Journey to the Microcosmos - 2020-11-24
It's time to explore a big question while we watch a ciliate go through its last moments. Follow Journey to the Microcosmos: Twitter: https://twitter.com/journeytomicro Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JourneyToMicro Support the Microcosmos: http://www.patreon.com/journeytomicro More from Jam’s Germs: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jam_and_germs YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCn4UedbiTeN96izf-CxEPbg Hosted by Hank Green: Twitter: https://twitter.com/hankgreen YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/vlogbrothers Music by Andrew Huang: https://www.youtube.com/andrewhuang Journey to the Microcosmos is a Complexly production. Find out more at https://www.complexly.com Stock video from: https://www.videoblocks.com
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.
I was sad, but your comment made me happy again
Not at all, it's dead.
@Dark Castle Yes, indeed. However, it's remains nourished other microbes that live on. When they die, the microbes that consumed the ciliat remains, will then feed other microbes. Some of the energy that was in our dearly departed ciliat is still existing today, and growing in other microbes.
Ironic, it has reached immortality after dying.
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.
Love all the smarter then thou atheists who think they know better
@mattvmani god isn’t real. Stop trying to force your religion onto other people 😃
We all will die because our Creator has planned so. He has created life through equilibrium to show you that this life did not come to existence by itself or by chance or by probabilty. He has a simple plan to create life and death - to judge human beings. One who obey Creator will be rewarded in afterlife. And other who disobey Him even after getting all the facts will be punished for deliberate disobedience.
What all the naysayers in the comment section have not pointed out is, WHY is it attempting to reach chemical equilibrium? God created the universe...that includes the periodic table
@Giovanni Marrero Because God literally made everything want to be at chemical equilibrium. and no, life wants to not reach equilibrium. That's the definition of life.
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.
very nice eulogy.
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.
@Father (3$) Bill 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.
Not all pepple emphasise with this "gelatinous turd", bro..
@Isaac Velazquez we can emphasize, but we aren't obliged to, you know; 2 different things.
this ciliate will never know the 500k gigantic organisms that knew and loved him
Deep
@newjerseyjustin hahahaha very true :-)
@FunkYeah
That description fits a lot of humanoid life forms.
1,6 million now
I literally teared up when it died. What a odd connection to be made. I guess maybe the emotion wasn't for the ciliate but possibly for all of life with its finite existence on this planet.
@Elder Millennial Yup
@Elder Millennial I mean, what is "death by old age" but death from a long passage of time? When humans die of old age, it's not really because of old age either. It's because of conditions associated with it -- heart attack, cancer, weakened immune system, kidney disease, etc.
@Atlas
Well, the Telomere clock is an absolute limiter, regardless of how effectively we eventually treat all other comorbidities. I’ve heard a theory that if we became absolutely immune to everything else, staying relatively physically young and healthy, we would all live to be 150-160, give or take slight variations on average telomere length. At that point, cells simply stop dividing, the division regulatory clock would be utterly spent. The effect might then be like someone suddenly suffering a minimally fatal dose of radiation poisoning that stops the cells dividing flat out. Everything would break down as the last generation of cells gradually dies off.
@Elder Millennial Man fuck the telomere clock bruh. If we could find a way to replace or at least extend our telomeres with each replication cycle, then we could theoretically live forever. Assuming we've also cured/prevented all other diseases of course.
Weaksauce
I’ve noticed with microscopic life like this that in the time leading up until they die, they become smaller and smaller.
Old people do too :(
@Jannick Breitenfellner yep, I was walking behind an old lady at a mall and with each step she took her organs were spilling out. Gross experience
@KailyKail I hadn't noticed that. Did it also seem to you that it had entered its 'death throes?'
I have been pondering this same question for some time now. It struck me once when I was going through a huge bowl of "not quite fresh" arugula, picking out the limp slimy decaying bits. Finished, I decided to go through it again before I made the salad. Almost as many leaves had spoiled in that 20 minute interval. Then I did it again, each time removing almost the same amount. Their time was almost up, but something in those leaves caused some to die before the others. The other time was opening a bottom fridge drawer and seeing 4 lemons nestled together that I had forgotten about. Three were perfectly good. One was a perfectly green moldy mass. It had died. Why that one? How do they decide when its time to go to green moldy heaven?
I love it when people get introspective like that! It means there is empathy going on. (Which I'm always for.)
