• edinbruh
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    21 days ago

    It doesn’t turn off, you have to manually burn oxygen molecules with every cell constantly to live

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      21 days ago

      The ultimate multi-task. I assume that I’d have to manage cell division too. Wild to think about how little we are actually in charge of within ourselves.

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        21 days ago

        I’m not even doing the breathing! Nevermind how I don’t even know how this sentence will end and I’m writing it electric lobsters!

        See I couldn’t even tell you where something I physically had to type out even came from. Wild indeed.

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        It’s really wild how research is continuing to find strong implications that we are not individual microorganisms but multiorganisms that act as one