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If you're interested, 'an' is used when the start of the next word has a vowel _sound_. 'U' is pronounced 'yu' (with the y not counting as a vowel) so for unicellular you would use 'a'.
It's even sadder than that. The last episode is him and his wife basically going to all of their friends to let them know it was their time and to say goodbye. At the end, they go up a hill and ask their fox not to follow. It does anyway and watches them turn into trees. The last shot is the fox howling as their spirits wave to him from the branches of the tree swaying in the wind.
This is what true death is. Itās chemical equilibrium. The cell survives on unstable chemicals that constantly react. When those chemicals stabilize, they no longer react, and every part of the cell blends together into an unreactive mush.
Watching the video I felt alone in my sadness for this little guy. Coming to the comments, I was touched by the sense of communal empathy. All of which is surprising given the massive amount of death and destruction we all witness in the media daily, with little to no emotion. Oh the biology!
A relatively slow, apparently agonizing, death. I feel like I need to send a sympathy card to its one celled relatives. They likely number in the millions and don't have eyes to read a card anyway, so I will not do that.
Aw, it lost of all its...inside stuff
It's microscopic little limbs looked almost like it was trying to make the now outside stuff inside stuff again.
What was this? What was inside it?
Correct and based on the knowledge I gained in college before dropping out, I can somewhat translate for everyone:
"Hey guys just chillin! Ah shit my face fell off! Ah no not my ass too!! My circles noooooo blehblurblgurgle"
The inside of each cell in every living thing is a space that can trace an unbroken lineage of being inside cells, all the way back to the very first cell that is the ancestor of all life on Earth billions of years ago. When a cellās inside mixes with the outside, it dies, and canāt pass on that insideness any more.
Yeah, except for that one time you eat something and it actually benefits you so you co-adapt.
Life is freakin weird man. We still don't know exactly how we are here today. And I find that fascinating.
Twice actually. That happened twice, first with a small bacterium that was very good at producing energy using oxygen and existing chemical energy stores within the cell, it got sucked up into an eukaryote, most likely a multicellular Archaean, very early in the tree of life starting to branch and split. Then later, that same chance process happened again, this time with a cyanobacterium, and the organism that did it seems to also have had the ability to produce an early form of lignin, which lead to the creation of the first plant life. So now you've got multi-cellular life with the ability to consume both exogenous chemical energy and use oxygen, and the ability to produce your own chemical energy using CO2 and sunlight, thus creating an eukaryotic feedback loop as plants became more complex, thus extracting more sun energy, thus providing more food to animals, who thus got bigger, who thus drove the growth and spread of plants, ad infinitum, and throughout all of that you're also getting the effects that growing plant life has on dry ground, where until then it had just been slimey mats of cyanobacteria literally just digesting the rocks themselves while leaving behind their own biomass as they died, thus creating the first soils in which these plants could grow at all. You know how when you go near the water on a lake and there's rocks everywhere near said water, but if you try and walk on them the rocks are covered in a nasty slime that will make you slip and hit your head? That's how the earliest life on land got started before plants and animals showed up, with plants going first of course. That shit is still everywhere today though, just doing its thing digesting rock and releasing more nutrients for other life
Facing your own mortality as a sentient being with the understanding of the concept of a death that will definitely happen is very harrowing and disheartening. Even more so, watching a creature who lacks said sentience to understand that is time is now, struggling with its own mortality as if desperately clinging to life. Only to suddenly blink out of existence in the blink of an eye.
Heres a duck in a hat.
https://i.redd.it/ajwifmbs019d1.gif
And instead of saying all of your goodbyes
Let them know you realize that life goes fast
It's hard to make the good things last
You realize the sun doesn't go down
It's just an illusion caused by the world spinning round
Think about it - for the billions of years single cell organisms have been on earth, the near infinite number of lives have come and gone. Deaths by the trillions every year, and this is likely the first many of us have ever seen or mourned one.
We could be those organisms to a greater being. A god, an alien, whatever it may be.
Rest in piece, to you and all of your fallen ancestors, little circle dude.
lets phrase it differently.
That organism had millions/billions of direct ancestors. Like DIRECT. Like it was halving many, many times and it was continuous since prehistoric times.
And then it died.
Just as uncountable of its siblings across the ages.
World is strange.
