I really love how you can tell that Hank is trying to keep a more chill, relaxed tones in these videos... but he sometimes gets so excited about what he's talking about that he starts to slip into his normal, more thrilled cadence.
FFS, I've been watching loads of vids from this channel recently, and never twigged it was Hank! Should have guessed really, I swear he is involved with like 50% of youtube channels!
It's amazing how the slime mold's movement and "learning" behaves pretty much like a neural net. The growth direction is dictated by internal pressure at different junctions, and it just creates new junctions until it reaches food. It's so basic, but at the same time so efficient... It looks like intelligence, but it's intrinsically a living path finding algorithm!
I have a slime mold growing every summer in the shade of my house, living on only wood chips that cover a rubber sheet (for weed control). My wife wants me to hose it away, but I find it fascinating to watch.
Still looking for them in the wild for you people but we cannot find them! And all of our slime molds formed spores, and we transferred them on wet tissues and waiting them to group up again!
I have heard of some relatively common varieties that plague gardens in the southeastern US - more specifically, in the Carolinas... I don't know all the names, the only one that stayed with me was the slime mold with the fairly awful name "dog vomit slime mold." (ew.) But perhaps some area which is also humid and on the warmer side of temperate for most of the year could yield up some of these nifty guys?
James, more than anything I hope you find Dictyostelium! Are they protists? Or metazoans ? Or does it just depend on the general mood at the time? Good luck!
I read a study recently that took a mold and blocked it's way to a food source with a path of salt. After a few times of "training" the mold would overcome the salt barrier and head right for the food. The interesting part is...they took part of this "trained" mold, and mixed it with an "untrained" mold. Small little tubules and vasicals appeared, exchanging what they think is information via chemical communication. This "hybrid" mold then proceeded to head directly to the food source in the same manner as the "trained" mold after the information exchange. We need to really think about just what "intelligence" is. We've only a small sample size in ourselves. Much like it would be absurd to think extraplanetary life would be biologically the same as us, it's just as absurd to assume that intelligence is expressed exactly like ours.
I always loved finding slime mold in my local woods. I called the type around my neighborhood "Woods jello" because they looked like someone had accidentally dropped lemon jello in the middle of the woods. It was surprising how far it could travel in a day.
Someone asked me what they were once, all I could say is macro protist. When asked what that is I said it was a microscopic creature that does not fit into other groupings that are not in fact microscopic. They just looked at me like WTF? Ya well WTF would work too. Slimes are WTFs.
Just tell them they're Aliens and they need to learn to live with it. Or don't - I'm sure there's a slime mold that'd (who'd?) appreciate their nutrients becoming its own. I'm kidding ofcourse but, only kind of - these things just don't "fit" into the scheme the rest of _all_ other lifeforma on the planet do. I'm not saying they're _actually_ extraterrestrial but, they might as well be. I'm kind of under the impression they're attested to in very old fossils too - I wish I could time view with a microscope back to the very begining of life (or pre-ediakarin) on this planet; I suspect / imagine there wasn't _just_ a LUCA everything else derived from but, competing forms of different biological origins... We have DNA vs. RNA but, I have a feeling therenwas more too. And maybe slime molds are one of them. So perfectly adapted they escaped the kinds of evolutionary pressure that forced more "modern" forms of life.
When we make first contact with aliens, it'll probably be less of an epic handshake between a ship captain and a green man, and more of a bunch of scientists finding an autoreplicating blob in some cave
There was one in my backyard where a lot of swamp maples grow so maybe go under a swamp maple after it rains. It looked like a pile of yellow dog puke, but when I poked it, it was like weird styrofoam and black on the inside.
I can't get over how well this entire series is made. The world of the very tiny has turned from something creepy and disgusting into something fascinating and amazing that I can't help but find immense respect for. Thank you, James. Thank you, Hank. Thank you, patrons!
Well that's essentially what's already happened with the evolution of multicellular organisms like us. Each of us is a multiplicity. Each of us is a whole ecology with hundreds of different species within us that combined weigh the same as our brains. We Are Legion.
There are actually some single cellular organisms that form colonies. Working together and even specializing like tissues from stem cells. But they stay individual organisms and can go apart again.
Evolution is not a path were single cells become multicellular. That happened on the animal branch perhaps. Multicelularity evolved independently at least 16 times as far as we know now. Each group deals with different pressures and was selected for specific characteristics. But being multicellular does not seem necessarily better to everyone.
