This Ciliate Is About to Die
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- Опубликовано: 22 ноя 2020
- It's time to explore a big question while we watch a ciliate go through its last moments.
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this ciliate will never know the 500k gigantic organisms that knew and loved him
HAHAHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Or her
@@everready2903 its an asexual clone, so "it" is most technically correct, especially as brainless species, but there are arguments for every pronoun.
She/Her, because she creates "daughters".
He/Him, because in traditional English that is for both male and neuter.
Singular "they" because in common use American English that is what we say when we dont know someone's gender yet (ie "I saw a doctor today" "oh did they give you your results?").
@@rickwrites2612 i know a lot of cilliate multicellular organisms with colored hair
Edit: fixed a typo
@@everready2903 That's right. Don't misgender it.
Rest In Peace, little Ciliate. You ate well, traveled well, and were observed. You made a difference. A life not wasted, my little friend.
This comment put a smile on my face :)
how far do you think it has travelled ? i think 5 cm
@@lesliesonja4543 lol :)
@@lesliesonja4543 It's incredibly humbling to know that we as a species, have also travelled so, so little too, in astronomical scale
Still a feat for something way smaller than the tip of a pencil
As a person who's getting older and can see the physical changes every day and is now at the point in life where they realize, I am going to die. It's just a matter of when and how and who could count the rest of their life in years not decades, I'm watching this ciliate slowly decay and I feel a comradship with it.
Everyone is getting older
The sad truth
Accepting that death is inevitable is the first step to achieving peace
I like to think death is just a really long nap and I’m kinda looking forward to it
Life is always more powerful than death. Death is an endpoint, there is no regret or suffering after it. Before death, there is the will to live and all the small and big enjoyments to be gotten out of it. When death ends life, nothing carries over to you, so in a very real sense, life is never over for oneself.
Decay is a terrifying thing, especially when it is in full motion, but throughout all the things I cannot do anymore, I am still myself and live life in this most singular way that no one can rob me of.
@@jonathanSpg True, but when you're young it's not a reality to you. It's usually becomes reality when you're older. 😳 Teens think they are invincible!
@@Felishamois The older you get the more death of friends and family and old stars you liked in your youth. My attitude has changed a lot over the years. Not ready to go yet, but when the time comes I hope I'm old and sick and tired and just ready! I'm not religious, so for me death is the end except for whatever thoughts and feelings (and hopefully good works) you leave behind!
One of the most beautifully made videos on RUclips. Impactful and thought provoking. Thank you Hank and friends!
I thought so too. Very profound just by following around 1 single individual (MICROSCOPRIC) organism. Rly happy i watched this.
"2020 can't get any worse."
Me, knowing that a ciliate died.
WWWWHHHYYY, oh god why, it was too young to die! XD
Me, tired of seeing this meme template
;-;
Yep😥
Thank you for this comment, made the sadness of reflecting on the futility of my own life, less hard to withstand.
"Mr. Biologist, I don't feel so good"
Honestly, I laughed seeing Peter Parker die. The scene was meant to be serious but came off more funny.
He just went “poof”! DED
ohhhh my heart.
Correction, Mr. MICRObiologist... 💡🤔🤨
🤣
Was going to say same but figured someone already had. I’ll go equilibrium now.
@Jordy Perfectly balanced, as all things should be. EQUILIBRIUM
People say you only die when you are forgotten. This ciliate is forever on the internet and will be immortalised for a very long time.
Yeah, people say a lot of BS. You die when you die, and you are forgotten when you are forgotten. Thank the heavens we still have different words describing separate things despite all these smartypants platitudes flinging around.
@@vaxrvaxr you sound nice...
@@RetoskiCat he sounds like a bad ass. I could use someone like him in my road warrior gang.....
@@HBoggggggggg I don't think you can afford my rates. But thanks for the compliment and good luck with your startup!
And that was then, now are chances of being forgotten when we die, is close to zero for as long as the internet exists, and even if we do die of age with new breakthrough technology@@vaxrvaxr
Shoutout to the camera man who, despite the risk of getting dragged into the quantum realm, still shrunk himself to take this amazing footage!
Enough.
Total amateur. He was completely safe on the other side of the slide.
A real cameraman worth his salt would have donned a wet suit and swam along with him, Steve Irwin style.
Fun fact: this little organism technically had a funeral with 250K paticipant.
what funeral you going to where you watch the person die?
@@OakNuggins lmao
You cant spell Funeral without Fun.
👀
@@J-ManProductions thats not true whrn we die at least a billion mircro organisms will attend our funeral. You dont even have to spend for reception.
Imagine having a heart attack in the middle of the street, but instead of getting CPR you’re just made to listen to an enormous alien creature explaining a bunch of deep philosophy
and also, at the same time, melt your parts little by little.
@@softcopymahasiswa * imagine falling into acid...
Or getting burned 🤷🏼♀️
Better way to go than most.