Also, I am really surprised by your lemons: usually when a fruit or veggie is going bad and it's touching another, it makes the others go bad, too. That is the mystery for me: why death can happen by proximity.
@Bruce B solidarity. Love and Kindness
Watching the moment of death of this ciliate was almost a spiritual experience. Great video!
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
@Antonio SCENDRATE GATTICO What was it that was common in your dream state, waking state and anesthetic state? That which is present in all the realities is the only true reality. When you took anesthesia it only effected your physical senses which were never the "true" reality in the first place. Anesthesia only took away the material world from your observation. The true reality the "Observer" was there and will always be there no matter what you do. Identify with that inner observer and you will be immortal.
@Upper Echelon Man, I wish my dreams were the really real reality, if only because they're pretty cool. But on the other hand, I can't help but notice how much they seem to take inspiration from movies I watched.
@Antonio SCENDRATE GATTICO For all we know, we could be in a dream right now. What you dream about might change depending on which dream you are in. But aren't you glad that that you the "dreamer" remains the same no matter which dream you are in? People focus too much on the dreams. I say it's now time that the world starts focusing on the dreamer instead.
That happened to me
@Antonio SCENDRATE GATTICO This is true, but also true for opinions and worldview. We absorb information and opinions around us and they shape how we see and translate the physical world with our own perception and construct a world we see as "true", but is continually at odds with others.
Even the solid, physical world doesn't have constants between people. For instance, one person might find a thing, shape or figure attractive, another might find it ugly; which is true? Which is correct?
Reality is an illusion, it's just a very, very convincing illusion that is apparently exempt from scrutiny as it is tangible, "exists" and is experienced by many at once; the shared experience is airtight to the point where an awake, conscious mind doesn't tend to question it's veracity moment to moment, existing in ignorant bliss as it floats along the surface.
This almost made me cry. I felt life leaving me as I was watching.
Oh gosh
Didn't think it was that depressing tbh
My my, can you deal with reality I wonder?
If this shakes you, don't step out the door.
Aside from a few still pictures, I've never seen something like this before. It's amazing, I never knew just how... vibrant the microscopic world is, or even that single-celled organisms have heads and legs and whatnot. And look at that, 3:29 there even are microscopic armadillos!
I love your definition of life. Also it's a beautiful demonstration of increasing entropy . One minute you have an organized creature. The next you have a homogeneous spread of material through the water.
Good thing the universe has so much inhomogeneity. Otherwise we'd have never self assembled in the first place.
I love how the microcosmos really makes you reflect on your assumptions, the things you thought were true not because of any actual reasoning but just because they have always been there with you. The microcosmos had this special ability to be so extremely different from our normal existence, but still relatable to us. Both of us are practically the same, just in differences of scale. And it really makes you think, what other "different" things are the same when looked at, at scale.
"2020 can't get any worse."
Me, knowing that a ciliate died.
2021 is ending and 2022 will not be any better. RIP dear ciliates
How do you get to hell?
Very simple: claim that you're innocent.
How do you get to heaven?
Very simple: Admit that you're not Innocent, you're guilty and ask for mercy.
How to know if you're guilty or not?
Simply: Compare your life to the Ten Commandments God gave you in the Bible.
Everyone agrees that if people followed the ten commandments there would be no need for governments or police.
Do not lie.
Do not steal.
Do not commit adultery.
Do not insult God by using his name as a cuss word.
There are six more but let's just leave it at that.
How many lies have you told in your life?
Have you ever taken anything that didn't belong to you?
Jesus said, if you look at a women lustfully you've already committed adultery in your heart with that woman.
How many times a day do you do that?
Do you use God's name as a cuss word?
Would you do that with your own mother's name?
If you answer these questions honestly you know that you're guilty.
God can justly punish you and send you to hell.
Ask him for mercy.
His name is Jesus.
It's as simple as this, The Ten Commandments are called the moral law. You and I broke God's laws. Jesus paid the fine.
The fine is death.
Ezekiel 18:20 —
"The soul who sins shall die.
That's why Jesus had to die on the cross for our sins. This is why God is able to give us Mercy.
Option A.
You die for your own sins.
Option B.
Ask for mercy and accept that Jesus died for you.
:::
Wellcome to 2022!
@Jaciel Barros It keeps getting better and better doesn't it?
