We Recorded Some Strange Goop. What Is It? 

For the mobile users: 1:13 - Into The Goop 3:53 - Is The Goop Stopping? 4:14 - The Goop Is Stopping 6:57 - A Sphere Appears 8:20 - Infection 12:03 - Secrets Revealed 15:17 - Expansion 21:00 - Pressure Mounts

This was the weirdest thing I've ever seen under the microscope. It just blew my mind! Ps. Sorry for adjusting the microscope here and there. It was my old makeshift microscope and needed a lot of adjustments.

There is an expression that something is as exciting as "watching mold grow," and until now, I thought that meant "boring." Now I am not so sure that it doesn't mean "fascinating."

I´m ok with letting what happens on the microscope dictate what you do on this channel. I loved this video!!

Now I can't stop wondering if the salmon I had for dinner was cooked as well as it should have been.

"when you see something strange happen, you hit record". Good advice for many fields of interest.

I really like the background music, it complements the images very well.

When people ask "will we ever find aliens" ..... as if we haven't already.

“...And little fleas have lesser fleas, And so ad infinitum...” - Augustus De Morgan

Just want to say this video has a stunning soundtrack, maybe it's because of being unedited and less narrated it had a lot more time to evolve with the story, but I was grooving. Came across this channel and Andrew Huang's separately awhile back and didn't even realize it was him until I looked at the credits to check while watching this, he's a great fit.

Definitely more exciting than watching paint dry... and i'm a painter.

at around 17:30 as I'm leaning in at my monitor, a nagging apprehension takes hold as i become almost hypnotized by the wiggling and the backround 'music'. OMG- I hope this isn't going to be the mother of all jump-scares!

Do you think there would be a way to stream real time under the microscope stuff? Honestly just leaving some stuff in a slide and just streaming that would be awesome.

appreciate the up-front disclaimer & the timestamps; but pleased to have been able to observe this in real time. For what it's worth, you made the right choice by me.

I love that your format follows the events rather than a formula.

I strongly demand a 24 hours live stream of microscopic observation I'll pay

I wish channels like these had more subscribers. A sorry state of affairs when STEM videos are drowned out by YT's algorithm. Do keep up the good work, guys. Captivating, well-narrated, and just overall fascinating stuff!

"they are cells" suddenly the cells start dancing to the music

This is the perfect balm to a long, awkward, and uncomfortable day of weather delayed air travel. Currently using this to relax in the terminal. Grey speckled walls, and sleep deprivation abounds.

I love Hank's excitement when the zoospores begin dispersing. So unapologetic

"they are cells.." and the beat drops 👍

That was totally off the microbial charts! Looks like the parasitic Oocyete, if that's what is was, siphoned cytoplasm in order to obtain the materials & energy needed to produce more cells before breaking apart. The biology of life is truly amazing................. 👍👍

Wow, that was spectacular! We, for the most part, walk about tending to our everyday, mundane lives oblivious to the life and death drama taking place all around us, Thank you for bringing this to us that we may witness these struggles of beings we otherwise may never know.

This was amazing! Best 23 minutes I've spent in a long time. Watching real life dramas unfold in the microcosmos is so mesmerizing.

You have gotten so good at narratively weaponizing that bouncy track you use to punctuate important moments. 7:30

I recognized it as an oomycete five seconds in, but I did work on them for two years so somewhat of a niche skill.

This was awesome, and you know, the music really works as well, I'd happily watch some bacteria wiggling about for a whole hour in the background, check in. It's kinda like with ants, scurrying around, doing their thing, having a system in place for how they work and you can just follow it around. This series, though I've worked with microscopes myself, and with Electron microscopes, it was mostly on fungi or unmoving bacteria... This series just shows what a world of life is hidden beyond what we can normally see. It's easy to think "There's bacteria everywhere", but it's a lot more fascinating to see that world in motion, in action. And some parts are very alien, even scary, and then some very much resemble, analogue with what we see going on in our macroscopic world. It's fascinating and I look forward to every dang episode. You guys are making the microscopic accessible and understandable, which is something that has been tried before, but has always been pretty hard to do in a way that keeps an audience, because it very quickly comes to a point where people have to study because they don't understand things. But the simple and clear explanations are memorable and though I personally forget every single name you guys throw at me, I do not forget what all these bacteria, all these different micro organisms do, and why they do it. So thank you for that, looking forward to the next episode! This is acceptable.

Thank you for these videos, not only they are extremely educational but they're also entrancing and enjoyable. Love the colors, vibes and the sensation these videos evoke. The simple fact that I'm staring at life-forms there are literally crawling around me, living, eating and dying, just raises a sense of awareness of how complex our reality truly is.

