WEBVTT - Creature Classic: Aeroplankton 0:00:05.720 --> 0:00:09.120 Welcome to Creature future production of iHeartRadio. I'm your host 0:00:09.160 --> 0:00:13.200 of Many Parasites, Katie Golden. I studied psychology and evolutionary biology, 0:00:13.200 --> 0:00:17.000 and today on the show, we are talking about aeroplankton. 0:00:17.280 --> 0:00:21.400 That's right, there's life all around us. We are breathing 0:00:21.440 --> 0:00:25.760 it in, don't cough it out. It's probably fine. From 0:00:25.880 --> 0:00:30.080 tiny animals to bacteria to who knows what. There are 0:00:30.120 --> 0:00:33.720 so many little guys just floating on the wind, surprisingly 0:00:33.800 --> 0:00:37.040 sometimes on purpose. Discover this and more as we answer 0:00:37.080 --> 0:00:41.239 the age old question isn't raining viruses? And do you 0:00:41.320 --> 0:00:45.159 need an umbrella? Joining me today is friend of the show, 0:00:45.479 --> 0:00:50.479 my good old buddy, writer for American Dad, Sora and 0:00:50.680 --> 0:00:54.800 wait No, also co host of Quick Question with Soren 0:00:54.840 --> 0:00:56.720 and Daniel or Daniel and Sorn. I don't know what 0:00:57.680 --> 0:00:59.840 sorry and Daniel, ddice, she got first? You got first? 0:01:00.320 --> 0:01:01.160 Is that an argument? 0:01:02.120 --> 0:01:04.080 No? In fact, Daniel gave that up for it was 0:01:04.160 --> 0:01:06.720 Daniel's idea, because Daniel will always pitch it that way 0:01:06.920 --> 0:01:08.720 as the other person in the hopes that the other 0:01:08.760 --> 0:01:11.000 person says no, no, no, no no no. 0:01:11.959 --> 0:01:15.760 She should have known better. But yeah, your name is 0:01:15.800 --> 0:01:17.480 Soren Booy. Welcome to the show. 0:01:18.319 --> 0:01:20.560 Thank you for having me. It's a pleasure to be 0:01:20.640 --> 0:01:23.319 here again. Oh to stretch my legs in the world 0:01:23.319 --> 0:01:25.280 of the floor and fauna feels good. 0:01:25.360 --> 0:01:27.760 Feels good to be back getting all those floor in fauna, 0:01:28.400 --> 0:01:32.000 you know, uh, stretching your legs and I'm that that 0:01:32.200 --> 0:01:33.319 makes total sense. 0:01:34.840 --> 0:01:35.680 I just put them on. 0:01:35.800 --> 0:01:36.240 Put them on. 0:01:36.720 --> 0:01:40.040 Yeah, get slip into something more comfortable, like a megafauna, 0:01:40.160 --> 0:01:40.600 like a moose. 0:01:40.800 --> 0:01:41.039 Yeah. 0:01:41.360 --> 0:01:43.240 I imagine comfortable b to be in a moose. You'd 0:01:43.280 --> 0:01:43.880 have so much room. 0:01:44.040 --> 0:01:47.880 Wow. Yeah, just kind of like you know, I guess 0:01:48.000 --> 0:01:50.880 you have to slice that sucker open like a ton 0:01:50.960 --> 0:01:53.600 ton but imagine how warm would be in there. 0:01:54.160 --> 0:01:56.760 Now, are you? I assume that when you started this podcast, 0:01:56.880 --> 0:01:59.320 like the first things you did were the megafauna, Like 0:01:59.360 --> 0:02:01.000 those were all the good ones. Those are like the 0:02:01.040 --> 0:02:02.280 fun animals to talk. 0:02:02.360 --> 0:02:04.120 I don't think so, Actually, you know what sort. I 0:02:04.160 --> 0:02:06.600 think One of the first ones I talked about was 0:02:06.760 --> 0:02:13.079 a parasite, uh, the tea gandhia, because it was so interesting. 0:02:13.120 --> 0:02:15.680 I mean, I love a parasite like that's they're my 0:02:15.760 --> 0:02:19.440 favorites because they're so sneaky, uh and they do so 0:02:19.639 --> 0:02:23.800 they're like they're pranksters. They're they love fun pranks, like 0:02:23.840 --> 0:02:27.240 making a rat fall in love with a cat urine. 0:02:27.639 --> 0:02:28.920 That's like a fun. 0:02:28.720 --> 0:02:32.799 Prank and just attracted to cast. Yeah, like they the 0:02:32.880 --> 0:02:33.920 cats look very sexy too. 0:02:34.040 --> 0:02:36.560 They're turned on by the smell of cat urine. And 0:02:36.600 --> 0:02:39.680 I feel like it's that is a sick joke, and 0:02:39.720 --> 0:02:42.120 I'm and I'm all for sick jokes. 0:02:42.600 --> 0:02:44.680 I was just gonna say, I I I never picked. 0:02:44.680 --> 0:02:45.679 When you say do you want to call on the 0:02:45.720 --> 0:02:48.239 podcasts or anything you want to talk about I I'm like, 0:02:48.280 --> 0:02:50.000 all right, what are the things that I'm very interested in? 0:02:50.200 --> 0:02:53.560 And I always scratch like all the big animals off 0:02:53.600 --> 0:02:56.600 theos because I'm like, no, she's probably she's probably like, oh, 0:02:56.760 --> 0:03:00.040 I know what we'll do Area plank did We'll do it. 0:03:01.360 --> 0:03:04.079 It's perfect. I love this topic so much. I'm so 0:03:04.120 --> 0:03:08.240 happy you suggested it. I actually, you know what I 0:03:08.280 --> 0:03:12.200 would this if you suggested something like let's do whales, 0:03:12.280 --> 0:03:16.360 I would panic because honestly, whales are not very well 0:03:16.400 --> 0:03:18.560 studied and there's so many things that we don't know 0:03:18.600 --> 0:03:22.440 about them, and I personally am you know, It's like 0:03:22.440 --> 0:03:24.519 when I try to research whales, like how do they mate, 0:03:24.520 --> 0:03:27.079 and it's like, we don't know. You think we know that, 0:03:27.200 --> 0:03:27.720 we don't know that. 0:03:28.040 --> 0:03:30.799 It's mystery, it's none of our business. 0:03:30.800 --> 0:03:33.960 We're business. Uh so yeah, no, this is this is 0:03:34.080 --> 0:03:37.480 very cool. So we're talking about aeroplankton. So aeroplankton is 0:03:38.000 --> 0:03:42.520 it's basically just stuff that uses instead of oceanic currents, 0:03:42.560 --> 0:03:46.400 it uses wind currents to get around. So we all 0:03:46.520 --> 0:03:50.400 we all know and love oceanic plankton. They're tiny micro organism, 0:03:50.640 --> 0:03:54.520 including both zooplankton like coral larva or even like crab 0:03:54.640 --> 0:03:58.040 or fish larva. Those count as a zooplankton. There's also 0:03:58.120 --> 0:04:02.760 phitoplankton like tiny algae. These are like diatoms, so yeah, 0:04:03.000 --> 0:04:08.120 like animals, plants, even prokaryotic plankton like bacteria. These are 0:04:08.160 --> 0:04:12.760 all things that count as plankton. They're using oceanic currents 0:04:12.840 --> 0:04:18.520 to travel, and so skyplankton aeroplankton is basically the same. 0:04:18.640 --> 0:04:24.280 These are little teeny tiny things that use the currents 0:04:24.320 --> 0:04:29.120 of the air to get around, and so it is. 0:04:29.320 --> 0:04:32.520 It is really interesting because like oceanic plankton is a 0:04:32.560 --> 0:04:37.400 relatively like stable population of stuff. They do do like 0:04:37.440 --> 0:04:41.760 a mass migration every day and night, cycle, which is 0:04:41.800 --> 0:04:44.279 really cool, but more or less, they're like supposed to 0:04:44.320 --> 0:04:48.599 be there, whereas with aeroplankton, it ranges from stuff that 0:04:48.800 --> 0:04:53.320 is like intentionally like on the wind, to stuff that 0:04:53.400 --> 0:04:56.240 like probably doesn't know why or how it got up there. 0:04:59.040 --> 0:05:02.760 That's a most exciting about. I'm excited about like spiders 0:05:02.760 --> 0:05:04.080 that end up in the stratosphere. 0:05:04.520 --> 0:05:07.520 Well, you know what's interesting. They do, but they are 0:05:07.560 --> 0:05:08.800 not the confused ones. 0:05:09.920 --> 0:05:10.920 They're supposed to be there. 0:05:10.920 --> 0:05:15.160 They're supposed to be there often. So yeah, aeroplankton, there 0:05:15.160 --> 0:05:18.520 are microorganisms that live in the air, well, not live 0:05:18.560 --> 0:05:20.840 in the air. They happen to wind up in the 0:05:20.880 --> 0:05:25.520 air from clouds to wind currents. Uh. And just like 0:05:25.600 --> 0:05:31.039 oceanic plankton, there are animal organisms. There's plants, fungi, unicellular organisms, 0:05:31.040 --> 0:05:35.960 and prokaryotic organisms that make up aeroplankton. I Actually, so 0:05:36.640 --> 0:05:40.560 this is kind of exciting timing because I recently recorded 0:05:40.600 --> 0:05:45.000 a podcast with Alex Schmidt. It's a podcast called Secretly 0:05:45.000 --> 0:05:49.720 Incredibly Fascinating. We talked about clouds, and Alex just yeah, 0:05:49.720 --> 0:05:52.840 he taught me all about clouds, uh. And he told 0:05:52.839 --> 0:05:57.279 me about how like clouds are formed usually by like 0:05:57.360 --> 0:06:01.840 a seed it's like a little mote of something. It 0:06:01.880 --> 0:06:04.560 could be silica, like a piece of sand, but it's 0:06:04.600 --> 0:06:08.279 like these little microscopic seeds and then cloud sort of 0:06:08.279 --> 0:06:11.080 water droplet forms around it. It's like the nucleus of 0:06:11.160 --> 0:06:13.440 the cloud. Yeah, so like the cloud has all these 0:06:13.440 --> 0:06:18.520 little nuclei, but this thing they exactly but these little, 0:06:18.600 --> 0:06:23.440 these little microscopic bits of stuff can often be things 0:06:23.560 --> 0:06:28.479 like microorganisms. They can be dead or alive bacteria, microorganisms, 0:06:29.279 --> 0:06:34.359 algae that also form these nuclei and clouds. So that's 0:06:34.440 --> 0:06:37.400 really cool. Clouds can have a bunch of like dead 0:06:37.520 --> 0:06:42.640 or alive microorganisms that actually help the cloud form. 0:06:43.680 --> 0:06:46.240 Wow, that I did not know that that Every cloud, Yeah, 0:06:46.720 --> 0:06:50.719 every cloud is built around something that was once on 0:06:50.760 --> 0:06:52.240 the ground pretty much. 0:06:53.600 --> 0:06:56.880 No, that's I mean, that's accurate. Yeah. Like I'm not 0:06:56.920 --> 0:06:59.200 going to talk anymore. Well maybe a little bit, but 0:06:59.240 --> 0:07:01.000 not much more about cloud So if you want to 0:07:01.120 --> 0:07:03.920 learn all about the clouds, you can check out Secretly 0:07:03.960 --> 0:07:06.680 Incredibly Fascinating. I host it with Alex Schmid. 0:07:06.760 --> 0:07:10.760 Do you ever have Alex Schmidt on this podcast? I do, yes, Okay, 0:07:11.520 --> 0:07:14.760 A really fun bit would be would be to only 0:07:14.840 --> 0:07:16.960 let him talk about clams every time he comes over. 0:07:17.120 --> 0:07:19.800 Yeah, you know what is dis clams? I don't know 0:07:19.840 --> 0:07:22.880 that we have talked about clams. I should do that. 0:07:23.440 --> 0:07:25.520 He's not going to listen to this one probably, so 0:07:25.680 --> 0:07:29.679 I'm going to do that. Don't tell him, all right, Yeah. 0:07:29.680 --> 0:07:32.160 Insist on it. And every single time, like we just 0:07:32.200 --> 0:07:34.520 got to go back to mallus. I'm so sorry because 0:07:34.680 --> 0:07:36.640 molis is like wide ranging because it goes all the 0:07:36.640 --> 0:07:37.760 way from clams to octopy. 