If all the microbes disappeared, I would have to find a new favorite KZfaq channel.

When things aren't going so so good, I roll up in a blanket and go to sleep, kinda like a tardigrade 😅

“If all mitochondria disappeared, do not fear, you would be dead that very instant.” *fear intensifies*

If microbes disappeared, my mom would explode with glee and tell everyone how she helped accomplish this. Then as we all die of sterile diarrhea, would blame our extinction solely on gluten.

Realizes we're made of them, and suddenly disappears.

Just so you know, I would die right away if there were no microbes. I love them so much. It's a clinical thing! 😛

*Happy New Year you beautiful multi-cellular organisms!*

There'd be a great Weird Al parody of Peter Paul and Mary with "Where have all the microbes gone"

The sound design to this entire series has been top notch. Often times I find myself amazed just how great the composer is at scoring this.

*In short, mortals, immortals, and all in between. We all need each other in the microcosmos.*

It'd be cool to see a treatment on slime molds.

Plus there'd be no alcohol, bread or cheese :(

Short answer: No Long answer: Absolutely not

When you mentioned "diatomic nitrogen" my first (confused) thought was Nitrogen from diatoms?

First thought i had was "Damn. There go my mitochondria."

I really like the dark background slides

Ahhhh sooooo nice to have this to drink my coffee with. Thanks guys, this is a nice New Years Eve gift to us all. Hope you all, and all of yours, have a wonderful 2020!

The majority of reef building coral depends on dinoflagellates in their tissues to photosynthesize for them. Say goodbye to the entirety of the reef environment in a week or so.

That Nostoc looks interesting. I have to learn more. (not to be confused with nasdaq)

Always instant like to the greatest channel of the smallest things.

I love your videos! Could you do more about fungi please?!

Happy new year JttM. Thank you for the amazing content. Science is fun.

This video has an interesting pace : I find each baffling video cuts interlaced with a few selected audio facts creates a good symbiosis for memorisation and comprehension. You guys make learning so cool ! Happy New Year !!!

Happy new year and best wishes for 12020, James and Hank and company! :)

How is it possible that slime mold looks so beautiful under a microscope.......it's not fair that you're so radically changing my perception of "disgusting" things! Happy New Year and thank you for a year of amazing explorations of the microcosmos!

Amazing video! Thank you for making and sharing it!

I love the way he kinda talks like the joker, but polite and informed.

And with that cheerful thought, happy New Year. May 2020 treat you much better than 2019

Truly a beautiful channel

As always, fascinating!

People that need insulin: :0

So beautiful and interesting...Very good footing. THANKS!

These videos of micro organisms are very fascinating to watch, the choice of Andrew Huang's music along with Hank Green's voice has worked really well for this series. Journey to the Micro Cosmos has indeed been a unique experience.

Remember that time oxygen almost killed everything?

so thankful that I came across this channel im binge watching all your videos XD

Tjank you for your amazing videos

Short Answer : We die. Long Answer : (This video)

Nice Video. Happy New year Everyone.

5:42 - Oooooh, nice shot of Kentucky Meat Rain. 👍

Happy new year!!!

Great content cannot wait to see your 360° vids

wow. this is amazing. love your voice btw

I love this channel so much. :'3

Great video! :)

I love the world of the small. 😄 The unseen hero's.

Nice thought experiment!!

Just Amazing Footage, Videos & Information ❤️✌️😎🏠

Hey this is purely anectdotal, but I have an experience of whats life with less than the recommended amount of gut bacteria. I once got a weird kind of pneuopnonya that required me to take a cocktail of antibiotecs for over a month, and oh boy did that do a number of my gut. Basically I had trouble eating most things that werent like liquieds, and had constant dhiarreas, even tho I was taking a number of gastric protectors to make the punch from the antibiotes less severe. Not a fun time for sure, trust me when I say I've come to love the trillons of tiny things living in my guts. They pull a good amount of work and dont deserve to be evicted.

I imagine that even if all the microbes were to disappear in one instant, eventually, microscopic life would evolve again. Stray cells, that got separated and somehow survived beyond their multicellular organism, might find the empty niches and eventually adapt to fill them

i barely know what you're talking about but god i love this channel

9:08 What an interesting conclusion! I had many thoughts and emotions on this.

great video! i would love to see context for these shots sometimes, maybe occasionally starting out zoomed out and then zooming in? would help my brain understand what I am looking at

How does this channel doesn't have 10 million subs yet!!! This is one of those gems channels.

The life around hydrothermal vents would totally disappear

I like to think of all life as just one 'microbial world', with 'macroscopic' life being just a late coming 'emergent property' of that world...especially since every 'macroscopic/multicellular' lifeform is just a huge collection of cooperating microbes.

This is why JTTMC is my favourite channel, if you pause this video at 4:52, then pull up a color image of King Tut's golden Death mask, your mind will be blown. And it may not be a coincidence.

Happy New Year 🔬🎉🎆

I admire your voice it also reminds me of a youtuber who narrates horror manga. why i find this stuff just as interesting as horror manga is left up to question but i thank you good sir for this strange trip oops i mean journey to the microcosmos!

The beginning made my digestive tract hurt, then you said we get to keep all our little friends and i was like oh great, i still will probably starve to death.