When I lived on a ranch I found a slime mold, like the yellow one here, that was huge. It grew on a moist part of the ground that the horses and cows used as a resting place at other parts of the year, hence rich in composted manure. It was amazing how fast it moved. Must have observed it daily for about a week. Then I guess it spored, and died. Absolutely fascinating.
This is so well done. The writing is brilliant. The tone that creeps and expands, like fascinating sci-fi horror. The cadence of voice acting, the musical tone shifts. The speed of cuts and goofy nature of the start to contrast how TERRIFYING! it becomes by the ending. This is an entire journey true to the name of the channel.
Hank - your quiet "It's Alivee!" is awesome! The laugh was well worth the strange, confused look from my housemate, who was wondering WTF I was doing. Thanks for the skinny on Slime Molds JTTM crew! Always neat and informative.
James, Hank and all of the Patrions... thank you very much. I realize the priviledge of experiencing this miraculous channel for free! I could never afford this but desperately appreciate your allowing me into the microcosmic world.
"Its a single cell", woah! "With millions of nuclei", oh... I know its still one "cell" but I always feel that giant and complicated "single celled" organisms are cheating the definition xD. It's still amazing the coordination and size of one continuous cytoplasm.
Multiple nuclei are pretty much essential for logistics of a big organism. You cannot centralise production and distribute material across big distances using standard cell mechanisms
This channel and its fantastic content teach me infinitely more about life than half a library of philosophical books, hours of meditation, and countless therapy sessions combined.
I like seeing the petri dish sample, because it puts into perspective the size of the sample as seen by the naked eye. Of course we all know that everything we see here is tiny, but it really blows the mind when we see a drop of water on a slide and then get a close look at the entire word in that drop of water.
Omg! I'm so glad that I found this video! I literally discovered one of these big things in my worm bin this morning, and had no idea what it was. The strangest thing is, it literally appeared overnight. Yesterday, I checked on my worm bin and saw about 4 or 5 of these small weird looking yellow vein-like growths that were about the size of a quarter each. When I came back out this morning, the small ones were all gone, but now there's this huge one! I was scratching my head wondering where the heck did the little ones go and how did this big one get like this overnight?! Well, I'll be damned if they didn't do what I had suspected, but was almost afraid to allow myself to think they moved and combined into one, because that sounds a bit cray cray! I'm so blown away right now! Such an awesome & informative video! Thanks so much for all the info. You literally just answered what I was trying to figure out. I guess I have new residents in my bin now! Are they harmful at all? Should I be concerned about it getting on my skin, or can they hurt my worms? Come to think of it, I make a powder blend of egg shells, oats and cornmeal to add to the feeding for the worms...I'm wondering if it's the oats that's got it coming around & growing so big overnight? 🤔
I can not imagine this channel being narrated by anyone else. Hank Green is an excellent science presenter. Sort of the "Bob Ross" of science. One can not forget the musical genius of Andrew Huang. I find this channel in particular to be a relaxing way to end a manic Monday.
Whisper: gender binary is a white colonialist concept. Binary sex is just outright pseudoscience. Unless you have done hormone testing/chromosomal testing on yourself, you're quite likely not the "biological sex" you think you are. A lot of these fluctuations aren't harmful and these "mismatches" can occur to 18% of the time. Sex isn't binary, it's more like bimodal.
WOOOOO been waiting forever for you guys to do slime molds have been hoping for this since this channel started. love you guys btw you do seriously awesome and very informative videos. have yet to miss even a single one!
BLOODKINGbro it doesn’t have a brain in any sense that can be compared to animals, it’s more like a well-programmed machine. So it’s debatable whether it makes sense to use the word “intelligent” for this creature..
Seems we keep finding more organisms that we share quite a lot in common with. I wonder if we got enough of them with characteristics we know support complex life and apply the right conditions if we would see evolution take place before our eyes. Or, these are the link in evolution. They sure act like many land plants. Maybe they evolved into mycelium on costal lands and trees are just permanent fruiting bodies.
i had this yellow slime mold on the wooden lip of my raised garden, felt like pure goo. Then after a while it dried up and turned dark browned and while i was watering the plants i splashed it and it exploded in a dark brown cloud and it freaked me out.
Seen a number of species of these around my area. The ones that make grey blobs on the ground covered in spores, and the ones that make the teeny round baskets on little stalks, and those that create many little black filaments.
