Posted on 06/23/2022 3:24:01 PM PDT by algore
Scientists have discovered the world's largest known bacteria, reaching up to one centimetre (0.4-inches) in length.
The species, called Thiomargarita magnifica, was discovered on sunken leaves in the waters of a mangrove swamp in Guadeloupe, Lesser Antilles in the Caribbean.
It appears as thin white filaments like vermicelli pasta, and contains microscopic sulphur granules that scatter light, giving it a pearly gleam.
The 'giant' organism is thousands of times larger than most bacteria and can therefore be seen by the naked eye.
Thiomargarita magnifica 'challenges the prevailing view of bacterial cell size' and the assumption that microbes are only visible under a microscope 'It’s 5,000 times bigger than most bacteria,' said Jean-Marie Volland, a marine biologist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, California.
'To put it into context, it would be like a human encountering another human as tall as Mount Everest.
'We know that it's growing and thriving on top of the sediment of mangrove ecosystem in the Caribbean.
'In terms of metabolism, it does chemosynthesis, which is a process analogous to photosynthesis for plants.'
The organism was originally discovered in 2009 by Olivier Gros from the University of the French Antilles at Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe.
But the find initially did not attract much attention – due to its size, Gros at the time thought it was a fungus.
It took Gros and other researchers five years to find out that the species is actually a bacterium.
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I mean it could be, or maybe it is the fungi as they have been waging war against the felines for Eons.
For example back the Exodus days, a long time like 13-1400 years before the Jesus time
anyway the Felines were respected as the gods they are and Egypt prospered, or at least until the Moses guy was infected by the sentient hive mind who loved the darkness, Fun-gui.
there was a huge bloody fight between the Pyramid Corp and the workers Moses tried to free from the meager wheat fed his people by the Pyramid corp by supplementing them with the איפה which was part of the body of the god he served.
he was even able to use this to allow the long journey while sustaining his people and wandering for years before getting to the land of honey somethings.
Ralph Carmichael wrote a lot of religious songs especially some music for Billy Graham films.
“He’s Everything to Me” should be well known to some old Freeper Baptist Christians
They should look inside my refrigerator if they want to be really impressed.
And then Kamala somehow turns it into a venereal disease.
Ack, germ worms!

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Or “Island of Terror,” one of my faves from way back when (Creature Features with Bob Wilkins on channel 2 in the Bay Area).
When do the gain of function studies begin?
Already, begun they have
There are larger specimens walking around DC - they congregate in Congress.
Beware the Blob.🤔

Yep.
Thiomargarita might have come from Margaritaville. I’ve heard she loves to get loaded by drinking Margaritas. Tequila apparently does not kill bacteria
So “evolution” is a verified fact?
I'm sure they will, but first they need to grow enough to do gain of function studies. Get them to gene swap with some highly virulent bacteria.
Good Lord! Fauci won’t be in charge of that, I pray.
Wuhan labs said WUHOO!!
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