Ben 10 Alien X be like:
"This human is about to die"
"Why he is dying, we don't know... But it happened here, when his body stopped moving and his expression went numb"
"He was just fine little back in time ago, but now... His body has failed."
I didn't realize until after I posted my comment, that many others here had a similar experience watching this video. You took the time to watch, and took the time to think about a little creature that really no one else knows or cares about. But now YOU know, and it affected you; profoundly, it seems. You all made me cry, but thank you, you deep thinking and good hearted friends!
Poetic, esthetic, with calm and relaxing narration: lets the mind wander to the edges of the comprehensible and understandable. Pure Gold, thank you very much!
This is probably one of the, if not THE most famous Ciliate by now.
So in a way, against all odds, it has achieved immortality.
it will be quickly forgotten. no immortality there
@@marcosbisso7136 it has merged with the universe, and without getting too philosophical, everything shall wither and decay, but the energy will stay, everyday, as we lay, every second even.
@@YouAreInfinity117 it has merged with nothing, since there's no longer an "it". It simply has stopped to be. What remains are what used to be a Ciliate, but no longer is. There's no Ciliate anymore to merge with anything. It's gone.
Lmao as if metaphorical immortality is even vaguely the same
The immortal cells of Henrietta Lacks is immortal? Basically a cancer cell...
I really felt sad when the ciliate died.
You shouldn't but I think I understand why. You anthropomorphized it. You probably think it was afraid and in agony.
_It_ was not.
Its functions and activity gradually decreased to a point where they could function no more and, as Hank so poignantly said, its composition went into equilibrium.
Death is just a part of life
@@Pow3llMorgan ya, it wasn't in pain. I take solace in that. Still can't help but have an intense emotional reaction though.
@Level Nine Drow We see the world not directly in all its 'ISness', but through our filter of definitions & labels. We set arbitrary lines along a continuum.
We don't have to anthropomorphize to be sympathetic to the beauty of an organisms' existence, and feel loss when the beauty ends. I feel sad when I squish a mosquito cause it's one tribute to 4 billion years of a successful system that is now gone. Just because there are gazillion mosquitoes or ciliates doesn't make it less a loss. After all life on earth dies at some point that one mosquito will mean everything to the next intelligence that comes along if it's the only fossil they find whether they feel emotion or not.
Thoughts and prayers to all family and friends of the little ciliate.
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@@LuisSierra42 *Then God Question you, so that you explore your ownself by these questions??*
أَوَلَمْ يَتَفَكَّرُوا فِي أَنفُسِهِم مَّا خَلَقَ اللَّهُ السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضَ وَمَا بَيْنَهُمَا إِلَّا بِالْحَقِّ وَأَجَلٍ مُّسَمًّى وَإِنَّ كَثِيرًا مِّنَ النَّاسِ بِلِقَاءِ رَبِّهِمْ لَكَافِرُونَ ﴿الروم: ٨﴾
*Why don’t they explore / study their own self own / your own bodies?*
Allah had not created these huge skies and earth and all between them, but with a law / with a calculation/science.
And it is for short period of time / temporary.
And still many people does not believe in their meeting with their Lord / for accountability 30;8 / 7;185.
نَحْنُ خَلَقْنَاكُمْ فَلَوْلَا تُصَدِّقُونَ [٥٦:٥٧]
It is We! Who has engineered your Creation, then why don’t you agree? 56:57
(This is the verse of Invitation and Inculcation to genuine Creator, who created you and mind, He give further explanations and examples to prove this)
أَفَرَأَيْتُم مَّا تُمْنُونَ [٥٦:٥٨]
Have you not seen/studied? You were only ejected liquid/samen? 56:58 / 23;14
أَأَنتُمْ تَخْلُقُونَهُ أَمْ نَحْنُ الْخَالِقُونَ [٥٦:٥٩]
*Did you created from it, your Creation?*
Or, it is We, who have architected from it, your creation? 56:59 / 19;66
نَحْنُ قَدَّرْنَا بَيْنَكُمُ الْمَوْتَ وَمَا نَحْنُ بِمَسْبُوقِينَ [٥٦:٦٠]
It is We, who has fixed your time of De ath, and We do not change Our decisions. 56:60
This is brilliant, brutal beauty. The depth of respect and honor extended to the star of this film is profoundly present in the narrator's delivery, a raw unfettered compassion and reverence for its innocence as it is transmutated unaware into the willing noble sacrifice in the name of comprehension, simply by our observance. So much grace, beauty and tragedy all coiled up into a single tear of impermanence floating in an ocean of unrelenting, unforgiving chemistry. Entropy is a harsh traveling companion. Thank you to all involved in producing this gem of a vid. It is transcendent.
As inevitable as this ciliate's death seemed, I'm rather impressed at how long it was able to continue moving before the damage to it's body was too great.
When your entire body is covered in stuff to help you move you dont need very much of it to move.
The (invisible) cytoskeleton, a web of structural proteins, prevented the organelles from spilling out, and the cytosol from mixing too quickly with the outside.