Useful in soil nourishment

no microbes, no cheese, yogurt, pizza, beer, bread, kimchi, wine, there's just no point then

Hey Guys! I’m a student preparing for my A-levels and really getting interested in the Microcosmos and thus wanting to buy a microscope. Now, I’ve seen your video on your equipment but that’s just way out of my price range (400-600 USD). I also really like the dark-field microscopy so having an option to “upgrade” the microscope is relatively important too. I would really like some feedback on which one to look at. Excellent channel by the way and keep up the great work! Many thanks in advance :).

5:07 is stunning visual eye candy.

You exceed life. Its in your hands everyday.

I have a few questions for you about the tardigrades, 1 How did you get them as i been looking for a few months 2 how long does it take for them to go from a ton to active once hydrated and how do you keep them and 4 how do you keep the slide from drying out when recording?

and in the hope, perhaps vain, that it will be, happy new year

This is epic

I like these videos, but I really like the ones where you do a whole video on a specific creature, like your rotifer or tardigrade ones. Anyway keep up the good work!

The music in these always reminds me of something out of the game Spore.

this channel has changed my life, whatever that is.

That "it's a bit like being in love" line is so John Green.

we would have a hell of a time making food into poop ! : )

I wonder what is the quickest route to single celled freeliving species? Maybe extreme reduction via parasitism either between species or like DFTD or CTVT => Then either a single celled symbiote or decomposer => generalist => re-radiate. There are also some mosses (Buxbaumia sp.) that are already so reduced that I think they could evolve to fill an algal niche quite quickly.

These creatures are minuscule in size but they play a tremendous role in our ecosystems. Without them I don't believe there would be any life on Earth human animal or plant because everything would be disease infested. They clean our water and are extremely important I cannot stress this enough. I appreciate the links that you guys send and look forward to seeing more. TankQ for this, my grand nieces really love it. Tank's again, DRC. ;)

HNY! to all germs and james. XD

2:18 Wondering what's the tiny black spec that swims in and out top right?

A lot of foods people like to eat wouldn’t be able to be made, like bread, cheese, and chocolate. I personally think that world without chocolate would be horrible.

You tell a great, relaxing, bedtime story hank, nite nite, yawn and tonight i dream of life without microbes....zzzzz

Ecosystems wouldn't do so hot without any nitrogen fixing.

I now want to write a short story about a world where all microbes die, Thanks for the inspiration, i guess

You know the worst thing would be? We wouldn't have this great chanel to watch.

flund your show surfing diring the quarantine. love your show. noting a profound lack of videographic evidence for COVID19, esp. for effectiveness of various antiviral methods, would you, could you produce a video showing how to destruct a virus? with cjemicals? with antibodies? et cetera?

Hey love it . Is there a way i can work with you . I have completed my bachelor's degree in microbiology ( general). But i love microscope. Kind of amazed to see these world. I see as relatively least explored.

Dang that is one beautiful slime mold

NICE !!!

John Green's dream

live stock such cows and sheep would also die off as they rely solely on microbes to extract nutrients. In addition large parts of the food chain would collapse as microbes are usually at the beginning of the food chain. The oceans food chain in particular would collapse as microbial phytoplankton make up the majority primary producers for heterotrophs to feed on.

Where is the "slime" at the end of the video from? Is it the stuff you sometimes see on top of still water outdoors?

What type of microscope did you use? Thnx.

Can you show footage with increasing zoom till microbes are clearly visible (like at the end, but even more) ? :) I think it might be interesting for many to watch

that got spacey quick :S

Nothing would live if the basic building blocks died.

More slime molds plz! Those are the real aliens on Earth.

Props to everyone who actually watched the video first before commenting

this 'dry slime mold' remind me 'abandoned houses' at north, after there no more jobs for megabes work there.

without microbes this channel will disappear 😫

Other People: I guess we will die Me: No more CHEESE!!

Watching all your different videos helped me understand why, in adventure time, they made this creative ass world where two of the main 4 Elements are slime and candy, instead of earth and air. looking under a microscope, I can see why some of the smallest beings that have some kind of choice in life, would choose to eat sugar Because of the sensation feels, even though we can't know how life is from their perspective; we still can wonder, at early stages of life, when those cells formed from basically energy.. were also making decisions on just how "high" different chemicals they ate and smelled.. just something I think about alot. Also they say slime instead of air which makes more sense in my brain, only because I understand how slow you can move in air or water when you're that show .. anyway, I was wondering who thinks the will to survive is what's guiding most of our tiny friends.. I'm thinking they must operate in the 3 dimensions of consciousness. (Survival(fear), sexual(gratitude and multiplying or other pleasures ,and the willpower(hunger)to jus keep swimming.. We know these microorganisms have some awareness of the outside world, which separates themselves from.. well anything else.....I'm really just trying make sense of all this, it's hard to map in English... I gotta think that some organisms just feel so good after they eat food and just absorb the different chemicals they come in contact with, they just feel euphoria, and satisfaction that stays until the get hungry again.. that's maybe why some of these lifeforms haven't really tried to change for better in the past 200,000however many years. Sorry my English is bad sometimes, maybe it doesn't well, like I want. I have a lot of trouble with different subjects and translations at times.. comment your thinking. I love to hear theories

We'd be up to our eyeballs in dead stuff if there were no microbes.

Another releae 😍 its christmas... Wait its new years. Still a great present.