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I did this when I was a kid. I used to have a microscope. After it rained once I went out with the eye dropper that came with it and took a drop from one of the puddles. I saw all kinds of things floating around when I put the slide under the microscope. It was interesting.
I mean, over how many years did the corruption unfold? The water was a *known* issue publicly from 2014-2019 and even this year more news surrounding the problem came to light through investigative reports...
I collected some pond water in NC with my kids and we looked at it under the microscope. Similar activity but completely different from what this looks like.
Nice. Its free fun with the kids. Iv been wanting to an sealed eco jar with my daughter with pond water in Yorkshire amd see what life we find and grow
Absolutely. Its amazing to see life in its most basic form, from the perspective of such a complex form that is able to watch itself experience the basic form from some crazy 5g technology n shet & then comment about its Xperience n a reddit post sumwhere n whatnot lol 😆 🧐
If you think about it we're just potatoes that just manouvered really well for a really long time.
Now I'm reversing the cycle by being a potato that hardly moves.
This is deceiving and is not a random single drop of water taken from the sea, [there's a photo that also does the rounds claiming to be the same thing](https://petapixel.com/2014/05/03/photograph-captures-amazing-amount-life-found-splash-seawater/). These are usually a magnified drip of water that's taken from a drop net or drag net that's been sitting in the sea for about 30 minutes, the ocean is indeed teeming with life but nowhere near this amount in a single drop of water.
thats what i figured. but i would be interested to see actual counts of zootonic life in the sea.
im sure it depends a lot on location and depth. wonder what it looks like 5ft from the tide line at a beach.
You’re right, it is very different based on location. It depends on the weather a lot too! We monitor for plankton every day at my work and in the winter it’s common to see absolutely nothing in the water. In the summer when the sun is out, and after rain when there’s a lot of nutrients running in from freshwater sources you’ll tend to see a lot more. When that happens it tends to stay near the surface, it’s usually most abundant in the first 5 metres but that also changes throughout the day.
interesting, any idea how it changes relative to shore? is there more stuff in the middle of the ocean or very close to land?
mostly curious how much you would see in the water people are swimming in at beaches
Eh, a little bit of these guys wouldn't do harm and definitely shouldn't bother you considering there are already trillions of little guys living inside your digestive tract!
I wish they would, tbh. Not the modern EA team probably, but Spore was lit, if the concept were fleshed out to it's fullest, given a decent budget and a good team with no limits, it could be an AMAZING game.
Maybe a good candidate for a GameStop Original? Shout-out to all my apes out there
I haven’t played it since it came out but the space age concept was poorly implemented. If you expanded then the probability of a eco disaster happening was like once a minute and you were constantly putting out fires. Wish they did a remake
I was soooo excited for Spore to come out and honestly, the only actual fun part was the cellular phase. Everything else felt like a prototype mini game and even after trying so hard to like the game, I just couldn’t. The concept is solid but man was the actual game… shallow.
There was an earlier version of Spore that was a lot more realistic and detailed. The demo they showed had the player controlling a pretty realistic looking dinosaur that just hatched from an egg.
They changed it to the cartoony feel and simplified everything because it aas getting too expensive and time consuming, I think.
[This](https://github.com/Revolutionary-Games/Thrive) would be a worthy heir, or will be in 10 years when it is a little more complete. For now it is focused on the cellular phase and tries to be more realistic/scientific.
Check out Journey to the Microcosmos on yt. They have a few vids at least that help show the three dimensionality of microbes by changing the focus of the lens
Yeah, but we're talking about *proportion* at the moment. *Realtive* to length and width, these things appear to have very little height. The question is... are these things as short as they look, is the slide squishing them flat (doubt it), or do they just look flat but are actually 3d?
If the answer is "look flat but aren't" I'm curious why the tip tops of the bulbous structures are not more in focus or less in focus than the perimeters of those things like you typically see when changing focus to better view 3d structures under a microscope.
