Floating Cities of Scum

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  • Опубліковано 24 гру 2024

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  • @geoff5623
    @geoff5623 Рік тому +173

    My family scooped the floating algae off the pond with a rake and spread it on the vegetable garden paths to dry out and smother any weeds (grass clippings went on the paths too). Eventually it got tilled into the soil to break down as compost.

    • @jose.montojah
      @jose.montojah Рік тому

      That _rebel scum!_
      Making a stand against necropolitics and extinction, I guess.

    • @Michaelroni-n-cheese
      @Michaelroni-n-cheese Рік тому +10

      Wowee. I'm gay btw.

    • @beniciounfiltered7861
      @beniciounfiltered7861 Рік тому +3

      @@Michaelroni-n-cheese what is something else about you? Sure hope it’s not gross!

    • @Michaelroni-n-cheese
      @Michaelroni-n-cheese Рік тому +9

      @@beniciounfiltered7861 Well, one thing is that I'm an Eagle Scout. I also have 2 dogs. -and I'm gay.-

    • @NormaEugene
      @NormaEugene Рік тому +1

      @@Michaelroni-n-cheese😂

  • @HellOnWheel
    @HellOnWheel Рік тому +36

    I was just typing "sometimes I wish I lived in pond scum", then I got to the part about being poisoned and suffocated by algae.

  • @Popbot
    @Popbot Рік тому +105

    i really really love these videos. especially how much care seems to go into the audio. the generative modular patches from audrew huang combined with the subtle reverb on the voiceover really contributes to the amazing vibe. Especially the music; its subtle textures make it sound like i've actually been shrunk down to the scale of the microcosms.

    • @brianedwards7142
      @brianedwards7142 Рік тому +4

      Reminds me of Spore.

    • @jose.montojah
      @jose.montojah Рік тому

      That _rebel scum!_
      Making a stand against necropolitics and extinction, I guess.

    • @mrrp405
      @mrrp405 Рік тому +1

      I think it’s a tad too echoey on this voiceover, but otherwise true

  • @NewMessage
    @NewMessage Рік тому +129

    I always wondered how the term 'scumbag' came to be... Who was collecting bags of scum?
    But it's clear to me now it must have been a biologist with a new microscope.

    • @beniciounfiltered7861
      @beniciounfiltered7861 Рік тому +6

      @@brianbisconer863 that’s hilarious, I gotta start saying scumbag now

    • @riderinsanjose337
      @riderinsanjose337 Рік тому +6

      ​@@brianbisconer863Also known as a Coney Island Whitefish.

  • @jayl5032
    @jayl5032 Рік тому +19

    Since pond scum is algae threads, I wonder if they have any textile or artistic uses. I wonder if it could be dried, worked, and formed into a spool. Or maybe the scum could be made into bricks for building mats for virtually anything. Hmm..

  • @elevown
    @elevown Рік тому +50

    I dont know about in america but in the UK scum is STILL used commonly to describe the nasty froth you will get when boiling certain foods that you need to scoop off as you go.
    And also sometimes for stuff floating on water in like ponds. Not man made stuff but like bio-films/froth.

    • @redofthewolves
      @redofthewolves Рік тому +4

      The most common thing I can think of that needs that is pasta, and over here we would probably use the word foam for the starchy bubbly mess

    • @kellydalstok8900
      @kellydalstok8900 Рік тому +7

      @@redofthewolvesalso when you’re boiling broth with a marrow bone, or even just meat, scum will form on top.

    • @elevown
      @elevown Рік тому +4

      @@kellydalstok8900 Thats the main one im familiar with- boiling certain meats like when making stew etc

    • @Ziorac
      @Ziorac Рік тому +1

      That explains why I've always also thought of it as meaning icky froth..... Scum scoops and all that.

    • @andrewfleenor7459
      @andrewfleenor7459 Рік тому +1

      USian here. I'm definitely used to those usages.

  • @TheREAL.BrandOnShow
    @TheREAL.BrandOnShow Рік тому +10

    Sarah, Your narreration is amazing!