Once I found quite a large yellow myxomycetes growing on soil contaminated and fed from a leaking sewage in a passage of a building... Looked artistic and beautiful like tree with network of branches, but scary too and as it grew and spread very fast covering a larger area every day. I always felt very curious about it as it feels like looking at an invasive alien thing. Never tried to touch or disturb it, though I knew it was a slime mould as we were taught in class. And one day it was gone when the place was cleaned up. Never seen that again.
I’ve heard it pronounced both ways by people with science degrees, so I think both are generally accepted. But the “fun-guy” pronunciation seems more common in popular culture.
anyone else think this is absolutely terrifying? the idea of a "microscopic" organism that just grows indefinitely, and can learn? i'm imagining something that becomes more intelligent as it grows larger, almost creating a nervous system of sorts, that slowly takes over the whole planet. obviously that's not what this is, but it's what this makes me imagine, and it's really creepy.
Had one of these amazing things in my pitcher-plant terrarium. I assume/hope there are still some living in there in their amoeba stage, they're most welcome!
The Japanese subway system was actually modeled after a slime mold. They placed bits of nutrition in place of cities and scaled everything to be a little mini Japan made of food. Then they inoculated a slime mold at Tokyo and let it grow. They checked back 28 hours later and copied the system the slime mold made to use as the subway system.
So this year, I opened up my A/C to clean it. I had to do it a second time, mid-summer, because water was flooding out the front of it, even with a ridiculous downward tapering angle towards the back. What I found inside was a huge yellow-orange mass, resembling a giant egg yolk, with digested insect carapaces floating around inside it. The thing had expanded to block all the water flow tubes between front and back, which had, in turn, caused the flooding. It took a high pressure spray nozzle, and patience, to eventually clear this thing out of the A/C and restore it to normal functioning.
You don't need that. You just need to be logical, and free from corruption. Also, the slime never needs to conduct a geographical survey to minimize environmental damage, so I wouldn't trust it.
@@htoodoh5770 since no one gave you a good explanation, i'll do my best. the sexes are determined, like us, in the combination of sex genes (ours being x or y). with fungi, and apparently slime molds like explained in the video, which i didn't know much about today, there are not just an x and y chromosome. for simplicity sake and because it was already explained in the video so you have a reference, slime molds have 3 sex genes, and each have 2 copies out of the three, then they fuse, which creates a new combination. to answer "what are the other sexes" specifically, it would just be whatever the combination of sex genes are. it would be like calling male and female xx and xy. if some one can explain it more clearly in a simple way, by all means please do.
I just discovered this channel. The narrator, Hank?, is wonderful! He projects interest and affection for the subject, rather a wide eyed enjoyment and wonder. After seeing the one on Virus I went and washed my hands with soap as was shown?
Hi guys love the vids I'm loving Em , Please could tell me how our Microcosmos would fair in harsh gravity like on a super earth, would love to Know? Spin em up ??? Thanks
Protista being a kingdom is pretty contested. The phylogeny we were given in my genbio courses actually placed plants in the supergroup archaeaplastida, as well as placing animals and fungi in unikonta. Technically in that phylogenetic model, we are all protists
I noticed, in some of the longer shots of the close-up slime, that the direction of flow inside the slime would sometimes reverse. What is that?! Isn't it deadly if that happens in larger species like mammals?
My guess is that it's doing that on purpose, to circulate nutrients and stuff back and forth. It has muscle proteins throughout to constrict different areas to control the flow.
I really love how you can tell that Hank is trying to keep a more chill, relaxed tones in these videos... but he sometimes gets so excited about what he's talking about that he starts to slip into his normal, more thrilled cadence.
I'll never forget the thrilled cadence on the Crash Course episode with Mr.T - "I Pity the Khufu"
FFS, I've been watching loads of vids from this channel recently, and never twigged it was Hank! Should have guessed really, I swear he is involved with like 50% of youtube channels!
💚💚💚
hank asmr
Is he hank?does this channel belong to him as well!?
It's amazing how the slime mold's movement and "learning" behaves pretty much like a neural net. The growth direction is dictated by internal pressure at different junctions, and it just creates new junctions until it reaches food. It's so basic, but at the same time so efficient... It looks like intelligence, but it's intrinsically a living path finding algorithm!
Seems to be a "neural" net but instead of electric charges seems to be completely biochemical reaction and an adaptation or even evolution
this is quantum slime
I have a slime mold growing every summer in the shade of my house, living on only wood chips that cover a rubber sheet (for weed control). My wife wants me to hose it away, but I find it fascinating to watch.
