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So I checked and I feel having a carbon footprint barely above the global average and a quarter of my national average wasn't the gotcha they wanted. Given they asked questions like how much money I spend on buying new appliances a MONTH with almost a hundred bucks being the 'low' option, I really don't think I'm their target audience here.
@@melskunk Yeah, same here. By looking those weekly and monthly consumption and traveled distance choices, my jaws dropped in shock. Some people are born to consume and suck the blood of the earth.
Part 2. My Neighbour: What the fudge is that!!!?? Me with a giant bat on a rope: **Bat attacks neighbour! My Neighbour: Arrgh!!! Help.. Its bitten my leg...Scream!!!!
Ahh I don't want to show what lives in my drains because I don't want to know what lives in my drains! There could be a basilisk crawling in the pipes, I don't want to know. There is a really thin line between what I do and excessive hand washing. :P Ps. I hope everyone enjoyed my book! Thank you so much! -James
In my parents house, mushrooms started popping through the grout in one of the showers. We'd pull them out and really clean the grout, but they kept coming back with amazing strength and regularity. Turned out that the fungus had formed a massive sponge like mass (it most closely resembled the thing from the 1980's horror film) inside of the drain. It was filtering out and feeding off the hair and shampoo and other dirt that was coming through the shower. After I destroyed it, the mushrooms stopped coming back... Even though it was gross and probably would have eventually started structurally damaging the pipes and the walls, I sort of feel guilty about destroying it - it was a marvel of nature. And who knows, maybe the mushrooms were edible... The could have also been poisonous... Not exactly microscopic at that point, but sort of on topic.
Yes, mushrooms are the fruiting bodies of a fungus living below (or beside) the mushroom. I lived in a rental house for awhile where mushrooms would sometimes pop up around the edges of the kitchen linoleum - the whole kitchen floor had dry rot, meaning a vast fungal colony was slowly eating the wood. I didn't even try to get rid of them - when mushrooms start coming out of your floor, that part of the floor (and probably the supports, the walls, etc) needs to be replaced.
As a child, I used to look into the sink and noticed that when water dripped from the little grates into the darkness it looked like a fishes eye flashing up when the droplet of water fell into depths. Told my mother once that a monster was winking at me in the sink, she replied with an upwards slicing slap attack across my ear with the words "Stop making things up! Your imagination will give you nightmares..." Think I will send her this video with a "TOLD YOU SO!!" meme attached...
It's more likely what happened there was that the dripping water caused an antibubble - a pocket of water, trapped by air, which skims across the water. They appear bright because they refract light differently, and they are no less fascinating.
@@Mrabc123 Same here, all thanks to this channel. So far mostly bacteria and plant life, but it's still cool, just need to learn more about the whole process :)
The thing that lets me get on with doing the dishes and cleaning the toilet without getting grossed out is to remember that every single surface you touch outdoors has all the same microbes all over it.
So after just having cleaned my sink drainage pipes, I can confidently say: - Yes it's incredibly, astoundingly, mind-boggingly, logic-defyingly gross. - To my unpleasant surprise, the U-bend wasn't the problem, I found very little slime in there. The vertical pipes leading to and from it, however... different story altogether. - "Biofilm" is waaaay too cute of a description. In my sink's case it had accumulated to what I can only describe as an oyster mushroom-colored and textured Great Barrier Reef that let only the tiniest amount of water through. - James would've had a field day. And would've been emotionally scarred for life.
I would love more of these - I think it's critical to demonstrate locations often neglected for hygiene, so we can inform people of more effective methods of cleaning. Also, many parts of the world have plumbing standards for prevention of backflow - i.e., keeping the u-bend from allowing anything from flowing back up the wrong way, using something more than a prayer.
I use mostly traditional soaps at my sinks, as opposed to synthetic detergents, so I would expect my drains to have a rather different environment from others. It also depends on the foods you eat, and how you like to get your hands dirty in the first place.
Our weather reports: “Clouds in the morning but sunny skies by afternoon.” The biofilms in my drain’s weather reports: *”A flash flood warning is in effect, and we’ll have regular darkness and dampness unless a plumber pries open our world again...”*
I knew it. When I was a little kid I always knew there was something lurking in the drain just waiting to get me. I protected myself by always using a drain plug.
