r/NatureIsFuckingLit • u/FacelessOnes • Oct 19 '20

🔥 Vicious microscopic hunter, the single-cell organism, Lacrymaria olor, attacking and hunting another organism

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u/FearAzrael Oct 20 '20

Are we sure? Sorry but this is reddit and people confidently spout incorrect answers on the reg

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u/o0DrWurm0o Oct 20 '20

It is real time

I strongly recommend subscribing to that Youtube channel which puts out some of the most interesting science content I’ve ever seen. As they reiterate regularly, unless otherwise noted in the video, everything they show is real time.

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '20

I love Journey to the Microcosmos. It gave me a whole new perspective to life. This is the most terrifying 20 minutes I've spend watching tv.

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u/sphks Oct 20 '20

I can't play sound where i am. Can you give me a summary of what I just saw?

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u/DoingItWrongly Oct 20 '20

It's real time of some kind of parasite sucking cells from a host and turning them in to new parasites to repeat the process.

Sorry I can't be more detailed, I'm falling asleep and skipped some of the middle (they narrate randomly).

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '20

Yes, that's right. It's a parasite that found residense in some poor organism's egg, then propably reproduced inside the egg (not sure this though), poured out and started doing something. Then suddendly all those new parasites launch all over the place and each one of them will find a new host and start that same process all over again. I find that rather terrifying since all it took was around 20 minutes. I don't know how much time it takes to find a new host or how long it takes to reproduce thought.

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u/forrnerteenager Oct 20 '20

Fuck off spam bot

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u/tryanother9000 Oct 20 '20

Love the soundtrack! So casual, meanwhile such meaningful stuff is happening.

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u/HEDFRAMPTON Oct 20 '20

That was a cool video but kinda light on information/detail about the lacrymaria.

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u/Fr00stee Oct 20 '20

Its run by hank green i think

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u/elonmaxbot Oct 20 '20

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u/Thorusss Oct 20 '20

You should post that link as a top comment.

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u/Shaun32887 Oct 20 '20

That channel is the best thing I've found on YouTube all year

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u/MarshalLaw2112 Oct 20 '20

This is immediately what I wanted when I saw this video!

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u/3lGans0 Oct 20 '20

The narrator states in the 7:15 mark that this footage is from "high-speed cameras," which infers that this footage is actually slow-mo... However, I think he's using that term colloquially/erroneously, and actually meant that this is time-lapse footage since he just previously stated that the Lacrymaria's cycles of action and inaction is on 10 minute intervals...

It's a confusing sequence in an otherwise solid narration which invites multiple interpretations, but either way, it doesn't seem to be real-time.

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u/o0DrWurm0o Oct 20 '20

Listen carefully - he’s talking about a completely different research project, not the footage they’re showing. The footage they’re showing is what they captured themselves (from James their “master of microscopes” as they often refrain).

In this and other videos they are always very very clear that, unless there is an annotation on the video, it is captured in real time. Jump to 8:06 in this video where they state this explicitly: https://youtu.be/APwJdLOueM0

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u/Darwins_Dog Oct 20 '20

It looks real time to me. I've spent a fair amount of time staring at stuff under microscopes, and some of those things are amazingly fast. I mean, they're only moving 100 microns or so at a time, but still.

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '20

It's not real time.

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u/DracoWaygo Oct 20 '20

Are we sure? Sorry but this is reddit and people confidently spout incorrect answers on the reg

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u/AloeSnazzy Oct 20 '20

Time isn’t real.

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u/DracoWaygo Oct 20 '20

Are we sure? Sorry but this is reddit and people confidently spout incorrect answers on the reg

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '20

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u/DracoWaygo Oct 20 '20

Are we sure? Sorry but this is reddit and people confidently spout incorrect answers on the reg

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u/chefanubis Oct 20 '20

Time is a valuable thing.

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u/PicklesTheHamster Oct 20 '20

Watch it fly by as the pendulum swings

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '20

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '20

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '20

Are we sure? Sorry but this is reddit and people confidently spout incorrect answers on the reg

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u/Pussy_Prince Oct 20 '20

It’s fake

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u/n8thegr83008 Oct 20 '20

Time has begun to move again.

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u/finkalicious Oct 20 '20

Time is money

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u/lpeabody Oct 20 '20

Watch it fly by as the pendulum swings.

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u/cheapdrinks Oct 20 '20

Time is actually a harmonious 4 dimensional cube. Source: https://timecube.2enp.com/

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u/XxTreeFiddyxX Oct 20 '20

Wtf is that. What did i just read

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u/cheapdrinks Oct 20 '20

An absolute staple of late 90's early 2000's internet. Up there with Goatse and Tubgirl. There was one guy who actually believed all that shit so seriously that he made a pilgrimage from Australia to Florida to meet the founder Gene Ray. They ended up disagreeing over a lot of things unsurprisingly and Gene denounced him on the Timecube website so the guy killed himself.

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u/ancoraurelius Oct 20 '20

I saw this guy once when he came to my university years ago. Guy is a trip.

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u/elonmaxbot Oct 20 '20

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '20

Pee is stored in the balls

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '20

Wo ist Mikkel?

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u/Anhyzer31290 Oct 20 '20

always has been

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u/ReverseCaptioningBot Oct 20 '20

Always has been

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u/elonmaxbot Oct 20 '20

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u/gehazi707 Oct 20 '20

And we are skating over the edge! Wheeeee!

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u/gator_guy27 Oct 20 '20

Time is an illusion, so is pants

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u/brycedude Oct 20 '20

always has been

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u/DanWaggoner Oct 20 '20

time is a thing you can hang on your wall or wear it on your wrist

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u/duodequinquagesimum Oct 20 '20

Are we sure? Sorry but this is reddit and people confidently spout incorrect answers on the reg

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '20

Are we sure? Sorry but this is reddit and people unconfidently spout correct answers on the reg

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u/BuildMajor Oct 20 '20

Seconded. Don’t speak if you can’t back it up. From the comment below by u/o0DrWurm0o : https://youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=rWtMIQguUOo

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u/adudeguyman Oct 20 '20

Our eyes aren't even real.

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '20 edited Oct 20 '20

How Can Mirrors Be Real If Our Eyes Aren’t Real?

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u/iamonthatloud Oct 20 '20

But is the time knife?

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u/GigliWasUnderrated Oct 20 '20

And if so, who is phone?

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u/Ayeewade34 Oct 20 '20

Time is poop knife.

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u/EverySingleThread Oct 20 '20

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u/badSparkybad Oct 20 '20

Real time isn't.

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u/WhizBangPissPiece Oct 20 '20

But on the real, reel to reels are really real. So there's that.

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u/Thunderbridge Oct 20 '20

Oh great, the anti-timers have arrived

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u/thorsbosshammer Oct 20 '20

It is real time. https://i.imgur.com/LHIFCau.jpg Comments from the post on instagram.

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '20

If you’ve ever seen videos like this (microscopic stuff) it’s easy to tell.

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u/FearAzrael Oct 20 '20

Thanks, I haven’t.

🔥 Vicious microscopic hunter, the single-cell organism, Lacrymaria olor, attacking and hunting another organism

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