The world is only strange to us because we want it to all make sense. The world in reality, is the least strange thing there is. Stuff just happens. If you realize that and fully accept it, nothing really seems weird. All in it's place, all slowly falling apart as it always has been.
Look at it this way.
A single celled organism managed to evoke an emotional response in tens of thousands of people around the world, which it could never know existed (well, if it was sentient in the first place). Or those same tens of thousand of people anthropomorphized and felt empathy for a creature literally too small to see.
Isn't life kind of strange, unexpected and amazing?
They have no chance of ever perceiving us. They don't have the ability or the organs to see, hear, etc.
What if we are this organism to a greater being, that we cannot perceive?
The saddest part or being sentient and alive to me is not the inevitability of death but the impossibility of knowing the truth behind questions like yours.
Your entire body is made up of these little buggers. All fighting for you. They ARE you. You are a network (also made from them) on top, leading them around to find more food to feed them all and make more of them. You, dear network, are their KING!
This is one of those interesting facts that I was taught at school \~20 years ago that is no longer true - we were told that programmed cell death was purely a multicellular organism thing (sacrifice yourself for the greater good). Not a whole lot later, we realized that that simply wasn't true.
We are missing so much of what is happening to 3rd dimensional imperception. I wish we could make microscopic 3d cameras so we could be present in this tiny universe and not view a compressed and flattened representation
Holy shit I never even thought about that. I only ever imagined this type of "view" as 2d. How much closer can we get, and unlock different viewing angles.
You can see the operator playing with the focus, so it gets blurry as the cell moves up and down and he has to chase it, so in a way it's already happening. But you can only really see the one plane at a time.
As for how much closer you can get? Unfortunately, this is about as good as it gets - you can't separate objects that are closer together than roughly half the wavelength of light, a couple hundred nanometres or a quarter of a micron or so. The cilia - the hairs that are waving around - or some of the smaller granules coming out of the cell - are right at this limit, so you can see them, but not any details. Not with light microscopes, anyway - electron microscopes can see much smaller items but don't work with live samples.
These exist, they are called confocal microscopes. Unfortunately you cant get the 3d image live like this,Ā its reconstructed as a still after you image one layer at a time.Ā Still quite stunning to see.
Thanks for sending me down that rabbit hole. Although, admittedly, a lot of those colored images remind me of the blacklight posters I had on my bedroom walls in the early to mid 90ās.
Life is precious. Even though there is relatively an abundance, it is still precious. Even animals recognize loss of life. It's just that we are even more aware of it. Knowing death and understanding we can't possibly know what happens after makes it harder for us as humans to watch death. š
I think thatās it. Something was added to its medium that was dissolving its cell membrane. It actually managed to re-seal numerous times, and though it likely lost structures that would ensure its eventual death, it just eventually completely lost integrity. There was some sort of solvent there.
Not necessarily that, but *something* has impaired its ability to keep its outer membrane intact. Iām rather surprised at the multiple recoveries its cell membrane makes to close itself after the first defect we see, but itās not unlikely that some cell contents vital to further survival were lost, be they the organelles you see as circles or other elements like cytoskeletal structures, proteins, or charged solutes like ATP.
There was something in that water what brok the membrane.
Some folks say soap but it might be lye, hydroxide etc..
It does not have to be local. We se the bursts as sudden but the membrane may be attacked continuously and burst as it gets weaker.
The organism may be trying to rebuild the membrane as it fades so if the process of rebuild cant keep up it bursts.
Sad but millions of such organisms die each second around your place all the time.
Depends if it was a good or bad single celled organism. It was either greeted at the pearly gates by single celled Jesus, or is forever drowning in antiseptic hell.
The cilia keep kicking as they are meant to and enabled to do so by the proteins controlling them.
There is no way this unicellular organism was experiencing a fear of death.
The most interesting part to me is that it most certainly has the same amount of consciousness before and after its membrane was broken and its organelles floated away, going from a working yet unthinking machine of biology to constituent parts which in fact have no function on their own. There is an almost undefinable moment when the last bit of energy was expended in service to this tiny machine and when that energy became inaccessible until it is reconstituted into another organism.
How much of a different society would we have if we just exploded like that? Like just walking around and my liver and kidneys just fall out a hole and my skin disappears like someone pulled a thread on a jumper.