The only thing worse than finding out you've got MRSA hanging out in your sink is *not* finding out that you've got MRSA hanging out in your sink. I would definitely be checking my own sink because I wouldn't be able to stop asking myself "what if?" questions lol.
I just got the book, one of my best purchases I've made. This is exactly what I was looking for to help me classify organisms and understand what they are, did a good thing publishing this book
I was thinking at this when reading someone else's comment that said every household might have a specific group of microorganisms in the pipes, depending on owner's habits.
There was a guy who got caught because a plumber discovered he had chopped up a body and tried to flush it all. I suppose if the body parts had made it to the sewer and was found there maybe they could have matched the microbes from his toilet drain to his personal gut microbiome to convict him but it makes me wonder if there is any precedent for that if it would be allowed as evidence.
My journey to the Microcosmos has circled. My interest of microorganisms started years ago. When I was a child, I wondered what could possibly live in the drains and pipes where water and waste go. So I searched, and I received the knowledge of life that lives unseen to most eyes. Life that lives in more places than just our homes. Different parts of the Earth, sea, land, air, hospitable and inhospitable, some even reached space. Then back to our homes. But, my journey to the Microcosmos isn’t over.
I would love you guys to take a look a the bacteria involved in the nitrogen cycle of common fish aquariums, as well as maybe see some of the other unexpected pets we might have in our tanks.
I bought a Swift SW380B after finding this channel, and the first sample I took was from my kitchen sink. I was not prepared to see these things with my own eyes, dear god I'm going to have nightmares. There's a difference between seeing this stuff on your computer screen, and actually seeing it with your own eyes in a sample you took from your own home.
The U bend... It also will CATCH stuff like oh I dunno, earrings, meds, little things you may keep in (and therefore lose in, too) the bathroom. Falls in, doesn't go straight away and so you can take apart the pipes, remove the filthy item, reconnect pipes, ta-da!! Amaz-az-zing!
I’m highly suspicious those blue auto-fluorescent bits are optical brightening agents: they’re found commonly in any white paper, including paper towels. In addition they can be found in lots of clothing and some detergents.
“What’s in your sink?” Today? Nothing. I apparently destroyed their ecosystem with Draino the other day. Now I know it wasn’t drain cleaning, it was genocide :-P
Ok seriously. I'm intrigued. As an Indian doctor, I feel tempted to sample the waters in our drains and see the microbiological records!! Lovely video!
At the risk of sounding pedantic, the correct term for the level of classification for Archaea are at is "domain". Otherwise, nice to finally see the guys that make our swamp gas.
@@tissuepaper9962 Plus even if we really want to sound pedantic, the most commonly accepted classification currently is the 2 empires 7 kingdoms one (archaea being one of the two kingdoms in the prokaryota empire).
Just a note, that "U-bend pipe" you talk about is not called a "U-bend pipe". It's called a P-trap. The more you know. 🌈🌟 The P-trap replaced the older, and now illegal, S-trap, which looked a little different but did the same thing. The reason the S-trap became illegal is because S-traps can easily accidentally be emptied by the siphon effect, and when empty sewer gas can get into your living space. While rare, it was possible for enough gas to enter the space for the concentrations of certain gases to become high enough to be dangerous. For example, hydrogen sulfide can build up to toxic levels quite quickly, and sewer gas can contain enough methane to become explosive. P-traps prevent this siphon effect by introducing a long horizontal section of pipe in the middle of the S-shape which makes it very difficult to get enough flow to create a siphon in the first place and when the siphon is over, some of the remaining fluid in the horizontal section will flow back into the P-trap, refilling it even if you are able to get a siphon going. This gas problem is one of the reasons that all drains need to filled with anti-freeze if you are leaving a house or building unattended for a long period. The water it the P-traps can evaporate, leading to gas buildup, but anti-freeze doesn't evaporate nearly as easily and so will prevent gas buildup for much, much longer.
Boiling a big pot of water .. every drain in the house is getting a serious pour over ... I don't know if it will help, but it is going to make me feel a whole lot better as I try to sleep tonight.
