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Dreamtimer
14th March 2021, 10:29
I found this interesting as well as relaxing. There are some very nice visuals in this video.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H476c8UjLXY

Imo, bacteria are just lovable. We couldn't metabolize without them. And they gave us mitochondria. We are symbiotic.
Aragorn
15th March 2021, 02:41
Imo, bacteria are just lovable. We couldn't metabolize without them. And they gave us mitochondria. We are symbiotic.

Believe it or not, but most viruses are benign as well. But you do get nasty ones among them, just as with bacteria.
Dreamtimer
15th March 2021, 12:16
Believe it or not, but most viruses are benign as well. But you do get nasty ones among them, just as with bacteria.

Thank goodness because they're everywhere.

Turns out, the next in this series focuses on symbiosis.
Octopus Garden
16th March 2021, 01:26
Bacteria are loveable! ;). Oh Dreamtimer, that is so funny! Personally, I go for multi-cellular men, like the tardigrade -- also called water bears and moss piglets.
Emil El Zapato
16th March 2021, 10:46
Bacteria are loveable! ;). Oh Dreamtimer, that is so funny! Personally, I go for multi-cellular men, like the tardigrade -- also called water bears and moss piglets.

During the great oxidation transition, the predator was born. I'm not sure that was a good turn. :)
Dreamtimer
16th March 2021, 12:31
I love waterbears. They're amazing. But they do have a face only a mother could love...

https://www.macleans.ca/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/NOV25_WATERBEAR_POST01.jpg
Elen
17th March 2021, 06:37
I love waterbears. They're amazing. But they do have a face only a mother could love...

https://www.macleans.ca/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/NOV25_WATERBEAR_POST01.jpg

Bless the good mothers...
Emil El Zapato
17th March 2021, 10:41
Bless the good mothers...

Love Bug
Aragorn
17th March 2021, 10:53
I love waterbears. They're amazing. But they do have a face only a mother could love...

https://www.macleans.ca/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/NOV25_WATERBEAR_POST01.jpg

They're now colonizing the moon. :p They were part of a Chinese mission that crashed on the moon, but tardigrades are enormously resilient. They can hibernate virtually indefinitely by completely dehydrating themselves, allowing them to survive in the harshest conditions.

So now we've probably introduced life onto another celestial body. ;)
Dreamtimer
17th March 2021, 12:34
We're starting small with the colonization, eh? Perhaps we'll move to larger nematodes next?


I was looking up the size of tardigrades and I found this precious cartoon:

https://www.scienceabc.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/meme.jpg
Emil El Zapato
17th March 2021, 17:06
We're starting small with the colonization, eh? Perhaps we'll move to larger nematodes next?


I was looking up the size of tardigrades and I found this precious cartoon:

https://www.scienceabc.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/meme.jpg

As long as they don't take a bath ... they'll be fine ... I'm trying that experiment right now ... :)
Dreamtimer
18th March 2021, 20:48
As regards your experiment BOB, you may find yourself at a constant safe 'social distance'. And folks may be glad to have their masks at hand.

On that note, it has been quite some time since I've had to smell a person's bad breath.
Emil El Zapato
18th March 2021, 21:36
As regards your experiment BOB, you may find yourself at a constant safe 'social distance'. And folks may be glad to have their masks at hand.

On that note, it has been quite some time since I've had to smell a person's bad breath.

lol ... true enough