Heliozoa: Round, Sticky, and Covered in Spikes 

What are the big green guys rolling in and out of frame in the clip from 6:00 to 6:30?

@@pvtpain66k look like synuras

"here comes the sun here comes the raging sun" -bill wurtz

I hate how I would likely get sick around those spirillum but this microbes totally fine...smh 🤣🤣🤣

Do you feel you're being accurately represented in the media?

how does it feel to be talked about by beings of infinitely more power and complexion

It only took a year too!

@@zulimations "COMPLEXION"! I'm sorry, I don't mean to be mean. Just. That's an unintentionally hilarious wrong word. We have SO much more melanin than heliozoa do!

@@neolexiousneolexian6079 LMFAOO I’m not even correcting it, it’s hilarious

wait that is actually so ridiculously creative and unique and weird... im obsessed with this now thank you

Then surely you must know a lot about the formation and maintenance of axopodia

We always root for the subject of the documentary!

Not only do they eat, but what goes in, must come out. I always giggle when they poop.

While we're confessing stuff, I always get hungry when watching undersea nature docs, especially the bits when predators are chasing "bait balls" of anchovies or such. I can't even watch "Finding Nemo" without craving fish & chips.

Lies! it is always a Monday.

@@ammendum9044 beat me to it!

My thoughts also

Yep! I look forward to them 🙂

True, their videos are quite calming.

*trap door spider would like to know ur location*

"Hunting is the practice of seeking, pursuing and capturing or killing"..of prey. It's a useful but broad term, that can be split into active and passive categoties of hunting, and then split into more specific kinds, like trap hunting, which the heliozoans have in common with spiders, for instance. Then there's trap-door spiders and many different uses of web. It's not that different spinning a web to trap prey, to growing appendages that do similar job. It might look funny/different but not to dissimilar to a spider hunting with a web etc.

If its consciously waiting for just that then yes it is hunting.

@@Galaxyofbrian : not to sure consciousness is either required or can be easily established/measured to any level of confidence. consciousness seems to be various brain related activities lumped conveniently together, in a human centric fashion.

@@bosscom6910 Big deal, they never leave moms basement

I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought of that...

George: I was in the pool! I was in the pool! It's a result of the chemical connections holding the microtubials breaking down and the structure depolymerizing!

Dead

-Che bigolo, Mandingo -È bigolo berghé agua fredda bwana

Specially the disappear part

People with ADHD actually usually speak at a faster pace due to their racing minds and how excited they get when they actually care about something enough to talk about it, so I'd say him going faster makes him more ADHD-like, rather than less, haha!

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-BitrBZy7Xkg.html&ab_channel=JourneytotheMicrocosmos ^^

2:41 I liked these tiny dancers.

Some heliozoans have a silica shell, it could be that.

Looks likes the ectoplasmic net of thraustochytrids

I think they are maybe vacuoles waiting to fuse with the outside and fill with food?

Looking down on axopodia that are pointing up at the lens ?

Same 😞

Just give us a bit of time and the microscopes will be available for everyone who wants to start their own journey! :) -James

@@JamsGerms thank you!

A revolution is forthcoming in the polearm industry.

Imagine sewing, but with a pincushion that creates needles instead of storing them.

It seems that one end or the other of these microtubules that make up the "backbone" of the axopodia can be disassembled/eroded at will. Similar microtubules are assembled and disassembled inside your own cells, to move things around (like chromosomes during mitosis). (ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-5rqbmLiSkpk.html for instance)

(They left a comment on the recent livestream! #NotAStalker)

I study neuronal microtubules and I can flat out tell you that orch-or theory is straight up bs, as will every other microtubule researchers will when asked.

@@leejuicy Any specific critiques of the theory? There are actually quite a few people who support it. I'm not asking for a super in-depth explanation, just a little more than the typical "I study it so I know what I'm talking about" argument.

@@ericpowell96 1. many MT-associated proteins and MT-modifying enzymes, which are central modulators in orch-or theory, are often dispensable for neuronal function. A good example is tubulin acetyltransferase MEC-17, where its loss-of-function phenotypes are limited to mechanosensation, despite acetylated tubulin being the predominant form of axonal MTs. Similarly, loss of many MAPs don't show overt behavioral phenotypes in model organisms. 2. Computer simulations of C elegans brain, the only animal so far to have every synaptic connections mapped, faithfully recapitulates its behavior. This simulation does not take account of any quantum effects, strongly arguing that quantum effects are unnecessary for the function of C elegans brain. Structures of MT and neurons are largely conserved between C elegans and humans, suggesting that qunatum effects are unlikely to play a central role in human behavior.

I think the brownian motion video had some.

Virus structures are exponentially smaller than the smallest microorganisms. They require ridiculously powerful electron microscopes

@@purplepowerranger23 Yeah, they'd also need to get their hands on the virus, which while probably not difficult.... (Though I guess they could just use any old coronavirus.)

You seriously expect content creators to drop everything and listen to one whinging wanker over all their fans, positive feedback, merch, and Patreon?

@@neolexiousneolexian6079 that can change

Sadly, now 2. Who ARE these people?

@Crystal Lewis