I usually like a lot your videos and I regularly see them more than one time. They are very entertaining, educational, and even calming. Narrator way of talking is very important and IMO this was different in a way that I couldn’t keep my attention to the beautiful images with so much words and deviations. I hope not to offend. And keep with your great job guys.
I once changed the u bend in my bathroom. I wasn't too careful with my hands and might have touched my face before I washed my hands. Got a fever that evening, which was gone next morning. I can see why now...
While it may be disgusting to look at from a macroscopic point, think that every time you wash your dishes, every time you wash your hands, you are cycling and renewing an entire microverse, adding new matter and life and taking away the old stuff. It is beautiful
Can you guys make a soundtrack of all these episodes? The music plus the narration is what helps me sleep, but none of my devices will stay charged long with the screen on. Or maybe Hank can read my college microbiology book out loud 😁
7:00 This image helps prooving my theory that " what is define as small, can be defined as big for others " If you asked someone that doe'snt know where it comes from.." what is this image ? " I bet that a lot would say " it's an Hubbles image of space ".
Now I have a question, in my tank I see tiny brown dots and there moving! There size is about 0.5 to 1 millimeter I put them under my microscope they look like brown ovals with antennas they use it to move forward, at first I thought it was daphnia(water fleas) but under x40 magnification it isn’t daphnia also they don’t swim in the water they like to stick to the walls and move around it also looks like there filtering water under the microscope if you know what these microorganisms are tell me
Now do the drain of like, a heavy, heavy makeup user. Do Ru Paul's sink drain. Now THAT is gonna be an interesting microbial environment. All the random chemicals washing through periodically, all the novel oils and weird particulates for microbes to have every kinda interaction with
I turned part of a coathanger into a tool to scrape what almost looked like tree bark off the inside of the sink drain at my last apartment. Drain cleaner didn't even bother it.
I think I know most of the microbes in here but what was the microbe(that looks suspiciously like the shell of a microbe egg or exoskeleton) that appeared in: 2 mins 35 secs of your vid? :o
is it possible for microbes to manipulate items around the house? Like a piece of tissue or a tobacco pipe screen or even a piece of food? Like can they make them jump or move at all? Asking because anything I felt had microbes on it due to weird behavior for a non living house item, it always wants to go down the drain too?
I always drain the main bong pipe down the drain using hot boiling water, you should see the oil sludge going down there. Now imagine the ecosystems and microbes that would create.
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So I checked and I feel having a carbon footprint barely above the global average and a quarter of my national average wasn't the gotcha they wanted. Given they asked questions like how much money I spend on buying new appliances a MONTH with almost a hundred bucks being the 'low' option, I really don't think I'm their target audience here.
@@melskunk Yeah, same here. By looking those weekly and monthly consumption and traveled distance choices, my jaws dropped in shock. Some people are born to consume and suck the blood of the earth.
@@melskunk i think it's meant to be an average. like you spend a 400 dollars on a fridge, and that would count as 30 dollars a month.
@@melskunk LMAO. While it's nice to have your video sponsored, most if it is just fluff-talk.
Thanks, I missed the part of the video with the ad, and I also missed the ad in the description.
Landlord: "You're not allowed to have pets."
Me and my sink:
on my way to walk my amoeba
Good meme
Yep. Just casually taking a little stroll towards my bedroom sink.
Me: Ah, just another perfectly normal sink.....
Sink Monster: Arrghhhhhh!!!!
Lol
Part 2.
My Neighbour: What the fudge is that!!!??
Me with a giant bat on a rope:
**Bat attacks neighbour!
My Neighbour: Arrgh!!! Help.. Its bitten my leg...Scream!!!!
Ahh I don't want to show what lives in my drains because I don't want to know what lives in my drains! There could be a basilisk crawling in the pipes, I don't want to know. There is a really thin line between what I do and excessive hand washing. :P
Ps. I hope everyone enjoyed my book! Thank you so much!
-James
I don't know James, it kind of sounds like you might have murder evidence in there :P
The real shower thoughts.
The Secret Things Living In Your Shower
Omg. I get it. You are funny
How did you know that I watch this in the shower?
