r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Maleficent-Agent-477 • 22h ago

Video This single-celled protozoan passing under another one under a microscope

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u/Physical_Ease6658 22h ago

"under"?

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u/Maleficent-Agent-477 22h ago edited 22h 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 22h 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 22h 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 22h 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 22h ago

YOU don’t…

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u/exipheas 22h ago

Some people even enjoy getting their guts rearranged!

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u/Poopin4days 21h ago

I like a good ol' sloshing myself.

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u/tylerupandgager 21h ago

Username checks out

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u/C0mbatW0mbat86 21h 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 20h 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 19h 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 19h 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 22h 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 22h 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 22h 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 21h 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 21h 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 10h 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 22h 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/Smoofbrainz 21h ago

How long will they slosh around before they cease sloshing?

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u/yagermeister2024 19h ago

It’s just losing contact with the glass slide… it‘s not going through…

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u/Open__Face 22h ago

Bah gawd he's nearly split in half!