5 1/2 facts

[DerUnglaublicheTim]

kann mir bitte irgendwer sagen was das nochma fürn lied am ende des videos is???

[Cataglyphis]

das ist der Titelsong von "Raumpatrouille Orion" :)

[DerUnglaublicheTim]

das war aba ne schnelle antwort :-)))

danke dir...nebenbei super kanal!!!

[lapisScarab]

ohne daniel düsentrieb wäre phantomias schon längst entenbraten.

[Cataglyphis]

hast recht ;)

[trainfart]

Freaking hot video!

=)

[Cataglyphis]

.  =D

[snakelemon]

All my doors are open to you

Cataglyphis, exept that ones that are closed!

[Cataglyphis]

sounds plausible ;)

[snakelemon]

wow.........2 tomatos! (WAHNSINN)

[Cataglyphis]

I know! it's INCREDIBLE!!

[novanine]

I love the photography. The camera-chord shots are great because they are of such an inane subject but look so effective!

What the hell are you doing to that piece of lettuce at the end?? haha

[Cataglyphis]

yeah, macro pics seem to make things come a little alive :)

I'm putting the lettuce on scotch tape! *g* (the 4 pieces are supposed to be the "intro" for the 4th fact)

It's my invention for making things move without having to go through the hassle of stop-motion animation. ;)

[novanine]

Haha, good thinking!

[skippyXG]

Loved it!

The ending credit was simply brilliant.

[Cataglyphis]

thank you! :D

[shimbob]

I enjoyed this very much. I LOLed at you taking pics of your camera strap. I can relate to that one. Entertaining and made me want to get educated!

[Cataglyphis]

thanks!  :D

[BulletteKitty]

Wow, that was very interesting! You're very creative and edit your videos very well^^ I'm sorry you had a 3 hour headache.. I also love micro photography and your pictures are great XD

[Cataglyphis]

thank you! :D

[fluorisch]

Das mit den LTBs ist ja so sweet! Bei mir war das so ähnlich mit Asterix (mit dem lesen lernen). Aber ich weiß nicht mehr, ob ich mit 5 schon richtig lesen konnte, Respekt!

[Cataglyphis]

cool, dann bin ich ja nicht die einzige, die ihre "Grundausbildung" durch LBTs bekommen hat ;)

[fluorisch]

wie cool, jetzt kann ich mich sogar wieder erinnern: ich hab das ltb auch gelesen, wo donald den graben in den fußboden latscht (1:13). mann, das war früher ...

[Cataglyphis]

hmm, ich glaub das kommt öfter vor.... v.a. Onkel Dagobert tendiert doch dazu, solche Grübel-Gräben zu produzieren, oder?

[fluorisch]

vielleicht bild ich es mir ein, aber auch die anderen bilder aus dem buch kamen mir jetzt so bekannt vor. und auch das cover.

[Theultimatebride]

I like ants.

[Cataglyphis]

Me too.

[Ralastar]

What kind of camera do you use?

[Cataglyphis]

I use a very cheap webcam and a Samsung S85. I also have an old Casio digicam, some of the macro pics were taken with it.

[LoveMattersMost]

Macro- photog. is fascinating because it reminds us that there are many different "worlds" where everything is about the same size, for example, the pictures of the Hubble Telescope where everything is light-years in size. Then the human scale, the insect scale (which you photograph), the microbe scale(everything in our world is covered in bacteria and we don't know it) and the Atomic Scale, viewed with a STM microscope(invented by Germans! hehehe!) which shows individual atoms! It's amazing! :)

[LoveMattersMost]

Another interesting puzzle about you: I will look into Neil Stephenson too. I just read an article about him on Wikipedia. He sounds interesting. The closest author I can think that sounds like him is Michael Crichton. Sort of Sci-Fi, with some hi-tech terror like Viruses or Dinosaur DNA, etc. My question is: Wow, you read all of Neil Stephenson, but are there any other authors you read? If not, that is really interesting! What makes his books so special to you? :)

[Cataglyphis]

hmm... Neal Stephenson's books aren't "typical" Sci-Fi, they're mostly very focused on science and history. I'm interested in how our society could be if it was different. N.S. has that a lot in his books, plus I love his writing style.

Other authors I like are Matt Ruff (e.g. Sewer, Gas & Electrics) and Jasper Fforde.

[LoveMattersMost]

Think about the ways the world could have evolved; It's easy to imagine things so different! With Atom Bombs, Computers, Internet, and Genetic Engineering, many different scenarios are possible, and the scary thing is that many are worse than the world we know today! The biggest mystery for me starts back at the evolutionary branching of pre-human species. Why are humans so much more intelligent than the second place species? What made that happen? What if there were two or three smart species?

