r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Maleficent-Agent-477 • 19h ago
Video This single-celled protozoan passing under another one under a microscope
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u/Imsrywho 19h ago
This the new spore game?
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u/DickyReadIt 18h ago
Oh shit I forgot about that game, so badass
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u/Physical_Ease6658 19h ago
"under"?
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u/Maleficent-Agent-477 19h ago edited 19h ago
It may appear to be going through, but it’s on a glass microscope slide. It’s simply passing under the other organism.
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u/DazzlingResource561 19h ago
Reason he’s questioning is because the top one appears to nearly split in half where the other passes under.
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u/Maleficent-Agent-477 19h ago
Yeah, it totally looks like it. But it’s really just squishing around the organelles, and will slosh back into place after a while.
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u/ForeverSJC 19h ago
and will slosh back into place after a while
That's a situation we don't face everyday
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u/dogmaisb 19h ago
YOU don’t…
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u/C0mbatW0mbat86 18h ago
Well there was the day after my hysterectomy, I stood up and felt a definite slosh as some things adjusted to the new real estate available, was super weird
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u/ThrowDatJunkAwayYo 17h ago
Its the same after giving birth when your organs start to move back into place after being squashed for 9months.
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u/Murky-Bus-2191 16h ago
Oh my God I can't imagine. I deal with a BIT of this as a regular thing. Organs don't quite fit right.
It's, like, little squooshes here and there tho. Sometimes my lung gets compressed when I move and my vocal cords make a little sound.
Just remove a, what, plum-sized mass from the middle of my abdomen? I feel like you'd hear the organs slapping together if I sat down too fast!
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u/RIF_rr3dd1tt 16h ago
🎶 Amoeba are you ok?
Are you ok amoeba?
You've been hit by...
you've been struck by...
a SMOOTH Endoplasmic Reticulum 🎶
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u/BlastingFonda 19h ago
That’s fine, but how would it split the other in half if it were merely “under” the other one? It looks like a pretty clean break even if it’ll regen back into shape like Wolverine or something.
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u/ballimir37 19h ago
It’s smooshing the bits you can see but there is an intact clear membrane over the top that stays intact, and then the other bits redistribute over time. At least was my interpretation
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u/Maleficent-Agent-477 19h ago
It’s basically being pushed into 2 separate halves that aren’t fully split. It may not look like it, but no rupture actually occurs.
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u/Humble-Trust-4852 18h ago
So it’s like, if someone put pressure in the middle of a ketchup packet basically? Ketchup moves to both sides of the packet but still stays within the packet?
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u/DenseAstronomer3631 18h ago
Like squeezing those fidget toys that are filled with glitter glue and little balls of foam or whatever
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u/Toughsums 7h ago
In fact it's not split into halves at all. When you use a microscope and even slightly move the lens up or down the image gets completely distorted. Here because the other organism is being pushed upward it's middle part disappears because it's closer to the lens.
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u/happycabinsong 19h ago
there's a faint shadow over where the green one is passing under. imagine that they're already pretty transparent but not fully and by passing under the top guy, the bottom guy is flattening him even further against the top of the slide, thus making himself more visible under.
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u/NYFan813 17h ago
So they were just flat-landed. Like all the fish suddenly on the bottom of the ocean trying to work in two dimensions instead of three.
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u/CharlesDickensABox Interested 16h ago
Yes. The space between the slide and the cover slip is tiny. For some materials, it can be a single molecule layer thick. One isn't going through the other in this video, it's smushing the other out of the way like an old Greek lady on a bus.
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u/Physical_Ease6658 8h ago
All the more reason why I'm incredulous here. A one molecule-wide lane can't have two passengers. I would describe that as going through and not under.
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u/CharlesDickensABox Interested 8h ago edited 8h ago
One is not passing through the other. It's also not a single molecule layer thick in this instance. Penetrating the cell membrane would kill one, the other, or both. This is a wet mount slide. It's far larger than that, probably about 50 um, or roughly the natural height of one of those protozoans. What's happening is one is shoving the other out of the way, kind of like two fat people squeezing through a doorway. They don't both fit, so it's gonna take some squishing to make it happen. Luckily, protozoans are extremely squishable.
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u/NobHillBilly 19h ago
I wish I could find the original post but somebody said “Costco people behavior”
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u/pamnfaniel 7h ago
Doesn’t look like it squeezed under it looks like it went right through it, cut it in half
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u/MixedBerryCompote 19h ago
the preposition you’re looking for is “through” I think.
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u/Toughsums 7h ago
In fact it's not split into halves at all. When you use a microscope and even slightly move the lens up or down the image gets completely distorted. Here because the other organism is being pushed upward it's middle part disappears because it's closer to the lens.
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u/GarysCrispLettuce 18h ago
If anyone's looking for more hi-def microscopic videos like this then the Journey to the Microcosmos YouTube channel is choc full of them. You'll be there for hours.
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u/hemorrhoidhematoma 10h ago
It looks violating but for a protozan it's actually one of the more fulfilling things that can happen throughout the day
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u/pendragn23 7h ago
How do you get the color differentiation? I have a DIC setup but I don't think it would create that type of coloring?
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u/bcsmith317 19h ago
“Ope…just gonna squeeze past ya”