@Andre Gon as we can see.. waiting for the aliens
Incredible! The story telling, the visuals, the poignant pause, the palpable empathy - everything about this is so surreal. I feel connected to the everything around me. Indeed, the 'system' that is sustaining me right now is the same that nourished that Ciliate too. The ancients likely called this 'Yoga' or union of all. That invariably leads you to ponder 'Who am I?' Am I a blink of time, a transient chemistry, a loving 'system' that cradles life....or perhaps something more subtle, more expansive - pervading in and beyond the cell membrane of that lovable Ciliate and the periphery of my senses...pulling together matter and energy at will to orchestrate the opera of a living cosmos
I’ve become a patron. Thank you for this amazing content, I am humbled to support such a thoughtful channel.
This is one of the best videos on youtube. Thank you for this quality, moving but peaceful, content.
Watched this a few times now and it still touches something in me!
Brilliant work, thank you 🙏
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.
you'd be surprised to know how far human bodies can go too
@loomhigh :'D thanks for the laugh
How do you get to hell?
Very simple: claim that you're innocent.
How do you get to heaven?
Very simple: Admit that you're not Innocent, you're guilty and ask for mercy.
How to know if you're guilty or not?
Simply: Compare your life to the Ten Commandments God gave you in the Bible.
Everyone agrees that if people followed the ten commandments there would be no need for governments or police.
Do not lie.
Do not steal.
Do not commit adultery.
Do not insult God by using his name as a cuss word.
There are six more but let's just leave it at that.
How many lies have you told in your life?
Have you ever taken anything that didn't belong to you?
Jesus said, if you look at a women lustfully you've already committed adultery in your heart with that woman.
How many times a day do you do that?
Do you use God's name as a cuss word?
Would you do that with your own mother's name?
If you answer these questions honestly you know that you're guilty.
God can justly punish you and send you to hell.
Ask him for mercy.
His name is Jesus.
It's as simple as this, The Ten Commandments are called the moral law. You and I broke God's laws. Jesus paid the fine.
The fine is death.
Ezekiel 18:20 —
"The soul who sins shall die.
That's why Jesus had to die on the cross for our sins. This is why God is able to give us Mercy.
Option A.
You die for your own sins.
Option B.
Ask for mercy and accept that Jesus died for you.
,:
@Disent Design idk
They way you explained life and death it's in a different level dude. It's so simple but at the same time so complex, it blew my mind
Death happens when everyone forgets you.
We have to keep this ciliate alive!!
How is a ciliate featured in one of the best videos I’ve ever seen? Phenomenal writing and narration. Thank you!
You sir are, hands down, the best narrator on all of YouTube. I always love your videos. They are fascinating, they are beautifully filmed, and they are soothing… thanks to you. Great job as always! Peace✌️from Oklahoma!
I really don't think I've seen anything so profound in my life. That was absolutely beautiful, thank you for making it.
You are a story teller and also a poet 👍 great video, I do really feel sad for this Ciliate, he looked very happy just minutes ago.
this needs more views. such a beautiful explanation of life and death
Your explanation of this blew my mind. Love this and thank you for what you do! Wow....
I was holding my father's hand while he drew his last breath not 10 hours ago. I find this soothing.
@Cryp!0G00n too bad that we cant choose if we want to take part in it or not
I understand this. I was doing the same thing over 20 years ago. It has stayed with me. I’m still not sure it was a good or a bad thing. As time has passed, I’m leaning toward good. It is an awesome, wonderful and terrible thing to be with someone when they die. I’m struck by the permanence.
How do you get to hell?
Very simple: claim that you're innocent.
How do you get to heaven?
Very simple: Admit that you're not Innocent, you're guilty and ask for mercy.
How to know if you're guilty or not?
Simply: Compare your life to the Ten Commandments God gave you in the Bible.
Everyone agrees that if people followed the ten commandments there would be no need for governments or police.
Do not lie.
Do not steal.
Do not commit adultery.
Do not insult God by using his name as a cuss word.
There are six more but let's just leave it at that.
How many lies have you told in your life?
Have you ever taken anything that didn't belong to you?
Jesus said, if you look at a women lustfully you've already committed adultery in your heart with that woman.
How many times a day do you do that?
Do you use God's name as a cuss word?
Would you do that with your own mother's name?
If you answer these questions honestly you know that you're guilty.
God can justly punish you and send you to hell.
Ask him for mercy.
His name is Jesus.
It's as simple as this, The Ten Commandments are called the moral law. You and I broke God's laws. Jesus paid the fine.
The fine is death.
Ezekiel 18:20 —
"The soul who sins shall die.
