If we would kill bacteria entirely, we would doom ourselves inevitably.
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But if bacteria killed us entirely, the world would go on with barely a whimper.
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.
What's life without friends along the way?
We must join the winning side, and become bacteria.
Bacteria will win, but we don't know which bacterial species or strain
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 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 💪
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.
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).
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 nooks and crannies involved on a hospital bed alone and think about what 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?
We would kill’s ourselves if we killed bacteria entirely
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
Didn't think Godking Xerxes would use the fediverse.
Care to explain who godking xerxses is to us mortals? Is it a reference to the battle of thermopile?
Same dude as in the movie/comic, yes. At one point he was so angry at the sea destroying one of his bridges build to attack somebody, that he whipped the sea to show who is the master and who is the subjugated one.
Lol, sorry I edited this. That's comical. He wasn't the only man to attack the sea, nor promote a horse to rank. History is full of fun
If we go digital and all water is used to store energy, life would become difficult for bacteria.
The meek shall inherit the earth.
Speak for yourself. There is a good chance we are going to glass the planet.
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.
Well plenty of materials for windows then