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

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• TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip ⁨44⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ 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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• mxeff@feddit.org ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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  • Quilotoa@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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• LambdaRX@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  We must join the winning side, and become bacteria.

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  • TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip ⁨47⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ 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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  • judgyweevil@feddit.it ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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• themeatbridge@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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  • snooggums@piefed.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    By number of cells, but not by volume.

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    • themeatbridge@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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• AmidFuror@fedia.io ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Two kingdoms of life vs. one species.

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

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• Angelusz@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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  • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I hearby declare war on water.

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    • possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Don’t them ideas

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• plyth@feddit.org ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The meek shall inherit the earth.

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• limer@lemmy.ml ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    We’re just caretakers for grass in the end

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