  • @sciencenerd7639
    @sciencenerd7639 Рік тому +47

    It's great to hear Sarah as narrator on this video. Perfect voice for science video narration.
    Great video, thanks so much!

    • @Shnarfbird
      @Shnarfbird Рік тому +8

      @@brianbisconer863 She narrates good, brian, so not... really applicable this time?

    • @jessearnivas
      @jessearnivas Рік тому +6

      @@brianbisconer863brain worms

    • @mrrp405
      @mrrp405 Рік тому +7

      @@brianbisconer863 what

    • @synthetic_ivy
      @synthetic_ivy Рік тому +1

      im sorry about your diagnosis @@brianbisconer863

    • @crow-jane
      @crow-jane Рік тому +10

      @@brianbisconer863Brian, you absolute child, Hank is recovering from cancer treatment and doesn’t owe you a damned thing. How staggeringly selfish.

  • @krose6451
    @krose6451 Рік тому +2

    So much eye candy in this video. Who knew scum could be so beautiful ❤

  • @michaelbuelow9275
    @michaelbuelow9275 Рік тому +22

    I think Sarah Suta is an excellent presenter. Her low, well modulated, voice is almost hypnotic.

    • @technopoptart
      @technopoptart Рік тому +1

      i agree~

    • @Zantjez
      @Zantjez Рік тому +2

      i guess i have different ears, i find her voice to strong, to hard, to much german like.

  • @quitlife9279
    @quitlife9279 Рік тому +6

    I feel like there's another part of the story that is missing. Why do the floating mats eventually die off on their own when they seemingly have everything they need at the surface, plenty of sunlight and gases, so why aren't there permanent algal mats covering lakes and oceans?

  • @Im-just-Stardust
    @Im-just-Stardust Рік тому +4

    Thanks a lot Microcosmos you rock!

  • @RandomSwiftie13
    @RandomSwiftie13 Рік тому +1

    So scumbag just means a bag full of green algae.

  • @phasm42
    @phasm42 Рік тому +12

    "... anything could be there." Ron DeSantis' face emerges from the muck.

  • @RandomSwiftie13
    @RandomSwiftie13 Рік тому +4

    I want this woman to describe micro world creatures as if she is describing them as a horror story.

  • @nicevideomancanada
    @nicevideomancanada Рік тому +4

    This summer in my city many trees are dying due to a lack of water. There is a class one watering ban on ATM due to the drought so the trees can't be watered, so as a result many public trees are dead and dying. We have 2 local ponds with a lot of water in them but I have heard that we can't use this water due to algae toxins that caused the trees to die. Any Suggestions?

  • @alphaamoeba
    @alphaamoeba Рік тому +14

    The forbidden pesto

    • @technopoptart
      @technopoptart Рік тому +3

      look, everything is edible once, ok?

  • @neepsmcfly4176
    @neepsmcfly4176 Рік тому +1

    50 yrs old & still cursing my attention span! I find myself so engaged w the photo bombing zooplankton I forget to listen to the narrator. 🤔

  • @valeriog8780
    @valeriog8780 Рік тому +7

    I love these video, their biological informations and their scientific and philosophical considerations. Good job! ❤

  • @homeamar78
    @homeamar78 Рік тому +1

    Best microbiology videos😊

  • @clemarusjr
    @clemarusjr Рік тому +2

    when you said "people like you..." I was like alright PBS

  • @daniell1483
    @daniell1483 Рік тому +3

    If we humans try taking the balance of the world into our hands, we must also take the responsibility for using wisdom to guide our decisions. And whatever the outcome, intended or not, is our responsibility.

  • @EyesOfByes
    @EyesOfByes Рік тому +1

    1:33 OHH! It's still that meaning in Swedish. I learned some new history today

  • @358itachi
    @358itachi Рік тому +1

    Was that Nostoc in the background (left of Spyrogyra) with its nitrogen fixing cells @3:45 and again @ 7:45 to the right this time?