"Bodies may fail, but they do not give up. Only the mind has the capacity for surrender." - David Goggins
it literally just kept moving until it dissolved by impacts with other matter, if it hadnt ran into any other matter i wonder how long it would have lasted?
@@DisentDesign Probably until it starved to death or got eaten. At such a small scale for singular celled organisms that is not a plant, no movement = certain death
It amazes me how slow yet fast death is at the same time. This little ciliate was moving around for minutes as it slowly melted, losing bits of itself but never quite reacting to it. Until eventually it just disappeared into the microcosmos, becoming random debris that other animals move through without noticing. Its beautifully poetic really, how it mirrors the macro world and how something as small as a random ciliate can hold onto life as dearly as you or I in our final moments.
Well…shit…
I don't want to die 😭
@@InzemamZahidi911
one day, you could suffer enough to stop fearing death,
and that is when you begin to appreciate life
@@absolutelyagirl1012 That day is inevitable. I just hope I don't find that out when I'm done.
@@thiviox1880 Done with what? Life? Don't do it! We all love you! We care! Stop it!!! Think about your family, friends, pets, everything! You can't do it! Life is precious! Live it out til' your very last breath, don't leave it so soon! You will be missing out on everything life can bring you. Every moment shouldn't be taken for granted! ☄️
I'm not gonna lie. I thought I needed a psychiatrist to help me understand why I think and feel this way, just mere sadness and hopelessness, but I cannot afford professional help. But I'm saving this video now, for it had given so much meaning to such unspoken wonders and void that had long been lingering in the darkest.. furthest corners of my mind. This video had not only spoken facts, but it's spoken to me more deeply than anyone I've known in my life. So I am grateful to have come across the algorithm that led me here.
Never knew watching a little ciliate cease to exist could make me so emotional
Micro-organism:
Mr. Microbiologist: So you have chosen equillibrium.
He chose... poorly.
So deep but funny...damn i feel guilty but enlightened brudaasss👀
😂😅😂😅
This is a good one 👌
Death by snu snu!
The ciliate might have died physically but the memories of it's last moments will always be alive in our hearts
Hearths that, in fact, die
Eventually it will experience the final death, when for the last time someone remembers the ciliate.
lives on in this video as a being of light 🙃
@@ctakitimu Information and energy is never lost. Only changed
@@OverRule1 Yes, but the configuration that is "you" will no longer exist in that state. The engine that houses your consciousness will be destroyed, dispersing and diluting your individuality until you are effectively gone. The parts that used to be you, will become the building blocks for other amazing structures and beings, but you'll never know.
It genuinely makes me happy to see so many people care about this ciliate, gives me a little more faith in humanity lol
It made me lose faith in them.
@@nerobaal6655Okay edgelord you can stop wearing the mascara now, we know you're unique
Because there’s no responsibility. Tell them to care about a homeless man, and then the issues start coming.
😢 RIP little guy, you impacted the world more than you knew
I work in a wastewater treatment plant and this video made me realize the insanely huge number of ciliates and other organisms I incinerate every day.
Better them than us, brother..
But on the other hand, they have a fulfilling life in your aeration tanks; they get to meet a lot of lost socks, goldfish who had passed, etc.
They call him death, destroyer of worlds
My opinion ha not that you asked is that we are killing off millions of trillions and billions of bacteria and micro organisms needlessly ancient human beings thrived not just survived millions of years ago they drank straight from water straight from the rivers and the lakes human bodies naturally build up immunities by being exposed to germs and such just saying hope u get my point 😊
@@Scouse.raver1 i think you meant, without intent, as opposed to saying we needlessly killed germs.
I was holding my father's hand while he drew his last breath not 10 hours ago. I find this soothing.
It will get better :) What a lucky man to have someone so dear to him hold his hand.
Condolences :(
❤❤❤❤
My condolences, I'm so sorry. I'm glad that this video could help.
I hope you are feeling better today.
7:30 Love the moment you silence you gave after that. This is easily one of your best videos, if not the best.
One of the coolest videos about life and death. Quite deep even. Made me understand the distinction between chemistry and biology so easily!
What terrifies me the most about this, isn't the looming thought of death itself.
But rather the fact that we have no idea why it died.
Well, I believe the sole purpose of life is reproduction and spreading one's genes to the next generations to progress the evolution of one's species. Hence, if this little creature has managed to serve its purpose, then nature no longer needs it to continue being alive. The world is always changing, we too are always adapting by creating new versions of ourselves and teach them to continue on with the cycle. Old versions that are no longer in their prime and can no longer thrive in the new world obviously die out.
@@loremipsum980 so... staying virgin = imortality
@@araujotavares5015 from a theological christian point of view, that's probably why monks practice celibacy.
@@setiem13 nah, they just gay.
@@andrewbcliff Hello 911 , I would like to report a murder !