He's a good boi (actually a good "sexual pronoun #55") who has done nothing wrong to deserve the spraying! lol
Did you ever hose it away or is the little guy still growing
@@dakrabking NO! He/She/It/They didn't do anything bad. It's icky and it's sticky, it's creepy and it's kooky, it's altogether spooky, it's the slime mold family. I've been slimed!
Protect the slime!
That's so cool I wouldn't hose it away it could probably come back but man I want some in my back yard
Still looking for them in the wild for you people but we cannot find them! And all of our slime molds formed spores, and we transferred them on wet tissues and waiting them to group up again!
Not surprised, slime molds are notoriously difficult to procure (at least, in my area). Good luck!
I thought they were common. Grew up getting firewood in Ohio. Just didn't know what it was. Different ones in mulch.
Look for them on rotting wood, specially after heavy rains
I have heard of some relatively common varieties that plague gardens in the southeastern US - more specifically, in the Carolinas... I don't know all the names, the only one that stayed with me was the slime mold with the fairly awful name "dog vomit slime mold." (ew.)
But perhaps some area which is also humid and on the warmer side of temperate for most of the year could yield up some of these nifty guys?
James, more than anything I hope you find Dictyostelium!
Are they protists? Or metazoans ? Or does it just depend on the general mood at the time?
Good luck!
Eats oatmeal and prefers dark places.... sound like a broke college student to me
Most broke college students are like slime anyway
I thought they ate ramen
I LOST IT!!* 😅👊
They say: Clean your room!
I say: I don't kill my own kind...
Haha I am that college student. I ate oatmeal this morning and love oatmeal. I am poor. I prefer the dark.
These are really fascinating. The comparison between slime and the Tokoyo metro lines really blew my mind!
I read a study recently that took a mold and blocked it's way to a food source with a path of salt. After a few times of "training" the mold would overcome the salt barrier and head right for the food. The interesting part is...they took part of this "trained" mold, and mixed it with an "untrained" mold. Small little tubules and vasicals appeared, exchanging what they think is information via chemical communication. This "hybrid" mold then proceeded to head directly to the food source in the same manner as the "trained" mold after the information exchange. We need to really think about just what "intelligence" is. We've only a small sample size in ourselves. Much like it would be absurd to think extraplanetary life would be biologically the same as us, it's just as absurd to assume that intelligence is expressed exactly like ours.
@@Posit_Zero_Blue That's just awesome. Do you have the name of the study so I could read more?
@@Posit_Zero_Blue also replying for the study link
@@Posit_Zero_Blue put me on this notification list too, the idea of intelligence that we simply haven't yet recognized is fascinating to me!
@@Posit_Zero_Blue wheres the link
One defining characteristic of the Myxomycetes is that if you can trick them into saying their name backwards they disappear.
Lol
Michle Rabinowicz Mr.Mxyzptlk
Setecymoxym
Man: “Ha-ha! Complexity indicates intelligence!!”
Slime mold: “...”
>implying slime molds aren't complex
Show THIS to creationists!
Slime mold: *slime noises* (translated: Shut the **** up)
“...they fuse together...” Just in time for Valentine’s Day. Aaaaaaaw.
Roses are red
Violets are blue
If conditions were bad
I'd fuse with you
DanThePropMan Me mum and dad fused during a drought a while back. I’m hoping to find that someone special next summer (if it doesn’t rain).
Ze Hank
rockets4kids you mean Zehank1
@@ColdFishMus yes!
I always loved finding slime mold in my local woods. I called the type around my neighborhood "Woods jello" because they looked like someone had accidentally dropped lemon jello in the middle of the woods. It was surprising how far it could travel in a day.
*Let me tell you mortals, you haven't lived until you've had yourselves a slime mold smoothie.*
Cursed comment
I think I’ll pass
I think the slime mold is more likely to eat you, poor Rotifer.
That physically hurt me to read
I can't wrap my brain around all of that being just ONE CELL!!
think of it more like many cells but with fused cell walls, as it has many nucli (cell DNA centers) and many duplicated organelles
@@ausintune9014 That's call a coenocytic cell and is considered a single cell as cells by definition are divided by membranes.
You this that is crazy, look up _Caulerpa taxifolia_ . It's a meter long and 80 cm tall, and is all one cell
Edit: fixed italics
@@myutubechannel_nr1 I'd say that is less impressed when you consider how thin they are. After all, nerve cells are not considered the largest cell
I'm amazed. And excited at all the cool things I get to go and google, now! Thanks everyone!
