"Shrimp cannon" has to be one of the greatest two-word phrases ever. I want one, you want one, all the Fallout games need some. Why is this world so cruel as to deny us such awesomeness?
The fact is that they actually can't, because mantis shrimp do not have opponent process neurons, so they can only see the colours that they have receptors for. That's why they have so many different photoreceptors. The more you know.
@@AceDeclan Well hold on now. While Nightthought and you are technically correct, the best kind of correct, it slightly seems like you're implying there are not more colors to see. I will remind you that we just made-up Magenta. Who knows what's happened in the dreams of a thousand mantis shrimp?
@@DeDraconis you need fairly heavy imagine processing capabilities to see in as many colours we humans do, hell we can imagine colours that our eyes cannot see. That is to say we can 'see' colours that you physically cannot paint, show on a screen or otherwise have an object show, some examples being Syrillian Blue or Hyperbolic Orange (the later of those two my brain apparently can't imagine...) And those aren't the weirdest, there are others like a mix of blue and yellow that isn't green...yeah the Human brain is a weird and wonderful thing...
Probably not. :( Pancreas is, unlike skin, colon or stomach, not available for visual inspection. The other problem is that pancreatic cancer gives very few symptoms until it is advanced, which is why no one is looking for it until it is late stage in the disease.
@@AP-uj2fg Advances in cameras could never make your eyes see colors you can't see unless you replaced your eyes with those cameras and they fed the data right into your brain. Your eyes just don't have the hardware to see infrared, UV, circular polarized light, etc. Cameras already do but have to display on monitors in colors that our eyes can see so we display them in false color. This is why many images taken of space are in "false color" because they are seeing and recording wavelengths we can't see.
I once pounded two BIG nitro cold brew coffees in quick succession and i could smell colors and felt like i could see a coulle seconds into the future.
@@martianastronaut4917: Reminds me of that stupid joke about the profane parrot. Guy buys a parrot at a petstore, but as soon as he gets it home, it starts squawking out some of the fowlest (sorry for the pun) language you could ever hope not to hear. Stuff that would make a sailor blush, and your racist old granny die of embarrassment. Guy tries to take it back to the shop, but no returns or refunds. Finally, the guy gets so fed up, he stuffs the parrot in the freezer and slams the door shut. Moments later, he hears even worse language, accompanied by some banging for a couple of minutes. After that, a bloodcurdling scream from the horrorpits of hell, then silence. Glorious, wonderful, troubling silence. Fearing he may have killed the bird, he opens the freezer door to find it shivering slightly, but none the worse for wear. Holding out his hand, he says "Are you gonna behave yourself from now on?" The parrot timidly steps onto the man's outstretched finger and says in a muted tone, "Absolutely sir. I now see the error of my ways, and wish to apologize for my former conduct. It was rude, out of line, and you'd be well within your rights to throw me and my clipped wings out onto the streets. But if you'll have me, I promise to be the most well-behaved bird anyone has ever known." "Alright then. You can stay." "Thank you, sir. Just one small thing, if it's not too impertinent. I must know, what horrendous crime did the chicken commit?" You could modify the punchline more towards your comment thusly: "...what horrendous crime did the -gangrene- HeLa cells commit?"
Ngl, feels kinda weird that this video was uploaded exactly one day after my father was diagnosed with a prostate cancer (was found out early, so he has great chances of getting treated without any serious consequences, so yay for that).
So Hank wants to punch cancer patients in the tumor. 2:51 :D Love the idea of diagnosing more with cameras instead of having to get poked with needles.
These shrimp can also see a huge chunk of the EM spectrum - much more than the small part making up visible light. The more we can discover about nature, the more ways we can copy it to do extraordinary things!
Alternatively, where other animals are limited by the incredibly slow but doubtlessly effective process of Darwinistic Natural Selection, in a fraction of the time it likely took the mantis shrimp to develop its incredible eyes, we learned to use tools, banded together in large social groups, managed to organize large-scale resource extraction from our environment, and essentially banged rocks together so well that those rocks can now detect cancer by looking at it real good.
Hank, that's one of the most optimistic vids you've done for a while. Do me a favour and follow this story? I'd love to find out that this has actually become a real diagnostic thing (at which point I go have a conversation with my GP!) Of course I'm subbed, so will see it if you post it. Thanks all!
