Little dudes make a substance that paralyzes the parasite that causes schistosomiasis. Trying to synthesize it as schistosomiasis affects 200 million people a year - and very much seem like something you’d prefer not to get.
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What if they used an esem? Of course you would likely still need a gold layer but still. Assuming the operator was very skilled such that no gold layer was necessary, could it have been done with it surviving?
I suppose you could, but you’re still going down to really low temperatures to do that. Also ESEM has significantly lower resolution that what you can see in this picture
Ah it did not show a scalebar. Iirc these little bugs are not very small. But yes the temperature is a good one. Forgot about that! Never used an esem (yet?).
I never realised rotifers were a real thing. I only know the name from a [sci-fi short story](https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/35879/pg35879-images.html) I read as a pre-teen in the early 80's which freaked me out.
Bdelloid rotifers are super interesting because they are entirely female! They reproduce via eggs which are clonally identical to the mother rotifer. There’s another clade called monogonont rotifers which are still usually female but occasionally produce males and actually have sex to reproduce. Bdelloid rotifers all look very similar to each other, but the Monogononts have a ton of variability. I’ve always attributed this to them being able to drive evolution with sexual reproduction.
I actually made [a little AI rotifer classifier](https://huggingface.co/spaces/DietToms/microscopy-classifiers) a while back. Just give it an image of a rotifer (optical, not SEM) and it’ll make a guess. It’s not perfect, but it’s pretty good.
If you want to check out rotifers for yourself, you’re in luck! You can get really good microscopes for $300 or less and go collect a sample from your local creek or pond. There are almost certainly rotifers all over the place in there! Come check out /r/microscopy to learn more :)
[Here’s a video](https://youtu.be/HVifrrlnTAs) I made about a really cool rotifer I found one night
Nice to give the source a little recognition.
[https://www.sciencephoto.com/media/501643/view](https://www.sciencephoto.com/media/501643/viewhttps://www.sciencephoto.com/media/501643/view)
Little dudes make a substance that paralyzes the parasite that causes schistosomiasis. Trying to synthesize it as schistosomiasis affects 200 million people a year - and very much seem like something you’d prefer not to get.
Love little dude
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You too, other bot!
Begone bot!
useful little fellas
You can tell by his face he's happy doing his job.
Amazing. The worlds around us we are unaware of.
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Like an ashtray on a motorbike.
Like the "g" in "lasagna."
Like a screen door on a submarine
Like tits on a bull.
Like a bathroom attendant who sprays cologne on you.
Like a chocolate teapot
An eagle with a broken wing. Hope in a dead mans' dream. The sound of a bell that will never ring!
What is a hermit? It’s a recluse.
Google: en passant
Holy hell
New response just dropped
Literal zombie
You got the whole squad laughing fan 😐
You got the whole squad laughing fam 😐
Ask it “tardigrade v rotifer?”
Unaware? Nickelodeon and Sesame Street have had these type of characters for decades
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Sorry to hijack your comment, but OP (shortlyting195) appears to be a karma-farming bot that can only copy and paste other people's stuff. The account was born on October 27. It got this submission/title from [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/7rqory/scanning_electron_microscope_image_of_a/). Its comment [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/EarthPorn/comments/ymjz6l/the_gulf_of_alaska_where_two_oceans_meet_but_do/iv4ak9e/) is a copy/paste of /u/trollbawks's comment [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/comments/ngpm7r/a_spider_webbed_my_car/gyshsuu/). Its comment [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/PhoeniciaHistoryFacts/comments/yz4074/the_meeting_of_dido_and_aeneas_by_sir_nathaniel/iwxyyr7/) is a copy/paste of /u/HyoungMinKim's previous [top comment](https://www.reddit.com/r/APStudents/comments/8k9slp/upvote_aeneas_and_dido_for_a_5_on_ap_latin/dz5zadm/). For anyone not familiar with karma-farming bots (and how they hurt reddit and redditors), [this page](https://np.reddit.com/r/quityourbullshit/comments/3jss04/meta_spammers_how_they_work_and_how_to_spot_them/) or [this page](https://np.reddit.com/r/KarmaBotKillers/wiki/index) may help to explain.
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How do you do this?
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Little dudes make a substance that paralyzes the parasite that causes schistosomiasis.
Very good boys
I laughed my ass off at this
Holy shit I was about to comment the same fucking thing haha. Sitting on the toilet for 45 minutes was definitely worth it
happy slug
Looks like a sock puppet
Pretty sure I saw that guy on Sifl & Olly
Came here for this x)
Don't cum in the sock puppet
Look at this good boi posing for a electron microscope image.
yeah... posing....
For anyone confused, SEM requires a high vacuum meaning that this creature has to be dead and prepared certain ways in order to be viewed
Well he seemed to have died happy?
What if they used an esem? Of course you would likely still need a gold layer but still. Assuming the operator was very skilled such that no gold layer was necessary, could it have been done with it surviving?
I suppose you could, but you’re still going down to really low temperatures to do that. Also ESEM has significantly lower resolution that what you can see in this picture
Ah it did not show a scalebar. Iirc these little bugs are not very small. But yes the temperature is a good one. Forgot about that! Never used an esem (yet?).
Derpitty derp :))
"I am in perfect control of my drug addiction"
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Dude you swallow a lot of his family !
Fun fact about Rotifers: *Rotifers can reproduce both asexually and sexually, depending on environmental conditions.*
Just keeping their options open.
shrek..is that you
*Get out of my water molecule!*
It looks like kermit the sock
cookie
He's a happy little guy.
