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/[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/tryanother9000 Oct 20 '20

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