The Microcosmos Is Made of Star Stuff

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  • Опубликовано: 23 дек 2024

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  • @mafarmerga
    @mafarmerga Год назад +144

    If possible please try to capture images of opalinids. I have seen them alive twice, but have never seen good video of them. As they rotate the colors that opalinids create from diffraction is unbelievably beautiful. If James can get good video of them it would be the first.

    • @ismaelisaiasramirez
      @ismaelisaiasramirez Год назад +6

      That sounds crazy cool!

    • @JamsGerms
      @JamsGerms Год назад +19

      The issue with that is I need to cut open some frog intestines since they live inside the intestines of frogs. I checked a dead frog before for that, but it had no opalinids. I don’t know where I can get “fresh” frog bodies, and I definitely don’t want to kill frogs. :(

    • @mafarmerga
      @mafarmerga Год назад +19

      @@JamsGerms Yeah, We had a colleague on campus who was sacrificing frogs for other reasons so he gave me the intestines of frogs that had only been dead for less than a minute. The opalinids die within a few minutes of their host. I suppose that is what there are so few of us who have seen them, let alone recorded them with video on a decent microscope.
      Maybe you can partner with a French restaurant?

    • @benmcreynolds8581
      @benmcreynolds8581 Год назад +2

      Are these the things that infect certain Pill Bug's? Where they turn their exoskeleton opal like, or blueish?

    • @mafarmerga
      @mafarmerga Год назад +1

      @@benmcreynolds8581 No, they are symbionts of the guts of amphibians. As far as is known they are benign to their hosts.

  • @micro_safari
    @micro_safari Год назад +86

    As somebody that has been working very diligently to upgrade my older Zeiss Axio Imager microscope to record quality video like this, I have to say that I am consistently impressed with James' microscope abilities, and it is so cool to see him get better and better at the little things, like refining the sample prep so that all of the sample is in focus across the field of view, or controlling the illumination to reduce stray light and image sensor noise.
    Thank you for producing such amazing content and getting people excited about microscopes, Microcosmos team!

    • @GLITCH_-.-
      @GLITCH_-.- Год назад +1

      "like refining the sample prep so that all of the sample is in focus across the field of view"
      I think that's just the planapo objective doing it's job.

    • @micro_safari
      @micro_safari Год назад +5

      @Imperator Caesar Traianus Hadrianus Augustus I'm talking about James Weiss

    • @joshcoogler9455
      @joshcoogler9455 Год назад +1

      @@GLITCH_-.-I think they mean the level of water in the sample makes it where none of the microbes are able to be too far out of focus

    • @JamsGerms
      @JamsGerms Год назад +3

      Thank you so much!

    • @GLITCH_-.-
      @GLITCH_-.- Год назад

      @@joshcoogler9455 ah ok, that makes sense 'xD

  • @davetoms1
    @davetoms1 Год назад +26

    When Hank quotes Carl you know it's getting real

  • @kpk1958
    @kpk1958 Год назад +14

    The work on this channel gets better with every video. Thanks to James, the production staff and Patreon supporters!

  • @StarCrusher.
    @StarCrusher. Год назад +3

    Loving the vangelis inspired cosmos tune at the beginning.

  • @greymoonz1
    @greymoonz1 Год назад +34

    Am I the only one having the strange feeling that this may have inspired the Elden Beast from Elden Ring ?

    • @borttorbbq2556
      @borttorbbq2556 Год назад +1

      Naw common way to depict Godlike beings

    • @thisisachannel.780
      @thisisachannel.780 Год назад +4

      fun fact: the proposed model of the ENTIRE universe looks like the golden filaments inside the elden beast

    • @evilgibson
      @evilgibson Год назад +1

      There is a lot of mythos that see celestial sources of beings existence. It could've come from anywhere

    • @gaeshows1938
      @gaeshows1938 Год назад +1

      Marikas teets!
      Try fingers but hole

    • @enlightenedbanana
      @enlightenedbanana Год назад +4

      this immediately reminded me of the elden beast, honestly i can’t believe that its so famous they made it in miniature form in real life

  • @zacharywong483
    @zacharywong483 Год назад +6

    Absolutely beautiful footage here! Fantastic work, James!

