Me too. It is also one of the safer ways to deal with depression / suicidal thinking. * just in case you or someone you know needs it this is the site that started me on recovery >>>www.metanoia.org/
It's actually even worse than Hank makes it sound, eukaryotic animal cells still have other metabolic pathways besides Oxidative Phosphorylation that mitochondria is famous for, but they still wouldn't be able to save you from the sudden disappearance of the mitochondria. However those are just about enough to keep the cells going for a brief period of time, so instead of immediately having the lights go out as Hank suggests you will instead stay alive in complete agony while slowly dying as your cells push the remaining glycolytic pathways to their very limits in a desperate scramble to survive up to the very end
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.
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!
Or yogurt, pickled foods, several cured meats. Also most herbivores would die quickly, the only animal that can digest cellulose are amoebas.... herbivory heavily relies on some sort of fermentation chamber in the GI tract
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.
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 !!!
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!
@@ayush8650 there's a lot of people who already don't have access to it though, cutting the availability like that would probably kill quite a few people on its own
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.
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
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.
sarasmr 42 I think it isn’t included in the mass extinctions because a mass extinction needs a massive loss of biodiversity and we have no idea what diversity the planet had back then and how much was actually lost
@@elizaalmabuena considering the difference in levels of oxygen it's quite safe to assume that was a mass extinction that took place. The only thing is it might have taken a bit more time.
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.
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.
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.
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.
@@tomvyt956 It is! And chemicals are just arrangements of atoms which are themselves arrangements of packets of energy... Everything is the same thing, part of a whole
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?
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
They label most of them top right but I would love labels of the cells themselves! I spent a year of college staring at cells and I dont even recognize half of the smol cutes
There would be no plankton by definition => the macro sea life would starve . ... the corpses would lie there for ever not being decomposed by microbes. The reefs would be dead. Forests would die, because composting / rotting would stop.
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 :).
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. ;)
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.
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!
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.
Duuuuude, all the herbivores would starve within like the first month.... herbivory relies heavily on some sort of fermentation chamber in the GI tract, specially for large herbivores that are grazers or browsers.
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!
Suggestion for the channel : Have you considered a sort of relaxation version of each of these videos? Hank, much as I love listening to you it would be nice to have just the music, the microbes and the names in the corner.
This video is giving me a mild existential crisis as I ponder a world without oxygen and realise just how dependent we frail beings are on the earth that sustains us. We prefer to imagine ourselves something more akin to gods because its easier to get on with the job of living that way than being crippled with fears and all kinds of negative thoughts and feelings about existence.
many-many years ago my 6th grade science teacher pointed out the window and said if not for the germs that make things rot there would be piles of dinosaurs out there.we thought that was sort of funny.
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
As you said life could eventually evolve to deal with the lack of microbes, I was wondering if one of the ways of doing it would be to simply becomes the new microbes, I can see simple macroscopic organisms like sponges, fungi and even some simple types of plants maybe being able to do the trick, perhaps? Could microbes re-evolve?
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
If one was going to buy a microscope to view protozoa, what would the specs be Bright-field 4X, 10X, 40X, 100X etc, Dark-field 4x, 10X 40X, 100X etc, and Phase Contrast 4X, 10X, 40X, 100Xetc.?
Before watching, I'd like to say I think life on Earth would end without microbes, IDK how long it would take. Now to watch, and see what You say. edit: I'm more convinced as I think about it after watching. NO MORE BIOLOGICAL FIXATION OF NITROGEN = the Earth's ecosystem will collapse. The End. Still not sure on how long it would take, but everything would die.
Or some cells will become independent because of a mutation and therefore new microbes will evolve like „Canine transmissible venereal tumour“ a species of unicellular, asexually reproducing dog cancer cells which can spread out between dogs.
Is it possible to use microbes for purposes of production? Like if methogens can create methane, can these be used to do so in a closed loop system? Maybe something in the future will make it easier to do something like that through AI and lasers.
If all the microbes disappeared, I would have to find a new favorite TH-cam channel.
When things aren't going so so good, I roll up in a blanket and go to sleep, kinda like a tardigrade 😅
I'm in my blanket rn
I did that once last year haha was in a clean sheet fasting in bed for five days just resting.
Me too. It is also one of the safer ways to deal with depression / suicidal thinking.
* just in case you or someone you know needs it this is the site that started me on recovery >>>www.metanoia.org/
I stretch like a stentor after getting out of bed.
I love that😊
“If all mitochondria disappeared, do not fear, you would be dead that very instant.”
*fear intensifies*
I love Hank saying that without changing his calm, verging on ASMR, JttM delivery :-)
How would our cells work without their powerhouses?