[LoveMattersMost]

Two very real forces of change that I have to worry about are large Comet collisions (just look at the Moon) And genetically modified bacteria or plants which may be prolific and toxic to humans. I'm glad that neither of these two events have happened yet! :) Also, look at scientific breakthroughs. No one can predict the next one (like the PC+software)I'm old enough to remember when PC's were just invented for home use. No one could figure out what to do with them! No one predicted cell phones..

[LoveMattersMost]

One huge change that will happen soon, once better storage batteries are invented; is that everyone will drive an electric car almost overnight. No one will buy gasoline. The whole world's economy will shift away from gas and oil to electric cars. That means the oil producing nations will suddenly be poor again! So, it's amazing how fast our world could change with just one or two inventions.

[LoveMattersMost]

I forgot to say, there will be a single world language and one currency, like the Euro! People will unite to defend the planet against environmental disasters. And one of my favorite hobbies: Physics, is long overdue for fundamental conceptual breakthroughs! There are still too many fundamental forces and particles. Maybe the new CERN LHC will provide some data to suggest new theories. Nobody understands why gravity is so much weaker than the other fund. Forces. Something new needs to happen.

[LoveMattersMost]

Of course, science is not all bad! Good things will happen to us in the future! Many more diseases will be cured. Drugs and therapies will be invented. I think a way to directly connect to nerve tissues will be discovered and paralyzed people will be able to control their limbs with their minds. I think a true world government will be created. Computers will simulate human behavior much better. With speech and object recognition. Everyone will have access to infinite learning opportunities, etc.

[LoveMattersMost]

Question Part II: I said I was fascinated by you too, here is why: If you have Cataglyphis as your username, and thank-you, I understand Cataglyphis now! :) But, then why do you use a Rabbit as your Channel Icon? One would expect a nice Ant picture, right?! Hehehe! See why I said you are puzzling too? :) I'm afraid that every puzzle about you that you explain, will only create another fresh question in it's place. But I don't mind. I love puzzles and mysteries! They are fun, and so are you! :)

[Cataglyphis]

The green plastic rabbit (or rather, hare) played a role in several of my videos and has become something like my trademark ... or a running gag/joke ;)

My uncle gave it to me for my birthday a couple of years ago. It had been part of an art installation by Ottmar Hoerl in Nuremberg, Germany.

[LoveMattersMost]

Thanks for directing me to this video! Has anyone said you are unique? Different? That is a good thing! Now I am fascinated by Cataglyphis too! And you. Although I must admit, Cataglyphis is even more mysterious. How do the ants find their way? The YT Video said they take many looks at the sun to get their position. Here is an experiment someone must try: What if you put them in a cage with a false sun and you moved the sun while they walked? Would they find their way if the sun moves? :)

[Cataglyphis]

Well, the ants don't exactly look at the sun's position but at the sun's polarized light. No idea if they could be tricked with a fake sun - probably yes.

[theBatou]

orion & phantomias das rockt, es gibt also doch coole frauen

(magste auch calvin&hobbes?)

kann auch meine augen seperat bewegen, aber das isn trick!

ach, und du bist ein nerd kein freak :)

sehr coole videos die du da machst, echt beeindruckend...

[Cataglyphis]

LOL - Hast du etwa an der Existenz von coolen Frauen gezweifelt?? ;)

calvin & hobbes kenne ich zwar, muss allerdings zugeben, dass ich das nicht genug kenne um sagen zu können ob ich's mag.

... danke!

[theBatou]

naja, nicht wirklich... hab ja auch ne coole freundin... hat aber ne weile gedauert sie zu finden

man kann aber sagen das sie sehr sehr rar sind :)

[Cataglyphis]

wär ja auch langweilig wenn die in Massen zu haben wären ;)

[prosepp]

ok, das mit Phantomias ist ne Bank. Mehr kann ich nicht sagen.

Da kann man vieles, vieles andere durchgehen lassen, selbst den crunchiness-Epilog

schönen Gruss

[Cataglyphis]

... ne Bank? ich glaub da reicht mein Slang-Wissen nicht aus :)

[prosepp]

soll heissen, damit hast du (ups, ich fürchte das könnte wieder unter Slang fallen) einen dicken Stein bei mir im Brett.

Ich kanns auch anders formulieren:

Jemand, der auf Phantomias steht kann kein schlechter Mensch sein *gg

[Cataglyphis]

... keine Sorge, den Stein im Brett kenn ich dann doch ;)

Und bzgl. Deiner Meinung über Phantomiasfans kann ich Dir nur zustimmen! ;D

[prosepp]

dacht ich mir doch *gg.