Lmao
This is why ur always afraid to get near the drain especially for ur buHtt to TOUCH the drain
🤭🤭🤭
In my parents house, mushrooms started popping through the grout in one of the showers. We'd pull them out and really clean the grout, but they kept coming back with amazing strength and regularity. Turned out that the fungus had formed a massive sponge like mass (it most closely resembled the thing from the 1980's horror film) inside of the drain. It was filtering out and feeding off the hair and shampoo and other dirt that was coming through the shower. After I destroyed it, the mushrooms stopped coming back...
Even though it was gross and probably would have eventually started structurally damaging the pipes and the walls, I sort of feel guilty about destroying it - it was a marvel of nature. And who knows, maybe the mushrooms were edible... The could have also been poisonous... Not exactly microscopic at that point, but sort of on topic.
Should've sent it in!!!#
Probably was 4.3 billion years if evolution in their timeline.. Little people riding tardigrades!
yea I had a mushroom popping out between the tiles in the bathroom once. Just sprayed it with alcohol and it was gone.
Wait till you see the magic in between my toes.
@TopHat Videos Inc. HAHAHAHA 😂😂😂
Yes, mushrooms are the fruiting bodies of a fungus living below (or beside) the mushroom. I lived in a rental house for awhile where mushrooms would sometimes pop up around the edges of the kitchen linoleum - the whole kitchen floor had dry rot, meaning a vast fungal colony was slowly eating the wood. I didn't even try to get rid of them - when mushrooms start coming out of your floor, that part of the floor (and probably the supports, the walls, etc) needs to be replaced.
The biofilm at min 08:00 looks like stardust and galaxies and stars being born and it's the most beautiful thing I have seen this week. Thank you.
As a child, I used to look into the sink and noticed that when water dripped from the little grates into the darkness it looked like a fishes eye flashing up when the droplet of water fell into depths. Told my mother once that a monster was winking at me in the sink, she replied with an upwards slicing slap attack across my ear with the words "Stop making things up! Your imagination will give you nightmares..."
Think I will send her this video with a "TOLD YOU SO!!" meme attached...
In her defense, you may have just given me nightmares.
Your mom was smart. And probably tired of your act.
That's neat, a kids imagination is truly wonderful :)
I wish I had YOUR mom bro
It's more likely what happened there was that the dripping water caused an antibubble - a pocket of water, trapped by air, which skims across the water. They appear bright because they refract light differently, and they are no less fascinating.
Birthday today, gettin a microscope. gonna scope out the microcosmos. Hella excited!
Your gonna love it!
Birthday today, getting a sniper. gonna scope out the macrocosmos. Hella excited. (Paraphrasing the original commentator.) [DiowE]
Whooo whoop 🥳 I bought one too !!!
@@Mrabc123 Same here, all thanks to this channel. So far mostly bacteria and plant life, but it's still cool, just need to learn more about the whole process :)
Got a one 1 week back and still I'm amazed
i just pulled a massive hair clog out of my drain about 2 hours ago, now time to learn what grossness i actually was touching!
Lol you pulled out a very tiny country!
The thing that lets me get on with doing the dishes and cleaning the toilet without getting grossed out is to remember that every single surface you touch outdoors has all the same microbes all over it.
"Boil that hairball! Boil that hairball! Boil! Boil!"
"But a person's a person no matter how small."
Me: Eugh. That's gross.
Future me: Man, that microbe nearly killed me.
So after just having cleaned my sink drainage pipes, I can confidently say:
- Yes it's incredibly, astoundingly, mind-boggingly, logic-defyingly gross.
- To my unpleasant surprise, the U-bend wasn't the problem, I found very little slime in there. The vertical pipes leading to and from it, however... different story altogether.
- "Biofilm" is waaaay too cute of a description. In my sink's case it had accumulated to what I can only describe as an oyster mushroom-colored and textured Great Barrier Reef that let only the tiniest amount of water through.
- James would've had a field day. And would've been emotionally scarred for life.
Excellent you should have collected some for dinner
Welp. This is the first episode where I've read the title and *didn't* want to find a quiet place for 10 minutes of chilling with Hank Ross.
I waited a day to watch this one.😬
Seeing James' book reminded me of a deep memory of looking at ancient history picture books with my Dad.
I would love more of these - I think it's critical to demonstrate locations often neglected for hygiene, so we can inform people of more effective methods of cleaning.
