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We are 99.9% the same

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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.


@moonbus said
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.
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 πŸ˜‰


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.😑


@great-big-stees said
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.😑
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.


@suzianne said
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.
I 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.πŸ‘

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Are you saying your DNA is 99% lettuce? πŸ™‚

Well not just yours all of us.

-VR

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@moonbus said
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.
seeing as though there are over 30 trillion body cells, I find it amazing as well 😡

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@great-big-stees said
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.😑
If only that was today you could take him up in court πŸ˜‰

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 πŸ˜‰


@executioner-brand said
more startling, we share 99 percent of our DNA with a lettuce.
I will believe that when I see a vegetarian cannibal.


@the-gravedigger said
I will believe that when I see a vegetarian cannibal.
all just a matter of cells floating in space. haha........


i suspect the person who gave me the thumb down was that teacher. Oh wait, on second though he'd be about 90+, so likely not him.


@suzianne said
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.
I'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.


@ponderable said
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 πŸ˜‰
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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@moonbus said
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).
Do you believe in Adam & Eve and forbidden apple?

-VR


@executioner-brand said
all just a matter of cells floating in space. haha........
I guess you know quite a lot about cells πŸ˜‰