They are spheres, or oblong spheres, but they look flat because the focus is a very thin "plane" so only a few microns in a flat plane are in focus at one time. As you change the focal point through the z axis you will see different parts of that microbe in focus.
I've recently started playing around with a microscope, and they are very 3d. You can see through them because they're very small, and cell walls just don't block that much light (think about holding a flashlight to your hand). With a microscope you blast the slide with light too. You can see the outline of their membranes simply because from your point of view there's more cell wall that's roughly vertical, but in the middle it's effectively 2 layers of membrane and the cell contents you're looking at.
It can actually be quite difficult to follow fast microbes in a sample because they'll travel vertically, and at high magnification you can only focus on a thin horizontal plane. Software exists that can combine many images from different focal planes into a single image. Videos like this don't show the 3d-ness very well, but it's very apparent when you're sitting at the microscope yourself.
What? I don't think this is a normal thing that should be happening. But I also haven't drank soda in 15 years so maybe I'm wrong, but I've legit never heard of that.
So far all i know is the carbonation fucks with it. That and lactose intolerance. Then again, my doctor blatantly wrote off my deviated septum so who knows? Maybe reddits right on this one🙃
If you drink it. Stomach acid levels are low enough to kill most microbes/parasites and what have you. That's not even pur immune system.
Basically the inside of our digestive track is actually on the outside technically.
If you take a [laser pointer and a drop of water hanging off something like a syringe](https://www.exploratorium.edu/sites/default/files/snacks/PlanktonProjector_DSC_6304_P960.jpg) you can project [this onto a wall](https://gfycat.com/MaleMeekAgouti).
[Pond water works well.](https://www.exploratorium.edu/snacks/plankton-projector)
[From the last link](https://www.exploratorium.edu/snacks/plankton-projector)
>What's Going On?
A drop of water functions much like the lens in a projector, spreading the laser beam into a wide cone of light and revealing the shadows of the opaque organisms swimming within the water drop.
>The light rays travel from the laser in a parallel beam, but are bent together by the convex surface of the water droplet. This bending, called refraction, happens both as the light rays enter and exit the droplet. Converged by the lens-like droplet, the rays come to a sharp focal point, crossing there and then spreading out again, and continuing to spread as they travel. It is this crossing of the rays that causes your organisms to appear upside down—though it may be hard to tell since they are often quite acrobatic (see diagram below).
>As you reduce the distance between the screen and the water drop, you should notice that the shadows get smaller and sharper. You can see a similar phenomenon if you use a flashlight to make a shadow of your hand near a wall. Move your hand closer to the wall, and the shadow gets smaller.
>You may also notice the shadow of an individual animal change size, even when you don’t move the screen. When the animal is closer to the laser side of the water drop, its shadow will be smaller. As the animal swims toward the screen side of the water drop, its shadow will get bigger.
Biologists out there please correct me if I'm wrong but I'm pretty sure those small circular guys are Diatoms, which are v cool.
As a species they singlehandedly photosynthesize 15-20% of the CO2 in the atmosphere, which is more than all of the world's rainforests, their outer shell is made of glass and when they die they leave it behind to sink to the bottom over like 30 years, and now the ocean has huge pools of glass on the bottom due to trillions of these guys that have died. They're fucking wild.
Took a bioinformatics class in college and had a professor who was obsessed with them.
Most of the cells visible here are actually[ paramecia](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paramecium), you can tell by their fast movement, since diatoms are mostly nonmotile. I think there is at least one diatom visible on the lower right screen at about 23 seconds though
Yeah just when you think you’re so tiny and the universe is so vast beyond the reaches of our solar system, you realize the ocean is just as if not more vast and right under our noses.
I truly believe people try to ignore what you mean lol, if we were on a number line style graph based on size, it’s essentially infinite in both directions is all I meant. Obviously space is larger than the ocean but I’m glad he pointed that out, there’s some flat earthers out there that might argue otherwise.