Journey Hank was so excited by slime molds that he sounded like SciShow Hank :)
Someone asked me what they were once, all I could say is macro protist. When asked what that is I said it was a microscopic creature that does not fit into other groupings that are not in fact microscopic. They just looked at me like WTF? Ya well WTF would work too. Slimes are WTFs.
I just say giant ameoba
Would "amoeba megazord" work as an explanation?
Just tell them they're Aliens and they need to learn to live with it. Or don't - I'm sure there's a slime mold that'd (who'd?) appreciate their nutrients becoming its own.
I'm kidding ofcourse but, only kind of - these things just don't "fit" into the scheme the rest of _all_ other lifeforma on the planet do. I'm not saying they're _actually_ extraterrestrial but, they might as well be. I'm kind of under the impression they're attested to in very old fossils too - I wish I could time view with a microscope back to the very begining of life (or pre-ediakarin) on this planet; I suspect / imagine there wasn't _just_ a LUCA everything else derived from but, competing forms of different biological origins... We have DNA vs. RNA but, I have a feeling therenwas more too. And maybe slime molds are one of them. So perfectly adapted they escaped the kinds of evolutionary pressure that forced more "modern" forms of life.
@@daanwilmer fantastic comment 15/10
HAHSH THIS IS AMAZING!
When we make first contact with aliens, it'll probably be less of an epic handshake between a ship captain and a green man, and more of a bunch of scientists finding an autoreplicating blob in some cave
Where's the timelapse of the slime moving? You can't talk about how much it moves without the timelapse...
Well, they also can't let it get away!
Copyright I imagine
I was waiting for the same thing.
@@AFishBicycle I would think it would be fair use, since it's definitely for educational purposes..
@@camgood2304 that's not how fair use works sadly
This makes you wonder what variants of unimaginable species would arise; if the evolution of life took a much differentiated path?
Pokemon
@@WanderTheNomad oh *no* !
Speculative evolution is a thing.
Garter snake brothels producing a single tentacled mass organism...
Humans turning into human centipedes.
Nope, please nope
There was one in my backyard where a lot of swamp maples grow so maybe go under a swamp maple after it rains. It looked like a pile of yellow dog puke, but when I poked it, it was like weird styrofoam and black on the inside.
I wish this episode had been longer. Please make a sequel going further into the literature and history of slime mold learning!
ZeFrank: This is Gladys, she is a slime mold.
I can't get over how well this entire series is made. The world of the very tiny has turned from something creepy and disgusting into something fascinating and amazing that I can't help but find immense respect for.
Thank you, James. Thank you, Hank. Thank you, patrons!
Now imagine entire planet taken by this kind of thingy-bob, and it became conscious, and then develops intelligence
It's probably coming for us as we speak.
Well that's essentially what's already happened with the evolution of multicellular organisms like us.
Each of us is a multiplicity.
Each of us is a whole ecology with hundreds of different species within us that combined weigh the same as our brains.
We Are Legion.
oh, you mean, sort of like humans.
Scalzi wrote a story that does a similar thing: whatever.scalzi.com/2010/10/02/when-the-yogurt-took-over-a-short-story/
Star Trek, DS9 The Founders' 'great link' homeworld?
Slime molds are highly underappreciated. They're some of the most fascinating organisms around.
Smart slugs? Morphing? OATMEAL?!
Holy crap, they're Yeerks!
This coment is under appreciated
takes me back to being ten, buying the books at kmart, returning them the next day and getting new ones....
So something that came to mind:
Were slime molds an intermediary solution when single cell organisms came together to form multicellular organisms?
instead of one suriving inside of the other, perhaps they just got stuck next to one another and it worked for their benefit.
I kinda see them as partway between single celled and multicellular.
There are actually some single cellular organisms that form colonies. Working together and even specializing like tissues from stem cells. But they stay individual organisms and can go apart again.
Evolution is not a path were single cells become multicellular. That happened on the animal branch perhaps. Multicelularity evolved independently at least 16 times as far as we know now. Each group deals with different pressures and was selected for specific characteristics. But being multicellular does not seem necessarily better to everyone.
There was no need to start with "So"
When I lived on a ranch I found a slime mold, like the yellow one here, that was huge. It grew on a moist part of the ground that the horses and cows used as a resting place at other parts of the year, hence rich in composted manure. It was amazing how fast it moved. Must have observed it daily for about a week. Then I guess it spored, and died. Absolutely fascinating.