  • @Barashadi
    @Barashadi Год назад +1

    Starting at 2:56 that big ciliate that’s moving on the right side seems to have a “front” and a “back”. It’s moving in a way where it’s constantly trying to orient itself in a specific direction like looking the way it’s heading. Is that normal? The other creatures later in the video don’t seem to have a specific direction to face when they want to move around…

  • @vernonbrechin4207
    @vernonbrechin4207 Год назад +11

    I loved this production. Thanks for James's polarization explorations and your team's poetic descriptions.

  • @buccaneerrex
    @buccaneerrex Год назад +1

    'We don't know' can always be a valid answer. Whether it's a good answer depends on what you follow it with. One good one is 'But I bet we can find out.'

  • @arielmscisney6128
    @arielmscisney6128 Год назад +1

    Beautifully Spoken and Articulated.

  • @joaovitordemelloassis6839
    @joaovitordemelloassis6839 Год назад +3

    2:38; Ciliates, bacteria and a Chironomidae larvae. I loved seeing this!

    • @pattheplanter
      @pattheplanter Год назад

      I was thinking "why don't you mention the massive dead insect?" Or the alga?

    • @JamsGerms
      @JamsGerms Год назад +1

      @@pattheplanter It wasn't dead actually, it moves back and forth in the original clip. :)

  • @MachadoJPG
    @MachadoJPG Год назад

    This is the best sci pop project that I know of. I’ve been following it since its first episode. Thanks for making this amazing content!! :)

  • @tidal_lock
    @tidal_lock Год назад +2

    I love this channel sm, thank you for sharing this beautiful content 💜

  • @Thor_b
    @Thor_b Год назад +4

    So grateful I had a mother who was a scientist. ❤ awesome video guys.

  • @spottenn
    @spottenn Год назад

    4:14 I thought I was looking at really low resolution video for a second. The cilia made lines that looked like anti aliasing lines in the polarized light.

  • @ElectricalExistence
    @ElectricalExistence Год назад +1

    only an honest scientist can say "i dont know", i wish cosmologists were equally as honest.

  • @deathsnitemaresinfullust2269
    @deathsnitemaresinfullust2269 Год назад

    Haa! 5:08
    There's a point where the glowing bits make this Pelomyxa look like some kind of alien face with some sort of cowboy hat on, like the character in Odd World: Stranger's Wrath on XBox.
    😄👍

  • @laurel9629
    @laurel9629 Год назад

    2:54 what is the orange/brown thing in the top left? At first I thought it was an exuvia, maybe from some minuscule underwater insect, but it also looks like a plant sprout.

    • @renzbongers337
      @renzbongers337 Год назад +2

      Its probably a non biting midge larvae. Look it up if you want you will probably get the best matches.

    • @laurel9629
      @laurel9629 Год назад +2

      @@renzbongers337 I appreciate it, thank you!

  • @kaltkalt2083
    @kaltkalt2083 Год назад

    It’s quite difficult for most people to say "I don’t know" (though a bit easier to say "we don’t know"). It’s always easier to make up an explanation. Or say a theoretical explanation (a theory) is certain fact. So respect for that. Of course saying "I was wrong" is the number one hardest thing for people to say to others.

  • @kanagawakenji7
    @kanagawakenji7 Год назад +1

    Guanine based purine crystals are also in the iridophores of cuttlefish, acting as a sort of mirror.

  • @evilsharkey8954
    @evilsharkey8954 Год назад

    The polarization really highlights the larger cilia on little ciliate hanging around the right side of the screen at 4:45.

  • @judeyovichin7326
    @judeyovichin7326 Год назад

    This channel is criminally under-viewed

  • @user-tk2jy8xr8b
    @user-tk2jy8xr8b Год назад +1

    As Story Musgrave said: "I am the cosmos, I am part of this process that I am doing. I’m part of it. I’m molecules. My molecules are those molecules. The stars that die, that’s me."

  • @dianagibbs3550
    @dianagibbs3550 Год назад

    2:44 - Is that some kind of insect leg or other arthropod part on the upper left there?

  • @LimeyLassen
    @LimeyLassen Год назад

    That giant fly larva kinda did me a jumpscare lol, I was too acclimated to looking at protists

  • @micheleshave323
    @micheleshave323 Год назад +3

    I recently purchased a Microcosmos microscope. I am wondering where I can get a polarizer for said microscope. And an ultraviolet filter as well. Thank you so much for such a wonderful channel!!🙏🙏

    • @benmatthews6831
      @benmatthews6831 Год назад

      You can make a polarizer set fairly easy. Get some polarizer material (online) cut a small circle out, make sure it is clean, and put it inbetween the head and body of your microscope. Take another piece, a rectangle with a width wider than your condenser and place it over that. Now, you want to cross them, so rotate the lower one until the right field goes fairly dark.
      You will not likely get fluorescence capability on a starter microscope, and that is ok. Have a great time!