That's why Jesus had to die on the cross for our sins. This is why God is able to give us Mercy.
Option A.
You die for your own sins.
Option B.
Ask for mercy and accept that Jesus died for you.
;'
@Brian Hale Reported... for misinformation.
Watching this video has genuinely made me cry. Excellent video of documenting this organism's final moments of life, as well as defining what "life" really means.
I hate to break it to you but you have some problems
Wow, super calm, meditative walkthrough and explanation. RIP little ciliate ✨
This is such a fascinating channel. Thank you for this!
This little buddy (body) got old and died in front of our very eyes, RIP restless ciliate.
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.
That's br00tal af, bro . "THE INCINERATOR" IS YOUR NEW LEGACY.
@Isaac Velazquez millions of bacteria die inside of you every minute...
Death is the end of all human beings as well, we live longer, it's just a different time scale.
What is your plan for the afterlife?
@ThatHandsomeDevil08 imagination...that u think u are better than him....
What an incredible phenomena this channel is, a way to form a bond across time and space between a single called organism and millions of earths newest edition of primate. The modern world creates links that have been impossible for the previous 3 billion or so years of life’s history, and I am thankful to be a part of it.
It's comforting to know that we can define an abstract concept that makes us anxious with sufficient accuracy as to to give it somewhat of a shape we can discuss on and ease our minds.
I have never been so moved over something so abstract...your narration along with the music, moved me...almost to tears.
This video just earned you a new and very enthusiastic subscriber. So much science content is soooo soulless. This was so considered and full of heart. What is science for if not to venture to our intellectual frontiers and consider the meaning of life. Thank you. Just lovely
Well, you managed to educate me while simultaneously giving me an existential crisis. You have a new subscriber.
@Btheo8
Okay, good luck with the whole being dirt, thing.
And, yes, Darwinism is a joke when tested by real science.
I believe I can prove that any fair-minded person but there are very few of those on internet comment sections.
Most people would prefer to be dirt than to acknowledge that God has the authority to tell them what to do... and to punish them when they don't do it.
Same.
How do you get to hell?
Very simple: claim that you're innocent.
How do you get to heaven?
Very simple: Admit that you're not Innocent, you're guilty and ask for mercy.
How to know if you're guilty or not?
Simply: Compare your life to the Ten Commandments God gave you in the Bible.
Everyone agrees that if people followed the ten commandments there would be no need for governments or police.
Do not lie.
Do not steal.
Do not commit adultery.
Do not insult God by using his name as a cuss word.
There are six more but let's just leave it at that.
How many lies have you told in your life?
Have you ever taken anything that didn't belong to you?
Jesus said, if you look at a women lustfully you've already committed adultery in your heart with that woman.
How many times a day do you do that?
Do you use God's name as a cuss word?
Would you do that with your own mother's name?
If you answer these questions honestly you know that you're guilty.
God can justly punish you and send you to hell.
Ask him for mercy.
His name is Jesus.
It's as simple as this, The Ten Commandments are called the moral law. You and I broke God's laws. Jesus paid the fine.
The fine is death.
Ezekiel 18:20 —
"The soul who sins shall die.
That's why Jesus had to die on the cross for our sins. This is why God is able to give us Mercy.
Option A.
You die for your own sins.
Option B.
Ask for mercy and accept that Jesus died for you.
()
@Brian Hale Jesus actually never wrote any book... Christianity also said that the Earth was flat. Christians burnt 2/3 of the ancient library of Alexandria were so much ancient Greek knowledge got burnt. Hundreds of thousands of people were killed in the name of christianity. There is nothing good about religions especially in the way humans think of religion. All we have to do in life is be good people, no need to justify WHY we do good. For example Don’t do good because you might go to “heaven” because of that. Just do good because thats what your heart and soul tells you. And be educated in the sciences, literature and music. And accept the fact that most questions such as life and death, how and why, will never be answered by us because we are limited.
I always loved microscopes it's like holding outer space within our hands.
This amazing video made it clear to me that, despite being scientifically minded, I am a theist. A deity is something which fulfills, to us, the role we are playing on this ciliates' life. In the end, we are but glimpses of brief consciousness in a gargantuan, timeless ocean.
Mr WeatherHacker there are many scientists that know there is a God
And they know precisely because of what they see.
This video just gave me a profound new understanding of what it means to die, and I thank you for that. It clicked when you caught me by surprise by defining extinction.