It was like a sweater, slowly unraveling, until there was not enough thread to hold it together. Thanks for the video.
If you want to destroy my sweater
Pull the string as I walk away
@@noelvalenzarro I was just going to say the same thing. I love that song!
@@noelvalenzarro I love how Rivers pronounces walk away like it's a galaxy. "Pull this string as I Walky Way".
If you want to destroy my sweater~
Put that on the headstone
you could also say that earth is alive. Ive noticed that many times - that on EVERY level of existence, there exists 'cells' that organize themselves, collect energy, and sustain eachother in some form. Cellular life with each cell - multicellular life, entire organisms' lifes, human life, earth life.
This has always been one of my favorite videos on youtube.... terrific work, thank you.
When I finally die, I'd like Hank Green to narrate my last breath.
"We don't know exactly when this dude died. But it's about here. When he gobbled that cherry ice cream so fast it filled his lungs"
Where the hell did all the likes on this comment go?
Honestly, eating my favorite ice cream in my final moments is the best way to go
Quite a eulogy.
I just realized this was hank green thank you
Wow I didn’t realise it was Hank until read this too
Sending my deepest condolences to the family of this ciliate
the family is also dead
Lmao 😂😂
Highly appreciated
You can find a sympathy card in the stationary isle, just to the left of the cards offering condolences for the single-celled anaerobic organisms that found equilibrium.
Yes
This video is way beyond biology and chemistry, beyond the new microscope. This is about a profound truth, pure philosophy. It is inmensly inspiring to my soul. It's not resignation, it's pure understanding
This voice over is phenomenal... is it weird that I wanted to cry
I also find it funny how..we don't really want equilibrium, even though it's a word incorrectly used for a state of peace and balance. ..or maybe that is what death is, peace and balance.
Well, you managed to educate me while simultaneously giving me an existential crisis. You have a new subscriber.
Yes!!! Existential crisis!!
Don't have a crisis, his definition of what he considers some universal equilibrium is based on a feeling. I'm not saying it's a wrong feeling, it just isn't substantiated enough to be asserted as fact.
Fuck that
@@oneRyanJoseph his definition is based not on feeling, but on narrow-mindedness.
he does not even realize that many things that are not alive and do not have genes fall into his "definition of life".
for example, " stars are chemical systems that use energy from chemical reactions to maintain a state far from equilibrium for billions of years." until they start to " die " for another billions of years, moving towards the equilibrium.
@@piranias if you hear the existential dread in his voice that OP and many others picked up on, I don't think he is being narrow-minded (I'm reading narrow-minded as 'lazy in his investigation').
I think he's trying to intellectualize his very human fear of mortality with some form of nihilistic acceptance by using relative lifespans and calling the death process 'equilibrium' (which to me is just his opinion/feeling). It's coming more from a place of self-soothing the fear than being intellectually dishonest but I felt the need to respond to OP calling the video education .
Love the star counterexample for the video's definition of life.
It's comforting to think of stars and all bounded entities of the universe as alive and a singular entity. I personally feel this to be true. I'd like to think pain, suffering and death is just another state that we actively try to embrace and resolve, instead of being the thorns on a wilting, dying flower that is life. The former makes me optimistic, the latter makes me stagnant and I wanted to share my skepticism of the narrator's covert pessimism with OP.
I thought that the insect's lives were scary, but the microscopic life is even more disturbing, this little guy literally melted to death.
@Kelvin Higgs visually, it looked a bit like he was dissolving.
I don’t think it’s as gruesome as it looks because microscopic life doesn’t really have brains, so I’m guessing they don’t feel “pain” the way we do.
@The ChadDevil well it’s true that they would feel pain but for them it’s more of a chemical reaction. That’s what our feeling of pain pretty much also is, but we have a brain, they don’t. I don’t know tho, cells might have a simple consciousness and actually feel, but I doubt it because of their lack of a nervous system.
@@DoganT. “doesn’t really”. You mean doesn’t. Not doesn’t really. That would imply it sorta has brains, but not really. It has NO brains. At all. Period.
@The ChadDevil no it wouldn’t feel pain. And even if it did, it wouldn’t be pain as you understand it as a human. It will feel a stimuli that makes it go in a different direction. Nothing more.
This still by far my favourite vídeo of this great channel! such depth and beauty, visually and philosophically
I’m 61, and last week had an angina scare, I’m type 1 diabetic, anaemic, and unfit.
I am that ciliate, heading towards equilibrium.
The curse of investing so heavily in intelligence, is that we know we’re falling apart.
true, the curse of intelligence is knowing it is ending, but the gift is the ability to plan and take the time to appreciate everything around us.
We all fall apart in the end.... see you there soon, 5 heart attacks type 3 diabetic one kidney, also anaemic.... and other bits failing
Hope you guys had a good run. See you in the next one.
There is only one entity that has ever defeated death and has the power so that one may live on after reaching equilibrium. Jesus Christ aka (God) There is another state of existence that does not head towards equilibrium. Learn from him and you will live even though you die!
