I added some new vegetation to the mudpuddle and saw some novel microbes, A number of large round-shaped protists have emerged, among them a stemmed species. It's just the beginning for some promising new species.
https://youtu.be/l3noyGlamqs
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- Mon May 20, 2024 7:00 pm
- Forum: Pictures and Videos
- Topic: New Life
- Replies: 0
- Views: 24
- Mon May 20, 2024 4:18 pm
- Forum: Pictures and Videos
- Topic: Bok-Choy
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- Views: 23
Bok-Choy
An esoteric oriental vegetable related to an onion, the cells resemble onion cells but are not quite the same. Various structures involving structural support and cell nutrition are visible through the transparent skin.
https://youtu.be/kFGgeZAUPI4
https://youtu.be/kFGgeZAUPI4
- Sun May 19, 2024 9:14 pm
- Forum: Pictures and Videos
- Topic: Pre-biofilm
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- Views: 34
Pre-biofilm
The protists are consuming and processing vegetation but have not yet generated a dese biofilm. We can see them through a water cover which is already laced with digested matter from the leaf.
https://youtu.be/-JpqLTe1jdk
https://youtu.be/-JpqLTe1jdk
- Sun May 19, 2024 3:16 pm
- Forum: Pictures and Videos
- Topic: Biosphere After a Few Hours
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- Views: 32
Biosphere After a Few Hours
Less than two days ago I enriched the biosphere by dumping the larger chunks of decaying vegetation and adding a few fresh leaves. The growth of the biome has accelerated very fast, digesting the new leaf sections I dropped into the water.
https://youtu.be/3aSYUN7tnY0
https://youtu.be/3aSYUN7tnY0
- Sat May 18, 2024 11:03 pm
- Forum: Pictures and Videos
- Topic: Amoeba eating a diatom
- Replies: 1
- Views: 78
Re: Amoeba eating a diatom
Great pictures! You caught something unusual.
- Sat May 18, 2024 7:13 pm
- Forum: Pictures and Videos
- Topic: Strawberry Fruit and Green
- Replies: 0
- Views: 41
Strawberry Fruit and Green
The strawberry in a complex fruit. It's hard to photograph through the microscope because it is both fragile and hard. I did get some images of the fruit and supporting structures.
https://youtu.be/dK8uk2boNpY
https://youtu.be/dK8uk2boNpY
- Sat May 18, 2024 2:51 pm
- Forum: Pictures and Videos
- Topic: After a Purging
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- Views: 40
After a Purging
The sample had so filled with biofilm that i was beginning to see harmful effects on the population over most of the sample. I decided to clean out some of the older elements. The water sample is still occupied with life but the high densities are gone. Now it's a matter of watching for the growth p...
- Fri May 17, 2024 8:14 pm
- Forum: Pictures and Videos
- Topic: Biofilm Entering a Terminal Stage
- Replies: 0
- Views: 53
Biofilm Entering a Terminal Stage
Portions of the biofilm seem to have become so dense that the growth of the protists is impeded by overcrowding. The water is covered by a crust from the biofilm. There is a lot less motion in the crowded field.
https://youtu.be/y7y-y_YAVLI
https://youtu.be/y7y-y_YAVLI
- Fri May 17, 2024 3:07 pm
- Forum: Pictures and Videos
- Topic: Banana Skin Inner Lining
- Replies: 0
- Views: 35
Banana Skin Inner Lining
On the inside of the banana peel is a waxy flexible ribbon-like tissue that appears to serve in some kind of structural binding function. The cells are quite large and octagonal (roughly) in shape. The tissue is ribbon-like, unlike most skin cells I've seen.
https://youtu.be/ib8cdddHx9o
https://youtu.be/ib8cdddHx9o
- Thu May 16, 2024 7:50 pm
- Forum: Pictures and Videos
- Topic: A Root Fiber fron a Large Garden Plant
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- Views: 33
A Root Fiber fron a Large Garden Plant
I found this structure laying in the garden, severed from the plant. I tried to make images of the root cells with some limited success. The root was very thick but I only took a sample from the surface.
https://youtu.be/FfGr6_ZyTqU
https://youtu.be/FfGr6_ZyTqU
- Thu May 16, 2024 4:22 pm
- Forum: Pictures and Videos
- Topic: A Layer above the Main Bio-Mass
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- Views: 34
A Layer above the Main Bio-Mass
Life in this biome has become very crowded and layered. I have photographed life among the remains of the vegetation itself. These pictures are images of life bellow the big patch of vegetation floating on top of the water. Here most of the organisms are free-moving, not anchored to the biofilm as t...