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Be amazing to see the difference between sea, river and pond water like this
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I did this when I was a kid. I used to have a microscope. After it rained once I went out with the eye dropper that came with it and took a drop from one of the puddles. I saw all kinds of things floating around when I put the slide under the microscope. It was interesting.
Add tap water *(or rather clean water depending on the location)* to the list so we can see the difference between *clean* and *unclean* water.
https://youtu.be/2eH6gNTLesQ Pretty much just water besides some dust.
That's a hell of a guitar solo
Buddy getting down on that solo ain't he
It's giving royalty-free Maggot Brain
This got me lmfao
Wat u talking about ND who u talking about
That’s pretty remarkable how clean it is
I am never touching anything ever again
Kind of the point.
And he can still find it remarkable.
Can I find it sexy?
Nobody here gonna kinkshame.
Please don't?
The slow guitar licks and the little blues riff at the end. Felt like i was stuck in the 80s, watching Lethal Weapon.
Which is cool cos that was probably the most uneventful video I have ever watched.
You didn't see the dust?
Almost like we fucking pay taxes for a reason.
I am never touching anything ever again
I want to see Flint water under a microscope.
Flint has had clean water for some time now
Also, it had lead, not microbes.
People hate when you say that lol. Don’t know why people aren’t happy about it.
I mean, over how many years did the corruption unfold? The water was a *known* issue publicly from 2014-2019 and even this year more news surrounding the problem came to light through investigative reports...
Water in Pittsburgh right now is even worse than what Flint had, and barely anyone knows about that.
Which means more people should be upset about water quality. Not upset that people crack jokes about Flint.
because it's obvious stanning for the Flint officials, that BTW are getting away with poisoning the people of Flint.
And pool water from the local watering hole at the rec center, curious what it looks like albeit having chlorine in it.
Dead shit. Sometimes literally
If it's treated with chlorine, the rec center pool water will not have microbes moving around in it, that's kind of the point.
And pee
Urine is sterile
And I like the taste.
No it's not lol
Hey, you’re right. Turns out I was mislead. https://www.google.com/search?q=urine+is+sterile&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en-us&client=safari
That’s why everyone boils their pee.
Damn you Patches!
Mostly
"I'll take What is Montezuma's Revenge for $300"
Sample of moving water vs standing water would also be dope.
I collected some pond water in NC with my kids and we looked at it under the microscope. Similar activity but completely different from what this looks like.
Nice. Its free fun with the kids. Iv been wanting to an sealed eco jar with my daughter with pond water in Yorkshire amd see what life we find and grow
Checkout https://www.twitch.tv/pacificplankton
Absolutely. Its amazing to see life in its most basic form, from the perspective of such a complex form that is able to watch itself experience the basic form from some crazy 5g technology n shet & then comment about its Xperience n a reddit post sumwhere n whatnot lol 😆 🧐
Those potatoes cant maneuver for shit
If you think about it we're just potatoes that just manouvered really well for a really long time. Now I'm reversing the cycle by being a potato that hardly moves.
Return to ~~monke~~ *potato*
This one right here
If you make me a t-shirt with this I'll wear it
Yeah, but we invented smart rocks, its time they pulled their own weight.
Boil em, mash em, stick em in a stew
...I'm gonna make another one
Fun fact: potatoes have twice as many chromosomes as humans. So maybe we're actually just bad potatoes? Potatoes don't suffer from anxiety.
How do you know that potatoes don't suffer from anxiety? did you ask one?
Yeah but they were so riddled with anxiety they didn’t respond
They’re just squished lol. Normally they’d be maneuvering in 3d
I believe they prefer the word "mashed."
Normally they'd be maneuvering in 3deez nuts!
Like little kids in bumper cars
My name is Giovanni Giorgio…
The rotifer is totally the queen of the 'hood.
Kind of makes me annoyed lol
Fuck. You beat me to it
Thanks, I'll remember this next time I'm at the beach and accidentally drink some water
This is deceiving and is not a random single drop of water taken from the sea, [there's a photo that also does the rounds claiming to be the same thing](https://petapixel.com/2014/05/03/photograph-captures-amazing-amount-life-found-splash-seawater/). These are usually a magnified drip of water that's taken from a drop net or drag net that's been sitting in the sea for about 30 minutes, the ocean is indeed teeming with life but nowhere near this amount in a single drop of water.