@@OMAELITE Lol
This guy managed to make us cry to a single cell.
It's because we are kind and empathetic. ❤️ The narrator definitely was the cherry on top.
Should go watch Sci Show
Just wait until our sun explodes. Who knows what we'll end up in our next iteration?
@@williamyoung9401 entropy will ultimately win.
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"And on that day when my strength is failing,
The end draws near and my time has come;
Still my soul will sing Your praise unending,
Ten thousand years and then forevermore."
- 10000 reasons
Beautiful and freightening at the same time. Thanks for your video, I loved the storytelling !
Came here for a biology lesson, stayed for the philosophy lesson.
The entire video was void of philosophy. It was just him explaining his one dimensional view on life and expressing how hard it is for him to comprehend thoughts of meaning beyond basic biological structure. He’s a hack.
@@bendover9021 I'm not a philosophy major so I could be wrong but I think that viewpoint is a form of philosophy in itself. The author of the video expressed their opinion that life is just chemical processes and gave it a cold simple definition. I believe it's called materialism and while I don't fully agree with him I think that was one of the things he was conveying in the video.
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@@bendover9021 I agree, he really spent time on the most boring take on "what is the meaning of life".
It's really telling to me how we can empathize with seemingly any living thing that's dying. Even the ones who are made of just one cell.
Says genghis khan!!!!
😂😂😂
I hope you're a Jain vegan, with that comment.
@@father3dollarbill I teared up, then went and had chicken for dinner.... oh my!
We can empathize with a microorganism, but a microorganism can't empathize with us. Rather lonely actually.
Genghis Khan massacred millions of humans each made-up of trillions of cells but has great sympathy for this unicellular organism.
Not all pepple emphasise with this "gelatinous turd", bro..
Interesting. Makes me curious about how our own cells experience their demises. I seem to recall from health class that many of our cells are on a ticking clock to do their function for a time, make one asexual copy of itself, then hari kari before old age begins to hinder function. The command to make the copy is right on the very end of the DNA and is designed to be easily broken off by time or radiation. And that's why we get old. Gradually over time our cells lose the ability to regenerate themselves one by one until we are left with no choice but drive those old cells until we can no longer maintain the system that wards off equilibrium. One day, doctors will be able to prevent that tag end instruction from falling off and we'll all be young and beautiful forever.
They will never do that unless something like if everyone is sterilized so they can't procreate. Imagine how fast the world would overpopulate if nobody died but were still having kids.
@@American-Plague this was an issue brought up in the science fiction show "Lexx". There was a planet that conquered aging and everyone was effectively immortal. Weird things happened like people living longer than they were capable of remembering. Not being sure if the person you are looking at is your spouse, your child or your one of your parents after a few hundred years or Not remembering which career you're currently on. Also they all became extremely risk adverse. Nobody wants to go 1000 years on a bum knee from a jet ski accident.
@@Mike28625 Weird. I'll have to search that up.
Imagine if there are aliens or higher beings or something that are documenting our lives and deaths in a similar way to how he’s documenting the life and death of this ciliate.
By the way this video is sad and now I’m in a sad mood.
Look up biblical accurate angels. God loves you very much even more than the narrator to this cell ❤
@@skysetblue9578 that's Nonsense, this is real science not fairy tales
The ciliate didn't go gentle into that good night;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
o.o
We're just microbiology to some other universe at a really big scale that is almost unfathomable.
@@Hexnilium two humans, or a human and animal fighting would be like two worlds bashing into each other. the bacteria and cells are just on their merry way, and boom, they are lost from their host, they are cold as they realize the ting they strove to live in is leaking and they are soon to be no more.
Indeed brudaa that ciliate put a figth until the end
And it was quite a fight it gave till the end. Dylan Thomas would have wept too
''Sorry boss, can't make it to work today. One of my ciliates is about to die''
Sorry boss, I'm taking a day off. Need to attend a funeral.
Sorry boss,had a chemical reaction today...
That's one nice excuse and it's not even a lie
This. Was. Stellar. You've redefined how I see life on the micro and macro!
I needed that notion of life and death a very long time ago and I didn't even know it.
I love every layers of what is explained and how it is explained, very beautiful imagery and music, a great gem !!! Well done !
Anyone else noticed how he eventually turned into the same pile of green stuff that was everywhere around it?
That was kind of a haunting moment, when you realize all of that mass was once a living being just like our little fella there.
yeah, that tripped me out. I realized it as soon as it died.
As we will all return to dirt when we die.
I was wondering why he (unintentionally anthrapomorphized it) was never eating any of the stuff it was running into. Definitely a haunting twist in a horror story.