Ich hab auch noch einige wenige dieser ganz zerfledderten Lustigen Taschenbücher, wie du sie zeigst. Die sind noch aus den 70ern *grins.

Und jede Menge nachgekaufte Neuauflagen.

Persönlich find ich sie vor allem bis ca. Band 100 wirklich gut, danach wurde nur immer bunter und greller immer wieder das gleiche aufgerührt.

Aber in den alten, da sind manchmal Ideen verarbeitet, da fass ich mir heut noch an den Kopf und sag: sagenhaft !

[kabtor]

ich würde sagen eines der besten 5 fakten videos die ich je gesehen habe. cooler sound ich liebe orion.

[Cataglyphis]

vielen dank! :) orion rocks!

[Skorsch]

oh mein gott! das is voll kreativ! die micro-fotos sehen TOLL aus!

und die "entstehung" deines usernames is sehr interessant :)

das video hat mir sehr gefallen echt :)

[Cataglyphis]

wow, danke!! so viel Lob tut wirklich gut :D

[Annaconda1984]

einfach nur genial (-:

[Cataglyphis]

danke! :)

[lofgy]

Ha! mein kleiner Sohn steht auch tOtal auf Fantomias. Auf dem Fahrrad mit blau-roten Umhang, Barett, Kostüm, und schwarzer Maske wird er in der Fussgängerzone aber trotzdem manchmal mit Superman verwechselt... QUIIITSCHHH!!

[Cataglyphis]

jaja, immer diese mainstream-superhelden... die stehlen den coolen underground-superhelden nur die show!

[PockhuhnFilm]

Aud den Related Videos soll mal einer hier schlau werden!

[Flowdidow]

tolles video!

deine art filme zu machen wirkt sehr professionell!

ich glaub du hast einen neuen subscriber ;-)

ps: hahaaa, das mit den augen kann ich auch^^

[Cataglyphis]

danke! :)

ich glaub auch, dass ich einen neuen Subscriber habe *g*

ps: *seufz* irgendwann musste ich ja mal das monopol darauf verlieren...

kriegst du auch immer so krass kopfweh davon?

[Flowdidow]

eigentlich nicht, aber ich machs auch nicht so oft,... sehe dann einfach nicht so gut wie sonst ;-)

[FrauPflueckebeutel]

Oh well, now I have to read it. Snow Crash is in my bookshelf for four years now...

[Cataglyphis]

what a shame!! ;) you definitely should read it! it's very ... ummm... special, so not everybody likes it, but I could read it again and again. :)

[EldritchMask]

A reallywell edited movie of your list.

Sadly my British Germanophobia goes into overdrive with your loud german countdown.

Cheers.

[Cataglyphis]

thanks! :)

oh and btw, the German countdown (and the music in the end) is taken from "Raumpatrouille Orion", a Sixties sci-fi TV series ... Germans desperately trying to appear NOT German ;D The series is one of my all time TV/movie favorites.

[foellmi]

Kannst Du auch mit einem Auge nach oben und mit dem anderen nach unten schielen?

[Cataglyphis]

uargh, nee, das wär ja seltsam. ;D

[foellmi]

allerdings :D

[foellmi]

Die Phantomias Geschichten fand ich auch immer am besten!

[Cataglyphis]

Phantomias is soo viel cooler als alle anderen Helden!

Ich glaube das "SPROING" seiner Stiefel werd ich immer im Ohr haben ;)

[JamieDanger]

YAAAY!! TAGGED!!!

FUN!!

[Cataglyphis]

YAAAY!! Jamie likes being tagged!! FUN!! :)

[paisleyduck]

Can't wait to see this. :)

[Cataglyphis]

me too! :)

[NarsinhaTube]

This video is made of awesome!

Thanks for explaining your username, I kept wondering where it comes from... (Why didn't I ask you in Munich?? Oo)

[Cataglyphis]

wow thanks!

do you happen know how much a gram of awesome costs at the moment?

[zebidee55]

*sniff* Huh?

[Cataglyphis]

huh?

[zebidee55]

Sorry - I missed what people were saying while I was doing lines of Awesome. It's made of ground up YouTubers, but is surprisingly expensive!

;P

[Cataglyphis]

aaaahahaha! I bet Awesome made of Most-Subscribed-Of-All-Time-Yo­utubers is the most expensive stuff you can get...

