Astronomy Picture of the Day
Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer.
2016 August 15 
Posted on 08/15/2016 6:35:17 AM PDT by ThomasMore
Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer.
2016 August 15
Explanation: You are a spaceship soaring through the universe. So is your dog. We all carry with us trillions of microorganisms as we go through life. These multitudes of bacteria, fungi, and archaea have different DNA than you. Collectively called your microbiome, your shipmates outnumber your own cells. Your crew members form communities, help digest food, engage in battles against intruders, and sometimes commute on a liquid superhighway from one end of your body to the other. Much of what your microbiome does, however, remains unknown. You are the captain, but being nice to your crew may allow you to explore more of your local cosmos.
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That seems impossible................
Agreed... I wish when statements like this are made, they are followed by some real data to support the hypothesis.
Ever since women took over at NASA, this is what passes for “science” nowadays...
It’s an amazing and greatly illustrative metaphor; can’t you just vizualize Captain Kirk and Doc McCoy battling Klingons on Uranus...?
If it were true, we would be one seething, gurgling, bubbling mass of protoplasmic jelly............
LMAO... no pun intended!
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/body%E2%80%99s-bacteria-don%E2%80%99t-outnumber-human-cells-so-much-after-all
And in any case, outnumber means just that: that numerically, there are more (or, per that article, about as many) bacteria as there are cells of your body, but bacteria are tiny even in comparison to red blood cells (numerically, the greatest percentage of cells in your body). As a percentage of weight, the bacteria are probably only a few percent of your total body weight. Your muscle and fat cells far outweigh everything else, even though numerically they're less than 1% of your body.
If every cell has mitochondria, and mitochondria supposedly have separate and different dna than what is in the cell nucleus, then it seems to me all these things with separate dna are way more numerous than actual human cells. I think there is a theory that says mitochondria were actually some sort of invading bacteria at one time or something. But I am for sure no expert.
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Eddie Murphy is hilarious !
I saw something similar, somewhere on the Internet, a couple weeks ago. It goes like this:
“You’re a ghost
Driving a meat-coated skeleton
Made from stardust
Riding a rock
Hurtling through space.
Fear Nothing!”
. . But. How many angels can dance on the head of a pin?
... as many as God wants. ;)
What out for those dog asteroids.
Hey! Be nice to the Guild Navigators. They have a tough time coming up on them (at least at this point in the book I am listening to).
Anyone wanna see my rash???
Bacterium are really small.
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