0:07:37.880 --> 0:07:40.360 So like he actually does not like he does not 0:07:40.880 --> 0:07:45.040 he see life upsets him. He has a slight fear 0:07:45.360 --> 0:07:51.400 of aquatic animals. So perfect, Yeah, perfect? Uh So who 0:07:51.560 --> 0:07:54.720 is ero plankton? Right, like, who who is this stuff? 0:07:55.800 --> 0:07:58.119 I do? First want to talk about maybe the most 0:07:58.200 --> 0:08:04.280 famous of the arrow planktonic members, pollen, which I think 0:08:04.480 --> 0:08:10.000 right now everyone hates, or at least everyone with allergies hates. 0:08:10.640 --> 0:08:13.840 I also have. I actually never used to get seasonal 0:08:13.880 --> 0:08:18.640 allergies too badly until they moved to Italy and somehow 0:08:19.080 --> 0:08:26.800 the Italian flowers non mi piace ifiori italiani because they 0:08:28.200 --> 0:08:31.080 I get really bad allergies here really. 0:08:30.840 --> 0:08:34.840 Yeah, oh no, what do they have? They've figured out 0:08:35.080 --> 0:08:37.600 histamines over Oh yeah, I'm on them the caves that 0:08:37.640 --> 0:08:38.000 you live in. 0:08:38.120 --> 0:08:41.040 I am currently high on some kind Yani histamine. I 0:08:41.040 --> 0:08:44.480 don't know if you can be, but you know it is. 0:08:45.120 --> 0:08:48.360 It's making life a little better. But I'm still sniffling 0:08:48.400 --> 0:08:51.160 a little bit. But yeah, it hits me like a 0:08:51.200 --> 0:08:54.600 train every year. Yeah, And I've heard like, oh, just 0:08:54.679 --> 0:08:57.920 eat honey that is made out of the local like flowers, 0:08:57.960 --> 0:09:00.520 and maybe it helps. I don't know, because like I 0:09:00.520 --> 0:09:03.040 don't have the patience to just keep eating honey. I 0:09:03.120 --> 0:09:06.120 usually like take the antihistamy. But it sure is good. 0:09:06.120 --> 0:09:09.080 The honey's delicious. I don't know if it has any 0:09:09.320 --> 0:09:12.840 real effect. Do you get allergy sore in? Yeah? 0:09:12.880 --> 0:09:14.800 I get them pretty badly. I didn't when I was 0:09:14.840 --> 0:09:17.600 really young, and my brother did and I was always like, ah, 0:09:17.800 --> 0:09:20.000 sex with you. Yeah, And then as I got older, 0:09:20.280 --> 0:09:21.800 my immune system just changed. 0:09:21.880 --> 0:09:22.080 Yeah. 0:09:22.360 --> 0:09:27.000 I get terrible seasonal allergies. And the same way somebody 0:09:27.080 --> 0:09:29.040 was like, oh, hey, try this bee pollen, which is 0:09:29.040 --> 0:09:31.440 like not the honey. It's like, I don't know how 0:09:31.480 --> 0:09:33.560 they're collecting it, and like you just get these spoonfuls 0:09:33.559 --> 0:09:34.680 of baskets. 0:09:34.240 --> 0:09:34.680 On their legs. 0:09:34.960 --> 0:09:35.320 Pieces. 0:09:35.400 --> 0:09:38.559 Oh you mean, how are the humans collecting it baskets 0:09:38.600 --> 0:09:39.000 on their. 0:09:38.920 --> 0:09:43.920 Legs, off the leg and I'll put it in my baskets. 0:09:44.960 --> 0:09:48.560 I I tried that. I tried to taking take a 0:09:48.559 --> 0:09:50.480 tablespoon on this bee pollen every day, and so I 0:09:50.480 --> 0:09:53.080 started doing that. I was like, oh, my throat's closing 0:09:53.120 --> 0:09:58.920 because of the I'm just consuming now, So I stopped 0:09:58.920 --> 0:10:01.720 doing that. Now I'm just back on Clariton's. 0:10:02.200 --> 0:10:07.000 Yeah. I had b pollen chocolate bar once. It did 0:10:07.000 --> 0:10:09.800 not close my throat, but it also did not taste good. 0:10:09.960 --> 0:10:12.679 So the thing is like, if you give me some 0:10:12.760 --> 0:10:16.440 kind of BSD remedy but it tastes good, I'll be 0:10:16.520 --> 0:10:21.200 all about it, like, yeah, this honey is helping my allergies. 0:10:21.280 --> 0:10:24.360 It's not, but it tastes good, so I won't. 0:10:24.480 --> 0:10:25.240 I'm drinking it. 0:10:25.400 --> 0:10:27.880 Yeah, I'm drinking it. Like don't like they're like, oh, 0:10:27.920 --> 0:10:31.160 you know red wine, you know does something positive. It's 0:10:31.160 --> 0:10:33.520 like great, I won't listen to any other news or 0:10:33.559 --> 0:10:38.880 study about it. Yeah. So pollen, they are they count 0:10:38.920 --> 0:10:43.000 as aeroplankton as a bio aerosol. They are microscopic grains 0:10:43.040 --> 0:10:46.400 that contain male sperm cells of plants. That's right, plants 0:10:46.440 --> 0:10:49.800 are having sex get over it. So they are part 0:10:49.840 --> 0:10:52.480 of a plant sexual reproduction cycle, and they need to 0:10:52.559 --> 0:10:56.280 land on the female part of the plant. 0:10:56.760 --> 0:10:59.319 Yeah, it turns out my new system, it's just very prude. 0:10:59.360 --> 0:11:04.000 It's very it's it's very puritan. Yeah, it's like, get 0:11:04.000 --> 0:11:07.360 this out of here. Yeah, get this sky stauge away 0:11:07.360 --> 0:11:09.280 from me. I'm not sure if I can say sky 0:11:09.400 --> 0:11:14.480 sauge on my own show, but we'll see. So. Yeah, 0:11:14.520 --> 0:11:19.559 they plants can accomplish pollination through highly effective and precise 0:11:19.600 --> 0:11:23.040 pollinators like bees, flies, bats, and birds, or through the 0:11:23.120 --> 0:11:28.400 less precise and more promiscuous method of just blasting it 0:11:28.440 --> 0:11:30.840 out into the air and hoping it lands where it 0:11:30.880 --> 0:11:38.320 needs to go. I mean, I see, are how are 0:11:38.360 --> 0:11:43.560 babies made? So? Uh yeah. The plants that rely on 0:11:43.720 --> 0:11:50.480 wind transport are called uh animophylus, which means wind loving, 0:11:52.280 --> 0:11:56.440 And so these are the plants that typically are behind 0:11:56.440 --> 0:12:00.640 seasonal allergies, so they're pollen is designed to be bountiful 0:12:01.040 --> 0:12:04.360 and travel by air. Like have you ever like batted 0:12:04.400 --> 0:12:08.160 a pine branch and just a cloud of menacing yellow 0:12:08.480 --> 0:12:09.280 comes out of it? 0:12:11.080 --> 0:12:13.240 Are you're asking me? Yeah? Of course. My card right 0:12:13.240 --> 0:12:15.160 now is I have a pine tree in my yard 0:12:15.200 --> 0:12:18.760 and it is just a film of yellow dust all 0:12:18.800 --> 0:12:19.080 over it. 0:12:19.240 --> 0:12:22.160 Yeah, that's that's because the pine, the pine trees whole 0:12:22.240 --> 0:12:25.480 plan is to just produce a huge amount of pollen. 0:12:25.600 --> 0:12:27.840 Some of it's gonna wind up on your car, but 0:12:27.960 --> 0:12:31.520 by god, some of it will land on a female 0:12:31.559 --> 0:12:35.600 cone somewhere. Yeah, just with a hope and a prayer. 0:12:36.200 --> 0:12:42.120 So yes, why is pollen an allergen? So airborne pollen 0:12:42.520 --> 0:12:45.480 is easily inhaled. It can be microscopic. I mean you 0:12:45.520 --> 0:12:50.679 can see sometimes heavy coating of pollen, but it can 0:12:50.720 --> 0:12:54.240 get up in your nose and interface with your mucosal 0:12:54.280 --> 0:12:59.199 membrane of the nose and sinuses. Our mucosal membranes are 0:12:59.640 --> 0:13:02.559 very important part of our immune system because they contain 0:13:02.800 --> 0:13:07.160 not only mucus, but immune cells, which is part of 0:13:07.240 --> 0:13:10.840 our passive immune system. Immune cells can either be part 0:13:11.000 --> 0:13:14.280 of the adaptive immune response, which is like the precise 0:13:14.440 --> 0:13:17.880 thing where they have wanted posters out of a specific pathogen, 0:13:17.920 --> 0:13:21.600 where they're like, yeah, that's the guy, get them, or 0:13:21.760 --> 0:13:25.960 the passive immune system where they are just checking essentially 0:13:26.040 --> 0:13:30.800 passports for invasive cells and stuff. It's like do you 0:13:30.880 --> 0:13:34.720 belong here? No, Well, you're gonna get it, and so 0:13:35.240 --> 0:13:40.160 they will sometimes misidentify something as harmful when it's really 0:13:40.320 --> 0:13:46.559 just kind of inert. Pollen is not really that harmful intrinsically, 0:13:46.800 --> 0:13:49.680 and not everyone is allergic to it, but for many people, 0:13:50.040 --> 0:13:58.239 the immune system just accidentally identifies it as a dangerous pathogen. 0:13:58.320 --> 0:14:01.920 So like it is sensitive to civic pollen proteins. That's 0:14:01.960 --> 0:14:05.800 actually one of the reasons that it can change over time, Right, 0:14:05.880 --> 0:14:09.120 like your immune system change, you can actually become sensitized 0:14:09.280 --> 0:14:15.120 to pollen, and like your immune system accidentally learns to 0:14:15.240 --> 0:14:19.640 identify this as a pathogen, and then you start getting 0:14:20.040 --> 0:14:23.600 sneezes and wheezes with the rest of us, sad sex. 0:14:24.400 --> 0:14:26.360 That's what happened to me. I think you can go 0:14:26.400 --> 0:14:29.000 the other direction too, Like I have a I was 0:14:29.040 --> 0:14:31.120 allergic to cats for a very long time and then 0:14:31.160 --> 0:14:33.240 we got a cat, and I was taking medication and 0:14:33.280 --> 0:14:35.840 then ran out and then felt like five days without 0:14:35.840 --> 0:14:39.040 taking it and realized, oh, you know what, Yeah, cats 0:14:39.080 --> 0:14:42.720 are fine. It turns out no, I'm my immune system has. 0:14:42.720 --> 0:14:46.800 Adapted that cat trained you with just the pure power 0:14:46.840 --> 0:14:49.360 of will. No, I mean that that is true, So 0:14:49.440 --> 0:14:52.240 like you can also your allergies can calm down, either 0:14:52.280 --> 0:14:57.200 with age or just sort of environmental factors, because you know, 0:14:57.280 --> 0:15:00.800 your immune system might no longer be reactive to it. 0:15:01.480 --> 0:15:04.120 I'm not going to pretend like I understand exactly how 0:15:04.160 --> 0:15:07.320 that works, and in fact, yeah, it is something that 0:15:07.480 --> 0:15:11.280 is even complex to experts the exact way in which 0:15:11.720 --> 0:15:16.520 the immune system and allergies precisely work in that situation. 0:15:16.640 --> 0:15:18.800 But yeah, I mean it's probably it's like a combination 0:15:18.880 --> 0:15:22.360 of genetics and environmental exposure that determines whether you will 0:15:22.360 --> 0:15:26.680 be allergic to pollen. I don't know. I would not 0:15:26.800 --> 0:15:32.120 necessarily recommend, uh, eating spoonfuls of bee pollen to try 0:15:32.160 --> 0:15:33.600 to cure it, because. 0:15:33.400 --> 0:15:35.920 That you end up like the kid and stand by 0:15:36.040 --> 0:15:37.200 no in my girl. 0:15:37.640 --> 0:15:41.360 Oh yeah, wait, you're right, it's my girl. That's mcaulay Culkin. 