  • @caramel9600
    @caramel9600 Год назад +2

    Please do a video on choanoflagellates! ❤ thank you for everything, masters of microscopes - I’m so grateful to be able to see these things so prettily a-moving 🌱😄

  • @kg322
    @kg322 Год назад

    Can you share a list of equipment used for these videos?

  • @tribalismblindsthembutnoty124
    @tribalismblindsthembutnoty124 Год назад

    2:43 CEN turies?

  • @FlaxenEmperor29
    @FlaxenEmperor29 Год назад +1

    Hank, do you have a podcast where you describe what different protists look like? Describe that slime mold like nobody's watching, even though we would be.

  • @jlzombiecat
    @jlzombiecat Год назад

    Wow, those tightly packed, sparkly Paramecium would make a really pretty poster.

  • @AndreaMorales1
    @AndreaMorales1 Год назад

    most magical channel ever

  • @evilsharkey8954
    @evilsharkey8954 Год назад

    It’s interesting watching little bits inside the paramecia rearrange themselves as their little goo bag bodies slide over each other between the slide and cover glass.

  • @user001zyx
    @user001zyx Год назад

    wonderful - thankyou ! i've now watched this already half a dozen times - we are all one within the cosmic-soup (-:

  • @noemitellez3098
    @noemitellez3098 Год назад

    Fantastic writing , fantastic music , fantastic videography , fantastic editing and fantastic delivery , as always . Thank you Journey to the Microcosmos team for never failing to add a bit more wonder to the world with each video . 🤍

  • @Deeplycloseted435
    @Deeplycloseted435 Год назад +8

    Hank, I would love to see what drinking water looks like after its had one sip taken, and then left to sit for a day, three days, and a week. My kid refuses to believe that microorganisms from her mouth or just floating around her bedroom, will infest a cup of water sitting for days. I have a microscope, but its not nearly as good as yours. Thanks.

    • @micro_safari
      @micro_safari Год назад +4

      The challenge with this is that although microorganisms from her mouth will go into the water, even after letting the water sit for weeks, is that they will be at such low concentrations relative to the amount of water present. Since it is just water without any significant amount of food for the microorganisms to reproduce from, it would be very difficult to find microorganisms, and they would be almost indistinguishable which of the microbes came from her mouth and which were just floating around in the air. The only food that would be in the water for the microbes to reproduce from is the small amount of organic matter that came from her mouth or the organic dust in the air.

    • @JamsGerms
      @JamsGerms Год назад +1

      @@micro_safari wonderful answer, thank you!

  • @deathsnitemaresinfullust2269
    @deathsnitemaresinfullust2269 Год назад

    Always wish these were like atleast 10 minutes longer.
    😄👍

  • @Diecastclassicist
    @Diecastclassicist Год назад

    Beautiful episode.

  • @mbunds
    @mbunds Год назад

    ..."molecules that are important to life....even caffeine..."

  • @christianheichel
    @christianheichel Год назад +1

    Raman microscopy.... So... A tiny soup?

  • @lilitheden748
    @lilitheden748 Год назад +1

    How beautiful. It is wonderful watching these glowing gems whilst listening to Hanks sooting voice. Thanks

  • @allenbinger3067
    @allenbinger3067 Год назад

    i bet hank has a bunch of really cool hoodies

  • @AHIDDENWORLDmicrobiology
    @AHIDDENWORLDmicrobiology Год назад +4

    I am a big fan of this channel! Keep going!

  • @VoidHalo
    @VoidHalo Год назад

    Here's an interesting thought, time shouldn't move forward for a photon. The photons from the big bang that make up the cosmic microwave background radiation are the exact same age right now as they were when the universe was created. Every photon is literally frozen in time. If you think about it, time slows down the faster you travel. So once you get to the speed of light, time stops. Hence time (from a photon's point of view) can't move forward.

  • @pheart2381
    @pheart2381 Год назад

    We are star dust,we are golden
    And we've got to get ourselves back to the garden

  • @gnored
    @gnored Год назад

    Ooooh! I LIKE shiny things!

  • @ElectricalExistence
    @ElectricalExistence Год назад

    CRYSTAL ABIOGENSIS, the beginning of life.