Thank you for making my wait in the jurors lounge more enjoyable and educational

I love parasites. I mean, not a huge fan of the ones that cause blindness and stuff in humans, but in nature, parasitism is fascinating and cool. I like endosymbiotic relationships too. There's just something beautiful to me about an organism perfectly adapted to living in the ecosystem that is a living being without killing it (it may not always work out that way in practice, but in general at least that's the "goal").

From the absolute bottom of my heart, thank you for this one.

I could watch this for hours. Between the awesome visuals, the music selection and Hank's relaxing voice dropping in and out...perfection.

I very much liked the long, unedited episode. Longer episodes with less narration and more time to observe the micro-goings on is peachy in my book. (Edit: I do very much enjoy Hank's voice, so definitely keep that forever)

You guys blow my mind every time you release a video, but this one may have irreparably damaged my cranium. This is the best Christmas present a girl could ask for. Microbiology never really interested me in school (beyond tardigrades), despite my voracious appetite for all things science. It always seemed slow and unengaging, requiring masses of memorization for very little understanding. This channel has completely changed that for me, and I now gobble up this stuff like it’s water and I’m dying of thirst. When I heard that my one true messiah, Hank Green, was making a new channel I was clearly going to check it out, but I was skeptical that the subject matter would keep me interested past a video or two. This is now, hands down, my favorite channel on RU-vid. Thank you so much for bringing the microcosmos to life for me. My greatest hope is that teachers everywhere are taking full advantage of this resource, and are showing this in classrooms across the world. If I had been shown this stuff in middle school or high school, I honestly might have chosen it as a career. Once again, from the bottom of my heart, thank you.

16:42 I imagine little jumpy guy in the right corner has a voice like that crab in Hitchhiker's Guide, "Whee! Hey! Hello! Whatcha doin? Havin' fun... gus? okabye" and by 16:52 it's over. Yay science!

Those are called water fungus, it's a type of Protozoan but relates to a fungus. When the Oomycete became something like zoospore, the phase is called Plasmodium, I think...

The egg was rushed to a hospital afterward, but there was insufficient material left inside for an omlet...

21:26 that little cell sounds so happy, how do you give a parasite emotions

I love the concept of posting videos of rare and amazing events in the microcosmos caught on camera. I hope they continue throughout and after the structured educational videos

Best video by far. Thank you Journey to the Microcosmos family. It’s hard work, I can imagine. Thank you. It’s my get away from life for a few minutes. Please don’t stop making these videos.

Weird parasite discovered - check

*Oomycetes. Always ruining the mood when you're just about to get your girl to lay her egg sac. I hate those things!*

I can’t sit through a 20 second commercial But I can watch this for hours

Do James's recordings ever lead to something ""properly"" scientific, such as papers etc? Bc I remember him saying that he might be one of the first people to record tardigrade sex, and this seems to be something uncommon as well

so glad I didn't skip through. That was indeed fascinating.

Hey i have a minor quality of life suggestion, when showing the magnification have a small eye ball along with it representing whether the organism can be seen with the naked eye or not. A line goes through it if we cannot see it or it just doesnt show seeing as most of these things cant really be seen with the naked eye. Ive done experiments on daphnea so i know i can somewhat see those with the naked eye so its like itll never show

The things you show us are unspeakably beautiful :-)

I just spent 20 minutes watching mold grow. And I enjoyed it.

This is extraordinary. Amazing job James!

If this channel doesn’t win a million awards I’ll iron my own face. While BBC does the millionth natural history program on large animals, this show still genuinely fills me with wonder. And I even work in a microbiology insititue!

That is one of the most fascinating things I’ve ever watched - thank you so much for showing it in it’s entirety and in real time - with limited (but excellent) narration. I’m so glad this came up in my recommendations - subscribed.

James is literally amazing. Master of the microscope doesn't even cover it. Best video yet guys.

Do more things like this! Never be afraid to try something new, but you know that. You guys always fo such an amazing job, it's easy to trust that you will pick the right format to share the shareable. Happy Holidays and thanks!

Wow. Just, WOW. Thank you Hank. Thank you James. :) You help to continue my intrigue into the depths of the unknown on this fascinating small scale. So much appreciation for your careful work.

This is the wholesome, overwhelmingly awesome content I’m here for.

7:29 “Theyre jiggling, they’re moving, they’re alive. They are cells!” *sick beat drop*

WOW! This, like all the videos on this channel and Jam's Germs, was mind-blowing and eye opening. Thank you so much for sharing this and everything you do (looking at you Hank). I discovered this channel last night and watched the first video, today I've been watching for the last several hours and my life has been affectively changed. Over the last year my eyes have been opened to the beautiful complex web of life on this planet and I am so grateful for tools, like this channel, that help me explore even further. So I say again, thank you so so much.

What was the point of the membrane? Why not just release the spores directly from the egg? What did they need 20 minutes inside the membrane for?

The video is perfect, the music is perfect, the commentary is perfect. And those little creatures are beautiful. That was breathtaking, thank you!

