Improbable TV

[roidroid]

watching dust-mites under a microscope sounds like fun.

why not buy one? they are cheap.

[marianiiina]

i had a teacher that laughed everytime she said "seno de teta" (sine of thetha) which in spanish means "boob of the tit"

[stefanmckinley]

where can i watch all of that lecture?

[critic123]

OOOOHHHHHHHH GOOOOOOOOOOODDD!!!!!! get em off me!!!get em off me!!!

[flowww88]

I would like one of them chocolates :p

[Terrakinetic]

I purposely try to forget these kinds of things.

[slessorpr]

'Even fleas have smaller fleas that bite 'em,

And so it goes ad infinitum' Demodecs are microscopic bugs that clean up dead skin flakes. If there are too many demodecs on a dogs skin they start 2 eat healthy tissue as well as dead. This is what is known in dogs as demodectic mange, resulting in fur loss, itching and if untreated can be a serious health risk from 'invisible bugs' which live on all mammal skin. Humans have the same sort of bugs too of course.

[hulitoons]

Realizing that we are each a walking symbiotic universe to so many 'citizens' should make each of us, as the professor stated, feel less alone. Of course, while some of those citizens actually keep us alive, others are amusing parasites. Reminds me of the universe upon which WE live and I'm trying to decide if I am the first citizen or the second! Becky

[Shockmonkey1]

the fingernail voice is definetly augusten burrughs!

[Jmcenanly]

I am curious as to how the integral sign(the long 's')became a design feature on stringed instruments.

[zgitzoid]

oooh, good question...

never thought of that

[ThirstyonThursday]

I heard that after 10 years the weight of your mattress is double, due to the millions of mites, does anyone know if that's true?

[SaintCog]

lets do the math...Everyday losing 1.5 grams of skin/day (what the mites use to gain mass)

8hrs in bed = 1/3 X 1.5g

0.5 grams X 365 X 10 yrs X 2 people in a bed

3.65kg X 60% moisture increase = 5.84 kg : a high end of what mites could add to you mattress IMO

[MasterClipEditor]

"you lose skin skells"

I'm sorry I don't like people making fun of accents, but that was TOO funny

[GetMeThere1]

I wonder if humans are the only primates with an association with mites--since, I think, most other primates sleep in a different place every night.

[Avalikia]

Oh, all primates and almost all other large animals have this sort of relationship with some sort of really tiny creature. Changing sleeping locations every night reduces their sheer numbers, but the fact is that a lot of them actually cling to you and animals with fur are a lot easier to cling onto. Dust mites that specialize on humans are less clingy than most though since they don't have to worry about being left behind.

[Phibins]

= cos x

[catapaultpenguin]

I wish I had chocolates with trigonometric integrals on them.

[DeletedDelusion]

It's not only chocolates with trigonometric integrals, it's belgium chocolates with trigonometric integrals...

Huge difference.

[Skelic]

Didn't like the previous "Improbable"-vid, but this wasn't bad! I liked it.

[Paxmax]

ooh that's so comfortable to know... that we are never alone in the dark, we got mites for company! They are great listeners!

[jdstorms]

Love it! Learn something everyday! 5 *'s

[wickedfire0]

third

[n14e5o15]

fIRST"1!!!!

[hughie0012]

I love this! Got to learn to train then :)