  • @estherl6172
    @estherl6172 Год назад

    All your videos are pretty, but this one is especially pretty!

  • @danielhagen3739
    @danielhagen3739 Год назад +1

    Very good

  • @Beryllahawk
    @Beryllahawk Год назад +1

    Beautiful, from image to script. Thank you so much for this!

  • @bennyfactor
    @bennyfactor Год назад

    I have unfortunately detected purine crystals before, in between the joints of my foot bones - it is gout, the disease of kings, and extremely painful

  • @borttorbbq2556
    @borttorbbq2556 Год назад +2

    So pretty

  • @bluesioux9538
    @bluesioux9538 Год назад

    Huh. Just maybe the star stuff is made from me...

  • @ElectricalExistence
    @ElectricalExistence Год назад

    see if you can find someone to use mass spectrometry to decipher the elements the cyrtals are made of. edit: nvm i commented before you got to that.

  • @gryphonschnitzel7140
    @gryphonschnitzel7140 Год назад

    This is a very nice channel.

  • @NewMessage
    @NewMessage Год назад +1

    Ain't it all, though.... Ain't it all, in the end.

  • @MseeBMe
    @MseeBMe Год назад

    O
    M
    G
    I only just realised it’s been Hank Green narrating all this time…

  • @DoggoneNexus
    @DoggoneNexus Год назад

    "My god, they're full of stars"

  • @websurfer5772
    @websurfer5772 Год назад

    This is fantastic! Thank you.
    But have you ever seen a DNA molecule, and if so, can you show it to us? I think it's just a hypothetical construct, right?

    • @Will-dn9dq
      @Will-dn9dq Год назад +1

      Google it. Much like DNA coding an atoms they can be seen. They use magnets to pull apart separate genes for example, as one more common method of paternity or suspect DNA. There's even a short in RUclips zooming in on a human tooth all the way down to the row if atoms. But before that magnification it shows how teeth are very rigid mountain surfaced looking at a certain magnification level. Explains how gunk sticks to what our tongue takes as a smooth surface. Fun fact things that feel smooth to our tongue like ice cream have molecules smaller then our tongue nerves. So if if smaller it falls between an around them rather then the nerves feeling around a larger molecule.
      I spend alotve time on random science from various places 😆

    • @websurfer5772
      @websurfer5772 Год назад

      @@Will-dn9dq I check out the debates on just how deep our technology can take us. I'm with the skeptics. The burden of proof is on the claimants.
      Prove that we can see a DNA molecule, let alone it's GCAT genes.

  • @MrLiviooo
    @MrLiviooo Год назад +1

    "We don't know"
    The biggest failure of our society,occupieng time and creating gaps in understanding so much from the understandable plateau ...
    Could be so easily filled up by the billions of Us who waiste so much from our lifes by bed practice and wrong enviroment of action,We fool our selves in wasting much of our lifes in wrong practices most of them derminated by non challenge ,or excesive challenge, in fields that didn't provide enough data to stimulate curiosity and push Us toward research and improvement ..

  • @culwin
    @culwin Год назад

    Like, whoa, man.

  • @sciencenerd7639
    @sciencenerd7639 Год назад

    This video is making my cat go crazy

  • @conniefu3023
    @conniefu3023 Год назад

    Maybe they are intermediate metabolic wastes of the microbes

  • @pattheplanter
    @pattheplanter Год назад +2

    Guanine crystals in many fish scales make highly efficient mirrors.

  • @martf1061
    @martf1061 Год назад

    When i zoom in the video, i could think that i'm looking at hubble images...

  • @lucasmontec
    @lucasmontec Год назад

    Whenever I hear or read the word Sagan I press the like button

  • @HieiYoukai
    @HieiYoukai Год назад

    esse "dublador" só pode ser do google ou alguma IA pq putz.

  • @williamchamberlain2263
    @williamchamberlain2263 Год назад

    Ramen microscopes sound good

  • @braxtonsadberry3531
    @braxtonsadberry3531 Год назад

    The title of this should have been (we don’t know) lol

  • @maxa1152
    @maxa1152 Год назад

    I was told knowing the truth drives me crazy, now I see it's true

  • @GLITCH_-.-
    @GLITCH_-.- Год назад +2

    Wait... 100,000 µm are only 10 cm. That line is too long, isn't it?

    • @pattheplanter
      @pattheplanter Год назад +1

      Even if it is the extra small, the chest width is 19 inches or 48 cm. That line is over ⅓ of the chest width so over 16cm.