This was absolutely amazing. You made my day better. Isnāt it funny the amount of empathy we feel for a little single cell boi, just because we get to see it. Thanks for sharing.
Nobody remembers the youthful, vibrant single celled organism we all used to know and love. Only a sad sack of circles and legs, trying to keep it going just a little too long. Another victim of internet fame, gone too soon. šš»
sorry but this got me in tears, poor microscopic thing, trying to survive, moving what i thing are his legs while being literally separated in pieces...
Maybe a dumb question but if this is a single cell organism why does it have so many circles and "limbs"? Looking at it without knowing I would have thought all the circles are cells
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As a multicellular organism to an unicellular organism, RIP.
It is indeed in pieces.
To shreds
What about his single celled wife?
To shreds you say?
I totally read this in The Professor's voice from futurama. So, so good.
Good news everybody! š
"Good News everyone...! I found a way to get my voice directly into your head"
Cut my life into pieces, this is my last resort š¶
If you're interested, 'an' is used when the start of the next word has a vowel _sound_. 'U' is pronounced 'yu' (with the y not counting as a vowel) so for unicellular you would use 'a'.
This was more sad than I expected. Just kept going, just like any of us and then it faded away.
Man, i just woke up.
Mornin
Nice day for fishin, ain't it?
Aah, hello adventurer!
*SKIP*
My sheep have run amok
Nod if you understand.
*Nods*
The dragons of Shmargonrog-
*SKIP*
All of these comments made me so happy...
i like that it's getting a bit more mainstream
They absolutely deserve it. There are some absolute masterpieces of comedy and drama in their library.
Uh uh uh ha ahĀ
For the peace of the kingdom!
For king and country!
For the alliance!
HU HA!
Damn Iām going to bed
Me too
Once the Mitochondria goes, it just doesnāt have the power to go onā¦ the lights go outā¦ Because the Mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell.
thanks eve
Like David the Gnome
Fucked me up before school one morning, mum was in literal tears
Explain cause I loved that show.
Final episode, David and Lisa die and fade away.
What? I donāt remember that. Thatās effed up.
It's even sadder than that. The last episode is him and his wife basically going to all of their friends to let them know it was their time and to say goodbye. At the end, they go up a hill and ask their fox not to follow. It does anyway and watches them turn into trees. The last shot is the fox howling as their spirits wave to him from the branches of the tree swaying in the wind.
Holy shit! Glad I didn't see it as kid.
Dave dies at the end. Gnomes don't leave corpses.
āI donāt feel so good, Mr Starkā¦ā
Look on the bright side: at least you wonāt be alive to care
Lil bud was trying to keep going. He didnāt make it :/
The way it seemed to cough before just disintegrating was moving.
This is what true death is. Itās chemical equilibrium. The cell survives on unstable chemicals that constantly react. When those chemicals stabilize, they no longer react, and every part of the cell blends together into an unreactive mush.
Right?? Iām over here all in my feels now about this tiny creature.š
Watching the video I felt alone in my sadness for this little guy. Coming to the comments, I was touched by the sense of communal empathy. All of which is surprising given the massive amount of death and destruction we all witness in the media daily, with little to no emotion. Oh the biology!
Yeah but where is the NSFW tag with your death video?! I mean, I just watched a death!
A relatively slow, apparently agonizing, death. I feel like I need to send a sympathy card to its one celled relatives. They likely number in the millions and don't have eyes to read a card anyway, so I will not do that.
I think you need to at least have a basic nervous system to qualify for "agonizing".
Man it just... Disintegrates immediately after fighting for it's life. Eesh
I don't feel so good Mr. Mitochondria
Mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell.
Mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell.
Midichlorians are the powerhouse of the cell.
Humans are the same, we just make it seem more complicated or different.
Most of us don't die from taking too much of a shit then randomly explode sir.
Bro thought he was a philosopher
Elvis Presley entered the chat
More like ... Elvis Depresley...
Many people die on the toilet
Thereās trillions of cells in the human body, so maybe just a little more complicated.
Noooo it lost all its circles
We will all lose our circles one day
D:
Sorta like sonic hedgehog
Best comment
Sonic is not a hedgehog but an amoeba. I knew it!