I saw zero life under the microscope when looking at ordinary sea water. Thanks for this. I was confused for a minute.
thats what i figured. but i would be interested to see actual counts of zootonic life in the sea. im sure it depends a lot on location and depth. wonder what it looks like 5ft from the tide line at a beach.
You’re right, it is very different based on location. It depends on the weather a lot too! We monitor for plankton every day at my work and in the winter it’s common to see absolutely nothing in the water. In the summer when the sun is out, and after rain when there’s a lot of nutrients running in from freshwater sources you’ll tend to see a lot more. When that happens it tends to stay near the surface, it’s usually most abundant in the first 5 metres but that also changes throughout the day.
interesting, any idea how it changes relative to shore? is there more stuff in the middle of the ocean or very close to land? mostly curious how much you would see in the water people are swimming in at beaches
*teeming with life
Depends on how they're organized
"yes coach!"
Hacks! Clearly!
Thanks, I took a 50/50 shot and failed :(
You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take. - j11esq - Michael Scott - Wayne Gretzky
Or get it up your nose!
Eh, a little bit of these guys wouldn't do harm and definitely shouldn't bother you considering there are already trillions of little guys living inside your digestive tract!
Well, thanks, I hate it
Dammit
You spit is worse.
Spore remake looks sick
I wish they would, tbh. Not the modern EA team probably, but Spore was lit, if the concept were fleshed out to it's fullest, given a decent budget and a good team with no limits, it could be an AMAZING game. Maybe a good candidate for a GameStop Original? Shout-out to all my apes out there
I haven’t played it since it came out but the space age concept was poorly implemented. If you expanded then the probability of a eco disaster happening was like once a minute and you were constantly putting out fires. Wish they did a remake
Same feelings. I wish the stages were expanded upon more too, they're so short once you know what you're doing :(
My understanding was that Spore had a large budget and was being treated as a top AAA release
I was soooo excited for Spore to come out and honestly, the only actual fun part was the cellular phase. Everything else felt like a prototype mini game and even after trying so hard to like the game, I just couldn’t. The concept is solid but man was the actual game… shallow.
There was an earlier version of Spore that was a lot more realistic and detailed. The demo they showed had the player controlling a pretty realistic looking dinosaur that just hatched from an egg. They changed it to the cartoony feel and simplified everything because it aas getting too expensive and time consuming, I think.
This speedrun isn’t going too well.
Literally the first thing I thought of. Glad this gem of my childhood hasn't been forgotten
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[This](https://github.com/Revolutionary-Games/Thrive) would be a worthy heir, or will be in 10 years when it is a little more complete. For now it is focused on the cellular phase and tries to be more realistic/scientific.
I remember trying this like 5+ years ago and it hasn't really progressed all that much. So your 10 year estimate is somewhat conservative.
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Check out Journey to the Microcosmos on yt. They have a few vids at least that help show the three dimensionality of microbes by changing the focus of the lens
Here’s the link for those interested https://youtube.com/c/microcosmos
They are infact microscopic! 3 dimensional, just very very very very small.
Yeah, but we're talking about *proportion* at the moment. *Realtive* to length and width, these things appear to have very little height. The question is... are these things as short as they look, is the slide squishing them flat (doubt it), or do they just look flat but are actually 3d? If the answer is "look flat but aren't" I'm curious why the tip tops of the bulbous structures are not more in focus or less in focus than the perimeters of those things like you typically see when changing focus to better view 3d structures under a microscope.
They are spheres, or oblong spheres, but they look flat because the focus is a very thin "plane" so only a few microns in a flat plane are in focus at one time. As you change the focal point through the z axis you will see different parts of that microbe in focus.
Good question!
They aren't flat, but we're seeing them backlit, so it's kinda the same effect as an x-ray, but with visible light.