  • @LucVNO
    @LucVNO Год назад +3

    If we lived on an electron that was part of a dog..... what would the dog look like to us from that perspective??

  • @stevenkarnisky411
    @stevenkarnisky411 Год назад

    Beautiful segment! We learn much about the macro-cosmos by manipulating and filtering different frequencies of both visible light and other energies. Why not the micro-cosmos, too!

  • @stax6092
    @stax6092 Год назад +1

    Cool.

  • @axjagfilms
    @axjagfilms Год назад

    I saw these in my paludarium

  • @brendakrieger7000
    @brendakrieger7000 Год назад

    Always awesome🔬🦠💚

  • @andyperry7884
    @andyperry7884 Год назад

    i am ..a symbiotic system of micro biology......i truly do not understand'' humans'' i am a system in the universe which is a system composed of systems......i truly dont understand the ones that call themselves humans....i am a symbiotic system of micro biology..........much love...

  • @midsummerKNlGHT
    @midsummerKNlGHT Год назад

    hey sweet: a baby elden beast episode ^^

  • @godschild6694
    @godschild6694 Год назад

    I enjoy seeing the fascinating micro world that our God has made!

  • @leaedt7614
    @leaedt7614 Год назад

    It's Christmas!

  • @judychurley6623
    @judychurley6623 Год назад

    So do such crystals also exist in the cells of macro biota?

    • @pattheplanter
      @pattheplanter Год назад +1

      Many fish scales contain guanine crystals which are responsible for their bright, mirror-like silvery sheen. Our bones and teeth are crystalline. The pain of gout is caused by the accumulation of urate crystals.

  • @Marine_Veteran_Vegan_Gamer
    @Marine_Veteran_Vegan_Gamer Год назад

    Scott doesn't know...

  • @snehapradhan5591
    @snehapradhan5591 Год назад

    🖤🖤

  • @robbiemer8178
    @robbiemer8178 Год назад

    Beautiful video as ever.
    I am fairly certain that Carl Sagan was being literal when he talked about us being star stuff.

  • @GurunathHirve
    @GurunathHirve Год назад +1

    Start putting this stuff in HDR, and people will surely cry themselves to death after laying their eyes upon it, coz it'll pop so much.

  • @hareeshpentela5948
    @hareeshpentela5948 Год назад

    ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

  • @Elimino_P
    @Elimino_P Год назад

    🤩

  • @Nobody_Special310
    @Nobody_Special310 Год назад +1

    hadouken

  • @edwardlulofs444
    @edwardlulofs444 Год назад

    The scientists at the Gravitational Wave Observatory are now (about 2019) claiming that more or most of our atoms came from colliding black holes and less from supernova.

    • @JamsGerms
      @JamsGerms Год назад +2

      Not from colliding black holes but colliding neutron stars which creates a rather easy fusion environment. Actually I learned about this after making this episode, but I think the idea is still not absolutely clear.
      -James

    • @edwardlulofs444
      @edwardlulofs444 Год назад

      @@JamsGerms Thank you for this correction. My memory is not perfect. I attended a lecture a few years by one of the leading scientists of the Observatory.
      You are correct that that conclusion has not been confirmed nor extensively studied. And I am not current in that field of study.

  • @clairejeansonne9800
    @clairejeansonne9800 Год назад

    comments for the algorithm

  • @chrisaguilera1564
    @chrisaguilera1564 Год назад

    The universe is outside us and the universe is inside us. One wonders if the Quantum universe isn't just a plot device device for some Marvel movie.

  • @derderrr7220
    @derderrr7220 Год назад

    more info on the chemistry and physics of the biology please mmm yummy yummy information me likey some data.

  • @Nevermind_Oblivion
    @Nevermind_Oblivion Год назад

    Turraza la voz en español. Recomiendo cambiarla parece voz de infomercial o cualquier cosa

    • @Nevermind_Oblivion
      @Nevermind_Oblivion Год назад +1

      Ok I changed it to English and now the video is watchable

  • @gardenrose264
    @gardenrose264 Год назад

    Jehovah gives answers......!!! Creation..

  • @JM222444
    @JM222444 Год назад

    More videos please, 🙋

  • @kx4532
    @kx4532 Год назад

    Tasty Raman

  • @potatoefacedfox
    @potatoefacedfox Год назад

    sack your script writer for this episode

  • @Justinbeehoney
    @Justinbeehoney 2 месяца назад

    Longer videos and new organisms asmr