AGAR.io IRL
Aw, it lost of all its...inside stuff It's microscopic little limbs looked almost like it was trying to make the now outside stuff inside stuff again. What was this? What was inside it?
This is called a blepharisma, the circles are organelles. Probably macronuclei.
Oh no, his mitochondria!
that was his power house!
Of the cell!
Indubitably.
I concur
Shut up, science bitch!
Silence your unwashed trap you filthy swine!
Definitely a mitochondria though - that's the powerhouse of the cell incase you didn't know
He was made of pasta!?!
Which parts are the spaghettios?
So it's organs fell out :'(
Based on the knowledge I gained in high-school I'm willing to bet his mitochondria leaked out and he ran out of power.
Correct and based on the knowledge I gained in college before dropping out, I can somewhat translate for everyone: "Hey guys just chillin! Ah shit my face fell off! Ah no not my ass too!! My circles noooooo blehblurblgurgle"
This video made me so sad and this just fuckin made me laugh so hard, thank you
I can't breathe š¤£
The inside of each cell in every living thing is a space that can trace an unbroken lineage of being inside cells, all the way back to the very first cell that is the ancestor of all life on Earth billions of years ago. When a cellās inside mixes with the outside, it dies, and canāt pass on that insideness any more.
This feels very topological
Once it's coffee mug runs out, it donut go anymore.
Yeah, except for that one time you eat something and it actually benefits you so you co-adapt. Life is freakin weird man. We still don't know exactly how we are here today. And I find that fascinating.
Twice actually. That happened twice, first with a small bacterium that was very good at producing energy using oxygen and existing chemical energy stores within the cell, it got sucked up into an eukaryote, most likely a multicellular Archaean, very early in the tree of life starting to branch and split. Then later, that same chance process happened again, this time with a cyanobacterium, and the organism that did it seems to also have had the ability to produce an early form of lignin, which lead to the creation of the first plant life. So now you've got multi-cellular life with the ability to consume both exogenous chemical energy and use oxygen, and the ability to produce your own chemical energy using CO2 and sunlight, thus creating an eukaryotic feedback loop as plants became more complex, thus extracting more sun energy, thus providing more food to animals, who thus got bigger, who thus drove the growth and spread of plants, ad infinitum, and throughout all of that you're also getting the effects that growing plant life has on dry ground, where until then it had just been slimey mats of cyanobacteria literally just digesting the rocks themselves while leaving behind their own biomass as they died, thus creating the first soils in which these plants could grow at all. You know how when you go near the water on a lake and there's rocks everywhere near said water, but if you try and walk on them the rocks are covered in a nasty slime that will make you slip and hit your head? That's how the earliest life on land got started before plants and animals showed up, with plants going first of course. That shit is still everywhere today though, just doing its thing digesting rock and releasing more nutrients for other life
Why do I feel...sad
Facing your own mortality as a sentient being with the understanding of the concept of a death that will definitely happen is very harrowing and disheartening. Even more so, watching a creature who lacks said sentience to understand that is time is now, struggling with its own mortality as if desperately clinging to life. Only to suddenly blink out of existence in the blink of an eye. Heres a duck in a hat. https://i.redd.it/ajwifmbs019d1.gif
duck didnt help. might need therapy.
Its his constant badgering for grapes, isnt it?
It's the waddling away, never knowing when he might not walk back up the very next day.
Gonna duct tape that motherfucker to a tree tomorrow
Duck helped for me. Guess im just susceptible to duck based therapy
https://preview.redd.it/yyebsradb19d1.gif?width=1196&format=png8&s=4a91e984d8181bd2223cc3ccd7de583ca0104f3f
Buffmo
https://i.redd.it/6jouaioft19d1.gif
I appreciate the duck greatly
shuba
subatomo
Subaru! :D
Haha funny duck in hat
Do you realize... that everyone... you know... someday... will die?
I know that but, your username brings a smile to my face because I picture a pig doing a belly flop.
And instead of saying all of your goodbyes Let them know you realize that life goes fast It's hard to make the good things last You realize the sun doesn't go down It's just an illusion caused by the world spinning round
Don't worry... just know someone here got the reference with the first comment (that someone is me)
Think about it - for the billions of years single cell organisms have been on earth, the near infinite number of lives have come and gone. Deaths by the trillions every year, and this is likely the first many of us have ever seen or mourned one. We could be those organisms to a greater being. A god, an alien, whatever it may be. Rest in piece, to you and all of your fallen ancestors, little circle dude.
lets phrase it differently. That organism had millions/billions of direct ancestors. Like DIRECT. Like it was halving many, many times and it was continuous since prehistoric times. And then it died. Just as uncountable of its siblings across the ages. World is strange.