[Cataglyphis]

umm, okay, I know my last comment didn't really make sense... ;) I just want to buy more awesome! I used my whole supply for this video... ;)

[zebidee55]

LOL! It made perfect sense! (Way more than my comment!)

Hmmm - maybe we can fake Gatherings and kidnap noobs for our new Awesome trafficking business... OK, so they're lower quality than Most-Subscribed YouTubers, but our profit margins should be good!

[Cataglyphis]

aaaahaha! I love that plan! who cares if the kids get addicted to that low quality Awesome. As long as we get the Partners for ourselves....

[Cataglyphis]

omg I rly should stop using that loud laugh. *g*

[zebidee55]

LOL! Nah - the loud laugh is perfect!!

Yes! We can use their money to feed our own burning desires for high quality Awesome that we need so much!

[revilomat]

I already wondered what happened to some of the people who showed up on Friday, but were gone on Saturday. Now I know! You two did a great job! I wasn't even a tiny bit suspicious, until now! I will keep an eye on you and your awesome videos from now on! ;)

[zebidee55]

LOL! I was hoping people wouldn't notice the dissapearance of Annaconda, but now I guess they have!

Um, why don't you just step over here for a second - out of sight of everyone else. I have something to show you behind this door...

[Cataglyphis]

omg, Nicole, what have you done? your comment triggered a whole YT drug mafia. ;)

[NarsinhaTube]

Actually I'm quite mad at you two, for spilling the beans of our upcoming business before we were able to build up a firmer customer base! Do whatever you want with it now, I'm out of here!!!

*...wasting my time with botchers...*mumbles*

[PatrickTheTimon]

respect... sehr cooles video o.O <!-- sprachlos!

[Cataglyphis]

nein, weitersprechen bitte!!

danke! :)

[ogier1]

oi

I also own the disney collection.

learned the word "skarabäus" from it and used it in school back then!

[Cataglyphis]

hey, thats so cool! I also learned what a Skarabäus is from LTBs!

[stromguitar]

And I was her very first subscriber *very proud* ;-)

[Cataglyphis]

*writes autograph for Alex*

[gembay]

Jetzt hab ich wenigstens mal eine Aufgabe abgesehen vom arbeiten. ;)

[Cataglyphis]

muahahaha! ;)

Lass Dir nur Zeit, ich freu mich auch, wenn Dein Video erst viel später kommt. :)

[stromguitar]

Great! But who am I telling this to? And now it's my turn I guess... What a challenge.

[Cataglyphis]

yep honey, stop staring at twitter and make a video! :)

[speedyconkiwi]

I LOVE macro photography! The pictures were great and the little animations for the fact numbers were sweet.

[Cataglyphis]

thx! macro rocks! and veggies rock, too! :)

[karottenzug]

wow! Arbeitest du bei der Filmbranche? es ist toll geworden!

[Cataglyphis]

danke!

nein, ist nur ein Hobby. :)

[muserine]

Not much to add, fantastic video!! (ANd yes, I know the music, too *g*)

Oh, and I inherited a huge box with LTB from my uncle when I was a kid, too! But I have no idea where they are now...

[Cataglyphis]

thanks! :)

somehow LTBs seem to be a thing that people just inherit...

[Joystickfresser]

Wenn dies mein Video gewesen wäre und das dann den Feature gekriegt hätte, dann hätte das Feature Sinn ergeben. XD

Aber nein, es ist dein super tolles 5 Fakten Video und meins wurde gefeatured. Schön gemacht. Ich glaub ich mach meins auch nochmal neu.

[Cataglyphis]

Aber ein Feature ergibt NIE Sinn, das ist doch eine der wichtigsten Regeln hier! *g*

und danke sehr, freut mich dass es dir gefällt! :)

[Joystickfresser]

Das ein Feature keinen Sinn ergibt und es jeden Treffen kann wird mir aber auch erst gesagt wenn ich gefeatured wurde. *g*

Dein Video ist einfach genial. Ich könnte es immer wieder schauen.

[foellmi]

Ach komm - das Feature hat Dir bestimmt den einen oder anderen Abonnenten eingebracht.

Was Dich nicht umbringt macht Dich stärker.

[xOREGx]

Hey - thanks for the shoutout!

... And even more: Thanks for tagging Stromguitar! :)) That should turn out interesting ... ^_^

[stromguitar]

I think I need an eyplanation for that...