- Wed May 15, 2024 8:08 pm
- Forum: Pictures and Videos
- Topic: Avocado Skin
- Replies: 0
- Views: 32
Avocado Skin
The skin of the avocado fruit is challenging to photograph. The inside is creamy and gives the impression there the cells may not have a distinct shape--but they do (almost bubbly). The hard outer skin also seems problematic, but careful control of the light does yield perceptible cell shape. https:...
- Wed May 15, 2024 4:40 pm
- Forum: Pictures and Videos
- Topic: On Top of the Biofilm
- Replies: 0
- Views: 40
On Top of the Biofilm
The population of organisms on top of the biofilm is stabilizing. This sample includes a nematode for the first time in months. The surface of the water is saturated with biofilm.
https://youtu.be/2R5KpN-JXNY
https://youtu.be/2R5KpN-JXNY
- Tue May 14, 2024 9:26 pm
- Forum: Pictures and Videos
- Topic: The Surprisingly Sophisticated Banana Peel
- Replies: 0
- Views: 43
The Surprisingly Sophisticated Banana Peel
Banana peels are complex cell systems ranging from soft and irregular to firm and circular cell shapes. Here are some experimental samples.
https://youtu.be/-CPLSxwanQY
https://youtu.be/-CPLSxwanQY
- Tue May 14, 2024 5:20 pm
- Forum: Pictures and Videos
- Topic: A New Stage of Biofilm
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- Views: 37
A New Stage of Biofilm
Floating on he surface of the mudpuddle is a mass of vegetable gelatin\ that holds suspended microbes apparently almost motionless. In spots it's hard to see the forms of the microbes disguised in the biofilm. This is the densest biofilm I have seen. With the naked eye it looks sizable lumps of whit...
- Mon May 13, 2024 7:43 pm
- Forum: Pictures and Videos
- Topic: Medium and Deeper Water Depth Organisms
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- Views: 64
Medium and Deeper Water Depth Organisms
Although I am not equipped to do a real analysis of this data, clearly the upper level of the water where the dense biofilm is shows a distinct distribution of organisms. The middle level shows a high density of moving, active protists, somewhat smaller in size. The lower level does appear to contai...
- Mon May 13, 2024 3:33 pm
- Forum: Pictures and Videos
- Topic: Small Bump inside a Green Pepper
- Replies: 0
- Views: 52
Small Bump inside a Green Pepper
Every time you eat you a green pepper you find these little juicy bits attached to the inside of the shell. They consist of several types of fluid-filled cells. They look almost like external growths. I don't know what they are for.
https://youtu.be/LNm4O0_XDmg
https://youtu.be/LNm4O0_XDmg
- Sun May 12, 2024 7:49 pm
- Forum: Pictures and Videos
- Topic: Hi Density Masses
- Replies: 0
- Views: 51
Hi Density Masses
The colony of protists and organisms in the mudpuddle becomes more dense. They begin to press together in three-dimensional masses. One group, a rectangular organism with no visible nucleus--possible a large bacteria--has appeared.
https://youtu.be/XXuYW4wVT1s
https://youtu.be/XXuYW4wVT1s
- Sun May 12, 2024 4:33 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous
- Topic: Evolution
- Replies: 0
- Views: 94
Evolution
What makes things bigger reveals the cracks in the smooth telling of life. We are among the tiny beads strung together along the ridges of a mystery. Those with no eyes swim in our blood, open to accept swallowed pieces of the past. Other worlds ignore us, satisfied that we don't see them. They buil...