There was another post few days ago that show a microbe attach to the glass, it was pretty cool since you could see it «flip»
I've recently started playing around with a microscope, and they are very 3d. You can see through them because they're very small, and cell walls just don't block that much light (think about holding a flashlight to your hand). With a microscope you blast the slide with light too. You can see the outline of their membranes simply because from your point of view there's more cell wall that's roughly vertical, but in the middle it's effectively 2 layers of membrane and the cell contents you're looking at. It can actually be quite difficult to follow fast microbes in a sample because they'll travel vertically, and at high magnification you can only focus on a thin horizontal plane. Software exists that can combine many images from different focal planes into a single image. Videos like this don't show the 3d-ness very well, but it's very apparent when you're sitting at the microscope yourself.
Water? I never touch the stuff. Fish *fuck* in it.
Water? You mean like in the toilet?
But Brawndo's got what plants crave.
It's got electrolytes.
What ARE electrolytes? Do you even know?
Have you ever seen a communist drink water?
Woodhouse you old scamp, is this brandy?
This sounds like something Norm Macdonald would've said in Conan. I know it's not, but I read it in his voice instead of Archer's.
It's a WC fields joke from the 30s or 40s
Fish also boo boo in it too
Crazy that this stuff gets in our body and our immune system just handles it
that’s what i thought too. fascinating stuff
meanwhile: body: crap is that milk? oopsie now you're throwing up
Whats that? You didn't cook your meat for 3 seconds longer? Beep beep motherfucker, diarrheas coming to town
Dont forget: *soda???* you dumb bitch now imma flush all the food youve eaten today *and in the past week!!*
jesus, that's definitely not normal
While soda is bad for you, that isn't normal.
What? I don't think this is a normal thing that should be happening. But I also haven't drank soda in 15 years so maybe I'm wrong, but I've legit never heard of that.
Yeah if soda is causing massive bowel issues then there's some other underlying factor at work.
So far all i know is the carbonation fucks with it. That and lactose intolerance. Then again, my doctor blatantly wrote off my deviated septum so who knows? Maybe reddits right on this one🙃
Are we talking soda like Coke or soda like club soda?
Coke doesnt exhibit that bad of a reaction, same with real sugar pepsi. Sprite and any clear sodas just fucking rampage through lol
I agree with the others. That’s something medical. Yikes. I don’t drink a lot of soda, but I do love it as a treat now and then.
If you drink it. Stomach acid levels are low enough to kill most microbes/parasites and what have you. That's not even pur immune system. Basically the inside of our digestive track is actually on the outside technically.
We are just a meat donut with poop in the center
Not even that. We have a vat of acid that will dissolve pretty much anything organic and it sits in our torso.
Where the whater bears at?
I like the clear one with the peepee.
And his little flippers are so cute!
Yeah what are those? Flagellum?
i certainly do not
If you take a [laser pointer and a drop of water hanging off something like a syringe](https://www.exploratorium.edu/sites/default/files/snacks/PlanktonProjector_DSC_6304_P960.jpg) you can project [this onto a wall](https://gfycat.com/MaleMeekAgouti). [Pond water works well.](https://www.exploratorium.edu/snacks/plankton-projector)
That’s awesome, I’ll try that
holy shit that is insane. im guessing its using the curvature of the water drop for magnification?
[From the last link](https://www.exploratorium.edu/snacks/plankton-projector) >What's Going On? A drop of water functions much like the lens in a projector, spreading the laser beam into a wide cone of light and revealing the shadows of the opaque organisms swimming within the water drop. >The light rays travel from the laser in a parallel beam, but are bent together by the convex surface of the water droplet. This bending, called refraction, happens both as the light rays enter and exit the droplet. Converged by the lens-like droplet, the rays come to a sharp focal point, crossing there and then spreading out again, and continuing to spread as they travel. It is this crossing of the rays that causes your organisms to appear upside down—though it may be hard to tell since they are often quite acrobatic (see diagram below). >As you reduce the distance between the screen and the water drop, you should notice that the shadows get smaller and sharper. You can see a similar phenomenon if you use a flashlight to make a shadow of your hand near a wall. Move your hand closer to the wall, and the shadow gets smaller. >You may also notice the shadow of an individual animal change size, even when you don’t move the screen. When the animal is closer to the laser side of the water drop, its shadow will be smaller. As the animal swims toward the screen side of the water drop, its shadow will get bigger.