[stromguitar]

If anybody is wondering what an "eyplanation" is: That's a crossing between an "explanation" and an "eye transplantation". It seems to be impossible to make a good video without such a great thumbnail as the second one here. (puh, grad noch mal gerettet...) ;-)

[xOREGx]

Yeah, that second thumb shows that kind of eyplanation you mentioned. :)

... To your original question: If I'd known you when I made my original "5 facts" video, I'd perhaps tagged you as well. On the other hand, I still owe Tavin a German speaking "5 Fakten" video. *scratching-my-head-thoughtful­ly*

[Cataglyphis]

yeah, I'm looking forward to her facts, too! She already told me a very cool one, I hope she'll use it for the video!

[spunktkpunkt]

Wow wirklich toll gemacht, sozusagen ein künstlerisches 5 Fakten Video.

Deine Fotos find ich übrigens auch super.

[Cataglyphis]

dankööö! Ich bin nicht so der Vlog-Mensch, deswegen wirds bei mir dann immer eher so was "künstlerisches". ;)

[paisleyduck]

Very interesting facts! I especially like the Cataglyphis part. :) I wondered where you got your user name. And the Disney comic books are so cute!

[Cataglyphis]

thanks Cayla! :)

[zebidee55]

Oh awesome facts! I love that this game is still going. I think I got tagged in the first couple of days (back in December).

The eye thing is WAY cool! THAT'S the sort of thing I needed to know when I was there with you IRL! The photography is awesome too. PM me if you have a Flickr or whatever account.

Your subscriber base is made up of very awesome people! (I especially like that Australian guy...) I seem to get some pretty random ones.

[Cataglyphis]

thanks Michael! :)

...I'm curious: what would you have done if you had known about the eye thing at 888? *g*

[zebidee55]

LOL! I'll have to whisper it to you next time I see you IRL... *g*

(OK, now I can't stop laughing at how wrong that sounds...)

[Cataglyphis]

LOL! omg now I can't stop wondering what you would have whispered... *g*

[zebidee55]

Tee hee hee...

;P

[PockhuhnFilm]

ÄHHH, ich dreh meine 5 Fakten neu!

[xOREGx]

Yess -- new 5 facts! :)

[Cataglyphis]

Nooo, die alten haben doch Kultstatus!

[PockhuhnFilm]

Dann eben 5 Unwahrheiten, die absolut schwachsinnig sind! *g*

[ralfonzo83]

ein fantastisches 5fakten-video! um ehrlich zu sein, ich finde es ist das beste was ich je gesehen habe. das ist wirklich ganz große kunst die du da machst, mit dem zusammenschneiden und zeitraffer und so. respekt! und phantomias hab ich auch immer geliebt. und dass revilomat nun ein video machen muss freut mich auch! :)

[Cataglyphis]

wow, danke danke danke! da kann ich gar nicht anders als ein Bisschen rot zu werden... :)

[revilomat]

Err, ich hoffe das 5f Video ist das "Ralf Thing". Also ich glaube das wollte er von mir ertwittern? Oder?! :D

Ich arbeite schon dran, aber ich bin ein n00b! Ich brauche noch ein paar Tage Zeit! :)

[revilomat]

After 888 and your orientation skills in munich, I thought it was obvious why you choose Cataglyphis. :D

Woah, these comics with only every second page colored... I almost forgot about them, but they were sooo cool! :)

What camera do you use for the macro pictures? They looked really good!

Please let your "Director of photography" know that I absolutly loved how all these scenes were composed :D

And now I'm tagged and "featured" on your channel. Crazy! ;D

[Cataglyphis]

you knew about the ant thing? (oh, my favourites, right?)

Most of the pic were taken with my antique 2mp brick (CASIO QV-2800UX i think), some with my Samsung S85.

and thanks, my Director of Photography is deeply flattered! :)

[revilomat]

Yeah, I watched that video before 888. Very interesting animal! :)

[PalpitatioCordis]

Klebestreifen???

Super Video, wie immer!

[honigmaeulchen]

Hihi, ja, ich war auch ziemlich überrascht... ich dachte es ist die Kamera, die sich bewegt, nicht das Gemüse! :-D

[Cataglyphis]

ach nö, zum kamera bewegen bin ich viel zu faul ;)

[Cataglyphis]

klar, Tesa ist das ultimative Animationstool! schau mal "Esst Grün!" an und achte auf die Maoam-Kracher... :)

[fluorisch]

Ach, das sind Maoam-Kracher! Ein weiteres Geheimnis gelüftet ...

[Cataglyphis]

hach ja, ich kann nicht alles verheimlichen ;)

[tavin15]

das intro! Baaamb baaaam ba ba baaaaam bam bam bam baaam! tüü tüüü tülütü tü tü tü tü tüüü!

PS: first!

[Cataglyphis]

wollte ich schon immer mal einbauen... *g*