Also, many parts of the world have plumbing standards for prevention of backflow - i.e., keeping the u-bend from allowing anything from flowing back up the wrong way, using something more than a prayer.
I'll have to let that information *sink* in for a moment...
Hahaha. You said "sink."
Me: Hold my sink... My work here is done.
Looool
You know, puns like these are kind of a *drain*
@@HumanTooth Oh, trust you to start piping up.
fffffffffffffunny.
The technical name for the "U bend" is a P Trap.
Penis trap
UTube
Hey, Journey to the Microcosmos
7:12 This is what Green Drain helps to prevent! the Green Drain is a waterless trap seal for drains (:
so am I correct in the assumption that each household could have their own unique "drainage ecosystem"? or fingerprint?
I'm not even sure those quotes are necessary, it's kind of truly a little ecosystem? (idk what that actually means sory)
@@rianantony I'm not sure I've ever actually used quotes correctly lmao
Would make sense, each household would give a different source of microscoping life.
I use mostly traditional soaps at my sinks, as opposed to synthetic detergents, so I would expect my drains to have a rather different environment from others. It also depends on the foods you eat, and how you like to get your hands dirty in the first place.
@@the_hanged_clown "correctly"
Our weather reports: “Clouds in the morning but sunny skies by afternoon.”
The biofilms in my drain’s weather reports:
*”A flash flood warning is in effect, and we’ll have regular darkness and dampness unless a plumber pries open our world again...”*
I'm ordering the book so I can read my daughter bedtime stories about protists :)
I knew it. When I was a little kid I always knew there was something lurking in the drain just waiting to get me. I protected myself by always using a drain plug.
I dunno... a stranger's bacteria seems less appealing than my own bacteria to me.
The only thing worse than finding out you've got MRSA hanging out in your sink is *not* finding out that you've got MRSA hanging out in your sink. I would definitely be checking my own sink because I wouldn't be able to stop asking myself "what if?" questions lol.
Yes, but would you share your own drain microbes with the world?
@@limiv5272 yeah. What can you really tell about a person from germs in their drain? I would be willing to guess that it's just about nothing.
This is awesome. I just pulled out some sink water from a soaking dish to show my girlfriend under the microscope a few days ago. Way too much life
I just got the book, one of my best purchases I've made. This is exactly what I was looking for to help me classify organisms and understand what they are, did a good thing publishing this book
Imagine solving a murder by analyzing the microbes in the victims drain
I imagine in the right circumstances the drain could be a treasure trove of forensic information.
I was thinking at this when reading someone else's comment that said every household might have a specific group of microorganisms in the pipes, depending on owner's habits.
There was a guy who got caught because a plumber discovered he had chopped up a body and tried to flush it all. I suppose if the body parts had made it to the sewer and was found there maybe they could have matched the microbes from his toilet drain to his personal gut microbiome to convict him but it makes me wonder if there is any precedent for that if it would be allowed as evidence.
As someone taking a forensics class, I will ask this question to my teacher :)
No one thought to check a kitchen drain? Because I've a feeling that's where the action is.
yeah thats what i thought they meant. i imagine kitchen drains are grossss regardless of how clean you keep the sink 'bowl'
My journey to the Microcosmos has circled.
My interest of microorganisms started years ago.
When I was a child, I wondered what could possibly live in the drains and pipes where water and waste go.
So I searched, and I received the knowledge of life that lives unseen to most eyes. Life that lives in more places than just our homes.
Different parts of the Earth, sea, land, air, hospitable and inhospitable, some even reached space.
Then back to our homes.
But, my journey to the Microcosmos isn’t over.
Microcosmos can both satisfy me, and make me unsettled lmao
I fully understand and agree with James' desire to not learn what is living in his own u-bends. Sometimes ignorance is truly bliss.
Thank you. Fascinating as always. And James, your book is sitting right here on my coffee table.
"The insides of a drain can be breathtaking"
You're breathtaking!
"A microbial guestbook if you will" . Love it
I just bought the book and I’m so excited to read it! I have just made my third ecosphere and am loving learning about what it is I am seeing.
