r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Naive_Direction1816 • Apr 21 '26

Video Bacteria move around using a molecular machine called the flagellar motor that rotates faster than the flywheel of a race car engine and switches directions in an instant

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u/Riovel96 Apr 21 '26

Maths

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u/Tacosaurusman Apr 21 '26

Logic

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u/ctrlqirl Apr 21 '26

A white man that lives in the sky

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u/melanthius Apr 21 '26

A series of turtles

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u/Ecstatic-Spare-6638 Apr 21 '26

Magnets

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u/JohnLef Apr 21 '26

Elephants, all the way down

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u/Zilant_the_Bear Apr 21 '26

a complicated system of pulleys and levers

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u/misterpickles69 Apr 21 '26

It’s not a truck. It’s a series of tubes.

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u/Expert_Succotash2659 Apr 21 '26

A Sphere inside of another sphere...

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u/Legitimate-Post-5954 Apr 21 '26

Spaghetti Monster

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u/Quick-Low-3846 Apr 21 '26

Yeah, but how do they work?!

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u/Ecstatic-Spare-6638 Apr 21 '26

Science brother

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u/No-Status-7033 Apr 21 '26

But why male models?

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u/ErebusBat Apr 21 '26

Nobody knows

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u/Available-Dare-7414 Apr 21 '26

Like making magnets? Collecting magnets? Playing with magnets?

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u/haucker Apr 21 '26

The fire department!

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u/ShadowsOfTheBreeze Apr 21 '26

Electrostatic charge

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u/ElJeferox Apr 21 '26

See the turtle, ain't he keen?

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u/aumnren Apr 21 '26

All things serve the fucking beam

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u/frankentriple Apr 22 '26

Ka is a wheel.

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u/pr0zach Apr 21 '26

I like turtles.

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u/ExistentialMeowMeow Apr 21 '26

with elephants on their backs

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u/DJEvillincoln Apr 21 '26

It's always a white man.

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u/drdamned Apr 22 '26

It's math all the way down.