Funny how these tiny things can make me feel so small.
That's bizarre. You're actually quite large and far more complex. Why you're even complex enough to spout vague meaningless platitudes.
@@TheBigMclargehuge You’re barely complex enough to comment on them, apparently.
This is so well done. The writing is brilliant. The tone that creeps and expands, like fascinating sci-fi horror. The cadence of voice acting, the musical tone shifts. The speed of cuts and goofy nature of the start to contrast how TERRIFYING! it becomes by the ending. This is an entire journey true to the name of the channel.
Man, i love slime moulds. They're just so interesting!
You need to do more on the slime molds. They're just mind boggling!
Slime Mold: The Grossest Voltron?
*coolest
Moist Voltron!
No, that was the CGI Voltron.
"I'll form the head!"
"We don't need no stinkin' head, we are legion!"
Hank - your quiet "It's Alivee!" is awesome!
The laugh was well worth the strange, confused look from my housemate, who was wondering WTF I was doing.
Thanks for the skinny on Slime Molds JTTM crew! Always neat and informative.
Some of my favorite creatures! So glad you made an episode on them!
7:50 blew my mind - to see the material switch directions!
*We Attac*
*We Protecc*
*But most importantly...*
*We slimey as hecc!*
Antifa? ZING!
James, Hank and all of the Patrions... thank you very much. I realize the priviledge of experiencing this miraculous channel for free! I could never afford this but desperately appreciate your allowing me into the microcosmic world.
It's amazing how different they are, even at the most fundamental levels.
Learnt about Slime Molds the very first time today. Found this video fascinating! And the commentary just as good
"Its a single cell", woah! "With millions of nuclei", oh... I know its still one "cell" but I always feel that giant and complicated "single celled" organisms are cheating the definition xD. It's still amazing the coordination and size of one continuous cytoplasm.
Multiple nuclei are pretty much essential for logistics of a big organism. You cannot centralise production and distribute material across big distances using standard cell mechanisms
This channel and its fantastic content teach me infinitely more about life than half a library of philosophical books, hours of meditation, and countless therapy sessions combined.
Absolutely awe-inspiring!
I can't imagine this video being done better in any way!
Thanks so much!!
I like seeing the petri dish sample, because it puts into perspective the size of the sample as seen by the naked eye. Of course we all know that everything we see here is tiny, but it really blows the mind when we see a drop of water on a slide and then get a close look at the entire word in that drop of water.
My 1 year old baby was completely glued to this episode. He was leaning in with me, in awe for the entire 11 minutes
Just wanted to say how awesome this channel is since all of the videos have subtitles, yet none of them is advertised!
if they couldnt tolerate me at my cyst then its safe to say i was the last thing on their minds at my balamuthia.
Lol stfu XD
The narration at times sounded like poetry. Beautiful. I subscribed.
Slime molds! I've been waiting for this episode!
Omg! I'm so glad that I found this video! I literally discovered one of these big things in my worm bin this morning, and had no idea what it was. The strangest thing is, it literally appeared overnight. Yesterday, I checked on my worm bin and saw about 4 or 5 of these small weird looking yellow vein-like growths that were about the size of a quarter each. When I came back out this morning, the small ones were all gone, but now there's this huge one! I was scratching my head wondering where the heck did the little ones go and how did this big one get like this overnight?! Well, I'll be damned if they didn't do what I had suspected, but was almost afraid to allow myself to think they moved and combined into one, because that sounds a bit cray cray! I'm so blown away right now! Such an awesome & informative video! Thanks so much for all the info. You literally just answered what I was trying to figure out. I guess I have new residents in my bin now!
Are they harmful at all? Should I be concerned about it getting on my skin, or can they hurt my worms?
Come to think of it, I make a powder blend of egg shells, oats and cornmeal to add to the feeding for the worms...I'm wondering if it's the oats that's got it coming around & growing so big overnight? 🤔
Evolutionary Alternative: Imagine if humans naturally became "human centipedes", when conditions were poor?
@CM HW 1/3 chance you end up in front... think positive, look on the bright side (because no one is in front of you)!
I can not imagine this channel being narrated by anyone else. Hank Green is an excellent science presenter. Sort of the "Bob Ross" of science. One can not forget the musical genius of Andrew Huang. I find this channel in particular to be a relaxing way to end a manic Monday.