That was incredible! I'm so glad you posted this

I really enjoyed slowing down to the pace of the action, and I appreciate that you didn't speed it up. RU-vid offers speed controls, so viewers can speed it up if they want, but there's value in slowing down and enjoying nature on its terms.

*Always cherish your strange goop, mortals!*

Definitely the right decision to upload this unedited, that was AWESOME!

That was absolutely amazing, thank you for taking us with you.

I like this new format. It's very chill and relaxing. I'd love to see more of this type of content on the channel every once in a while.

This is just one of the things I love about Microbiology. There's so little we know about it. I'd love to get my hands on pond water some day and catch something happening on the same confusing level.

Loved this. By far my best holiday present so far.

That was amazing! I really enjoyed watching this evolve and would like to see more like this. Thank you for sharing this!

It looks like a ball of pure evil

Well that was absolutely stunning.

Merry Christmas and loved the video.

The world is divided into people who laugh at the idea of skipping any second of this video, and people who go to the "interesting parts". This was absolutely brutal, thanks.

Please tell me you will be doing more of this long form unedited video as this was amazing and transfixing.

It looks like one gets stuck inside the membrane after it's burst. If that's the case, I find it astounding that only 1 gets stuck! I would've thought it would be more like fish in a plastic bag; as likely to tangle the membrane closed as they are to find an exit

Best 20 mins I've spent for a while. Thanks. :)

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Hello wonderful person! Did you have a stressful day? Busy with christmas preparations? These are your well deserved 23 minutes of relaxation today! Grab a snack and a drink and enjoy!

I learned a lot of stuff in this. How to properly pronounce the two O's in "oocyte" for one! Also that I can put "weird goopy things" in with "things that may act like fungus." I think this was both fascinating and...kinda gross, but in a fun way? I definitely appreciated the delicate choice of words there, with "evacuation." My word choice would have been...let's say, less scientific, haha. This was really quite intriguing and an interesting change of pace, literally. Good thing you hit that record button!!

This channel is just amazing. I remember when I was a kid I was fascinated by the strange drawings of the microscopic world. Seeing it in videos of such quality just blows my mind. You deserve many more subscribers. Bravo !

5 years from now this will still be my new favorite channel

This was FANTASTIC. I enjoyed watching it in real time. Question: we have learned on this journey that protozoans are loosely organized based on movement - ciliates, amoeboids, flagellates, and sporozoan - the last one that we couldn't see because it was always parasitic and "we choose not to keep them around" (How Do Protozoa Get Around?, Aug 5,2019) So did we just see sporozoans, or are these flagellates? So excited to learn~!

It is incredibly awesome! I just had an exam on mycology, and my friend had a question about oomycetes... Now you just have to do a video about cladocera (water fleas), by the way!

Without a doubt, the most inspiring video I saw today! Thanks very much, that was intense and indeed it puts in perspective our most ancient desire to catch a glimpse of the microworld, Life in the Microworld. Continue the good work :) Fascinating!!

I love Hank Green's and his brother's narrative voices. So soothing.

I love it! I've never seen anything like that before and I like that I got to see the whole thing unfold. Everything on this channel is so interesting, I wish all the episodes were longer. I know they take a lot of work though. Thank you for taking us on this journey!

Eating during watching a video was, finally, a moderately bad idea.

Perfectthat you left this full length. Seeing one of your videos in my feed is always a happy treat, this really good, almost like watching a mystery

So totally on board for more videos like this, too! Keep up the amazing work! Happy New Year! ♡

Kurt Russell, "Dammit! I froze to death in Antarctica to stop these things!" ;D

The most wondrous channel on youtube

Every time I watch this it seems more amazing! The mysteries of life boggle my mind! Thank you!!!!!

Seeing the microcosmos is such a strangely spiritual experience for me. Thank you!

Whether or not this format was the incorrect decision, this is probably my favorite episode so far. I love all these videos, though, and am ever grateful that it all exists. Thank you.

nice video!! did anyone else notice a jumpcut around 20:11?

That was amazing! Thanks for sharing it with us. May you have a happy Christmas and a very good 2020!

This was strangely calming to watch, thank you for a fascinating little video.

You should record a bacteriaphage killing a bacteria! I'v always wanted to know how it looks like

These videos are so awesome, thank you. Life doesn't care what form it takes, it just wants to grow and reproduce, so cool that you could capture this on film

Fantastic! I'll bet this is the only footage of this event anywhere. I found it very exciting! Thank you.

This was a lovely christmas present! I would love to see more of this style of video, where the master of microscopes just happens to notice something interesting and we get to watch it, in real time, with occasional commentary! This is the perfect format to put on when you want to just chill and not really do anything in particular, or when you want to go to sleep but need something calming like the music and the visuals here tend to be, along with the way the voice over person, whose name I don't know off hand, speaks being incredibly calming.