?

[@Ddddddddddd381]

@@KarlaO711 flareon has poor stats to (poorly) complement a lackluster moveset. it is a physical attacker that doesn't really have the speed or defence to back itself up and gets mediocre fire type physical moces

[@aniksamiurrahman6365]

1:05 Since there's a huge similarity between Economics and the Ecosystem, so, doesn't this model also means that all the talks about "free market" are also just fantasy and monopoly is just the natural consequence.

[@evank06]

Now this a video I'm excited for, sounds like a random thing I would use to procrastinate

[@MinuteEarth]

Our speciality.

[@TrainerGoldAlt]

@@MinuteEarth cool

[@goddessdeedeebubblesofimag7789]

NEBBY- :)

[@ortherner]

@@MinuteEarth among plankton

[@chloroplast8611]

1:25 sus

[@DM-mq6hx]

Woa! I like that chaotic loop design

[@ItsASleepySheepy]

It feels silly but it kinda made me glad that Flareon is the eeveelution that came out on top, it's always been my favorite

[@diamondjub2318]

how did Plankton manage to build Karen with a failing restaurant?

[@kevintrang3007]

When you have no customers, you need someone to complain

[@microwave221]

He went to college

[@Jouzou87]

When it comes to plankton, looks like we've barely scratched the surface

[@firedropcutie]

I must ask, did you purposely make the pink plankton look like the among us characters? My brain still keeps seeing them everywhere I look

[@nighttimetelevision2969]

Sus

[@Nugcon]

Sus

[@samuelsmith2707]

Probably just coincidence, it's a pretty generic shape.

[@planetearth8044]

Sus

[@goddessdeedeebubblesofimag7789]

Why does google think sus means their

[@thevioletskull8158]

Plankton: Now I finally have the plan to get the Krabby Patty and defeat Mr.Krabs!

[@ghijklabcdef]

0:12 if you watch _CAREFULLY_ , you will see 2 same stickmen

[@ghyslainabel]

For some reason, I first read the title "The Plank Paradox" and I expected some physic. It was still an interesting video.

[@UltimateStarky]

SpongeBob, JoJo, Pokemon, and Among Us references in the same video? Consider me impressed.

[@ronanclark2129]

3:03 a Planck ton sounds like a name for the smallest unit of mass

[@SeporiBowi]

0:08 JoJo's reference. Nice.

[@iamgreatalwaysgreat8209]

Jotaro

[@fdrthegret]

one of the drawn planktons looks like… *AMOGUS*

[@JkCaron1]

Plank-ton more to learn, love it.

[@bastienmassion299]

Liked the Lorentz attractor shown in the background without explanation simply for the beauty of this shape

[@taotaoliu2229]

Nobody: The thumbnail: AMONG US

[@sealeo5772]

Everywhere I go I see his face.

[@julioequinones]

One comment. Conditions vary with time and are dependent on the system. That's to say, if the tar weed wins it's not the case that is eternal. When the trees next to the mound get tall they will shade the mound and perhaps the other weed wins under the new conditions imposed on the system by the system.

[@godminnette2]

This might be my favorite MinuteEarth video. One fascinating example is used to demonstrate nuanced aspects to biological evolution, and three compelling theories are presented to answer a question that experts in the field have. Cute and clear visuals, concise script, and it leaves the viewer with a better understanding not just of the immediate topic, but of aspects of evolution as whole they may not have considered, and of the nature of how confounding variables can arise. Very well done!

[@The-Devils-Advocate]

There is an embarrassingly low amount of people pointing out that Dr. Kujo was referenced to in this video

[@brittneyziegler5742]

As a Flareon lover, I appreciate that it was the dominant species

[@jorjinabegum5776]

Ironic considering it's the worst of the three in competitive

[@shadowseeker97]

I appreciate the love for flareon in this video.

[@unicornnumber1987]

I congratulate you for putting in all those eeveelutions! Good job, well done!