- Sat May 11, 2024 8:23 pm
- Forum: Pictures and Videos
- Topic: Structure Dropped on the Soil by the Plant
- Replies: 0
- Views: 53
Structure Dropped on the Soil by the Plant
It looks like part of the reproduction process deposited by the grassy plant. It has a structure similar to a leaf but it may be a seed carrier.
https://youtu.be/lXq_uW6ziIA
https://youtu.be/lXq_uW6ziIA
- Sat May 11, 2024 7:06 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous
- Topic: Waking in the Middle of the Night
- Replies: 0
- Views: 57
Waking in the Middle of the Night
I know them from a distance. But they are so familiar I would even call them intimate. They belong to me just as they belong to you. And I can't possess all the ones that I didn't own before. Almost all I will never touch. They are shared but at such distance. Created by chance that cold mechanics e...
- Sat May 11, 2024 5:05 pm
- Forum: Pictures and Videos
- Topic: Massing Micro Life
- Replies: 0
- Views: 54
Massing Micro Life
It looked like there was mold on the surface of the mud puddle. But it isn't mold it is a massed colony of microbes that is floating on the water like a solid lump.
https://youtu.be/cq1WSt_TV5o
https://youtu.be/cq1WSt_TV5o
- Fri May 10, 2024 8:06 pm
- Forum: Pictures and Videos
- Topic: Peculiar Optical Properties of Certain Leaves
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- Views: 65
Peculiar Optical Properties of Certain Leaves
These leaf cells appear to diffract light almost like lenses, making microscope viewing and photography difficult.
https://youtu.be/hbo20wHfYSw
https://youtu.be/hbo20wHfYSw
- Fri May 10, 2024 3:52 pm
- Forum: Pictures and Videos
- Topic: Protists Living in Mold
- Replies: 0
- Views: 56
Protists Living in Mold
Vegetation in the biome sample supports the growth of mold-like fiberous structures. The population is not as big as that in the stagnant water around it and the organisms are less active.
https://youtu.be/uI-yqipu9tE
https://youtu.be/uI-yqipu9tE
- Fri May 10, 2024 2:18 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous
- Topic: One of My Poetry Sites
- Replies: 2
- Views: 138
Re: One of My Poetry Sites
Thanks very much.
- Fri May 10, 2024 2:16 pm
- Forum: Pictures and Videos
- Topic: Stentor coeruleus
- Replies: 6
- Views: 195
Re: Stentor coeruleus
This really is a beautifully made photo.
- Thu May 09, 2024 8:24 pm
- Forum: Pictures and Videos
- Topic: The Conversion Zone
- Replies: 0
- Views: 44
The Conversion Zone
This is the place where protist-filled water meets nutrient-filled water. It's action central for the great biological process of conversion from solid to liquid.
https://youtu.be/cmTpNhaG2bM
https://youtu.be/cmTpNhaG2bM
- Thu May 09, 2024 4:58 pm
- Forum: Pictures and Videos
- Topic: My first slide!
- Replies: 3
- Views: 167
Re: My first slide!
Join the club! Welcome.
- Thu May 09, 2024 4:56 pm
- Forum: Pictures and Videos
- Topic: Lackrymaria Olor ?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 160
Re: Lackrymaria Olor ?
"the body uses to explore the surrounding environment. In my opinion, this flagellum also serves to recognize and obtain food." I'm intrigued. You (like almost all of us) use these plainly human cognitive words to describe the lives of organisms that are not supposed to be capable of cognition. Do y...
- Thu May 09, 2024 4:23 pm
- Forum: Pictures and Videos
- Topic: Structures in a Strawberry
- Replies: 0
- Views: 49
Structures in a Strawberry
Strawberries are especially intersting subjects for fruit lovers. They have a mysterious and unique texture when you eat them. The texture of a strawberry invites curiousity. However, the strawberry is very good at hiding its mysteries. I can see a variety of cell structures in a tiny sample of the ...