0:15:43.480 --> 0:15:48.720 Yeah he's I've met him. He's nice. 0:15:49.080 --> 0:15:52.480 I mean the kid in the movie who died. Oh yeah, 0:15:53.280 --> 0:15:55.520 Clay Culkin himself, I'm sure is a wonderful boy. 0:15:55.800 --> 0:16:01.160 Yeah he's Uh. I I don't know if he's actually 0:16:01.160 --> 0:16:03.400 allergic to bees in real life, but I. 0:16:03.360 --> 0:16:03.720 Don't want to. 0:16:03.760 --> 0:16:04.520 I don't want to try it. 0:16:04.600 --> 0:16:06.440 You know what we should call? 0:16:06.760 --> 0:16:10.040 We should call? Yeah, he doesn't. There's no way he 0:16:10.080 --> 0:16:12.680 remembers who I am. But anyways, we are going to 0:16:12.760 --> 0:16:16.560 take a quick break and when we get back we 0:16:16.600 --> 0:16:21.880 are actually going to talk about animal aeroplankton. Yes, I 0:16:21.920 --> 0:16:28.280 guess like zoo aeroplankton, which is gonna be fun. All right, 0:16:28.480 --> 0:16:33.040 so we're gonna talk about animal aeroplankton. These are aeroplanktonic 0:16:33.120 --> 0:16:38.720 particles that are in fact little tiny animals. So there 0:16:38.760 --> 0:16:43.480 are a lot of animals that fly or glide, and 0:16:43.520 --> 0:16:46.280 we don't really count those as aeroplanktons. 0:16:46.280 --> 0:16:46.880 So like the. 0:16:50.760 --> 0:16:57.120 Things like gnats or flies that like just fly or birds, 0:16:57.160 --> 0:17:00.720 like we don't count birds as aeroplankton. That would bediculous. 0:17:01.040 --> 0:17:04.680 Uh it is. The definition seems to be both things 0:17:04.680 --> 0:17:07.239 that are tiny but also just like it has to 0:17:07.280 --> 0:17:10.640 be passively carried by a wind currents. It can't really 0:17:10.720 --> 0:17:14.960 be an autonomous flying animal, right like a gnat or 0:17:15.040 --> 0:17:17.000 a fly that actually like you know, it can be 0:17:17.080 --> 0:17:21.800 really small. There are some wasps that are really really tiny, 0:17:21.840 --> 0:17:24.960 but they can they're flying like they are showing sort 0:17:25.000 --> 0:17:29.439 of a they have an autonomous ability to fly around. 0:17:29.680 --> 0:17:36.040 Aeroplankton control exactly. Aeroplankton, for the most part, are passively 0:17:36.119 --> 0:17:41.879 being carried by wind currents. So one example is aphids. 0:17:42.119 --> 0:17:44.800 They can be found thousands of feet up in the air, 0:17:45.040 --> 0:17:49.000 just like, I don't know that they expected that to happen, 0:17:49.080 --> 0:17:53.960 to be honest, they might benefit from from from some dispersal, 0:17:54.800 --> 0:17:58.720 but yeah, it is that must be wild. One minute, 0:17:58.720 --> 0:18:02.440 you're you're being farm by ants sipping on plant juices. 0:18:02.440 --> 0:18:05.280 In the next you're just like getting sucked into a 0:18:05.280 --> 0:18:06.520 airplane turbine. 0:18:07.200 --> 0:18:09.760 Yeah, you're over at the top of a storm. Yeah, 0:18:10.760 --> 0:18:12.679 I want to. I mean, we can all stand to 0:18:12.720 --> 0:18:14.960 be a little bit more like those aphits that we 0:18:15.119 --> 0:18:17.400 just sort of like let it carry you, don't try 0:18:17.400 --> 0:18:21.320 to control everything getting if you get lifted up into 0:18:21.320 --> 0:18:23.199 the sky, just see what happens. 0:18:23.880 --> 0:18:27.320 Man. Like the other option is staying and getting farmed 0:18:27.320 --> 0:18:29.920 by ants and having them like suck juices out of 0:18:29.960 --> 0:18:32.960 your butt. So you know what, Yeah, exactly. 0:18:33.080 --> 0:18:34.840 Wouldn't you rather be hit by a plane? 0:18:35.040 --> 0:18:38.919 I would, Well, everyone has their own taste sore, and 0:18:39.000 --> 0:18:43.480 so I wouldn't judge. But you know, one famous little 0:18:43.600 --> 0:18:49.840 member of the Aeroplankton family are indeed spiders, baby spiders. 0:18:49.960 --> 0:18:53.360 So do you know about how baby spiders use strands? 0:18:53.400 --> 0:18:58.879 Of silk to fly around like little eight legged Mary Poppins's. 0:19:00.680 --> 0:19:04.520 I don't totally understand this. I'm vaguely familiar with the 0:19:04.520 --> 0:19:08.440 fact that spiders could occasionally just land on you, yes, 0:19:08.800 --> 0:19:10.320 from the sky usually. 0:19:10.320 --> 0:19:14.920 So if you for like large adult spiders, that's usually 0:19:14.960 --> 0:19:19.040 because they're probably like in a tree or somewhere nearby 0:19:19.240 --> 0:19:22.359 and then they kind of like accidentally went airborne and 0:19:22.440 --> 0:19:27.200 landed on you. But if it's a teeny tiny baby spider, 0:19:27.480 --> 0:19:30.240 there's a good chance that was entirely intentional. Where this 0:19:30.320 --> 0:19:35.479 baby spider, what they do is they they kind of 0:19:35.560 --> 0:19:38.600 walk on their little tippy toes. They're any bitty adorable 0:19:38.640 --> 0:19:41.800 baby spider tippy toes. They stick their butts in the air, 0:19:42.200 --> 0:19:45.639 and they should shoot out a strand of silk, and 0:19:45.680 --> 0:19:48.520 that silk helps them get picked up by the wind. 0:19:49.200 --> 0:19:52.960 It's kind of like a parachute, but or paragliding, but 0:19:53.000 --> 0:19:58.560 it's called ballooning, so they can be picked up by winds. 0:19:58.600 --> 0:20:01.439 And there's a massive amount of these baby spiders, so 0:20:01.560 --> 0:20:06.040 much so that there are animals that completely depend on 0:20:06.080 --> 0:20:09.920 them as part of their diet, like swifts. Swifts are 0:20:10.119 --> 0:20:13.400 birds who are migratory. They spend like most of their 0:20:13.440 --> 0:20:17.960 life in the air, very little time roosting, and they 0:20:18.040 --> 0:20:20.160 do not like to be on the ground. Their feet 0:20:20.240 --> 0:20:23.880 actually have turned into just like basically hooks. They can't 0:20:23.880 --> 0:20:28.160 really walk, and so most of the time they're spending 0:20:28.800 --> 0:20:32.399 in the air, and a huge part of their diet 0:20:32.560 --> 0:20:36.600 are these baby spiders that they snack up. Because the 0:20:36.640 --> 0:20:41.680 baby spiders, there's just so many of them, they kind 0:20:41.720 --> 0:20:44.800 of expect. I don't know if expect is something a 0:20:44.840 --> 0:20:48.359 spider can do, but the survival strategy is that, yeah, 0:20:48.440 --> 0:20:50.600 they a lot of them are going to get eaten, 0:20:50.640 --> 0:20:52.360 a lot of them are going to die, but then 0:20:52.560 --> 0:20:54.359 there's just so many of them that some of them 0:20:54.359 --> 0:20:58.000 will land somewhere good and do spider stuff. 0:21:01.280 --> 0:21:05.600 So it's called ballooning. Ballooning, yeah, I love that term. 0:21:05.880 --> 0:21:08.199 And they but they just sort of like depend on 0:21:08.400 --> 0:21:11.920 the wind to carry them somewhere hopeful and promising. 0:21:12.080 --> 0:21:14.880 Yeah, hopefully not into the mouth of a hungry swift, 0:21:15.000 --> 0:21:18.840 but that does happen. But yeah, they they hopefully will 0:21:18.880 --> 0:21:22.040 land somewhere and then they can go on and grow 0:21:22.080 --> 0:21:26.600 into adult spiders and do spider stuff. Sometimes they land 0:21:26.640 --> 0:21:30.000 in less ideal places, like boats in the middle of 0:21:30.080 --> 0:21:35.440 the ocean because they can they can fly like three 0:21:35.520 --> 0:21:39.400 miles up, which is about five kilometers up into the atmosphere, 0:21:39.840 --> 0:21:44.679 and they can wind up miles away off of land 0:21:44.880 --> 0:21:48.560 and on boats and stuff. So that's that's not great 0:21:48.560 --> 0:21:51.160 for them, but a lot of them do wind up 0:21:51.600 --> 0:21:56.000 in good places and establish themselves as you know, an 0:21:56.040 --> 0:21:59.119 adult spider that really, you know, is a contributing member 0:21:59.160 --> 0:22:00.399 of spider siety. 0:22:01.160 --> 0:22:02.840 Five miles up? Do you know how far? 0:22:03.160 --> 0:22:06.880 Like they three miles five kilometers. 0:22:06.080 --> 0:22:09.320 But I mean, oh, that's up, But how then how 0:22:09.840 --> 0:22:11.919 how far can they go? Like can you get? Are 0:22:11.920 --> 0:22:13.560 they these international spiders? 0:22:14.440 --> 0:22:18.400 These are you know what? It depends on the nation, right, 0:22:18.600 --> 0:22:22.680 Like I think in Europe they could probably be international. 0:22:24.240 --> 0:22:29.760 Could a spider make a transatlantic flight? Probably not unless 0:22:29.800 --> 0:22:32.880 it lands on a boat and then that boat goes 0:22:32.920 --> 0:22:38.840 into port. Usually though, usually those spiders that invade areas 0:22:38.880 --> 0:22:41.920 by boat are gonna wind up there just because they're 0:22:41.920 --> 0:22:44.000 like hiding out in some bananas or something. 0:22:44.720 --> 0:22:46.680 Yeah, this is a cool new way though. 0:22:46.800 --> 0:22:49.840 It's fun. It's more fun than like just sitting on 0:22:49.880 --> 0:22:53.440 a banana. I feel like it's more like, you know, adventurous. 0:22:54.240 --> 0:22:58.400 Yeah, pretty amazing. Yeah, because at that point it's really 0:22:58.400 --> 0:23:00.960 in fate's hands. Like the fact that a spider was 0:23:01.000 --> 0:23:02.480 in the middle of the ocean would land on a 0:23:02.520 --> 0:23:05.240 boat is like, okay, that was supposed to happen. 0:23:05.440 --> 0:23:09.159 It's gonna be so confusing though, right Like you're like, 0:23:09.320 --> 0:23:14.160 well this is this is like Earth, but smaller and 0:23:14.240 --> 0:23:16.200 full of ocean nerds. 0:23:17.280 --> 0:23:19.560 Yeah, my dad. 0:23:19.400 --> 0:23:22.360 Would always tell me these stories of like the various 0:23:22.480 --> 0:23:24.480 things that would like land on the boats. And it's 0:23:24.560 --> 0:23:27.760 usually some kind of sea bird, and usually it's fine, 0:23:28.280 --> 0:23:30.800 this is a little bit of a tangent, but it's 0:23:30.920 --> 0:23:33.040 just such a messed up story. But there are these 0:23:33.119 --> 0:23:37.200 like what I think there's storm petrels and they would 0:23:37.359 --> 0:23:41.280 land on the boat, which would be okay, but like 0:23:41.320 --> 0:23:43.879 when the boat is in these like cold water. I 0:23:43.920 --> 0:23:46.399 mean it's it's a research ship. It's a huge ship. 0:23:46.560 --> 0:23:50.919 But they would land on these like these sort of 0:23:50.960 --> 0:23:54.080 like I guess they're not really smoke stacks. Man, I'm 0:23:54.160 --> 0:23:57.040 bad for being the daughter of someone who does this 0:23:57.119 --> 0:23:59.359 for a living. But it is the part of the 0:23:59.400 --> 0:24:04.080 boat that generates some heat, right, like they are there, 0:24:04.119 --> 0:24:07.040 there's this warmth that comes out of them because it 0:24:07.119 --> 0:24:09.640 is sort of like somewhere where there is like an 0:24:09.720 --> 0:24:14.480 exhaling of some of where you know, how the boat 0:24:14.600 --> 0:24:20.399 go forward with power, it's you know, maybe it's starboard 0:24:20.560 --> 0:24:24.240 or something. Anyways, these birds really like the warmth of 0:24:25.359 --> 0:24:27.440 these areas, and so they'll sit and kind of buy 0:24:27.680 --> 0:24:31.080 just like the warm air that is generated by these 0:24:31.240 --> 0:24:36.600 these the kind of chimney things. And but the problem 0:24:36.720 --> 0:24:40.120 is like they sit there for too long and then 0:24:40.160 --> 0:24:43.320 they like don't have the energy to fly because they 0:24:43.359 --> 0:24:46.040 need to like be eating and fly, like it's kind 0:24:46.040 --> 0:24:48.239 of ruling for them. They have to be constantly like 0:24:48.760 --> 0:24:51.520 getting you know, fishing and flying and stuff. And then 0:24:51.640 --> 0:24:53.600 they just don't want to leave, so they sit there 0:24:53.680 --> 0:24:57.400 until they like just keel over and die because they 0:24:57.640 --> 0:25:00.240 have not been and they don't have the in energy 0:25:00.280 --> 0:25:03.760 and they don't like it's it's it's like so creepy 0:25:03.840 --> 0:25:06.680 right where it's like these it's kind of like the 0:25:06.920 --> 0:25:09.800 the ship is like a siren that has lured these 0:25:09.840 --> 0:25:13.240 birds to their death, just sort of in the opposite way, 0:25:13.480 --> 0:25:17.600 like instead of going off the boat to like kiss 0:25:17.640 --> 0:25:21.200 a mermaid, they're going on a boat because it's warm, 0:25:21.560 --> 0:25:23.320 and then they just die. It's really sad. 0:25:23.880 --> 0:25:27.200 I tell another lesson for all of us. I told 0:25:27.200 --> 0:25:30.639 you stop grinding. That's what Katie always says. She's grindcore mentality. 0:25:30.720 --> 0:25:33.359 She loves. She believes that everybody should be grinding at 0:25:33.359 --> 0:25:33.879 all times. 0:25:34.080 --> 0:25:38.159 Yeah, I have a I have a grind set for sure, 0:25:38.520 --> 0:25:40.639 where it's like, if you're not, if you don't have 0:25:40.840 --> 0:25:45.840 five jobs going all at once, what are you why? 0:25:46.320 --> 0:25:47.120 What are you even doing? 0:25:47.720 --> 0:25:49.320 You're just a bird on a smokestack. 0:25:49.400 --> 0:25:57.000 Man. If you're not generating multiple revenues of bitcoin, ape, 0:25:57.200 --> 0:26:04.159 ape coin, whatever, whatever, the newest thing is all my 0:26:04.240 --> 0:26:08.080 apes gone. But I told him that what they should 0:26:08.119 --> 0:26:11.639 build is like a bird trebuche, so like kind of 0:26:11.680 --> 0:26:14.200 like a springboard, so that every time a bird tries 0:26:14.240 --> 0:26:18.200 to land there, it triggers like a mechanism that flings 0:26:18.200 --> 0:26:19.320 the bird back into. 0:26:19.160 --> 0:26:21.560 The air back up there. 0:26:22.080 --> 0:26:24.760 He didn't seem to take that suggestion seriously. But I 0:26:24.760 --> 0:26:29.240 think it might actually help. Uh, So, you know, I'll 0:26:29.320 --> 0:26:33.160 keep trying to petition and sort of a workshop the 0:26:33.280 --> 0:26:38.000 bird Flinger invention to save storm petrels from their own 0:26:38.160 --> 0:26:43.560 desire to be cozy. So we're gonna oh wait, no, 0:26:43.640 --> 0:26:45.640 there's one more thing about spiders. I wanted to tell 0:26:45.680 --> 0:26:49.320 you about. It's not just wind that actually helps baby 0:26:49.320 --> 0:26:53.120 spiders travel by silk butt parachute. So there are actually 0:26:53.240 --> 0:26:58.320 electric fields that may be aiding these spiders. In laboratory settings, 0:26:58.320 --> 0:27:01.280 they were able to generate electrics, and not only did 0:27:01.320 --> 0:27:06.720 that seem to trigger spider ballooning behavior, these electric fields 0:27:06.720 --> 0:27:10.400 could actually lift these tiny, itty bitty spiders up. And 0:27:10.480 --> 0:27:14.840 so this sort of laboratory experiment seems to indicate that 0:27:14.880 --> 0:27:18.480 in nature's my spiders may be able to travel by 0:27:18.520 --> 0:27:22.400 the Earth's electromagnetic fields. So that's neat. 0:27:22.680 --> 0:27:29.040 Whoa. Yeah, they're using like magnets essentially to fly through the. 0:27:29.000 --> 0:27:32.000 Air electric fields. 0:27:32.600 --> 0:27:34.480 Yeah, I don't understand what that means. 0:27:34.920 --> 0:27:41.280 Well, there are electrostatic forces that Okay, So there's a 0:27:41.359 --> 0:27:44.960 different podcast that I'm on called Daniel Njorge Explains the Earth. 0:27:45.040 --> 0:27:50.159 I feel like I'm just sort of like making it 0:27:50.280 --> 0:27:54.120 other people's problems to explain these things. Now. I do 0:27:54.400 --> 0:27:58.920 a guest host on that one, Daniel Lightson. He understands 0:27:59.000 --> 0:28:03.040 things like electric static forces much better than I do. 0:28:03.400 --> 0:28:07.680 But it's you know, it's like how uh gosh, It's 0:28:07.720 --> 0:28:11.240 it's like magnetism, but it's electromagnetism. 0:28:12.320 --> 0:28:13.840 Okay, good enough for me. 0:28:14.640 --> 0:28:16.959 You know how a balloon sticks to your head if 0:28:17.359 --> 0:28:20.040 if you rub it there a lot. Yes, is like that, 0:28:20.320 --> 0:28:26.280 but with a tiny spider in his little butt silk parachute, and. 0:28:26.160 --> 0:28:28.240 It's just electromagnetism that's in the air. 0:28:28.440 --> 0:28:34.359 Yes, because the Earth has electric fields generated by the Yes, Okay, okay. 0:28:34.560 --> 0:28:39.840 I'll accept that as an answer, thank you. Does it can? 0:28:39.960 --> 0:28:43.240 But do electromagnetic fields travel or do they just sort 0:28:43.240 --> 0:28:44.800 of stay stationary? You just sort of wait for the 0:28:44.840 --> 0:28:47.800 Earth to turn underneath you. These dumb questions. 0:28:47.880 --> 0:28:50.720 No, they're not dumb questions. I just may not be 0:28:50.800 --> 0:28:54.000 able to completely answer. Yes, I think there are electrical 0:28:54.120 --> 0:28:58.640 currents that do move around the Earth. I think also 0:28:59.080 --> 0:29:01.880 it's like there's probably a number of things that are 0:29:01.920 --> 0:29:06.200 happening right like where the spider. There may be some 0:29:06.280 --> 0:29:11.520 kind of like difference in the strength of the electrical current, 0:29:11.720 --> 0:29:14.160 like the higher you get up, right, so maybe it 0:29:14.200 --> 0:29:18.120 can carry the spider up. I am reaching the limits 0:29:18.160 --> 0:29:23.000 of my knowledge because we're talking about electricity. I routinely 0:29:24.200 --> 0:29:29.080 shocked myself unplugging my laptops, so I'm not an expert, 0:29:29.120 --> 0:29:31.760 but I would guess it is something. It's probably something 0:29:31.800 --> 0:29:35.600 to do with you know, how like lightning happens because 0:29:35.720 --> 0:29:40.240 there is this difference in terms of the like electrostatic 0:29:41.000 --> 0:29:43.960 you know, balance between like the clouds and the ground. 0:29:45.560 --> 0:29:47.760 You know, I would imagine that you could probably lift 0:29:47.840 --> 0:29:51.360 something up, like a tiny spider based on the sort 0:29:51.400 --> 0:29:55.000 of like there there is a difference in the density 0:29:55.040 --> 0:30:02.040 of ions up in the sphere. Ions there, you go, 0:30:02.600 --> 0:30:05.480 it's all snapping into place because of the ions. You 0:30:05.600 --> 0:30:08.600 just forgot about the ions. But you know, the charge, 0:30:08.640 --> 0:30:11.640 the charge, it's the difference in charge and they're probably 0:30:11.800 --> 0:30:18.080 riding that sick charge differential wave. Definitely check out UH 0:30:18.960 --> 0:30:22.040 physics podcast like Daniel Jorge Explain the Universe if you 0:30:22.040 --> 0:30:26.880 want to learn more about electric magnetic currents, because you know, 0:30:28.480 --> 0:30:31.240 I'm going to tell you stuff that's maybe not exactly right. 0:30:35.960 --> 0:30:38.640 It is fun though, it's like it's like jazz. It's 0:30:38.680 --> 0:30:42.480 about the things you don't learn. Yeah, all right, well 0:30:42.480 --> 0:30:44.840 we're going to take another quick break, but then when 0:30:44.840 --> 0:30:49.840 we get back, we're going to talk about other things 0:30:50.400 --> 0:30:53.400 that are floating around there that you can't even see, 0:30:53.440 --> 0:30:58.320 but they're all around you, watching you at every hour 0:30:58.360 --> 0:31:01.200 of the day. There's nothing you can do about it. 0:31:02.240 --> 0:31:05.680 I'll be right back. All right, we're back. We're talking 0:31:05.680 --> 0:31:10.280 about more stuff that's just around in the air, traveling 0:31:10.920 --> 0:31:16.440 in the clouds, in the air currents, and there's you know, 0:31:16.880 --> 0:31:18.880 you just kind of have to accept it. 0:31:20.520 --> 0:31:24.680 Well, I when I talk to you about this podcast 0:31:24.800 --> 0:31:26.600 and what we're going to be talking about, I asked 0:31:26.640 --> 0:31:29.080 you a very specific question, and I'm curious if you 0:31:29.360 --> 0:31:30.240 buy the answer you're going. 0:31:30.120 --> 0:31:32.520 To be answer to answer for me, I'm going to 0:31:32.600 --> 0:31:35.600 say probably not how many, because I think your question 0:31:35.680 --> 0:31:38.120 was like how much stuff is above me right now? 0:31:38.240 --> 0:31:41.320 I want to specifically like, yeah, any animals that No, 0:31:41.400 --> 0:31:42.880 I don't care about the ones that fly, I don't 0:31:42.920 --> 0:31:44.400 care about the ones that have like a way to 0:31:44.400 --> 0:31:45.920 get from A to B. I mean the ones that 0:31:46.000 --> 0:31:48.800 like either get picked up accidentally or are just riding 0:31:48.840 --> 0:31:53.840 the currents. How many, say, like spiders and small animals 0:31:53.880 --> 0:31:55.840 are right over my head right now? 0:31:56.680 --> 0:32:00.840 So sorry, I could not find an official answer to this. 0:32:01.000 --> 0:32:04.360 I did look count I Well, this is what I'm 0:32:04.360 --> 0:32:07.840 gonna say. Let's say there is like there's a Soren's 0:32:07.920 --> 0:32:11.760 head shaped column that goes from the top of your 0:32:11.760 --> 0:32:15.320 head up until outer space, right, and we're are we 0:32:15.480 --> 0:32:17.960 counting bacteria or just animals? 0:32:18.240 --> 0:32:22.040 I just want animals. Bacteria. I assume bacteria is. I 0:32:22.080 --> 0:32:24.880 assume there I am surrounded at all times by millions. 0:32:25.320 --> 0:32:26.840 Bacteria, virus is millions. 0:32:27.240 --> 0:32:27.360 Uh. 0:32:27.680 --> 0:32:33.000 If it's just animals, I'm gonna say my estimate would 0:32:33.040 --> 0:32:39.400 be hundreds of thousands. So if this, like, if this 0:32:39.520 --> 0:32:42.280 came down, if this like rained down on you in 0:32:42.360 --> 0:32:48.760 like a column of stuff, yeah, probably probably thousands to 0:32:48.920 --> 0:32:50.880 hundreds of thousands. 0:32:50.920 --> 0:32:54.600 I was gonna say, like ten, it's. 0:32:54.400 --> 0:33:00.280 Probably more than that because okay, so uh and if 0:33:00.280 --> 0:33:05.120 we're including like bacteria and viruses, it's more than you'd 0:33:05.200 --> 0:33:06.400 like for sure. 0:33:06.480 --> 0:33:09.080 Well yeah, I mean I assume i'm ratio wise, I'm 0:33:09.120 --> 0:33:10.280 more bacteria than man. 0:33:11.000 --> 0:33:11.560 That's true. 0:33:12.840 --> 0:33:15.280 My bacteria out number myselves like ten to one or 0:33:15.320 --> 0:33:18.160 something like that. So bacteria, I'm just I've made my 0:33:18.240 --> 0:33:21.400 peace with bacteria. Yeah, that is the world is more 0:33:21.440 --> 0:33:25.280 bacteria than anything else. And what I'm really what I 0:33:25.400 --> 0:33:28.000 what really startles me is, yeah, I'm doing that column. 0:33:28.000 --> 0:33:29.640 It's just me and like a vacuum, and then all 0:33:29.640 --> 0:33:33.080 of a sudden, I'm going to create extra gravitational pull 0:33:33.160 --> 0:33:35.040 on every single one of those animals that's in the 0:33:35.040 --> 0:33:36.560 air and they all come down on me. 0:33:36.720 --> 0:33:39.360 I mean they're very tiny, so you probably get like 0:33:39.400 --> 0:33:43.680 a look again, this is coming out of my butt University, 0:33:43.760 --> 0:33:47.000 Katie's but University, which is an accredited online university that 0:33:47.040 --> 0:33:50.840 you can sign up for ninety nine a month. But 0:33:51.240 --> 0:33:54.520 I would say, be a maybe like a thickish film, 0:33:55.240 --> 0:33:58.200 like you wouldn't die, but it'd be a film, a 0:33:58.240 --> 0:34:01.360 thick film, That's. 0:34:00.280 --> 0:34:03.520 What I was. Yeah, that's still pretty pretty substantial. 0:34:04.280 --> 0:34:07.480 Well, so the kinds of animals that can be wind 0:34:07.560 --> 0:34:15.520 borne includes rotifers, columbulans, tartar grades, mites, thrips, and nematodes. 0:34:16.120 --> 0:34:18.680 So I know two of those things. I know those 0:34:18.719 --> 0:34:21.960 are two nematods and tartar grades. 0:34:22.000 --> 0:34:25.840 Good job, what are they? Soren popul toads. 0:34:26.080 --> 0:34:36.000 Okay, Nematodes are are flatworms, nematodes roundworms. Roundworms are nematodes. Yes, okay, 0:34:36.040 --> 0:34:37.840 all right, you got the flats. 0:34:37.440 --> 0:34:40.240 You got the rounds, you got the square worms. 0:34:41.480 --> 0:34:44.359 And the tartar grades are like very microscopic looking. They 0:34:44.440 --> 0:34:46.120 kind of almost look like beetles. 0:34:45.760 --> 0:34:49.800 Right, Yeah, they're the chubby ones. They're also called moss 0:34:49.800 --> 0:34:54.560 piglets or water bears. They have eight legs, and they 0:34:54.440 --> 0:34:57.000 they kind of look like chubby cattog pillars, but with 0:34:57.160 --> 0:34:59.160 very stubby eight legs. 0:34:59.200 --> 0:35:01.280 Yeah, they survive super well in space. 0:35:01.440 --> 0:35:04.920 Yes they I mean, I wouldn't say super well, but 0:35:05.000 --> 0:35:08.399 they do better than us, much better than us. They 0:35:08.400 --> 0:35:14.040 can survive desiccation, extreme temperatures both hot and cold, and 0:35:14.239 --> 0:35:17.520 so yes, they are very hearty. It's not much of 0:35:17.560 --> 0:35:20.400 a surprise that they can survive a little bit of 0:35:20.960 --> 0:35:25.520 wind travel. And they're teeny tiny, their microscopic and yes, 0:35:25.680 --> 0:35:31.600 absolutely so. And nematodes are round worms. They arrange in size, 0:35:31.680 --> 0:35:35.360 but many species are microscopic or very very tiny, and 0:35:35.400 --> 0:35:39.080 they're found all over the world, and unsurprisingly, they can 0:35:39.120 --> 0:35:43.600 take advantage of wind currents to distribute themselves. They are 0:35:43.840 --> 0:35:48.920 often parasitic, but not necessarily parasitic. But they are so 0:35:49.400 --> 0:35:56.000 ubiquitous that there are like sixty billion nematodes per human being, 0:35:57.120 --> 0:36:00.880 and it is unfathomable what the world would be like 0:36:00.920 --> 0:36:03.239 without them. Just because there are so many of them 0:36:03.440 --> 0:36:06.799 that they are very likely to be an integral part 0:36:07.000 --> 0:36:13.719 of every ecosystem. I saw this really sickening description of 0:36:13.880 --> 0:36:16.360 nema toads where it was like if we took away 0:36:16.440 --> 0:36:19.279 everything that wasn't nema toad there would still just be 0:36:19.400 --> 0:36:22.400 sort of like a ghost of everything made out of 0:36:22.440 --> 0:36:25.120 Nema toads, which I think is also largely true of 0:36:25.160 --> 0:36:26.400 like bacteria. 0:36:28.760 --> 0:36:31.160 So are they in my drinking water? Like if I 0:36:31.200 --> 0:36:33.319 could get a microscope and like look at my drinking water, 0:36:33.360 --> 0:36:35.200 what I see little worms rather than around? 0:36:36.440 --> 0:36:40.360 Potentially, Yes, I mean that can actually be a problem. 0:36:41.600 --> 0:36:46.440 I think that it depends on sort of the level 0:36:46.480 --> 0:36:50.680 of purification of your drinking water. Obviously, there's drinking water 0:36:50.719 --> 0:36:52.879 that can like you know, like if the tap water 0:36:52.960 --> 0:36:55.840 is not that clean, it can make you sick, and 0:36:55.880 --> 0:36:59.520 Nema toads can be behind that. But like you know, 0:36:59.719 --> 0:37:04.680 I think that if you have like water does go 0:37:04.800 --> 0:37:09.200 through sort of water sanitation, that probably kills most of 0:37:09.320 --> 0:37:12.880 the nematodes off. But you know, there could be some 0:37:13.040 --> 0:37:13.879 dead ones in there. 0:37:15.239 --> 0:37:16.920 I don't My goal is not to kill them. I 0:37:16.960 --> 0:37:19.040 just want to sterilize them. I want like spade and 0:37:19.080 --> 0:37:19.800 neuter them. 0:37:19.960 --> 0:37:24.680 Oh you mean, like you know, Bob Barker, but for nematodes, right. 0:37:25.200 --> 0:37:28.520 Don't forget the spade. Neuter your nematodes thank you for watching, 0:37:29.920 --> 0:37:32.120 just because that's that's the issue, right, is like them 0:37:32.120 --> 0:37:34.319 breeding inside you, the nema toad itself by it on 0:37:34.360 --> 0:37:35.800 its own, Yeah, not doing. 0:37:35.760 --> 0:37:38.960 Much to me, right, Yeah, So like you, I think 0:37:39.000 --> 0:37:42.560 you could probably find some microscopic nematodes in your drinking 0:37:42.560 --> 0:37:48.560 water that are probably not doing anything, and they might 0:37:48.640 --> 0:37:53.640 you might drink them up and it's probably okay, okay, 0:37:53.800 --> 0:37:56.200 so don't worry about it, don't think about it. 0:37:56.760 --> 0:37:59.000 And there's just a bunch floating right on my head 0:37:59.000 --> 0:38:02.000 at this moment. Yeah, well I'm inside. I'm inside, so 0:38:02.000 --> 0:38:05.000 it's different. But like walking around outside, there's. 0:38:04.800 --> 0:38:07.080 Probably a lot. Yeah, Like if you walk on the ground, 0:38:07.080 --> 0:38:09.600 there's a lot. If your head brushes against a leaf, 0:38:09.960 --> 0:38:12.480 probably gonna smear them. Onia, you know, there's just a 0:38:12.480 --> 0:38:15.279 lot of nematodes around and yeah, they are probably in 0:38:15.320 --> 0:38:22.160 your drinking water. They probably aren't hurting you, uh if bacteria, 0:38:22.360 --> 0:38:25.480 like I think often like the problem with a lot 0:38:25.480 --> 0:38:28.879 of nematodes, the non parasitic nematodes is if they have 0:38:29.280 --> 0:38:33.320 uh like bacteria on them, which is also harmful to humans. 0:38:33.400 --> 0:38:38.240 But again that's not very likely intreated drinking water, which 0:38:38.440 --> 0:38:40.400 might kill a lot of the nematodes, but a lot 0:38:40.440 --> 0:38:43.239 of them are probably still alive and hanging out and 0:38:43.480 --> 0:38:44.960 just then you drink them and they hang out in 0:38:45.000 --> 0:38:47.120 your body and they don't do anything, and it's you know, 0:38:47.239 --> 0:38:48.080 just don't worry about it. 0:38:50.000 --> 0:38:51.160 Making piece of it right now. 0:38:51.320 --> 0:38:56.160 Yeah, I mean you've got much grosser looking stuff everywhere. 0:38:57.520 --> 0:39:00.720 I don't mean this personally against you. So I'm just saying, 0:39:02.160 --> 0:39:03.719 you know, like they can't. 0:39:03.480 --> 0:39:05.919 See where I'm recording right now, we are watching each 0:39:05.920 --> 0:39:08.440 other on video. That is a little hurtful. 0:39:08.600 --> 0:39:11.799 It is, guys, when I was saying the film it 0:39:11.920 --> 0:39:13.319 was not a hypothetical. 0:39:13.719 --> 0:39:21.520 No, I am recording out of a garage where a fine, 0:39:22.239 --> 0:39:23.720 there is not a single flat surface. 0:39:24.520 --> 0:39:27.719 I mean you've got a couple of cardboard boxes there. 0:39:27.719 --> 0:39:35.239 It's probably full of stuff nematodes. Sorry, keeping nematodes. So 0:39:35.760 --> 0:39:41.360 uh yeah. They are also something that can be carried 0:39:41.400 --> 0:39:43.960 around and distributed by the wind. And they're the like 0:39:44.080 --> 0:39:49.760 research where they surveyed sort of like samples of stuff 0:39:49.800 --> 0:39:53.160 collected by like rain water and stuff. And yeah, nematodes 0:39:53.239 --> 0:39:57.279 just they get around that way. They're tiny. What do 0:39:57.280 --> 0:39:59.640 you want. They like to use the wind to get 0:39:59.640 --> 0:40:03.120 around there are other things that I had listed there 0:40:03.160 --> 0:40:09.920 that may be less recognizable, like rotifers, columbulands, I mean, mites, 0:40:09.960 --> 0:40:10.480 and thrips. 0:40:10.520 --> 0:40:13.480 You may have heard of, I know, mites, not thrips. 0:40:13.600 --> 0:40:14.200 That's new to me. 0:40:14.320 --> 0:40:19.680 Yeah, So mites are they're tiny rachnids. They've got eight legs. 0:40:19.760 --> 0:40:22.360 You might have seen like velvet mites. These like tiny 0:40:22.400 --> 0:40:27.239 red mites. Mites can be parasitic. They often are, but 0:40:27.480 --> 0:40:30.280 they don't have to be. They are not necessarily parasites. 0:40:30.280 --> 0:40:32.200 And yeah, those can get picked up by wind and 0:40:32.280 --> 0:40:35.920 carried around and it's not you know, sometimes that might 0:40:35.920 --> 0:40:38.880 be beneficial to the mites to distribute them, and sometimes 0:40:39.560 --> 0:40:45.200 could just be confusing. So the other ones I mentioned 0:40:45.560 --> 0:40:53.040 rotifers are actually typically zooplankton that inhabit freshwater habitats. They 0:40:53.120 --> 0:40:56.040 can be found in saltwater, but most of the species 0:40:56.040 --> 0:40:59.440 are in fresh water. They're also known as wheel animals. 0:41:00.400 --> 0:41:03.960 They are called wheel animals because their mouth kind of 0:41:03.960 --> 0:41:07.360 looks like a spinning wheel. It doesn't actually spin, but 0:41:07.440 --> 0:41:11.920 it has these cilia that kind of undulate in a 0:41:11.960 --> 0:41:15.080 pattern that makes it look like it's spinning. It's kind 0:41:15.080 --> 0:41:18.399 of an optical illusion. Let me see if I can. 0:41:18.800 --> 0:41:21.200 I doubt maybe I should have looked this up before, 0:41:21.239 --> 0:41:25.560 but I want to see if there's a gift of it. Man, 0:41:26.040 --> 0:41:27.960 have you noticed that it's like really hard to just 0:41:28.040 --> 0:41:36.680 find good guess? Yeah, like everything takes you to another thing. Yes, 0:41:36.960 --> 0:41:39.880 that's full of skaties, googles. 0:41:39.880 --> 0:41:40.600 Google's broken. 0:41:40.680 --> 0:41:44.840 It's broken, Okay, send it to you sore in the human. 0:41:45.320 --> 0:41:49.439 Oh they got chainsaws on the front of them. Yeah, right, 0:41:49.600 --> 0:41:53.160 just spin and spin. Yeah, it looks like a heart. 0:41:53.760 --> 0:41:59.919 Hmm, no, but you know close enough, I don't. 0:42:00.040 --> 0:42:04.240 Yeah, it's just something like beating inside of it. 0:42:02.560 --> 0:42:08.799 It's you know, it's got tiny organs for sure. That 0:42:09.320 --> 0:42:12.359 is probably not like that thing that's moving. I would 0:42:12.440 --> 0:42:16.360 guess it's some kind of like food distribution. 0:42:17.480 --> 0:42:20.960 Yeah thing, that's the tube within the tube. 0:42:21.040 --> 0:42:23.880 It's a tube inside of the tube, sort of smooshing 0:42:23.920 --> 0:42:28.759 stuff down deeper into the tube. So but yeah, the Yeah, 0:42:28.880 --> 0:42:30.719 you can see why it's called an wheel animal because 0:42:30.719 --> 0:42:32.520 it looks like it has these two wheels that are 0:42:32.560 --> 0:42:36.680 like spinning on its head. But yeah, really it's just 0:42:36.760 --> 0:42:39.880 the cilia are like moving in sort of a wave 0:42:39.920 --> 0:42:41.839 and that makes it look like it's spinning. And that's 0:42:41.880 --> 0:42:44.320 how they collect food. 0:42:46.120 --> 0:42:48.919 It looks like, I mean, this is a tangent as well, 0:42:49.000 --> 0:42:52.520 and it's probably not super helpful for on an audio podcast. 0:42:52.239 --> 0:42:54.839 But we're not trying to We're not trying to be helpful. 0:42:54.520 --> 0:42:58.520 Here in this gift. There's also something that starts out 0:42:58.520 --> 0:43:01.000 at looking like an egg and then transforms into a 0:43:01.000 --> 0:43:04.600 worm up in the corner. And I want to know 0:43:04.600 --> 0:43:08.040 what that thing is too. It's just like, oh, no, 0:43:08.320 --> 0:43:09.640 I could do whatever shape I want. 0:43:09.719 --> 0:43:10.879 Yeah, I don't know what that is. 0:43:10.920 --> 0:43:12.280 Man, No, I'm a chili pepper. 0:43:13.680 --> 0:43:17.120 Sometimes small stuff just does weird things. You can quote 0:43:17.160 --> 0:43:20.760 me on that. Sometimes small stuff it just does weird things. 0:43:21.360 --> 0:43:25.400 But yeah, so that's those guys get picked up, you know, 0:43:25.640 --> 0:43:29.360 in evaporation cycles by winds, and they wind up in 0:43:29.440 --> 0:43:32.600 the air and they're probably super confused because they are 0:43:32.640 --> 0:43:35.440 not supposed to be in there. They're supposed to be 0:43:35.520 --> 0:43:40.000 fresh water going around. It's been in their little face wheels. 0:43:42.440 --> 0:43:43.480 I like those wheels. 0:43:43.600 --> 0:43:46.279 I like them too. It's like I feel like there's 0:43:46.320 --> 0:43:49.799 a specific tool that is used I'm gonna say in 0:43:49.840 --> 0:43:55.680 woodworking where it's like or maybe it's dentistry. Look, I 0:43:55.719 --> 0:44:01.400 have two successful side businesses Katie's backyard dentistry in Katie's 0:44:01.440 --> 0:44:06.080 backyard carpentry. And I get them confused sometimes, but yeah, 0:44:06.320 --> 0:44:08.120 it's like it's like it just it does look like 0:44:08.160 --> 0:44:12.719 a power tool, an organic power tool. Yeah, so, uh 0:44:12.800 --> 0:44:17.240 yeah they are. They're one of these uh air aeroplankton 0:44:17.760 --> 0:44:22.719 uh columbu colum Boland's, also known as springtails, are a 0:44:22.760 --> 0:44:26.400 type of teeny tiny, indi beaty hexapod that like moist 0:44:26.400 --> 0:44:30.120 conditions and feeding onto king matter. In fact, one type 0:44:30.200 --> 0:44:34.160 of these springtails is the snow flea, which I thought, 0:44:34.520 --> 0:44:36.840 I'm trying to remember. I thought that you were on 0:44:36.880 --> 0:44:39.279 the show when we talked about snow fleas or was 0:44:39.280 --> 0:44:40.640 it ice worms? 0:44:41.080 --> 0:44:42.280 We talked about ice worms. 0:44:42.440 --> 0:44:42.880 Damn it. 0:44:44.560 --> 0:44:47.960 Wow, snow flea sounds cool though, the snow. 0:44:48.160 --> 0:44:53.320 It's tiny and little and lives in the snow. Yes, 0:44:53.600 --> 0:44:59.520 so they are uh yeah, these little springtails. They kind 0:44:59.520 --> 0:45:01.319 of can kind of jump around it and there's they 0:45:01.320 --> 0:45:03.759 can get so tiny that they can get picked up 0:45:03.800 --> 0:45:08.759 by the wind and carried around. Yes. And then thrips 0:45:08.960 --> 0:45:12.719 are tiny insects that are under a millimeter long that 0:45:12.920 --> 0:45:15.920 can be winged or wingless. Now, I think earlier I 0:45:15.960 --> 0:45:19.560 talked about how like we don't generally classify winged insects 0:45:19.680 --> 0:45:23.640 as aeroplankton. But the thing is, they suck at flying, 0:45:24.280 --> 0:45:28.160 so like their wings are pretty useless over long distances. 0:45:28.280 --> 0:45:32.120 They actually have a specific way of flying that's called 0:45:32.280 --> 0:45:36.360 clap and fling, which like they clap their wings together. 0:45:36.440 --> 0:45:39.479 It generates these little wind vorgicies that kind of gives 0:45:39.520 --> 0:45:42.319 them some lift, but it is not very efficient, not 0:45:42.400 --> 0:45:45.920 very good over distances. So to travel long distances, they 0:45:45.960 --> 0:45:48.640 depend on wind currents, so they count. 0:45:48.840 --> 0:45:51.000 It's just to get them up there. Yeah, yeah, exactly, 0:45:51.160 --> 0:45:53.200 Like I mean, I really like that type of animal, 0:45:53.280 --> 0:45:58.359 the animals that like they they kind of can fly, 0:45:58.719 --> 0:46:02.440 but really it's everything's being dictated by mother nature. 0:46:02.719 --> 0:46:04.920 Doesn't really count, you know, yeah exactly. 0:46:04.960 --> 0:46:06.840 My butterflies, I feel like, are the same. Like you 0:46:06.840 --> 0:46:09.160 put butterfly in a vacuum, it can fly straight. But 0:46:09.200 --> 0:46:11.560 the butterflies in your everyday life look like they're drunk 0:46:11.560 --> 0:46:14.000 because they're just being like they are being thrown around. 0:46:14.120 --> 0:46:20.399 Yeah, uh it is they. I I do love that 0:46:21.239 --> 0:46:25.880 and I think that like it'd be interesting though to see, 0:46:25.880 --> 0:46:30.839 like if you get a butterfly drunk, does it fly good? Yeah? 0:46:31.400 --> 0:46:31.839 Is it better. 0:46:32.200 --> 0:46:32.760 Is it better? 0:46:33.880 --> 0:46:34.239 They like. 0:46:35.880 --> 0:46:38.520 Zip in nectar, They've got to sometimes sip nectar that's 0:46:38.520 --> 0:46:41.520 a little fermented. It probably just kills them, though, it 0:46:41.600 --> 0:46:43.279 probably just instantly kills. 0:46:43.120 --> 0:46:45.320 Yeah, everything kills butterflies. 0:46:45.440 --> 0:46:49.560 Yeah, you breathe funny and it just butterflies. 0:46:49.080 --> 0:46:52.480 Like, oh no, am my scales. 0:46:52.480 --> 0:46:56.640 My scales. Yeah. I once hit a small butterfly with 0:46:56.719 --> 0:47:00.239 a hose when I was a kid, and I thought 0:47:00.280 --> 0:47:01.840 I killed it. I picked it up, I put it 0:47:01.880 --> 0:47:03.640 on like a paper towel. I guess that dried it 0:47:03.680 --> 0:47:05.600 out and it flew away, and it was such a 0:47:05.600 --> 0:47:08.520 good feeling that like, I kind of tried to hit 0:47:08.560 --> 0:47:10.560 another butterfly with a hose so I could just like 0:47:10.760 --> 0:47:13.480 be its savior again. And then I had this realization 0:47:13.560 --> 0:47:16.040 as I was doing it, like this might be wrong. 0:47:19.280 --> 0:47:21.600 So I didn't end up. I didn't end up as 0:47:21.680 --> 0:47:26.319 like Kathy Baits in Misery or what's her name, But 0:47:26.400 --> 0:47:29.480 I almost developed a munch housen by butterfly proxy. 0:47:29.719 --> 0:47:33.400 Yeah. I had a very small experience where I would 0:47:33.719 --> 0:47:36.439 My brother had taught me that you can revive a fly, 0:47:37.320 --> 0:47:39.279 round a fly and then put it in a pile 0:47:39.280 --> 0:47:41.160 of sugar. You can revive a fly, but it's never 0:47:41.200 --> 0:47:41.800 really the same. 0:47:43.520 --> 0:47:45.759 How do you know it's not the same, Like it's 0:47:45.800 --> 0:47:48.280 like personality. 0:47:48.960 --> 0:47:52.919 Yeah, Mountain sugar is like pet cemetery for a fly, 0:47:53.360 --> 0:47:55.799 like it'll come back, but it's like it's a. 0:47:55.760 --> 0:47:56.799 Weird version. 0:48:00.120 --> 0:48:01.560 Used to do that. And I do remember like catching 0:48:01.560 --> 0:48:03.279 house lies in that in the house and like how 0:48:03.360 --> 0:48:06.239 much they didn't want to be caught, and thinking that's 0:48:06.239 --> 0:48:08.719 probably fair, but I don't think i'd want this. 0:48:09.160 --> 0:48:11.520 Yeah, it's like this. It's like this because I think 0:48:11.560 --> 0:48:14.440 a lot of children go through that experimentation phase of 0:48:14.480 --> 0:48:17.840 like doing weird stuffed insects, and then it's like and 0:48:17.880 --> 0:48:20.400 then you get to a point where you're like I 0:48:20.800 --> 0:48:23.640 remember putting an ant on some ice to see if 0:48:23.640 --> 0:48:27.040 it could ice skate, and it was just flopping around helplessly. 0:48:27.120 --> 0:48:31.320 I was like, maybe this sucks for the ant. Maybe 0:48:31.360 --> 0:48:32.959 I'm a cruel god. 0:48:33.400 --> 0:48:36.320 Right right before you move on to mammals, yeah, and 0:48:36.360 --> 0:48:38.120 your serial killer people. 0:48:38.320 --> 0:48:41.839 I think most children stop before mammals. I certainly I 0:48:41.880 --> 0:48:45.360 certainly stopped at ants and butterflies and then I was like, 0:48:45.560 --> 0:48:48.440 you know, I feel bad about this, I'm gonna stop. 0:48:49.280 --> 0:48:54.000 Yeah, there's like that moment, that flickering, that realization. 0:48:53.560 --> 0:49:00.520 It's like, what is this feeling? Is it empathy? Empathy? Yeah, 0:49:01.040 --> 0:49:02.000 So we would. 0:49:01.800 --> 0:49:03.799 Take ants and put them in a dish with water, 0:49:03.880 --> 0:49:05.279 and then we would jump on the trail, like get 0:49:05.320 --> 0:49:08.879 on trampoline where there's a lot of static electromagnetic currents, 0:49:09.080 --> 0:49:11.080 and then we would put a finger in the dish 0:49:11.080 --> 0:49:13.400 and then touch a spring on the trampoline and just 0:49:13.440 --> 0:49:15.360 get that shock. And as soon as they went to 0:49:15.360 --> 0:49:17.520 the water, because the ants are writhing around the water 0:49:17.520 --> 0:49:22.200 because they're dying, they're they're they just they'll stop moving 0:49:22.960 --> 0:49:24.440 and then they come back in a little bit and 0:49:24.440 --> 0:49:27.040 they keep moving, but that shock really puts them out 0:49:27.120 --> 0:49:27.600 for a minute. 0:49:27.719 --> 0:49:34.359 I mean that is very cool, you know, pretty dark. Look, 0:49:34.440 --> 0:49:38.200 you know what like ants, I don't a lot of them. 0:49:38.480 --> 0:49:40.719 There's a lot of them. I don't. I don't relish 0:49:40.800 --> 0:49:42.560 killing them, but I'm not going to pretend like I 0:49:42.560 --> 0:49:47.000 don't eat chicken and a fish. So you know, and 0:49:47.120 --> 0:49:49.200 ants and ants, I have tried them. They have a 0:49:49.280 --> 0:49:50.360 nice peppery flavor. 0:49:50.960 --> 0:49:54.120 So the ones you get, I think, what the ones 0:49:54.160 --> 0:49:55.320 some type of ants you get? 0:49:56.080 --> 0:49:59.360 You mean, like they only serve you the peppery ones like, 0:49:59.400 --> 0:50:01.840 there's other ones that just tastes like ass that they don't. 0:50:02.400 --> 0:50:02.719 They don't. 0:50:03.239 --> 0:50:06.760 Yeah, they when they when the restaurant orders their ants, 0:50:06.880 --> 0:50:08.919 I see go through and they set out the ones 0:50:08.920 --> 0:50:11.000 that are peppery because they're just not as good. 0:50:13.200 --> 0:50:14.719 I mean I when I was a kid, I just 0:50:14.760 --> 0:50:17.400 eat them off the ground, but they always taste peppery 0:50:17.440 --> 0:50:19.640 to me. So I don't you got lucky yet. Lucky 0:50:19.760 --> 0:50:23.760 I was like the Gordon Ramsey of of the inside beating. 0:50:25.280 --> 0:50:29.399 I have a friend who's visiting a cricket farm where 0:50:29.440 --> 0:50:34.000 they're they're doing sort of like they're trying to mask. 0:50:34.440 --> 0:50:38.279 It's very good. It's for ecological and humanitarian reasons, but 0:50:38.320 --> 0:50:41.719 they're trying to sort of make a cricket farming a 0:50:42.040 --> 0:50:44.719 sort of doable on this like mouse scale. And it's 0:50:44.800 --> 0:50:48.520 just like I'm just imagining a bunch of little crickets 0:50:48.520 --> 0:50:53.360 and paddocks, you know, just like rows and rows of them. 0:50:54.840 --> 0:50:58.000 I know it's not that, but that's how I'm thinking 0:50:58.040 --> 0:51:03.879 about it. Uh So. Yeah. Aeroplankton also includes some non 0:51:03.920 --> 0:51:09.239 animal microorganisms, such as fungal spores, you know, same kind 0:51:09.320 --> 0:51:15.319 of like principle as pollen. There's also bacteria viruses. In fact, 0:51:15.640 --> 0:51:19.600 clouds that have been studied can have anywhere from three 0:51:19.680 --> 0:51:25.000 hundred to thirty thousand bacteria per millimeter of water. It 0:51:25.080 --> 0:51:29.520 is unclear whether clouds can successfully transport bacteria in an 0:51:29.600 --> 0:51:33.640 effective way, because most kind of just die under cloud conditions. 0:51:33.640 --> 0:51:38.680 It's not particularly hospitable to bacteria. But wind, like when 0:51:38.680 --> 0:51:41.640 they have sort of a substrate to be on, like topsoil, 0:51:42.520 --> 0:51:47.120 wind can transport this top soil containing bacteria. The bacteria 0:51:47.200 --> 0:51:49.960 can like survive on this these like tiny particles of 0:51:50.040 --> 0:51:54.279 top soil, and they can be transported from like one 0:51:54.719 --> 0:51:57.480 area to another fairly effectively through wind. 0:52:00.800 --> 0:52:02.960 Okay, I have another question for you, and I'm not 0:52:03.000 --> 0:52:03.839 sure you can answer this. 0:52:04.719 --> 0:52:06.160 I'll make something up, don't worry. 0:52:07.040 --> 0:52:10.359 I have a bad understanding of how high up is 0:52:10.480 --> 0:52:13.920 the sky, and so I'm curious if like there's an 0:52:14.040 --> 0:52:17.680 animal that could potentially get picked up by a wind current, 0:52:17.960 --> 0:52:22.160 get carried higher and higher, like like curious George and 0:52:22.160 --> 0:52:25.560 the kite, and just higher and hire to the point 0:52:25.600 --> 0:52:29.360 where it just leaves the atmosphere, Like are we sending 0:52:30.000 --> 0:52:32.080 animals up to space by accident every day? 0:52:33.960 --> 0:52:39.040 Potentially? I think that you know, I I think like 0:52:39.320 --> 0:52:42.759 there are few. There are few that would survive the 0:52:42.840 --> 0:52:45.960 trip to say Mars, right like that could just flow 0:52:46.480 --> 0:52:49.480 on their own, wind up on Mars and start like 0:52:49.600 --> 0:52:56.719 a little colony of guys I mean some microscopic like 0:52:56.840 --> 0:52:59.640 I mean bacteria. There are extremophiles like bacteria. I mean, 0:52:59.680 --> 0:53:03.000 we talked about tartar grades who can survive quite a 0:53:03.040 --> 0:53:08.920 bit of abuse. Even then, being able to survive space 0:53:09.000 --> 0:53:12.200 for long enough to say, like hit the Moon would 0:53:12.200 --> 0:53:16.640 be pretty tough without some kind of like yeah, good 0:53:16.760 --> 0:53:19.480 chunk of a substrate. Like, there's ideas that back to here, 0:53:19.480 --> 0:53:21.920 it could like maybe survive on say like an asteroid 0:53:22.000 --> 0:53:24.680 for a while, right like, but just free floating in space. 0:53:24.760 --> 0:53:26.839 I don't think they would last very long. 0:53:26.960 --> 0:53:28.560 I don't need them to survive. I just like the 0:53:28.560 --> 0:53:31.400 idea that there's a spider that in its last moments 0:53:32.560 --> 0:53:33.800 leaves the pull of Earth. 0:53:34.040 --> 0:53:40.839 May it's to ground control. Yeah, I think you know what, 0:53:40.960 --> 0:53:44.360 I think it could happen. I don't know how much 0:53:44.680 --> 0:53:47.120 we have in terms of records of that, right Like, 0:53:47.200 --> 0:53:52.280 I don't know that we've got satellites scooping up scooping 0:53:52.360 --> 0:53:57.000 up microorganisms, but I think that there certainly could be 0:53:57.520 --> 0:54:00.280 some like you know, maybe like a storm or something 0:54:00.320 --> 0:54:04.200 that kicks them up even higher. And you know, the 0:54:04.280 --> 0:54:07.600 thing is the problem with that happening a lot is 0:54:07.640 --> 0:54:11.240 that you need a lot of like velocity to escape 0:54:12.120 --> 0:54:18.440 the Earth's gravity. Oh right, So like you know, you 0:54:18.520 --> 0:54:22.320 could I could imagine something like getting kicked up maybe 0:54:22.320 --> 0:54:26.480 by a storm and then like tinking into like a 0:54:26.800 --> 0:54:31.320 satellite or something. But to really like get to shoot 0:54:31.360 --> 0:54:35.279 something out into space, it's a really good question. I 0:54:35.280 --> 0:54:37.520 don't know. I don't know if there would be enough. 0:54:37.800 --> 0:54:40.080 I mean, they're light, right, so it doesn't take as 0:54:40.160 --> 0:54:45.040 much force as like a spaceship because the spaceship is 0:54:45.080 --> 0:54:47.120 a big mass, and so you need a lot a 0:54:47.200 --> 0:54:52.920 ton of energy to escape the Earth's gravitational pull something 0:54:52.960 --> 0:54:57.160 that's tiny. Yeah, that's a that's a that's a question. 0:54:57.640 --> 0:54:59.480 You know what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna ask Ai 0:54:59.600 --> 0:55:00.760 assists whether. 0:55:02.000 --> 0:55:05.480 I'm going to make a note to talk to Nessa 0:55:05.520 --> 0:55:09.040 about putting a cup a look up on the next 0:55:09.080 --> 0:55:13.680 satellite so that I can see if it's collecting uh targets. 0:55:14.040 --> 0:55:17.200 That's a great question. I'm gonna I am going to 0:55:17.840 --> 0:55:21.880 uh keep looking into this and if I find a 0:55:21.920 --> 0:55:25.120 satisfying answer. I will do a follow up on the 0:55:25.160 --> 0:55:27.720 show and I will tell you about it, Soren. 0:55:27.480 --> 0:55:29.879 Because what a journey. I mean, obviously it ends in death, 0:55:29.920 --> 0:55:34.520 but what a what an exciting journey for Yeah, I mean, 0:55:34.760 --> 0:55:37.239 little comrade spiders seems fun. 0:55:37.360 --> 0:55:40.400 The atmosphere, you know, like they're probably there's probably like 0:55:40.440 --> 0:55:43.960 a special heaven for animals that die in space, Like 0:55:43.960 --> 0:55:48.080 like is there? It's like lots of chimpanzees there. 0:55:48.880 --> 0:55:53.040 You're past heaven at that point, like you are? You? 0:55:54.000 --> 0:55:56.840 I do like that you have you subscribe to the 0:55:56.840 --> 0:55:59.040 belief that there is a heaven, but it is lies 0:55:59.080 --> 0:56:02.759 at a certain it's at a certain it's like sort 0:56:02.760 --> 0:56:04.840 of like above the eye on a sphere, but below 0:56:04.920 --> 0:56:07.080 the stratosphere. I don't know how. 0:56:07.400 --> 0:56:09.960 Sometimes in a plane you can you can see it. 0:56:10.200 --> 0:56:12.160 I try. I try to wink at God when I'm 0:56:12.440 --> 0:56:15.240 on a plane, you know, like, hey there, God, how's 0:56:15.239 --> 0:56:17.120 the hang in Jesus, I'm sure you guys are up 0:56:17.120 --> 0:56:17.920 here doing stuff. 0:56:18.880 --> 0:56:23.799 One of the engines goes out. Okay, I'm sorry. 0:56:23.120 --> 0:56:25.520 Yeah, you know you know what is up there? Though? 0:56:25.760 --> 0:56:30.719 Viruses uh so. Viruses can also travel by wind and 0:56:31.120 --> 0:56:34.960 be found in clouds and they can rain down on 0:56:35.080 --> 0:56:40.160 us in actual literal rain. But don't worry, most of 0:56:40.200 --> 0:56:43.839 these are fine. In fact, pretty much all the viruses 0:56:44.040 --> 0:56:48.000 that you're gonna find that are aeroplankt in uh. There's 0:56:48.200 --> 0:56:51.359 millions and millions of them, and we're breathing them in 0:56:51.440 --> 0:56:57.080 all the time. But they actually uh are only pathanogenic 0:56:57.280 --> 0:57:03.080 uh for bacteria, So they infect bacteria maybe other microorganisms, 0:57:03.120 --> 0:57:07.440 but they can't infect humans. And so it is not 0:57:07.719 --> 0:57:12.520 really thought that viruses flying around in the wind is 0:57:12.719 --> 0:57:22.720 particularly driving infection in humans. It's it is like theoretically possible, right, 0:57:23.000 --> 0:57:25.640 It's just that a sneeze is gonna be a much 0:57:25.680 --> 0:57:30.720 more efficient deliverer of viruses than like one virus lands 0:57:30.800 --> 0:57:33.560 on your nose from two thousand miles away. 0:57:34.280 --> 0:57:38.760 Okay, And if I'm drinking rainwater, am I getting all 0:57:38.760 --> 0:57:40.240 this stuff in there as well? 0:57:40.360 --> 0:57:43.400 I think there are different reasons not to drink rainwater, 0:57:43.760 --> 0:57:49.240 like I mean, sometimes it depends on like the bodies 0:57:49.280 --> 0:57:51.920 of water near you where the water is evaporating from. 0:57:52.360 --> 0:57:54.320 I don't think you have anything to worry about in 0:57:54.400 --> 0:57:59.240 terms of viruses from drinking rainwater. It's just we're breathing 0:57:59.320 --> 0:58:02.960 in like literally millions of viruses all the time, and 0:58:03.280 --> 0:58:05.360 they just don't do anything to us. 0:58:06.240 --> 0:58:08.320 Yeah, it makes me feel a little stronger. 0:58:08.120 --> 0:58:13.360 Right, Yeah, it's like it's it's kind of like, you know, 0:58:14.840 --> 0:58:17.520 I mean, it's like our bodies a city and these 0:58:17.640 --> 0:58:19.560 viruses are just passing through you know what I mean. 0:58:19.600 --> 0:58:26.240 They're just drifters pass through your system. Yeah. But yeah, 0:58:26.320 --> 0:58:31.480 so don't don't worry about it. We're constantly surrounded by viruses, bacteria. 0:58:31.960 --> 0:58:36.720 Little guys probably breathe them, breathing them in, uh, taste 0:58:36.760 --> 0:58:38.680 in them. You stick your tongue out, it's probably like 0:58:38.760 --> 0:58:40.560 just a bunch of stuff landing on there. But don't 0:58:40.560 --> 0:58:42.800 worry about it. It's good. It's like, you know, like 0:58:42.880 --> 0:58:44.880 when you stick out your tongue to catch snow on 0:58:44.920 --> 0:58:48.320 your on your tongue, but then you're getting viruses. 0:58:50.040 --> 0:58:51.000 Snowflaces. 0:58:51.880 --> 0:58:56.040 Yeah, makes it feel better. Anyways, before we go, we 0:58:56.080 --> 0:58:57.760 do got to play a little game. This game is 0:58:57.760 --> 0:59:01.600 called Guests Who's Squawking? This rail sound game. Every week 0:59:01.640 --> 0:59:03.800 we play a mystery. An'll sound in you the listener, 0:59:03.800 --> 0:59:06.240 and you the guest, trying to guess who. 0:59:06.280 --> 0:59:07.080 I'm so mad that I. 0:59:08.560 --> 0:59:10.520 Don't remember that you did. 0:59:11.240 --> 0:59:14.880 Yeah, there I was. I shouldn't know because we maybe 0:59:14.920 --> 0:59:16.280 I can't remember the last time at a time before, 0:59:16.360 --> 0:59:18.800 but it was Cassawary and Cassewary is like one of. 0:59:18.720 --> 0:59:23.360 My favorite games. Oh yeah, yeah, that was so embarrassing. 0:59:24.040 --> 0:59:26.360 Everyone was disappointed in. 0:59:26.360 --> 0:59:29.800 You, the one more than my son. 0:59:32.200 --> 0:59:35.800 It's okay. I I'm sure if someone like turn this 0:59:35.920 --> 0:59:39.760 around on me, I would lose so much because, like 0:59:40.880 --> 0:59:43.720 it's easy for me to pick out these sounds and 0:59:43.760 --> 0:59:46.240 be like, oh, I know what it is because I 0:59:46.320 --> 0:59:46.920 looked it up. 0:59:47.200 --> 0:59:47.800 I looked up. 0:59:47.920 --> 0:59:50.120 I looked it up. But yeah I would I would not. 0:59:50.520 --> 0:59:53.040 I don't want people to think that I would actually 0:59:53.040 --> 0:59:55.440 have a really high success rate with this, because I 0:59:55.560 --> 1:00:01.360 probably would not. Okay, but that being said, let's do 1:00:01.440 --> 1:00:07.200 this all right. So the hint is this. It gets 1:00:07.200 --> 1:00:10.280 its name from the sound it makes, not for sitting 1:00:10.360 --> 1:00:14.160 at the cool kids table. It gets its name from 1:00:14.200 --> 1:00:16.600 the sound it makes, not from sitting at the cool 1:00:16.640 --> 1:00:27.680 kids table in high school. Could you hear that? 1:00:28.760 --> 1:00:29.880 Is it? The little popping noise? 1:00:30.080 --> 1:00:30.280 Yes? 1:00:35.040 --> 1:00:39.760 Well, I mean I was gonna say the manta shrimp, 1:00:40.080 --> 1:00:42.760 but or that shrimp that makes that noise, But then 1:00:42.800 --> 1:00:45.120 I hear a bunch of birds and ship in the background. 1:00:45.200 --> 1:00:47.800 So is this something? Is it the manta shrimp? 1:00:48.040 --> 1:00:51.320 No, it's not. You're you're, you're You're correct to be skeptical, 1:00:51.360 --> 1:00:53.520 given that there is birds and wind. 1:00:53.480 --> 1:00:56.280 Okay, because sometimes you can even say, put your you're 1:00:56.320 --> 1:00:58.000 the surface of the water and it sounds like soda 1:00:58.040 --> 1:01:00.600 popping with manta shrimp. But let's see, let's see. 1:01:00.760 --> 1:01:02.080 It's a good guess. It's a good guess. 1:01:03.960 --> 1:01:14.919 Is that topping noise? It's gonna be something weird? Isn't 1:01:14.960 --> 1:01:16.360 a clam? 1:01:16.560 --> 1:01:21.600 No, it's not Alex Schmidt snapping his fingers doing. 1:01:21.480 --> 1:01:23.640 Doing try not find out until next one. 1:01:23.560 --> 1:01:25.400 Doing the no. No, you're gonna find out. You're gonna 1:01:25.400 --> 1:01:27.960 find out right now, because this is last week's No, 1:01:28.040 --> 1:01:31.160 it's not it's not Alex Schmint snapping his fingers. Uh, 1:01:31.360 --> 1:01:35.920 it's not a clam Uh. This is the click beetle. 1:01:36.080 --> 1:01:42.040 It is a beetle that basically folds its body in 1:01:42.160 --> 1:01:47.439 half and makes this clicking sound. And it actually can 1:01:48.200 --> 1:01:52.320 rapidly contract its muscles, and it has like a peg 1:01:53.000 --> 1:01:58.040 and slot mechanism uh that allows it to like it 1:01:58.080 --> 1:02:01.040 can unhinge this and then snap it back into place. 1:02:01.200 --> 1:02:04.880 And it both makes a clicking sound and basically launches 1:02:04.920 --> 1:02:07.720 it in a sort of jump. So this is an 1:02:07.760 --> 1:02:13.040 evasive tactic for it to like, I don't know, I'm 1:02:13.080 --> 1:02:16.000 trying to think of it. It looks kind of funny 1:02:16.000 --> 1:02:18.919 because it's just it's basically just this beetle. It's kind 1:02:18.920 --> 1:02:21.800 of I don't know, it's like about the length of 1:02:21.840 --> 1:02:25.640 your thumb, and it's sort of oblong, just kind of 1:02:25.640 --> 1:02:28.600 a flat beetle. But then it, like if it's on 1:02:28.680 --> 1:02:32.920 its back or being held, it like kind of folds 1:02:32.960 --> 1:02:37.400 itself where it's like kind of belly up and folds 1:02:37.400 --> 1:02:40.840 itself like in a upside down V and then just 1:02:40.880 --> 1:02:45.800 like snaps back together and then kind of flings itself 1:02:45.840 --> 1:02:47.560 and makes that snapping sound. 1:02:47.760 --> 1:02:48.560 That's pretty cool. 1:02:48.960 --> 1:02:51.160 It's fun. It's a fun little party trick. 1:02:52.640 --> 1:02:53.760 I didn't know this thing existed. 1:02:54.400 --> 1:02:56.800 Well, now you do, all. 1:02:56.800 --> 1:02:58.600 Right, give me the next one. I get another one, right, 1:02:58.640 --> 1:02:59.600 you do, get another one? 1:03:00.320 --> 1:03:05.880 Okay, all right, here's a hint. This bearded fellow is 1:03:06.240 --> 1:03:31.200 the bell of the ball, all right, kind of guesses yes. 1:03:33.080 --> 1:03:36.680 Before I heard your clue, it's like bird. Definitely a bird. 1:03:37.280 --> 1:03:42.440 You gave me another clue that was this bearded fellow, 1:03:42.960 --> 1:03:47.080 and so I'm gonna even though the Habitat in the 1:03:47.120 --> 1:03:53.080 background sounds too jungly or tropical for this, I'm gonna 1:03:53.080 --> 1:03:54.520 guess the bearded. 1:03:54.080 --> 1:03:59.520 Readling Ooh, interesting, interesting, very interesting. 1:03:59.560 --> 1:04:01.480 Guess it's not right. 1:04:02.040 --> 1:04:05.040 It's not right. No, because otherwise I would have bleeped 1:04:05.040 --> 1:04:11.880 you out. But maybe you're on the right track. Anyways, 1:04:12.040 --> 1:04:16.120 you'll find out the real answer to this little, my 1:04:16.360 --> 1:04:17.240 tricky little riddle. 1:04:17.360 --> 1:04:22.360 Next time you're playing a home give yourself. Give yourself 1:04:22.360 --> 1:04:25.480 the extra context of the background noises always with this game. 1:04:26.120 --> 1:04:30.360 That's like, you know Habitat right away, and I disregarded 1:04:30.360 --> 1:04:31.880 that this time. I shouldn't have done that. But you 1:04:31.880 --> 1:04:35.040 can get Habitat almost immediately, and that's gonna give like 1:04:35.080 --> 1:04:36.960 that's gonna zero down your search and then you can 1:04:37.000 --> 1:04:40.680 win this game of katies that if you do win, 1:04:40.720 --> 1:04:42.280 you give a million dollars, right, you give a million 1:04:42.280 --> 1:04:43.360 dollars to the person who gets it. 1:04:44.200 --> 1:04:58.640 Yeah. No, well, Sarren, that is a great guess, and 1:04:58.920 --> 1:05:01.000 he is on the right track. I will say that, 1:05:01.560 --> 1:05:06.160 but yes, not quite. Uh. If anything that you know 1:05:06.240 --> 1:05:07.840 the answer, you can write to me a Creature Feature 1:05:07.840 --> 1:05:11.040 Pod at gmail dot com. You can also write to 1:05:11.040 --> 1:05:18.160 me your questions, pictures of your pets. Please stop sending 1:05:18.200 --> 1:05:21.240 me requests for millions of dollars. I don't have it. 1:05:21.680 --> 1:05:26.000 I don't have it. Uh so sorry, where can the 1:05:26.040 --> 1:05:28.880 people find you? And also, hey, thank you for coming on? 1:05:29.560 --> 1:05:32.400 Oh yeah, my pleasure. Thank you for having me. I'm 1:05:32.400 --> 1:05:34.160 no longer on Twitter, but you can find me on 1:05:34.200 --> 1:05:36.880 Blue Sky. I'm like one of the Blue Sky. 1:05:37.440 --> 1:05:39.320 No no, no, that's the other thing. I don't know where you. 1:05:39.560 --> 1:05:42.960 I don't know where you're o x xx gonna give 1:05:42.960 --> 1:05:46.120 it to you. Yeah, I'm not on that anymore. I'm 1:05:46.160 --> 1:05:48.400 on Blue Sky. If you go there, I'm one of 1:05:48.400 --> 1:05:50.440 only like six people there, so it's very easy to 1:05:50.480 --> 1:05:52.560 find me. Just it's a room full of folks and 1:05:52.600 --> 1:05:53.400 you just go others. 1:05:53.920 --> 1:05:56.160 I'm I'll follow you. I'll give you a follow. I'm 1:05:56.160 --> 1:05:58.560 never there, but I guess I kind of want to 1:05:58.560 --> 1:06:02.200 go on there. Ish I share super recipes on Blue Sky, 1:06:02.240 --> 1:06:02.800 you know what I mean? 1:06:02.880 --> 1:06:05.800 Just oh, reinvent yourself. It's like going to high school 1:06:05.800 --> 1:06:07.600 after middle school. It's a whole new opportunity. 1:06:07.680 --> 1:06:09.960 I feel like it. We could definitely swing it in 1:06:10.000 --> 1:06:12.760 the direction of just being a recipe sharing site, and 1:06:12.760 --> 1:06:15.520 we should try to do that, like this is the 1:06:15.600 --> 1:06:18.320 time at which the culture is being established, and if 1:06:18.320 --> 1:06:21.200 it's just like this is a website to share fun 1:06:21.280 --> 1:06:25.240 recipes without any stories, just like I like this being 1:06:25.360 --> 1:06:26.720 super recipe here it is. 1:06:27.920 --> 1:06:30.320 I'm doing jokes over there right now, but I'm happy 1:06:30.320 --> 1:06:33.240 to switch over to Soups Soups. 1:06:33.480 --> 1:06:37.919 I think it's a good use for it as much 1:06:37.960 --> 1:06:39.640 as anything else. But that's Creod. 1:06:39.680 --> 1:06:42.080 You also listen to my podcast with the US It's 1:06:42.120 --> 1:06:45.280 called Quick Question with Thorn and Daniel. Yeah, it's a 1:06:45.280 --> 1:06:48.640 fun little podcast we do. 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