This reminds me of the Daphnia magna culture I unintentionally started in 2017. It is a water bottle that started with a few drops of concentrated algae and a few drops of suspended microscopic detritus. Nothing too out of the ordinary, right? But then slowly but surely a layer of empty chitin shells started accumulating on the bottom. Soon, a layer several millimeters thick was there. The interface between the daphnia shells and water column would swish and undulate every time I would move the bottle. I saw that the daphnia were not creeped out by the human equivalent of eating plants growing in the graveyard while rubbing up against headstones. In us mammals, being around the festering remains of our own cousins, no matter how distant, hogs our cognitive attention. I stopped feeling weird about it and bad for them. I realized life at different scales is not comparable to that of our macroscopic world. It just isn't a stimulus that evokes a repulsive mechanism in the microcosm.
The daphnia culture is still active today. Somehow with little intervention the cycles within support the daphnia after 4 full years. And many of them are as content as ever to burrow in the corporeal ruin of their forebearers and prefer it to swimming above.
@@PepperDarlington We don't originate from dirt. We're conceived in a womb that lies within a female we affectionately refer to as a Mom.
The soothing narration and the slow, inexorable collapse of the organism was such a weird juxtaposition.
almost like Hank was an Undertaker
@@bifrostbeberast3246 Im impressed you knew "inexorable" already!
Mmmmmm yesssssh ineeeeeed inexorable *sips tea and adjusts monocle*
@melskunk Exactly.
you are such a weird juxtaposition
The most beautiful video, specially while considering the narration, that I have seen in a long long long time on the Internet. It’s beautiful to the point of being life changing.
This is the type of video that i think has a chance of helping with processing grief and that makes it beautiful
So my therapist is gonna hear about this video
🤣🤣lol so hard
@@rosekay5031 +1.. Really, I DID "LAUGHED OUT LOUD" in my room... 🤣 but immediately went to 😢 once you think about the video..
😂😂😂
Won't do anything though
Same, lol. Watching it was totally worth it, tho.
Ciliate did not die, it is now immortal on RUclips. Long live the Ciliate !!
He's dead.
@MatZ the ciliate will still be reposted
Only HALF the story. What about the fate of the molecules that made up this living creatures "system?" Life is a precursor to death, but life also emerges..again and again and again.
One could also - if we knew how and had the ability - make a video showing LIFE emerging from inanimate (so called "dead") atoms & molecules - which is the needed counterpoint to this morbid existentialist demonstration. Death happens... but life emerges and LIFE GOES ON.
@@OMAELITE , You have "proven" nothing. The universe going to "heat death" is still a theory - and that is SCIENCE. And what about other possible universes? And how did ours "begin?" There exist theories - which are just as valid as yours btw - that life is abundant throughout the cosmos and even perhaps in other "cosmoses" so no, I dont agree with your speculation. Heck, consciousness has not even been conclusively or adequately explained.
RUclips Arguments number 151
"I admit i was wrong"
Proceed to delete file?
Yes 👈 No
I did not know you, I had to instant sub. This video was really deep and beautifully done. Even if everything is transparent, nothing is still revealed.
Hands down one of the best videos I've experienced. Thank you
Edit: Pleasant feeling is in regards to thinking about death like this.
I haven't had an existential crisis that actually made me kinda feel peaceful about death. Its a weird but pleasant feeling. Rest in peace little ciliate, I shall remember you forever.
The parts of its body that we called dead will be used up by other ciliates, and then their bodies used up by others. Death may be eternal but life isn’t done fighting yet
@@wren_. that's why death is linked to a specific creature. Again, it's not parts of this system that died. It's that specific system. There's no more THAT ciliate. It will become part of some other ciliates, but to get it back together we need to replicate that exact system again.
No you won't. You'll remember it until your death and then you'll never know or experience anything eternally.
Pleasant feeling huh?
No. Because you won't live forever.
Lol oh you guys are soo deep
The death of an organism is always weird.
When something our size dies, there is a period of time when the person is dead, but not the cells that make them.
Death like life is a very tricky thing to describe.
Add to the mix that sometimes some of those cells continue to live on in another one of our size and that’s a whole other can of worms
Either it is dificult to describe or you just realised that death has more to do with something else than the physical body itself
Isn't it ?
Nails continues to grow after death.
I think we are several system which works for equilibrium. Heart and blood system is major for keep equilibrum. So generally we said we are dead when this system is dead. We have a lot of minor system .often stop working but dont destroy equilibrium.
@@haloskaterkid The cells don't live on after death, only their chemicals are transferred as nutrients.
@@bretagnejean2410 Nails don't continue to grow after death. The skin and other tissues dehydrate and shrink giving the appearance that nails are still growing.
great work, I have just subscribed
Thank you so much for making this video.❤
"This is a ciliate"
*pulls out shotgun*
"It is about to die*
Yes
*sound of ciliate slowly pulling the pin off a grenade*
based
What I was expecting: to see a small single cell just stop moving, maybe being eaten by another.
What I got: epic thoughts and deep dive into thoughts about life and death and a interesting and kinda calming definition of life. I did not know I love watching a little cell dying while listening to a calming voice speaking about life. Pls more of this!
i love this video in particular. I'm so relaxed when i'm watching it and after for a while. I can't explain why.