Having learned about cellular apoptosis in high school biology, I'm surprised at how long that little guy kept chugging along after its cell membrane decided to stop doing its job.
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.
@Absolutely a girl 101 not true for everyone...I've gone through enough shit to be considered extremely lucky to be alive let alone lucky enough to still be able to move un-aided and death is my ONLY fear...I guess it depends on the person.
How beautifully you write! Your comment reminds me of The Incredible Shrinking Man, the 1957 film which ends with the protagonist shrinking into possible nothingness, or into infinitely smaller and smaller worlds within worlds. It’s a remarkably philosophical and poetic moment.
@Mr Forest one word 'Cryonics'
How do you get to hell?
Very simple: claim that you're innocent.
How do you get to heaven?
Very simple: Admit that you're not Innocent, you're guilty and ask for mercy.
How to know if you're guilty or not?
Simply: Compare your life to the Ten Commandments God gave you in the Bible.
Everyone agrees that if people followed the ten commandments there would be no need for governments or police.
Do not lie.
Do not steal.
Do not commit adultery.
Do not insult God by using his name as a cuss word.
There are six more but let's just leave it at that.
How many lies have you told in your life?
Have you ever taken anything that didn't belong to you?
Jesus said, if you look at a women lustfully you've already committed adultery in your heart with that woman.
How many times a day do you do that?
Do you use God's name as a cuss word?
Would you do that with your own mother's name?
If you answer these questions honestly you know that you're guilty.
God can justly punish you and send you to hell.
Ask him for mercy.
His name is Jesus.
It's as simple as this, The Ten Commandments are called the moral law. You and I broke God's laws. Jesus paid the fine.
The fine is death.
Ezekiel 18:20 —
"The soul who sins shall die.
That's why Jesus had to die on the cross for our sins. This is why God is able to give us Mercy.
Option A.
You die for your own sins.
Option B.
Ask for mercy and accept that Jesus died for you.
;:
It lived its life to the fullest and enjoyed every minute of it. RIP.
WOW what a journey! Absolutely amazing video and philosophy. Well done!
What caused it to "bleed out" and fall apart? It looked like something too small for us to see was chewing away at it, like its own version of piranhas or flesh eating bacteria.
Omg. During my equilibrium and thermodynamics classes I have actually thought about death of organisms like this, same as in the video. We people are increasing the entropy of the universe so as to survive. We are using energy against equilibrium all the time. In a sense we are using the laws of physics to oppose physics lol
We spend our lives fighting the Second Law.
Fun fact: this little organism technically had a funeral with 250K paticipant.
And all this in Corona times...
More like watched his liveleak.
@Andre ASMR I cried 🥺
I want this vídeo at my funeral
How do you get to hell?
Very simple: claim that you're innocent.
How do you get to heaven?
Very simple: Admit that you're not Innocent, you're guilty and ask for mercy.
How to know if you're guilty or not?
Simply: Compare your life to the Ten Commandments God gave you in the Bible.
Everyone agrees that if people followed the ten commandments there would be no need for governments or police.
Do not lie.
Do not steal.
Do not commit adultery.
Do not insult God by using his name as a cuss word.
There are six more but let's just leave it at that.
How many lies have you told in your life?
Have you ever taken anything that didn't belong to you?
Jesus said, if you look at a women lustfully you've already committed adultery in your heart with that woman.
How many times a day do you do that?
Do you use God's name as a cuss word?
Would you do that with your own mother's name?
If you answer these questions honestly you know that you're guilty.
God can justly punish you and send you to hell.
Ask him for mercy.
His name is Jesus.
It's as simple as this, The Ten Commandments are called the moral law. You and I broke God's laws. Jesus paid the fine.
The fine is death.
Ezekiel 18:20 —
"The soul who sins shall die.
That's why Jesus had to die on the cross for our sins. This is why God is able to give us Mercy.
Option A.
You die for your own sins.
Option B.
Ask for mercy and accept that Jesus died for you.
_
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AJ Navarro - 2021-01-21
Sending my deepest condolences to the family of this ciliate
Aman G. - 2022-03-01
RIP
Steve Edwards - 2022-03-02
Thank you , he was very close to me.😢
codjh9 - 2022-03-05
I hope you contributed to their GoFundMe...
Simon Masters - 2022-03-18
@TRUE wow dude get a grip...did anyone ask for all that in response to a biology video?
Daniel Smith - 2022-05-16
He got what was coming to him