@@sportsfails4998 they wouldn't
It's actually even worse than Hank makes it sound, eukaryotic animal cells still have other metabolic pathways besides Oxidative Phosphorylation that mitochondria is famous for, but they still wouldn't be able to save you from the sudden disappearance of the mitochondria. However those are just about enough to keep the cells going for a brief period of time, so instead of immediately having the lights go out as Hank suggests you will instead stay alive in complete agony while slowly dying as your cells push the remaining glycolytic pathways to their very limits in a desperate scramble to survive up to the very end
When he said that I didn’t really care cuz microbes won’t disappear for a long time 😜
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.
Just so you know, I would die right away if there were no microbes. I love them so much. It's a clinical thing! 😛
Jam's Germs I freaking love every thing you do dude
You're such a good, caring, Microbial Dad!
Acute microbe withdrawal is an ugly thing James 😅
Thank you for sharing your talent🔬❤
Your instagram bring me such joy everyrtime you post 😁💚
Realizes we're made of them, and suddenly disappears.
may I ask what you mean by "disappears" - quantum?
@@saveourtummies Gone, reduced to atoms.
Uncle Kane the tiberium main we used the microbes to destroy the microbes
*Happy New Year you beautiful multi-cellular organisms!*
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.
There'd be a great Weird Al parody of Peter Paul and Mary with "Where have all the microbes gone"
Or that more recent cowboy song
*In short, mortals, immortals, and all in between. We all need each other in the microcosmos.*
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!
I see , you like to partake in the devil's liquid crack . Shame , shame , shame on you sinner !
For a moment, I thought you meant having those microbes in your coffee. I was like "can germs live in coffee?".
Your coffee would be gone too. The beans are fermented.
@@RalfStephan I was getting ok ish , sort of, not really, used to the idea of no bread, cheese nor wine.....but no coffee ? forget it.
This did not age well
Plus there'd be no alcohol, bread or cheese :(
Matthew Michaelson my pizza!
Or yogurt, pickled foods, several cured meats. Also most herbivores would die quickly, the only animal that can digest cellulose are amoebas.... herbivory heavily relies on some sort of fermentation chamber in the GI tract
@@elizaalmabuena Yes indeed! And the carnivores that eat them. A very bad day for the Biosphere!
Do not fear, it is easy to make ethanol from fossil fuels. The chemical industry produces enormous amounts.
@@w0ttheh3ll vintage, 1984, bottle of ethanol at your picnic?! I don't think so :( . Served up chilled, with a little death and blindness!
Happy new year JttM. Thank you for the amazing content. Science is fun.
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.
All photosynthesizing microbes gone would mean we'd run out of Oxygen pretty quickly.
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 !!!
It'd be cool to see a treatment on slime molds.
Always instant like to the greatest channel of the smallest things.
When you mentioned "diatomic nitrogen" my first (confused) thought was Nitrogen from diatoms?
Lol, that confused me for a moment too!
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!
First thought i had was "Damn. There go my mitochondria."
I really like the dark background slides
And with that cheerful thought, happy New Year. May 2020 treat you much better than 2019
Amazing video! Thank you for making and sharing it!
People that need insulin: :0
You can still slaughter pigs like old days
@@ayush8650 there's a lot of people who already don't have access to it though, cutting the availability like that would probably kill quite a few people on its own
More like everyone in the world. People need vitamin B12, you get neurological damage if you go too long without. It's only produced by microbes.
@Marjin Zwitserloot. True, I need vitamin B12 shots.
@@ayush8650 get it from human corpses
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.
Short Answer : We die.
Long Answer : (This video)
That Nostoc looks interesting. I have to learn more. (not to be confused with nasdaq)
There was an episode about it, I think the thumbnail was the exact image seen in this video
I love your videos! Could you do more about fungi please?!
Fungi are fascinating
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
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.
Remember that time oxygen almost killed everything?
sarasmr 42 I think it isn’t included in the mass extinctions because a mass extinction needs a massive loss of biodiversity and we have no idea what diversity the planet had back then and how much was actually lost
If it weren't for those pesky aerobes, it might have succeeded.
Remember when the Earth had no ice caps and dinosaurs lived at the poles?
@@MichaelClark-uw7ex Leave Poland out of this! They suffered enough.
@@elizaalmabuena considering the difference in levels of oxygen it's quite safe to assume that was a mass extinction that took place. The only thing is it might have taken a bit more time.
I love the way he kinda talks like the joker, but polite and informed.
Ecosystems wouldn't do so hot without any nitrogen fixing.
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.
Truly a beautiful channel
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.
How does this channel doesn't have 10 million subs yet!!!
This is one of those gems channels.
no microbes,
no cheese, yogurt, pizza, beer, bread, kimchi, wine,
there's just no point then
Coffee, tee, tobacco, all are fermented
Great content cannot wait to see your 360° vids
9:08
What an interesting conclusion! I had many thoughts and emotions on this.
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.
Nice Video. Happy New year Everyone.