What's a slime mold's fractal number? It definitely has some self- similarity
It’s probably somewhere above 1, though I don’t know exactly how much it’s above it lol
Ever since this channel started I've been waiting for this video
Last time I was this early, I didn't even have Mitochondria!
My hell of a day vanished as I was watching this. Thank you, it's awesome to learn while relaxing.
"There are only two genders"
Slime Molds: "Revolting"
Gender was always a nonsensical concept.
Bla Bla Ummm... if you say so
As a Minecraft splash text once said "Stop being reasonable, this is the Internet!"
... you're human. Only 2 for you.
Whisper: gender binary is a white colonialist concept.
Binary sex is just outright pseudoscience. Unless you have done hormone testing/chromosomal testing on yourself, you're quite likely not the "biological sex" you think you are. A lot of these fluctuations aren't harmful and these "mismatches" can occur to 18% of the time. Sex isn't binary, it's more like bimodal.
Im so happy I just stumbled on this channel, microbiology has always been something I've been curious about.
id like explanation on fungus, how does their microscopic life work ? for i am interested as they are no vegetal nor animal, they are great !
Oh, there is so much more than plants and animals out there
WOOOOO been waiting forever for you guys to do slime molds have been hoping for this since this channel started. love you guys btw you do seriously awesome and very informative videos. have yet to miss even a single one!
Spooky that this slime is more intelligent than some people on our planet.
BLOODKINGbro it doesn’t have a brain in any sense that can be compared to animals, it’s more like a well-programmed machine. So it’s debatable whether it makes sense to use the word “intelligent” for this creature..
immense bruh comment
I feel oddly proud and happy knowing I subscribed to this channel back when it had only 2k subs
Seems we keep finding more organisms that we share quite a lot in common with. I wonder if we got enough of them with characteristics we know support complex life and apply the right conditions if we would see evolution take place before our eyes.
Or, these are the link in evolution. They sure act like many land plants. Maybe they evolved into mycelium on costal lands and trees are just permanent fruiting bodies.
Very interesting video Hank & crew. Keep up the terrific work....... 👍👍
Squishy Gooey Sticky Slime making channels are popular?
Wannabes, these boyos did it first
i had this yellow slime mold on the wooden lip of my raised garden, felt like pure goo. Then after a while it dried up and turned dark browned and while i was watering the plants i splashed it and it exploded in a dark brown cloud and it freaked me out.
Can I eat it?
Seen a number of species of these around my area. The ones that make grey blobs on the ground covered in spores, and the ones that make the teeny round baskets on little stalks, and those that create many little black filaments.
- "It's Alive" in the Thumbnail
-Where you at Brad? This doesn't look like BA test kitchen...
Once I found quite a large yellow myxomycetes growing on soil contaminated and fed from a leaking sewage in a passage of a building... Looked artistic and beautiful like tree with network of branches, but scary too and as it grew and spread very fast covering a larger area every day. I always felt very curious about it as it feels like looking at an invasive alien thing. Never tried to touch or disturb it, though I knew it was a slime mould as we were taught in class. And one day it was gone when the place was cleaned up. Never seen that again.
I am sure, they would never form the inefficient mess in Germany.
Perfect grid structure
The way you present this research ..... I just love it 🥰
isnt the G in fungi like the G in "go" and not like in "genome"?
Yes but for some reason he can't figure it out.
I’ve heard it pronounced both ways by people with science degrees, so I think both are generally accepted. But the “fun-guy” pronunciation seems more common in popular culture.
@@coolkumquats If it wasn't 'fun-guy' the joke wouldn't work.
@Spectre Lol fair point. Puns are very important.
@@coolkumquats - It makes sense, I mean we don't say "fun-jus" for the singular.
anyone else think this is absolutely terrifying? the idea of a "microscopic" organism that just grows indefinitely, and can learn? i'm imagining something that becomes more intelligent as it grows larger, almost creating a nervous system of sorts, that slowly takes over the whole planet. obviously that's not what this is, but it's what this makes me imagine, and it's really creepy.
I guess that's why it's in the opening theme for The Last of Us 😳
@@Arachnes_Corner i wouldn't know, i didn't play that game
I'm in microbiology class at high school.
These are very interesting, and beutifull videos. Good work.
Well this was both fascinating and unsettling.
Had one of these amazing things in my pitcher-plant terrarium. I assume/hope there are still some living in there in their amoeba stage, they're most welcome!