[@paliaspip]

Dave McKinnon, A famous oceanographer/plankton scientist was summarising his life's work at his farewell morning tea. He said that after doing hundreds of experiments, thousands of hours at sea, tens of thousands of water and plankton samples up and down the Great Barrier Reef, he had come to two conclusions. First one is "Water moves"............. The second is "plankton is patchy".

[@confusioned2249]

"don't say it don't say it don't say it doN'T SAY IT DON'T SAY IT DON'T SAY IT" WHEN THE PLANKT-

[@ninjatintin9074]

WHEN THE PLANKTON IS SUS

[@BlipFanatic]

WHEN THE PLANKTON WENT TO COLLEGE

[@macrisabella]

0:01 See? Even MinuteEarth is hyped for Stone Ocean

[@justanotherhuman.3649]

Chaos is a ladder. -Plankton Gang.

[@ComfyDents]

Some who try to climb it up get cought in a bottle and never get a second chance. :O

[@UnPuntoCircular]

@@ComfyDents And some are given a chance to climb, but they refuse.

[@danwylie-sears1134]

I assumed they had different predators, different nutrient requirements, and so on. They can have different niches without being spatially separated. If for example one species is more effective at taking advantage of periods of high light intensity, while another does better at continuing to grow and reproduce during periods of marginally-adequate light, they have different niches, just a much as if those niches corresponded to different locations.

[@bluemarineboy3091]

1:20 when plankton is sus

[@iropthegamer726]

I noticed something about the planktons, one is sus, one is long, one looks like a snail, one wants the recipe for a burger, and one is completely normal.

[@Bubbalubagus]

Would've made more sense to have the Jolteon win out in the graphical examples every time instead of Flareon. Jolteon is strong against Vaporeon who is strong against Flareon and Flareon has no advantage over Jolteon. Jolteon is also the quickest.

[@taniaguzman5884]

Amazing explanation, thank u so much!

[@muntherdoesstuff9615]

1:42 AMONG US

[@randompheidoleminor3011]

A lot of species don't spend their entire lives as plankton, but mature into a wide array larger organisms that fill other niches (corals, lobsters, tuna etc). The planktonic stage is used by such species more as a method of dispersal than an actual niche, so comparing them is like comparing the seeds of plants - it doesn't really matter that dandelions might be marginally better than the spores of mosses at flight, as they end up growing in totally different conditions. This method of dispersal is more important than it seems. A lack of a planktonic stage was a major reason for why the smooth handfish went extinct after the Great Barrier Reef bleached in 2020, the first marine fish extinction of human times.

[@LavenderLushLuxury]

Science is so cool, Biology as well one of my favorite subjects.

[@PloverTechOfficial]

I do love the fact that Pokémon are used in the analogy. And If the plankton are peacefully coexisting then maybe we should learn from them. Or not

[@molybdaen11]

Oh there is nothing peaceful in they biome. Its just slightly better then the ethernal war for ressources in the realm of the single celled. Even if they manage to defeat they opposition - at any moment a yellyfish can swallow them and they can do nothing about it.

[@bloopcool8875]

1:19 PINK AMOGUS

[@impendio]

Ok I think this is the first sponsor I’ve been seriously interested in.

[@Boxboybashthesecond]

the thumb nail looks sus

[@masel7436]

I'm no Pokemon fan, but the example with the Eevees kinda made me think for a bit. (It kinda felt a bit off to me, too. And not just because I think Jolteon is cooler.) Alot of ppl had stuff to say on it, but after some thought, I came to a realization on how the scenario could occur. First, we must recall that the 3 Eevees are competing with eachother, but not *with* eachother. That is to say, they are all aiming to acquire a mutually desired resource, not interaction with eachother. (barring possible griefing) if we go by what other people said before of Flareon likely being an ambush predator and Jolteon being a direct predator that makes use of speed, then it all comes down to what the prize they're competing for is. If the prize / prey is something super slow then Jolteon's speed is useless. If it's something fairly fast then Jolteon has an uphill battle trying to catch it. After that it would all come down to how effective Flareon's ambushes are at taking whatever-it-is down. It could totally happen, but as to if it's the likely scenario? I don't know enough on any of these topics to say for sure. . .

