Bacteria may kill us entirely, but we will never kill bacteria entirely

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• mxeff@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  If we would kill bacteria entirely, we would doom ourselves inevitably.

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  • Quilotoa@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    But if bacteria killed us entirely, the world would go on with barely a whimper.

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    • WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Oh yea, technically there would be life. But to what end? Same ol suffering as usual, with no purpose.

      But we just had to mess it up, we could have had it all.

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• LambdaRX@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  We must join the winning side, and become bacteria.

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  • judgyweevil@feddit.it ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Bacteria will win, but we don’t know which bacterial species or strain

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  • TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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.

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• themeatbridge@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Bacteria constitute 56% of the cells in your body. You’re more bacteria than human.

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  • snooggums@piefed.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    By number of cells, but not by volume.

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    • themeatbridge@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yeah but that’s because many human cells are really big.

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• TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Even if we nuked the whole earth to oblivion, turn the surface of the earth into glass, and evaporate the seas, some microbes would still survive deep underground. What we 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.

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• medem@lemmy.wtf ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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).

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  • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Well, it’s a quarter right.

    The bacteria in hospitals generally aren’t surviving cleaning products, most simply can not survive bleach or whatever anymore than you could survive having your skin liquidated.

    They are however often antibiotic resistant both because those tend to be what needs hospitalization in the first place and the resistance developing from treatments.

    Then the real problem happens:

    It is functionally impossible to clean everything that needs to be cleaned in a hospital room to prevent someone immunocompromised, aka basically all sick and injured people, from being at risk of catching it.

    Look at all the books and crannies involved on a hospital bed alone and think about actually needs to happen to clean it.

    Do you think that happens every time?

    The curve of every door handle for every patient for every visitor?

    All the tubing, wiring, and electrical panels on the various monitoring systems?

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• WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Speak for yourself. There is a good chance we are going to glass the planet.

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  • mojofrododojo@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    we’d have to drag some real big rocks out of orbit into the planet to glass it. not sure we ever had enough nukes even in the heyday of bomb production to actually glass the planet. we could cooperate to distribute the strikes uniformly but even then we wouldn’t glass the planet.

    now, humanity might go with such a coordinated program, but the planet will burp, continue to undergo geological changes, and a few million years later there would be hyperintelligent octopi or capybara driving around.

    but a nice rock, say, about the size of rhode island, that might do it. especially if it’s coming at a good clip.

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  • Superdooper@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Well plenty of materials for windows then

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• AmidFuror@fedia.io ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Two kingdoms of life vs. one species.

  15% of Earth's biomass vs. 0.01%.

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• Angelusz@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  What. You have all the wrong ideas. No kill, symbiotic.

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  • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I hearby declare war on water.

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    • possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Don’t them ideas

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    • Wrufieotnak@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Didn’t think Godking Xerxes would use the fediverse.

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• Formfiller@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  We would kill’s ourselves if we killed bacteria entirely

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• plyth@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  If we go digital and all water is used to store energy, life would become difficult for bacteria.

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• psycho_driver@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The meek shall inherit the earth.

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• limer@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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

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  • idiomaddict@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    We’re just caretakers for grass in the end

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