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twovests wrote

Reply to Microbe Monday: To Make Puffered a Fish; or, Say Goodbye to your Voltage-Gated Sodium Channels, Fool by WRETCHEDSORCERESS

i like pufferfish because they look like \( :D )/. i appreciate u mentioning this fact in your post

i also appreciate the dire description of the paralysis that pufferfish deliver when you dine on them wrong

i never knew that it was a result of the Pufferfish's Diet. that is my favorite takeaway fact from the post

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twovests wrote

Reply to Microbe Monday: To Rust the Earth Itself by WRETCHEDSORCERESS

I hope you are feeling better now. It's hard to pick but I think this might be my favorite paragraph of the post:

I think the main thing I want to emphasize is that oxygen isn't just sitting there. It is dynamic and reactive. We only have what we do in our atmosphere by the result of continuing biological processes. The world lives and breathes with us.

thank u for sharing your Sorceress's Wisdom with us

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twovests wrote

Reply to Microbe Monday: Macroscopic Sulfur Pearls by WRETCHEDSORCERESS

One of the things that stops bacteria from being super big is surface area. Most things in biology are down to surface area. Unlike cells of so-called eukaryotes, they lack a lot of the specialized infrastructure used to get stuff where it needs to go (although they have a sort of cytoskeleton analogue). Still, for bacteria, they largely need to rely on sheer probability to get stuff where it needs to be. It's a gamble. Stuff moves around randomly but if you're small enough, they'll slot into where they belong most of the time. Bacteria are chaotically-aligned beings, you understand.

This is still one of my favorite paragraphs. "Most things in biology are down to surface area", I like that a lot

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twovests wrote

Reply to Microbe Monday - Little Square Guys Withstand The Endless Brine by WRETCHEDSORCERESS

(I'm reading / rereading your series and going to start making a comment on each)

I read this one a month ago but forgot that I had. They're not just shaped like squares, it looks like they come in little Windows logos?

These can be found growing in some of the saltiest, most apparently "sterile" environments on earth, from brine pools to the Dead Sea to saltmaking pans. Bacteria and archaea constantly show us that virtually nothing on this earth is sterile. Even against the fiercest resistance, life can and will withstand. Become as the little square guys and refuse to die. Strain your body until you generate a cool new protein. Form an adhesive mat with your loved ones. Absorb the energy of the sun. Birth a new order.

I really loved this part. Please never stop posting

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twovests wrote

Reply to Microbe Monday - Multiple Milky Microbes by WRETCHEDSORCERESS

I got behind on reading your microbe mondays, and am catching up now with some tea. Fantastic writing, I really appreciate the depth of knowledge you're bringing. The world is full of too much mystery, so I appreciate you shining a light on this one. This is great posting

We are not the only creatures to create light visible from space.

<3

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