  • @FernandoVinny
    @FernandoVinny 4 місяці тому

    5:25
    what is that being moving below?

  • @Draktand01
    @Draktand01 Рік тому

    ”Floating city of scum” sound like what a Venice native would call their home city after it got turned into a tourist trap.

  • @paulbennett7021
    @paulbennett7021 Рік тому +19

    Shaving Foam is called Rasierschaum is German. It literally means Razor Scum.

    • @mattBLACKpunk
      @mattBLACKpunk Рік тому +1

      Schaum=foam?
      Also, razor would be 'rasierer'. 'Rasier' comes from the verb 'rasieren', i.e. to shave

    • @Dodl1
      @Dodl1 Рік тому +2

      Sorry to correct you "Schaum" is mostly translated with "foam" . I am not sure though if the neutral word "scum" has a literal translation in German. At least I can't think of one that is not dialect. In Austrian German we call it "Gatsch" or nicer "Schäumchen, I guess you could say that" Schaum" could be "foam" or " scum" depending on the meaning, so maybe you are half right...

    • @aspacegamer92
      @aspacegamer92 Рік тому

      translation for "scum" into german would be "Abschaum" so i guess thats where the confusion comes from

    • @kellydalstok8900
      @kellydalstok8900 Рік тому +4

      The origin of the word is Germanic: schuim in Dutch, skûm in Frisian, Schaum in German all mean froth or foam. Scum is just a particular kind of foam.

    • @ngls
      @ngls Рік тому +1

      The most accurate translation for scum would probably be "Abschaum", which is also a derogatory term.
      Btw, don't listen to @paulbennet7021, as Rasierschaum is the literal translation of shaving foam.

  • @andrewsun4385
    @andrewsun4385 Рік тому +1

    Awesome!!!❤❤💯💯

  • @1MDA
    @1MDA Рік тому

    I love hearing other voices rather than the main guy

  • @JakHart
    @JakHart Рік тому +1

    I'm not getting in any body of water ever again.

    • @luxill0s
      @luxill0s Рік тому

      Humans have bacteria in their intestines and insects in their eyebrows, there is no escaping from the microcosmos

  • @allenwilliamson7528
    @allenwilliamson7528 Рік тому +2

    I want to be a pond scum scientist 🦠

  • @XenoflareBahamut
    @XenoflareBahamut Рік тому +1

    Vergil: (Heavy Breathing)

  • @Yezpahr
    @Yezpahr Рік тому +3

    Was her voice extra echo-y compared to usually or is it just my headset?

    • @technopoptart
      @technopoptart Рік тому +1

      your headset though the music in the background had just a tint of wobble to it as well

  • @crazyboutferrets
    @crazyboutferrets Рік тому

    So new york basically

  • @joshuakarr-BibleMan
    @joshuakarr-BibleMan Рік тому

    I just saw a Bunsen and Beaker video that made me think of your channel.
    Bunsen had invented a substance that made microorganisms big enough to study with the naked eye.
    I would share it, but it was in the middle of a long binge video of Bunsen and Beaker skits.

  • @timmcdaniel6193
    @timmcdaniel6193 Рік тому +3

    *That's* Spirogyra? I thought they were just a British folk rock/prog band.

    • @stevenkarnisky411
      @stevenkarnisky411 Рік тому +2

      Actually, timmcdaniel, Spiro Gyra is an American jazz/fusion instrumental band of some renown.
      Two bands with the same odd name.

    • @timmcdaniel6193
      @timmcdaniel6193 Рік тому

      @@stevenkarnisky411 Ah! I thought I'd heard a song by "spirogyra", but decades ago, & when the discography of Spirogyra didn't trigger any memories, I chalked it up to a brain turned to mush. Thank you for Spiro Gyra.

  • @ivanfedak4517
    @ivanfedak4517 Рік тому

    Awsome

  • @Miguel_and_The_Microbes
    @Miguel_and_The_Microbes 7 місяців тому

    Are are😅😅😅

  • @Nefertiti0403
    @Nefertiti0403 Рік тому

    5:42 Okay True, BUT TO MUCH CAN/IS too much. Then at What?