THIS is maybe the first SciShow vid I've encountered that doesn't have Closed Captions up within hours. Since most voices sound like babbling water, I am unable to follow the narrative and I truly regret that. MOST presenters will blame RU-vid for this, then realize they forgot to tick the CC box at uploading. MANY times less prominent channels take a couple of days to get the captions, but SciShow is a star and generally has CCs up within the first hour. It ain't easy going deaf, but the lack of closed captions is all it takes to not watch the vid.
I came across an open hardware project for making a Raspberry Pi camera sensitive to polarized light. I can't recall the name of it at the moment. It used the type of lens found in automatically darkening welding helmets, some electronics to vary the angle of the liquid crystals with more control, and a little math applied to successive photos taken with varying polarization angles. IIRC, it could do circularly polarized light too.
Hank.. Best host on RU-vid 🔥.. Ur cool & quirky style always gives me a laugh 😋.. I learn something I want to know more about 🤓.. Sorta guy I could watch & listen to all day 😜.. Fave host ever 🤩
It's amazing how many inventions were inspired by nature. Whether it's the animal-inspired drugs in yesterday's video, or the machines designed to "see" cancer inspired by mantis shrimp in this video, or whether they're inventions that make our lives easier in more trivial ways (like how burrs inspired Velcro), Nature has had a lot of practice getting good at all the amazing stuff it does, so I guess it's only natural that scientists take inspiration from the best. My only worry is that Mother Nature might sue us for plagiarism!
Are- I- Hank- CANCER? I get being able to see polarized light, but I didn’t know that Cancer cells reacted differently to polarized light. This is really fun!
Well, if you think about it, cancer cells are diferent shape, size, structure and grow diferently than all cells around them, so they bed light diferently. Polaralized light is just absurdly easy to notice diferences in way it get bended, since its only 1 plane (less noise). Once you can see it in the first place, diference becomes obvious.
Doctor: time for your colonoscopy. Me: fine... hey what's that you got there? Doctor: Oh it's just the new prototype colonoscopy probe with cancer visualizer and detector Me: Why does it look like there's a multicolored shrimp at the end of it. Doctor: That's the detector. Me: Oh...
Skin and digestive system are easily accessible by camera and common sources of cancer. I think they can even stick one in your lungs but it would not be pleasant. If they can get it fast enough and easy enough could be used to remove all the cancer once they open you up to go after a tumor or suspected tumor. I want skin cancer detecting tanning bed type pods using this just get naked lay down and let the camera check you out
This is soooo cool. My gramma has cancer, i wish we found it years ago, early on. Sad thing about our world is that if that camera could have been weaponized, it would have been made decades ago.
dude....no wait dude!!!! If this work, like proves in trials that its like 99% effective at detecting early stages of cancer, that means we are making a giant leap in curing cancer all together omg thats so incredibly exciting!!
We can't perceived those "colours", even if we can build the telescope. We would still need to translate it to normal colours. Just like Gamma Ray telescope.
The natural first (Occam’s) assumption to explain how or why a particle like a photon (or electron, etc) might behave as an uncertain location particle while also like a polarizable axial or helical wave ''packet'', given that everything in the universe from electrons to solar systems are in orbit with something else pulling them into polarizable axial or helical apparent waves depending on the orientation of their orbits as they travel thru space, and given that we know we’re in a sea of undetectable dark matter but don’t know where it’s disbursed, is that they’re in orbit with an undetectable dark matter particle pulling them into polarizable axial or helical apparent waves as they travel where the speed of their orbit determines the wavelength and the diameter is the amplitude which would explain the double slit, uncertainty, etc.
There's a video of a dude accidentally caught a mantis shrimp and the shrimp got free on the boat and punched a hole right through the guy's boot and into his foot. Left a nice little gash, that's scary
With 16 types of color receptors, and 6 types of receptors for picking up polarized light, Mantis Shrimp eye anatomy is probably inspiring scientists, astronomers, etc. to develop new types of microscopes and telescopes. I wonder how intelligent they are comparted to other species. They certainly seem smart. Thanks