This is one of the best videos of the channel. Great work 👌
Thank you James we appreciate that you do the dirty job so we can see the beauty of the sinkcosmos
Now I know I'm being watched by millions of creatures every time I have a shower
@@trentbielefeldtaw shit I knew that that Red light on the drain wasn't a desing option
They don't have eyes though
@@limiv5272 And you destroyed the joke
@@alvaronavarro4895 My evil plan worked!
I would love you guys to take a look a the bacteria involved in the nitrogen cycle of common fish aquariums, as well as maybe see some of the other unexpected pets we might have in our tanks.
I bought a Swift SW380B after finding this channel, and the first sample I took was from my kitchen sink. I was not prepared to see these things with my own eyes, dear god I'm going to have nightmares. There's a difference between seeing this stuff on your computer screen, and actually seeing it with your own eyes in a sample you took from your own home.
There are many things I watch before going to sleep. This is by far the best channel for it
as a custodian who cleans up after college students, this is both fascinating and horrifying
You have such an amazing way with words. Great job!!
The U bend... It also will CATCH stuff like oh I dunno, earrings, meds, little things you may keep in (and therefore lose in, too) the bathroom. Falls in, doesn't go straight away and so you can take apart the pipes, remove the filthy item, reconnect pipes, ta-da!! Amaz-az-zing!
Thanks, James
I didn't know microbe could be fluorescent really cool
I too looked at my shower drain. First encounter with the beloved rotifera!
I’m highly suspicious those blue auto-fluorescent bits are optical brightening agents: they’re found commonly in any white paper, including paper towels. In addition they can be found in lots of
clothing and some detergents.
This channel is on another level.
“What’s in your sink?”
Today? Nothing. I apparently destroyed their ecosystem with Draino the other day. Now I know it wasn’t drain cleaning, it was genocide :-P
More like cleaning your browsing history 😉
Ok seriously. I'm intrigued. As an Indian doctor, I feel tempted to sample the waters in our drains and see the microbiological records!! Lovely video!
Microbial guestbook, I love that
thanks for the channel.... ordered the book! yay
At the risk of sounding pedantic, the correct term for the level of classification for Archaea are at is "domain". Otherwise, nice to finally see the guys that make our swamp gas.
5 kingdoms vs. 3 domains debate literally just doesn't matter at all. It's like tabs vs. spaces.
@@tissuepaper9962 Plus even if we really want to sound pedantic, the most commonly accepted classification currently is the 2 empires 7 kingdoms one (archaea being one of the two kingdoms in the prokaryota empire).
Just a note, that "U-bend pipe" you talk about is not called a "U-bend pipe". It's called a P-trap. The more you know. 🌈🌟
The P-trap replaced the older, and now illegal, S-trap, which looked a little different but did the same thing. The reason the S-trap became illegal is because S-traps can easily accidentally be emptied by the siphon effect, and when empty sewer gas can get into your living space. While rare, it was possible for enough gas to enter the space for the concentrations of certain gases to become high enough to be dangerous. For example, hydrogen sulfide can build up to toxic levels quite quickly, and sewer gas can contain enough methane to become explosive. P-traps prevent this siphon effect by introducing a long horizontal section of pipe in the middle of the S-shape which makes it very difficult to get enough flow to create a siphon in the first place and when the siphon is over, some of the remaining fluid in the horizontal section will flow back into the P-trap, refilling it even if you are able to get a siphon going. This gas problem is one of the reasons that all drains need to filled with anti-freeze if you are leaving a house or building unattended for a long period. The water it the P-traps can evaporate, leading to gas buildup, but anti-freeze doesn't evaporate nearly as easily and so will prevent gas buildup for much, much longer.
Me: Enjoys the video.
Also me: Looks askance at his kitchen sink.
Boiling a big pot of water .. every drain in the house is getting a serious pour over ... I don't know if it will help, but it is going to make me feel a whole lot better as I try to sleep tonight.
Try bleach and ethanol
I usually like a lot your videos and I regularly see them more than one time. They are very entertaining, educational, and even calming. Narrator way of talking is very important and IMO this was different in a way that I couldn’t keep my attention to the beautiful images with so much words and deviations. I hope not to offend. And keep with your great job guys.
Love One Another God Bless Everyone
I once changed the u bend in my bathroom. I wasn't too careful with my hands and might have touched my face before I washed my hands. Got a fever that evening, which was gone next morning. I can see why now...
