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01 Feb 22
@divegeester saidDo you know what else I find amazing? This: there are more bacteria cells in a human body, than there are human cells. At a molecular level, we are not here; we are simply the soup bacteria are swimming in.
We share 99.9% identical DNA with each other. This is a statistic which I find astonishing, especially considering how different we are from each other.
Some might say “thank goodness for the decimal point!”
@moonbus saidHowever most of those bacteria are swimming in our gut. One could argue that a hose goes through our body, which conatins most of the soup, we are just sucking nourishment throught the wall odf the gut, while the contents doesn't belong to us at all 😉
Do you know what else I find amazing? This: there are more bacteria cells in a human body, than there are human cells. At a molecular level, we are not here; we are simply the soup bacteria are swimming in.
@great-big-stees saidI had an algebra teacher in 8th grade like that. He was a pretty disagreeable guy, and he didn't care who thought so.
I was once given that mark on an exam. The teacher said that although I actually had gotten 100% he never gave a 100% to anyone.😡
He always said girls can't do math. I had to get an A that year just to spite him.
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@suzianne saidI suspect, like my teacher, it had to do with the power difference. He was old…26 or so and I was 12. I knew I had gotten 100% and just let it, like water off a ducks back, go. His issue, not mine.👍
I had an algebra teacher in 8th grade like that. He was a pretty disagreeable guy, and he didn't care who thought so.
He always said girls can't do math. I had to get an A that year just to spite him.
01 Feb 22
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@divegeester saidAre you saying your DNA is 99% lettuce? 🙂
We share 99.9% identical DNA with each other. This is a statistic which I find astonishing, especially considering how different we are from each other.
Some might say “thank goodness for the decimal point!”
Well not just yours all of us.
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01 Feb 22
@moonbus saidseeing as though there are over 30 trillion body cells, I find it amazing as well 😵
Do you know what else I find amazing? This: there are more bacteria cells in a human body, than there are human cells. At a molecular level, we are not here; we are simply the soup bacteria are swimming in.
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01 Feb 22
@great-big-stees saidIf only that was today you could take him up in court 😉
I was once given that mark on an exam. The teacher said that although I actually had gotten 100% he never gave a 100% to anyone.😡
Have a similar story when the teacher was being an ass, first in 3rd year (13/14) I was given an A in a history exam, 82%... read through it and did some counting, should have been 92%, golden girl had only got 90%... surely Trev can't top the class 😉
01 Feb 22
@executioner-brand saidI will believe that when I see a vegetarian cannibal.
more startling, we share 99 percent of our DNA with a lettuce.
01 Feb 22
@the-gravedigger saidall just a matter of cells floating in space. haha........
I will believe that when I see a vegetarian cannibal.
01 Feb 22
@suzianne saidI'm sure we've all known good and poor teachers in our day. A very good teacher inspires students to aspire to better themselves. Your math teacher may have done that, in spite of himself.
I had an algebra teacher in 8th grade like that. He was a pretty disagreeable guy, and he didn't care who thought so.
He always said girls can't do math. I had to get an A that year just to spite him.
01 Feb 22
@ponderable saidYeah, in a sense, we are parasites in a bacterial universe, while they are Trittbrettfahrer on us: we're just here to carry them around and replenish their nutrient supply. When we die, they eat what's left of us. I find it humbling; sure makes a mockery of the idea that universe was created for man (one man, specifically Adam).
However most of those bacteria are swimming in our gut. One could argue that a hose goes through our body, which conatins most of the soup, we are just sucking nourishment throught the wall odf the gut, while the contents doesn't belong to us at all 😉
01 Feb 22
@moonbus saidDo you believe in Adam & Eve and forbidden apple?
Yeah, in a sense, we are parasites in a bacterial universe, while they are Trittbrettfahrer on us: we're just here to carry them around and replenish their nutrient supply. When we die, they eat what's left of us. I find it humbling; sure makes a mockery of the idea that universe was created for man (one man, specifically Adam).
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@executioner-brand saidI guess you know quite a lot about cells 😉
all just a matter of cells floating in space. haha........