Bravo!! Really enjoyed this
I know that it’s just a single cell, and I know that this or something like it happens billions of not trillions of times every second, but this video has made me sympathize with its main character more than some million dollar blockbusters
I cared more about this ciliate than I cared about Ben Solo in the Star Wars sequels.
@@brandonchan5387 there are only 4 star wars movies, rest are all crap
Great observation.
Its constant search for energy was "mindless" and "relatable" at the same time. I knew I was watching a very low lifeform, everything it did was fast and spontaneous, not minding even his gradual death. In this aspect I was repelled, but at the same time his constant search for stimuli in order to never stop existing was for me the thing that gave value to this being, so much so that when it stopped moving I was genuinely hurt, It was almost painful to assist at that moment of misery.
@@gregoryeverson741 stay focused 😉
"...it is about to die. Of course... we are all about to die."
I DIDN"T NEED THIS EXISTENTIAL DREAD TODAY
Thanks for this profound video! The ciliate did push me to look back on my life, actually.
Excellent video sir. Thanks.
Death at that scale is so weird, you just suddenly fall apart
That happens much the same to us. It simply takes longer for the micro (and macro) cosmos to consume the leftover bits.
Not unlike what happens with us macroscopic creatures. I guess humans take for granted the luxury of being able to wilt away peacefully and not spill your guts everywhere.
I mean ain't that the same for us too. For example people who die of heart attack or stroke. There one minute and gone the next. People who die of cancer, sometimes cancer patients will appear pretty fine....until it's too late. People who die of accidents. All there and then gone.
@@xFirebird925x Yeah but suddenly your arms are not falling apart and you are not running around
We also fall apart then.
Literally we just watched a micro-organism die for 8 minutes
Quite simply:
Yes.
💡🤨😰
@@Hmongboi228 What we watched is the cycle of natures copying machine. The cell. That, in essence, is all that life is. Even you and me.
Isn't that , amazing . We are the first to explore this phenomena !!!!!!
Extremely interesting video, really gives insight into how life and death work. I've always thought of Lifeforms as sort of Organic computers in a way and this video shows that well in my opinion.
This video is majestic.
I honestly don't know what else to say about it.
Death is both scary and a calm natural and unavoidable event in our life. Basically the only certain thing of it.
It's the end of a journey, no way around it, no escapes, no going back. And yet it could be a welcome gift, to finally rest forever.
It has a similar indescribable feeling as nostalgia of never actually experienced times or events. The best way of accepting it is probably to live life at its fullest, in our own way.
I have it among my chill videos playlist (mostly songs).
You were just one out of many, but rest in peace little ciliate.
Scientific/technical question: could someone provide the "name" of the microscope or can suggest something (probably) cheaper perhaps?
(mostly for amateur use of observation of whatever comes under the lenses, tardigrades or even smaller organisms. Electronic or mechanical. I will search online of course but suggestions are always welcome)
So those punches man, you aren't pulling any of them.
it hurts..
im a baby now
The beautiful thing about this ciliate is that even thou it is dying it keep going... doing its purpose as a ciliate. It did not stop, it did not rest, it did what it was designed for continuing its purpose until death. That is why fearing death is futile, its what we do while living which is important.
Beautifully said!
😭 so beautiful
And who designed that?
@@thehuman2861 what do you mean?
a possible comment section arguement is about to happen, i see
Great approaching and explanation.
A beautiful contribution. Thank you for this.
This is both beautiful in its detail and devastating in its singular depiction of death on a scale that we will never appreciate. Thank you for this journey and a humble reminder that there is always more out there than just what we can easily see.
the cells living in my eyes and brain are helping me watch a cell die. im so high right now this is awesome haha
Crazy to think eh?
Hebrews 11
11 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
2 For by it the elders obtained a good report.
3 Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen WERE NOT made of things which do appear.
@@OMAELITE how and why did u bring religion into this
@@Koala019 usually lack of common sense or knowledge is why people do anything.
@@Koala019 just dont feed the troll
@@Koala019 maybe because so many people are having existential crisises?
This video was comforting in a strange way. There's a lot of fear that surrounds death. It's nice to just think about it matter-of-factly. Great job on this video!
I think so too. Many people avoid death by abstracting it. “They moved on to a better place” is nicer, but less real than “they died,” and it alienates death, making it something to be feared, when accepting death can actually lead to a fuller life.
While I don’t want to seem rash, I don’t think we should fear death, I think it’s more logical to fear that we won’t accomplish what we desire before it inevitably arrives.
I agree and we needed this with everything going on right now
Coulda been a silent film
@@giovannidueck9094 Also doesn't help that about half of the time someone say's “They moved on to a better place” they're referring to someone in hell.