  • @stevenkarnisky411
    @stevenkarnisky411 Рік тому +6

    OK, once again this particular aversion to the female voice is cropping up. Every word was enunciated correctly and clearly.
    Get off it, males! Women are as intelligent and can narrate as competently as Hank Green, or any other male. I understood every word on my tablet speakers and without my old man hearing aids!

    • @crow-jane
      @crow-jane Рік тому +4

      I think some of Hank’s nerdbro fanbase needs to dip into his DFTBA work with his brother. I think it might do their limited worldview some good.

    • @LickMyMusketBallsYankee
      @LickMyMusketBallsYankee Рік тому +1

      ​@@crow-janeimagine being this butthurt

  • @jrzreg2154
    @jrzreg2154 Рік тому

    watching before this video get a robot narration. Please someone tell me how can i turn off the translation in my language!

    • @synthetic_ivy
      @synthetic_ivy Рік тому +1

      its in the video settings next to the subtitle stuff I'm pretty sure (feel free to correct me if im wrong)

  • @gamingrootz4411
    @gamingrootz4411 Рік тому

    hmm might be time to clean my pond i think

  • @brendakrieger7000
    @brendakrieger7000 Рік тому

    Thanks🔬🦠💚💜

  • @andnowi
    @andnowi Рік тому

    I've never had a problem with pond muck, but the American pronunciation is just plain wrong, horrible, yuk

  • @hopelessnerd6677
    @hopelessnerd6677 Рік тому +1

    Disappointed. I thought from the title this was going to be about Los Angeles.

  • @Michaelroni-n-cheese
    @Michaelroni-n-cheese Рік тому

    Scun

  • @user-nm5jg7kj1j
    @user-nm5jg7kj1j Рік тому

    style of voice+filters made an uncomfortable listening experience

  • @luminousfractal420
    @luminousfractal420 Рік тому

    Not sure if nature or the latest republican headline

  • @markedis5902
    @markedis5902 Рік тому +1

    That’s blanket weed not scum

  • @astrobio5940
    @astrobio5940 Рік тому

    Doesnt like the voice

  • @mman6283
    @mman6283 Рік тому

    OK, so you’re saying bother you with this video I am not contributing to the friends that you get from UA-cam. Is that what you’re saying? 0:21

  • @Getschakter
    @Getschakter Рік тому

    god? is that you?
    aka- why the echo on the voice? haha

  • @CantankerousCurmuddgeon
    @CantankerousCurmuddgeon Рік тому +1

    Please forgive me for sound any sort of negative but I must say something. I have a sound challenge being on the Spectrum and the choice of vocal effect and soundtrack was actually painful to listen to. I understand the desire might have been to have the calming effect Hanks voice oft does but it did not work for me. It was completely counter. I would suggest lowering the gain on your voice, taking all effects off and re-think that soundtrack. It is really painful. Otherwise the commentary and imagery as always is great. Thank you for taking the time to listen to my concern and producing great content. I appreciate you

  • @ericdeese660
    @ericdeese660 Рік тому +2

    What happened to my narrator

    • @sigataros
      @sigataros Рік тому +3

      @@Belti200 "The beautiful life inside of a cancer cell"

    • @crow-jane
      @crow-jane Рік тому +7

      You know that Hank just finished up chemo and radiation, right?

    • @rex_ink
      @rex_ink Рік тому +1

      My dude got cancer let him take a break LMAO

  • @ericdeese660
    @ericdeese660 Рік тому +1

    I don't like change

    • @crow-jane
      @crow-jane Рік тому +12

      I’m sure Hank would have loved to have not gotten cancer but, as it is, it seems right to give him a little grace while his life gets back to normal.

    • @rex_ink
      @rex_ink Рік тому

      My dude got cancer let him take a break LMAO

  • @TroyTheCatFish
    @TroyTheCatFish Рік тому +1

    Amazing Video! :) 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏 ❤❤ 💖💖