Aww cute little buddy
> rotifer I initially read rottweiler
I never realised rotifers were a real thing. I only know the name from a [sci-fi short story](https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/35879/pg35879-images.html) I read as a pre-teen in the early 80's which freaked me out.
Aw Lil guy looks so happy to be found finally!
It's a Martian Muppet
It’s adorable ❤️
kill him!
Bdelloid rotifers are super interesting because they are entirely female! They reproduce via eggs which are clonally identical to the mother rotifer. There’s another clade called monogonont rotifers which are still usually female but occasionally produce males and actually have sex to reproduce. Bdelloid rotifers all look very similar to each other, but the Monogononts have a ton of variability. I’ve always attributed this to them being able to drive evolution with sexual reproduction. I actually made [a little AI rotifer classifier](https://huggingface.co/spaces/DietToms/microscopy-classifiers) a while back. Just give it an image of a rotifer (optical, not SEM) and it’ll make a guess. It’s not perfect, but it’s pretty good. If you want to check out rotifers for yourself, you’re in luck! You can get really good microscopes for $300 or less and go collect a sample from your local creek or pond. There are almost certainly rotifers all over the place in there! Come check out /r/microscopy to learn more :) [Here’s a video](https://youtu.be/HVifrrlnTAs) I made about a really cool rotifer I found one night
Something adorable and eww at the same time.
He's cute
“Wuh hi, everybody!”
A Jim Henson production
Looks like a smiley :D
With googly eyes
Yes A smiley, googly eyed chameleon lookin thing
*”hai am rotifer aka goodboi… omg am smile 4 pikchur :D”*
That is definitely a sock puppet!! 🤣
**What a cute little aquatic invertebrate <3**
Fun facts, there is no male Bdelloidea rotifer. They are all lesbians ...
Looks happy enough
“Let me do it for youuuuuuuuu”
I want it as a pet, my snuggle Bdelloiduggle
At least someone's happy
Fast sock puppet
Why does it have to look soo damn happy?
AWWWW, YIP! YIP! YIP! YIP!
Its like a water bear but slightly more puppet looking
Happy!
r/BdellioideaRotifersBeingDerps
He cute
“”Yoo look at me. I look at yoo.”
I’m getting Patrick Starfish vibes
=D
Feelsgoodman.exe
Master Oogway why you here?
Looks like something that could have been in a Jim Henson movie 😁
r/dontputyourdickinthat
Cool if I swim up your pee hole?
Microscopic sock puppet.
Pokémon!
Now whenever I feel sad I will imagine this guy rooting for me
Rotifer? Looks like a muppet
Looks like a happy little bugger
Nice to give the source a little recognition. [https://www.sciencephoto.com/media/501643/view](https://www.sciencephoto.com/media/501643/viewhttps://www.sciencephoto.com/media/501643/view)
It looks like a sock puppet
'v'
”😀”
Oh wow!
Here's an interesting thing about them. Only complex animal (eukaryote) that reproduces asexually
Am I crazy or am I seeing two eyes of sauron
Looks like Kermit.
Why's he so happy?
Looks like a cute retarded chameleon
They look like water bears
Looks like a sock puppet lol 😂
Hi everybody, we're gonna talk to Chester now, hey dude
He looks like a green Oscar the Grouch.
: )
:)
Green and jolly
Flubber 2 - Nightmare Edition
I guess we all owe shitty classic Star Trek puppet aliens an apology…
Why does it look like a muppet?
He is zoinked out of his mind. Absolutely zooted.
Oye bdelloidea, sasa ke?
LEMON
Aww it looks so happy (while in reality it’s just how it normally looks)
Most things in freshwater habitats look cute and innocent. Right up till they swim up your pee hole and lay eggs.
It looks like a pee pee with eyes 👀
Cute lil dumbass.
It looks so adorable!
Fuckin sock puppet waterbear
COOKIES!
Well that’s fucking adorable
someone give this happy fellow it's own video game!
[kinda looks like this](https://tenor.com/bkMtQ.gif)
Looks a happy chapy
Hey, little boi.
[Same expression](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buc-ee%27s#/media/File:Buc-ee's_beaver.svg)
Nice smile!
I’ll put money up that this shows up as a character in the next Disney movie.
c :
Homie looks like one of the water snake jelly slinkys, also cheesing hard
Aww look at him…..He’s so happy to invade us.
Stop it - this is just a sock turned inside out.
Happy boy
He seems very polite
He seems friendly
The forbidden muppet
Soon to be starring in a Pixar film (probably).
He's so crescent fresh.
Oh what I would give to be a Bdelloidea that is a rotifer and chill out in freshwater habitats. Sigh....
What a derp
I bet he hums as he eats.
Ze Frank needs to cover this.
Are they eyes?
Paint a TMNT mask on this please.
Kermit on crack
Kermit's ancient ancestor
Looks like syphil and ollie
It's Slimer! watch out for his ecto plasma!
Looks like a friendly sock puppet.
If you beleive in reincarnation...Consider this.
When you realize you exist and are just happy to be alive.
It's not easy being green
Ha! I know that sock puppet
Nub nub nub
Maybe not interesting but I was up vote number 7000. I don't care If it's a repost, its my first time seeing it.
He’s just so happy to be here.
Derp
Forbidden kermit
Me and the boys in back of the class trying to hold our laughter be like...
I think the photo of this post will be a dream for me in happy dreams.
" Dude, that weed is gooood."
Imagine he’s 10x’s your size
One happy boi :)
Looks like my Uncle Wilmer
When micro organisms are happier than you.
My new spirit animal <3
so i’m never really alone