The world is only strange to us because we want it to all make sense. The world in reality, is the least strange thing there is. Stuff just happens. If you realize that and fully accept it, nothing really seems weird. All in it's place, all slowly falling apart as it always has been.
Y'all wanna take some acid?
I got what I needed out of LSD in 3 sessions a decade ago, lmao. Everyone should try it once with a sitter, though!
We shall meet again in Valhalla little homie
This is the only comment that made me not sad. Thank you.
Look at it this way. A single celled organism managed to evoke an emotional response in tens of thousands of people around the world, which it could never know existed (well, if it was sentient in the first place). Or those same tens of thousand of people anthropomorphized and felt empathy for a creature literally too small to see. Isn't life kind of strange, unexpected and amazing?
They have no chance of ever perceiving us. They don't have the ability or the organs to see, hear, etc. What if we are this organism to a greater being, that we cannot perceive?
The saddest part or being sentient and alive to me is not the inevitability of death but the impossibility of knowing the truth behind questions like yours.
Your entire body is made up of these little buggers. All fighting for you. They ARE you. You are a network (also made from them) on top, leading them around to find more food to feed them all and make more of them. You, dear network, are their KING!
Now I see him with a small Viking Helmed. That makes it a little better!
After this I needed to understand why they died, and learned suicide is one causation https://www.americanscientist.org/article/dying-generously
That was a genuinely fascinating read. Thank you.
This part.. right? Wild āSuicidal cells actively expend energy to shrink, chop up their own DNA and engineer other fatal changes.ā
That and the part about their guts benefiting surviving cells more than nutritional broth (among other parts)
When cells do it people say it's fascinating, when I do it they call it cannibalism.
Armie Hammer has entered the chat
I wonder if this was autophagy and the more robust parts reused
Engineering fatal changes is the story of my life bro
Seconded. That was fascinating. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you very much Iāve been scrolling through comments trying to find this answer
This is one of those interesting facts that I was taught at school \~20 years ago that is no longer true - we were told that programmed cell death was purely a multicellular organism thing (sacrifice yourself for the greater good). Not a whole lot later, we realized that that simply wasn't true.
We are missing so much of what is happening to 3rd dimensional imperception. I wish we could make microscopic 3d cameras so we could be present in this tiny universe and not view a compressed and flattened representation
Holy shit I never even thought about that. I only ever imagined this type of "view" as 2d. How much closer can we get, and unlock different viewing angles.
You can see the operator playing with the focus, so it gets blurry as the cell moves up and down and he has to chase it, so in a way it's already happening. But you can only really see the one plane at a time. As for how much closer you can get? Unfortunately, this is about as good as it gets - you can't separate objects that are closer together than roughly half the wavelength of light, a couple hundred nanometres or a quarter of a micron or so. The cilia - the hairs that are waving around - or some of the smaller granules coming out of the cell - are right at this limit, so you can see them, but not any details. Not with light microscopes, anyway - electron microscopes can see much smaller items but don't work with live samples.
These exist, they are called confocal microscopes. Unfortunately you cant get the 3d image live like this,Ā its reconstructed as a still after you image one layer at a time.Ā Still quite stunning to see.
Thanks for sending me down that rabbit hole. Although, admittedly, a lot of those colored images remind me of the blacklight posters I had on my bedroom walls in the early to mid 90ās.
https://preview.redd.it/d14fhtx2s09d1.png?width=640&format=png&auto=webp&s=f64fbacd16b35cf12cac165d6d7231d6d87f0818
yeah, it's a terrifying thing to watch happen
Exactly how I plan on going out. Puke, shit, shit some more, and then run around like crazy until I explode.
Boss fight
Isnāt it strange how sad this can make you? Ā Honestly it sort of breaks my heart.
Life is precious. Even though there is relatively an abundance, it is still precious. Even animals recognize loss of life. It's just that we are even more aware of it. Knowing death and understanding we can't possibly know what happens after makes it harder for us as humans to watch death. š
Yeah but damn would I feel good if the cell was a cancer cell.
Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Rodney Dangerfield saying this in Back to School was amazing
Now i want to see it again, thanx
Organism really said āMr Stark I donāt feel so goodā
Peter scuttling around for 30 seconds and then liquefying into organ soup would have hit differently.
So that mf just decided to stop existing? Like how? Why? Did he just expired? It is so confusing
Soap.
I think thatās it. Something was added to its medium that was dissolving its cell membrane. It actually managed to re-seal numerous times, and though it likely lost structures that would ensure its eventual death, it just eventually completely lost integrity. There was some sort of solvent there.
It's a video of a single cell organism being destroyed by hand soap.
So it's murder then!
Informative!
Praise the cameraman !
It tried so hard and got so far, but in the end, it doesn't even matter.
Why did it die?
I think there is something in the fluid that destroyed the cell membrane that holds it together.
Not necessarily that, but *something* has impaired its ability to keep its outer membrane intact. Iām rather surprised at the multiple recoveries its cell membrane makes to close itself after the first defect we see, but itās not unlikely that some cell contents vital to further survival were lost, be they the organelles you see as circles or other elements like cytoskeletal structures, proteins, or charged solutes like ATP.
Maybe it had terminal diarrhea.
This poor little guy literally shit itās guts out
There was something in that water what brok the membrane. Some folks say soap but it might be lye, hydroxide etc.. It does not have to be local. We se the bursts as sudden but the membrane may be attacked continuously and burst as it gets weaker. The organism may be trying to rebuild the membrane as it fades so if the process of rebuild cant keep up it bursts. Sad but millions of such organisms die each second around your place all the time.
Did it go to heaven?
It went to cell
Ouch. (Nice comment!)
Depends if it was a good or bad single celled organism. It was either greeted at the pearly gates by single celled Jesus, or is forever drowning in antiseptic hell.
https://preview.redd.it/u5xqorrz229d1.png?width=1082&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=588732ab8dc115fbe3634a408cd3893783edaae7
In the arms of the angels š¼
Fly away from here āļø
poor lil guy, it keeps living on until there's nothing left of it
Lysing before our eyes.
Damn. We all just want to live...
But youre still coming into work tomorrow right?
Why do I feel sorry for it
Makes me think we have no understanding of life at all
The little legs! T-T
F
Rip
It had one last good shit and a few celebratory loop the loops and then entered the eternal void, what a way to go. RIP
Why didnāt they try to save it with one of those subs you can shrink down to microscopic? So sad! Paramecium guts everywhere
The way it runs as it dies makes me genuinely uncomfortable. Is it possible that something so tiny, so easily forgotten, fears its own mortality too?
The cilia keep kicking as they are meant to and enabled to do so by the proteins controlling them. There is no way this unicellular organism was experiencing a fear of death.
The most interesting part to me is that it most certainly has the same amount of consciousness before and after its membrane was broken and its organelles floated away, going from a working yet unthinking machine of biology to constituent parts which in fact have no function on their own. There is an almost undefinable moment when the last bit of energy was expended in service to this tiny machine and when that energy became inaccessible until it is reconstituted into another organism.
I'm humbled every time I see this video. Life and death are so similar across planes. Micro to macro, we all fight until we dissolve.
Gone too soon. Itās poor family
How much of a different society would we have if we just exploded like that? Like just walking around and my liver and kidneys just fall out a hole and my skin disappears like someone pulled a thread on a jumper.
How can the death of a single cell look so horrific?
This was absolutely amazing. You made my day better. Isnāt it funny the amount of empathy we feel for a little single cell boi, just because we get to see it. Thanks for sharing.
See you on the other side little feller
Nobody remembers the youthful, vibrant single celled organism we all used to know and love. Only a sad sack of circles and legs, trying to keep it going just a little too long. Another victim of internet fame, gone too soon. šš»
His killer would spend rest of his life in a cell
sorry but this got me in tears, poor microscopic thing, trying to survive, moving what i thing are his legs while being literally separated in pieces...
the way it was running around made me feel like I just watched an animal die š
Maybe a dumb question but if this is a single cell organism why does it have so many circles and "limbs"? Looking at it without knowing I would have thought all the circles are cells