Very much appreciated this amusingly bored yet informative narration ^^
I wonder if giant beings of the cosmos are looking at us the same way and either sympathizing with us or simply thinking we’re pathetic…rest well little ciliate❤
I have a few words: this is the ciliate I came to know the most in my lifetime, and he made the life of a more complex chemical system far from equilibrium much more interesting. Thanks, ciliate.
Very kind of you. ❤️🤣
I also knew this ciliate, we went to school together for years. RIP Carlos
Nah, eff that ciliate.
He owed me money. And I heard he was racist.
@@father3dollarbill 🤣🤣🤣
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I was going through a very rough period in my life when I first watched this video. It’s very calming to learn about various things, especially those of existential nature. Strangely enough, this video helped me calm down from a panic attack. I saw it on my feed and just kinda clicked out of curiosity. Knowing that everything is cyclical and eventually fades, even pain is a very calming and freeing idea. Thank you for this video!
I hope you're doing better now.
Hope you are Better today
I'm grieving and this video helped me find peace for a a few minutes.
Wow this is literally the best thing I've seen in a while, not even kidding! Your definition of life as a chemical system taking in energy to keep itself from reaching equilibrium is something I've never heard before too and definitely pause for thought. It makes me wonder if at life's beginning, the chemical conditions that generated life may have generated several such systems, some inert and unable to reproduce. But obviously only the systems able to adapt to environment changes and reproduce (so long as the species can copy itself faster than it dies) are the ones which survived past the initial conditions, the very first step of natural selection.
Fantastic video!!!
What I came for: To see how a single cell organism dies
What I got: PHILOSOPHY
It does happen! It's called aging! You just can't perceive it because you are not aware enough, apparently! Time melts you away - all the time....
@@hombrenuevoacts1728 And its only chemicals as far as he knows looking for equilibrium but life always wants not to die as far as life's impulses go .
I have never felt so bad for a single cell.
same
Don’t be sad the single cell died, be glad the single cell lived
This was one of those rare moments that taking a leap of faith (albeit one borne of desperate ennui) in the YT algorithm proved justified... And this _was_ astonishingly good... Brilliant, even. Every single person on Earth should watch this. *Every single day...*
I didn't expect to find this..how amazing.. sad.. beautiful.. captivating.. wow!
J-t-t-M : This ciliate is dead.
Ciliate : I'm not dead
J-t-t-M : Right here, this is where we saw the ciliate die.
Ciliate : I'm not dead
Me: He says he's not dead.
J-t-t-M : Well he will be soon. He's very ill
Ciliate : I'm getting better.
J-t-t-M : No you're not. You'll be stone dead in a moment.
Ciliate : I think I'll go for a walk
J-t-t-M : You're not fooling anyone you know.
And we never saw J-t-t-M bonk it over the head.
THIS IS AN EX CILIATE
"I feel happy, I feel happy...!"
@@LolUGotBusted No, it's just pining for the fjords! Just look at its beautiful Cilia...
it's just a cell membrane wound!
My best friend has been gone sense March 9th and when ciliate just completely disappeared I could t help but bust out crying. I miss my friend
Hugs
Gone to a better place
Friend is all around you now. Part of the world and inside many new places. What made friendo so cool, it's going on to make other organisms just as complicated and astounding and beautiful. and in the same way as your friend.
Maybe your friend swirls around as a happy lil ciliate now
Same. My cat just died this very day. And for some reason, I just started crying watching this.
I've commented before, but I'll do it again!
THE CONTENT OF THIS VIDEO SPECIFICALLY, IS UNBELIEVABLY INSPIRING, IN THE SENSE OF, WANTING TO LIVE A FULLFILLING LIFE
By far the most profound video yet...
I like to think this cell knows his time is up and is exploring and enjoying the remaining minutes of it's life
Or it could be in pain. Panicking
@@ultimatevexation8782 HAHAHA
@@ultimatevexation8782
sush child, it's enjoying it's final moments. But yeah idk maybe ur right
@@ultimatevexation8782 Neither i imagine. They dont really feel "Pain" or process it and just react to stimula. They dont really think either as they are more like a biological machine then "living being".
So its just going along until it stops working. But one can dream
yeah, eating shit
To be honest... This is the video that made me come across the channel, and it actually helps me with my health anxiety. It puts a logical perspective on what dying is, and helps me think "Well... If it happens, it happens." It also gives me food for thought about existence and what it means to be alive but all in all, it's just comforting when I'm not feeling well. Thank you.
I think about death and dying a lot, it's a really fascinating thing to think about, not to mention straight-up death scary :D
There's an awesome video called "What does it feel like to die" by Arvin Ash, seems like our brain is doing everything in its power to die without any pain or bad emotions, at the exact moment our brain stops working it releases all of our dopamines and all other happy chemicals we have to make it easier. fascinating
This can be humorous if you imagine it's a large Bus in South America that's plowing down the mountain and losing it's passengers. {0.o}
😆😂🤣
This is SUCH a GOOD video!!!
This video relaxed me immensely, maybe its the narrator, the music, the explanation... or all.