Love me some living drain sauce
While it may be disgusting to look at from a macroscopic point, think that every time you wash your dishes, every time you wash your hands, you are cycling and renewing an entire microverse, adding new matter and life and taking away the old stuff. It is beautiful
You're so brave! You did what plumbers do every day... What a hero...
Really love these videos .. so interesting
9:51
Can we just talk for a moment about how cute his door lip(or how do you call this thing?) looks?
Ah yes, a fortune cookie and a condom live in my drain.
classic you
You guys are the best
That wren app is amazing
archaea are not more primitive than bacteria, but rather more complex (and closer to eukaryotes in certain aspects).
Can you guys make a soundtrack of all these episodes? The music plus the narration is what helps me sleep, but none of my devices will stay charged long with the screen on. Or maybe Hank can read my college microbiology book out loud 😁
7:00
This image helps prooving my theory that " what is define as small, can be defined as big for others "
If you asked someone that doe'snt know where it comes from.." what is this image ? "
I bet that a lot would say " it's an Hubbles image of space ".
Now I have a question, in my tank I see tiny brown dots and there moving! There size is about 0.5 to 1 millimeter I put them under my microscope they look like brown ovals with antennas they use it to move forward, at first I thought it was daphnia(water fleas) but under x40 magnification it isn’t daphnia also they don’t swim in the water they like to stick to the walls and move around it also looks like there filtering water under the microscope if you know what these microorganisms are tell me
Those are brain spiders. You must have lost them. Your going to want to put those back. The best way is to sniff them like cocaine.
hey guys, will you someday make a video about neurons? blood cells would also be very cool!
I am now officially created out and a little terrified.
I really wanna see what sorts of stuff could be living on a public toilet seat
Mostly they are okay, bacteria don't live on that seats, toilet paper probaby has more bacteria than seat.
goblins
I think it'd just be normal stuff that lives on people's skin
It's going to take many millions of years for my footprints to carbonise, my good friend.
could there be a couple of videos devoted to what's inside the human microbiome?
Now let that SINK in folks....
Fine, I know the way out...
Is it possible to record the cilia with a phantom camera while looking through a microscope. I want to see how cilia move.
Rotifer: "So, this is it, is it? This is life? Oh, well -- could be worse, I suppose."
Haha love these videos also a plunking channel ahha
I'm gonna love this. You could make a channel only for "domestic microbios". Salutes from Argentina!
So, does drain cleaner get rid of these things?
Now do the drain of like, a heavy, heavy makeup user. Do Ru Paul's sink drain. Now THAT is gonna be an interesting microbial environment. All the random chemicals washing through periodically, all the novel oils and weird particulates for microbes to have every kinda interaction with
Do a septic tank next.
You know you got a good microscope when a cluster of fungi looks like a galactic cloud.
I had no idea drain microscopic sample shame was a thing
Archaea sounds like the most metal name i've heard.
What do you do with samples after vids are made
What staining were used?
James...is there something we should be aware of?
Man, I really want to know what that chicken wing looking microbe is. Heck, I'll even settle for what it might be related to.
They're everywhere
I don't understand why James wouldn't use his own sink. What is the issue with that? It's weird that you even brought it up in the video.
I turned part of a coathanger into a tool to scrape what almost looked like tree bark off the inside of the sink drain at my last apartment. Drain cleaner didn't even bother it.
I think I know most of the microbes in here but what was the microbe(that looks suspiciously like the shell of a microbe egg or exoskeleton) that appeared in: 2 mins 35 secs of your vid? :o
It would be great to see the bacteria in wastewater sludge.
is it possible for microbes to manipulate items around the house? Like a piece of tissue or a tobacco pipe screen or even a piece of food? Like can they make them jump or move at all?
Asking because anything I felt had microbes on it due to weird behavior for a non living house item, it always wants to go down the drain too?
just wow
there's a very good reason why james do not want to show his own drain
he actually has monsters there
who knows what he pours down there
My shower drain must have a good colony since it produces drain flys (Clogmia albipunctata).
I always drain the main bong pipe down the drain using hot boiling water, you should see the oil sludge going down there.
Now imagine the ecosystems and microbes that would create.
how are there 19 dislikes on this? what part do they dislike? reality maybe?