The Japanese subway system was actually modeled after a slime mold. They placed bits of nutrition in place of cities and scaled everything to be a little mini Japan made of food. Then they inoculated a slime mold at Tokyo and let it grow. They checked back 28 hours later and copied the system the slime mold made to use as the subway system.
It kind of seems like backwards cytokinesis when the to slime molds join.
Char 123 It is called plasmogamy, unsurprisingly it’s common among fungi, esp used during reproduction
So this year, I opened up my A/C to clean it. I had to do it a second time, mid-summer, because water was flooding out the front of it, even with a ridiculous downward tapering angle towards the back. What I found inside was a huge yellow-orange mass, resembling a giant egg yolk, with digested insect carapaces floating around inside it. The thing had expanded to block all the water flow tubes between front and back, which had, in turn, caused the flooding. It took a high pressure spray nozzle, and patience, to eventually clear this thing out of the A/C and restore it to normal functioning.
It looks like a river delta
watching this with jjba's Dio's theme in the backgroung really gives this video an interesting "horror movie" spin
Uh oh he mentioned slime. We're about to get 10 Million confused and angry 8 year olds in here.
OMG PLEASE EXPLAIN THOSE CLADE TERMS MORE!!! Thing I struggle with the most in taxonomy.
Reminds me of looking at citylights from space.
Great intro, and love the full-color close-up images. Thanks!
5:00 What is that signal? Personally, I hope it's a Beatles song about a nearly invisible, good looking sick guy with poor hygiene.
Sometimes I imagine that slimes in Minecraft are just oversize slime mold that like to eat humans...
5:20 - Anyone else think of the Beatles...
"Come together right now over me."
No
I can see the blob as a living fossil incarning the bridge between plants and animal life. This organism is truely fascinating
Next time I need to plan a public transport network I'm gonna use me the heck out of these things.
You don't need that. You just need to be logical, and free from corruption.
Also, the slime never needs to conduct a geographical survey to minimize environmental damage, so I wouldn't trust it.
@andrewhuang !!! youre permeating my research on more than music! bravo. i commend thee
6:15 That sounds a lot like how fungi mate, fussing together and having more than 2 sexes.
What are the other sexes.
@@htoodoh5770 There are alot of mating types, they don't have the traditional male and female.
sexes backwards is still sexes
@@htoodoh5770 since no one gave you a good explanation, i'll do my best. the sexes are determined, like us, in the combination of sex genes (ours being x or y). with fungi, and apparently slime molds like explained in the video, which i didn't know much about today, there are not just an x and y chromosome. for simplicity sake and because it was already explained in the video so you have a reference, slime molds have 3 sex genes, and each have 2 copies out of the three, then they fuse, which creates a new combination. to answer "what are the other sexes" specifically, it would just be whatever the combination of sex genes are. it would be like calling male and female xx and xy.
if some one can explain it more clearly in a simple way, by all means please do.
@@thepjup4507 I see now, but how are there functionally different?
VERY COOL! Would love to see more on the slime molds, please.
"MICROcosmos" lol This was like calling a video about nebulae a geography lesson. Still cool af tho
its titled "When Micro Becomes Macro" for a reason !
I just discovered this channel. The narrator, Hank?, is wonderful! He projects interest and affection for the subject, rather a wide eyed enjoyment and wonder. After seeing the one on Virus I went and washed my hands with soap as was shown?
That was SUPER trippy. Never seen anything that in depth about slime mold. Seems alien.
Hi guys love the vids I'm loving Em , Please could tell me how our Microcosmos would fair in harsh gravity like on a super earth, would love to Know? Spin em up ??? Thanks
Protista being a kingdom is pretty contested. The phylogeny we were given in my genbio courses actually placed plants in the supergroup archaeaplastida, as well as placing animals and fungi in unikonta. Technically in that phylogenetic model, we are all protists
Your curiosity sparks mine. Thank you for this series, it's really fascinating. My kiddos like it too!
it is a common misconception that "Live and Learn" is the theme song of the game Sonic Adventure 2, when in fact it is the theme song of slime molds
¿Porque no los dos?
I noticed, in some of the longer shots of the close-up slime, that the direction of flow inside the slime would sometimes reverse.
What is that?! Isn't it deadly if that happens in larger species like mammals?
My guess is that it's doing that on purpose, to circulate nutrients and stuff back and forth. It has muscle proteins throughout to constrict different areas to control the flow.