Hospitals are dangerous for children, the elderly and immuno-compromised patients not because of risk of contagion, but because the bacteria that have survived the aggressive chemicals hospital surfaces are cleaned with are the strongest ones (shamelessly plagiarised from my 8th-grade chemistry teacher).
Even if we nuked the whole earth to oblivion, turn the surface into glass, and evaporated the seas, some microbes would still survive deep underground. What we really need is an asteroid impact that turns the whole crust into molten lava and splatters it all over the solar system. Even that method might not work perfectly, but it’s our best chance.
If we would kill bacteria entirely, we would doom ourselves inevitably.
But if bacteria killed us entirely, the world would go on with barely a whimper.
We must join the winning side, and become bacteria.
You could think of every cell of a human body sort of like a bacterial cell. In that sense, we already have joined the winning side.
Bacteria will win, but we don’t know which bacterial species or strain
Bacteria constitute 56% of the cells in your body. You’re more bacteria than human.
By number of cells, but not by volume.
Yeah but that’s because many human cells are really big.
Speak for yourself!
I’ve been exercising 💪
Two kingdoms of life vs. one species.
15% of Earth’s biomass vs. 0.01%.
What. You have all the wrong ideas. No kill, symbiotic.
I hearby declare war on water.
Don’t them ideas
Become desert O.o
If we go digital and all water is used to store energy, life would become difficult for bacteria.
The meek shall inherit the earth.
I can see how bacteria may have developed our ancestors to be their hosts.
It’s like cats. People think they are the masters. People also think the gut biome is there to serve them. Silly people
We’re just caretakers for grass in the end