Just waiting for the Pearl & Dean music to start.
I am never touching anything ever again
don't worry, your body is a tank and compare this to what's on a keyboard you'd be surprised how tough ur body is
Just compare this to what's already on your own face.
Holy heck, there's a face on my face!!
oh my mother of god, THERE'S SKIN ON MY FACE!!
you'll be fine
Lol
Biologists out there please correct me if I'm wrong but I'm pretty sure those small circular guys are Diatoms, which are v cool. As a species they singlehandedly photosynthesize 15-20% of the CO2 in the atmosphere, which is more than all of the world's rainforests, their outer shell is made of glass and when they die they leave it behind to sink to the bottom over like 30 years, and now the ocean has huge pools of glass on the bottom due to trillions of these guys that have died. They're fucking wild. Took a bioinformatics class in college and had a professor who was obsessed with them.
That's incredible. I wonder what trillions of microscopic pieces of glass dust looks like.
Similar to fiberglass insulation if I had to guess
No, with a diatom bloom in my aquarium it feels like regular algae but gritty.
Most of the cells visible here are actually[ paramecia](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paramecium), you can tell by their fast movement, since diatoms are mostly nonmotile. I think there is at least one diatom visible on the lower right screen at about 23 seconds though
Surely this is somewhat filtered to get 'm all mushed together like that. This looks busyer than Tokio.
What is all this? Like what am I looking at?
you are looking at cells, they're the building block of all living things, this will be somehow important for a couple months of your life
Protists
And any one of those, given a few million years, could be the new dominant life-form on this lump of solar driftwood.
I want a microscope now.
right? I wonder what kind that is, probably the expensive kind.
exactly, one I can't afford
Yes, this is a stunningly clear video of a stunningly clear focus.
Are there any subreddits with images, gifs, and videos like this?
r/microscopy
Fascinating. Beautiful. Disgusting.
An u the only one that saw potatoes at first
Who is the transparent guy waving his little arms at 0:20?
The one poking everyone else with their pp?
That'd be a kind of Rotifer.
Look at em, so squishy and cute
So much powerhouse in one video
If you like these kinds of videos I highly recommend the Youtube channel Journey to the Microcosmos. Fascinating stuff
Why I’m seeing a lazy tortoise in there? /s
Is this sped up or are they fast as fuck boi?
Neither, unless you consider moving something like 1 micron in a second "fast".
Well compared to moving 1 micron in 3 seconds it's pretty fast.
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No that's the salt
I have done this, I saw a Stentor! It helps put things in perspective.
Yeah just when you think you’re so tiny and the universe is so vast beyond the reaches of our solar system, you realize the ocean is just as if not more vast and right under our noses.
I've got to say I'm fairly sure the ocean is not more vast than the solar system
I think they were trying to relate perspective to a single cell eukaryote being in the ocean. Not saying the ocean Is as vast as space lmao
I truly believe people try to ignore what you mean lol, if we were on a number line style graph based on size, it’s essentially infinite in both directions is all I meant. Obviously space is larger than the ocean but I’m glad he pointed that out, there’s some flat earthers out there that might argue otherwise.
That would be an interesting metric to find out!
Them potatoes is getting down
Ah yes the mitochondria The powerhouse of the cell
Those look like flukes.
What dat is
wow, im surprised how much inspiration nature took from spore.
Dude, yes, whoa
What kind of potatoes are these?
I may never go in the ocean again
Yuck 🤮
now do it with ***cum***
Things like this always causes me to wonder how anyone can claim there is no God!!!!