[@Sunflower-lk2xo]

Plankton looks pretty sus

[@lorenzorafael4600]

0:14 So this immediately answers why the other human species went extinct and we only have one,since a few million years ago or so,we had 9 species of humans,but I can probably guess they were competing for survival or something along those lines,but the other 8 species didn’t try something else,they just kept competing but lost to our more modern versions

[@Glockenspheal]

No way Flareon would win against Jolteon and/or Vaporeon

[@juanolotgn]

How about phages living in the ocean? Viruses specialize in eating 1 specific organism, if for some reason it starts multiplying it would make sense to me that the viruses that feast on it would too, and would decrease the population back down

[@IMAMEETOOL]

Poor Jolteon :(

[@ShadyForest]

How could you have commented 18 hours ago on a video that was uploaded less than a minute ago?

[@naruitch9208]

@@ShadyForest he has membership bozo

[@Magic_beans_]

Or to put it less rudely, Patreon supporters at the $3/month or higher levels get early access to the videos. In this case, the video was posted privately yesterday (10 Nov ‘21) and went public today (11 Nov ‘21).

[@Chazulu2]

I'd guess a mix between solutions 2 and 3. Interesting about bats being nocturnal and hanging up side down to sleep, is that hanging could naturally control for wind so their sensitive ears can function better while sleeping. There is probably an interesting theoretical relationship between them, dolphins, bears and us. The first 2 handle sleep in fluids differently (with dolphins keeping part of their brains on and semi alert while floating on currents), bears are famous for hibernating to take advantage of the seasonal differences, and we as a society have 24hr a day watch standing, night and day shifts/jobs, responsiveness, etc. (Which will probably become even more true as robots become more common place in society). I looked up which animal other than us fills that last role most closely and the answer the search gave was I guess different species of owls? Idk if that's true tho.

[@TheMinecraftMan757]

So far, this comment section is no JoJo and all Amogus. I should've known that was the replacement of "JoJo reference?!".

[@WannaComment2]

I feel like an old man now, brb yelling at a clouds.

[@blookarakal4417]

I found three references in this video. A marine biologist dressed like Jotaro Kujo, a plankton shaped like Plankton from Spongebob, and one shaped like a crewmate from Among Us.

[@deathlessgamer]

"I WENT TO COLLEGE!" - Plankton

[@Row_of_E]

*looks at the thumbnail* *cries* *starts watching* *happiness noise* *gets to that part* "FOR THE LOVE OF GOD GET OUT OF MY HEAD!!!"

[@rizkyramadhan655]

Yeah, flareon ftw

[@abcde_fz]

Huh? Except in stagnant water, I'd think plankton are so small in relation to the size, (and perhaps 'violence' or 'intensity' or 'exuberance') of anything but the smallest ripple, that there'd be no way they can 'stake out' millimeter or micrometer deep 'exclusion zones'. They'd simply be moving about and getting 'stirred around' so much by anything but the mildest turbulence that their ability to stay in one place 'by choice' would be impossible. I wouldn't think running a mesh net through their habitat would be the thing you'd 'blame' for the homogeneity of your sample. This may well be the comment in which I've 'overused' qualifying single quotes the most, by a large margin... Go figure... I usually use ellipses enough that some people say I overuse them, not 'qualifying single quotes'.

[@some2-Idk]

NOOOOOOO. Plz not among us plankton .

[@Kvibze17TeamProH]

Lol

[@jodjo2817]

😂

[@WeighedWilson]

Whenever they say "the science is settled" just smile and nod and remember this video.

[@catatoblob8598]

That's disingenuous. There's plenty of science that is more or less settled.

[@WeighedWilson]

@@catatoblob8598 until we discover new things.

[@jixuan9341]

Plankton: “hey spongebob do you know I have at least 110,000 cousins” (Idk how many species are there)

[@davialmeida4442]

Why my boy jolteon is the one to go extinct? He's my favorite