5:42 - Oooooh, nice shot of Kentucky Meat Rain. 👍
without microbes this channel will 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.
An extension to that... Each of those microbes is just a complex of molecules, and you can take that all the way down. Separation is an invention :)
I like to think about life as one big chemical chain reaction
@@tomvyt956 It is! And chemicals are just arrangements of atoms which are themselves arrangements of packets of energy... Everything is the same thing, part of a whole
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?
so thankful that I came across this channel im binge watching all your videos XD
2:18 Wondering what's the tiny black spec that swims in and out top right?
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
They label most of them top right but I would love labels of the cells themselves! I spent a year of college staring at cells and I dont even recognize half of the smol cutes
So beautiful and interesting...Very good footing. THANKS!
The life around hydrothermal vents would totally disappear
There would be no plankton by definition => the macro sea life would starve . ... the corpses would lie there for ever not being decomposed by microbes. The reefs would be dead. Forests would die, because composting / rotting would stop.
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 :).
As always, fascinating!
i barely know what you're talking about but god i love this channel
Jacob Turnbaugh. thanks for making my new years awkward.
this channel has changed my life, whatever that is.
I love the world of the small.
😄 The unseen hero's.
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. ;)
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.
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!
That "it's a bit like being in love" line is so John Green.
You know the worst thing would be?
We wouldn't have this great chanel to watch.
Happy new year!!!
I now want to write a short story about a world where all microbes die,
Thanks for the inspiration, i guess
You exceed life. Its in your hands everyday.
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.
wow. this is amazing. love your voice btw
5:07 is stunning visual eye candy.
Tjank you for your amazing videos
we would have a hell of a time making food into poop !
: )
I was thinking more along the lines of lactose intolerant people don't get gas
Or making poop into food.
Or plants taking nutrients from the soil.
Duuuuude, all the herbivores would starve within like the first month.... herbivory relies heavily on some sort of fermentation chamber in the GI tract, specially for large herbivores that are grazers or browsers.
Happy New Year 🔬🎉🎆
I love this channel so much. :'3
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!
Best channel to trip out to also😂 love the camera work and the calming voice.
We'd be up to our eyeballs in dead stuff if there were no microbes.
Suggestion for the channel :
Have you considered a sort of relaxation version of each of these videos? Hank, much as I love listening to you it would be nice to have just the music, the microbes and the names in the corner.
Great video! :)
and in the hope, perhaps vain, that it will be,
happy new year
This video is giving me a mild existential crisis as I ponder a world without oxygen and realise just how dependent we frail beings are on the earth that sustains us. We prefer to imagine ourselves something more akin to gods because its easier to get on with the job of living that way than being crippled with fears and all kinds of negative thoughts and feelings about existence.
many-many years ago my 6th grade science teacher pointed out the window and said if not for the germs that make things rot there would be piles of dinosaurs out there.we thought that was sort of funny.
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
Nice thought experiment!!
Other People: I guess we will die
Me: No more CHEESE!!
You tell a great, relaxing, bedtime story hank, nite nite, yawn and tonight i dream of life without microbes....zzzzz
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 species of algea is on 6:52 please?
Nothing would live if the basic building blocks died.
Life wouldn't be worth living without cheese.
As you said life could eventually evolve to deal with the lack of microbes, I was wondering if one of the ways of doing it would be to simply becomes the new microbes, I can see simple macroscopic organisms like sponges, fungi and even some simple types of plants maybe being able to do the trick, perhaps? Could microbes re-evolve?
The music in these always reminds me of something out of the game Spore.
Just Amazing Footage, Videos & Information
❤️✌️😎🏠
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
More slime molds plz! Those are the real aliens on Earth.
If one was going to buy a microscope to view protozoa, what would the specs be Bright-field 4X, 10X, 40X, 100X etc, Dark-field 4x, 10X 40X, 100X etc, and Phase Contrast 4X, 10X, 40X, 100Xetc.?
Before watching, I'd like to say I think life on Earth would end without microbes, IDK how long it would take. Now to watch, and see what You say.
edit: I'm more convinced as I think about it after watching. NO MORE BIOLOGICAL FIXATION OF NITROGEN = the Earth's ecosystem will collapse. The End. Still not sure on how long it would take, but everything would die.
Or some cells will become independent because of a mutation and therefore new microbes will evolve like „Canine transmissible venereal tumour“ a species of unicellular, asexually reproducing dog cancer cells which can spread out between dogs.
Tardigrades are super cute... and allegedly immortal.
HNY! to all germs and james. XD
Is it possible to use microbes for purposes of production? Like if methogens can create methane, can these be used to do so in a closed loop system? Maybe something in the future will make it easier to do something like that through AI and lasers.
This is epic
No microbes -> cows can't digest cellulose -> a world without hamburgers )-: