What lives in a drop of water? [6H documentary]

Описание: What lives in a drop of water?
A slow, narrated journey into the smallest worlds on Earth, made for falling asleep.


Tonight we sit at the edge of a quiet pond, lift out a single drop of water, and go inside it. We follow Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, the cloth merchant who first saw "little animals" in rainwater in 1676.
We meet the hydra, which does not seem to grow old; the glass-clear water flea, whose eggs can wait for centuries in the mud; the wheel animals, all female for tens of millions of years, and revived after 24,000 years in Siberian ice.
Then the single cells: tiny bells on springs, a trumpet that seems to make choices, the slipper that swims with thousands of beating hairs, the shapeshifting amoeba.
Spinning green worlds of Volvox, diatoms living in houses of glass, bacteria that swim through water as thick as honey, and a virus that infects other viruses.
And at the very end, as the drop dries, the tardigrade curls up and sleeps, waiting for the rain.

The narration lasts about 87 minutes. After that, the visuals grow darker and the night by the pond keeps going softly until the 6-hour mark, so nothing wakes you.

English subtitles available (CC). Real science, carefully checked, and honest about the famous stories that turned out not to be quite true.



chapters
0:00:00 opening
0:04:00 the edge of the pond
0:10:00 the first look
0:16:20 the animal that does not grow old
0:23:40 the glass flea
0:30:20 the wheel animals
0:37:00 bells on springs
0:44:00 the slipper
0:50:00 the shapeshifter
0:56:40 spinning worlds
1:03:00 houses of glass
1:09:00 the smallest of all
1:16:40 when the water goes
1:26:40 the moss at night

One drop of pond water, slowly. 🌙 Which creature were you with when you fell asleep? (If you can't remember, it worked.)



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