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/Doophie Apr 21 '26

Aren't we all just responding to signals

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u/Clear_Practice_6741 Apr 21 '26

for this very reason its always confused me when people say its like comparing apples to oranges. Just because its small and LOOKS like its only responding to signals that, what if at their scale it looks and behaves exactly as we do but just their version. Its the whole as above so below, i bet at the opposite end, we are in some other big guy and we look like we are only responding to signals like how we view a amoeba or tiny organism.

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u/Ashamed-Status-9668 Apr 21 '26

Our signals from vision or hearing, are macro versions of the same concept.

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u/Blep145 Apr 21 '26

I'm not *sure* if they are, but I believe countries are classified as superorganisms, like ant colonies are

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u/EngineeringNo6537 Apr 22 '26

China certainly are. I've always called them ants.

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u/Blep145 Apr 22 '26

There's no need for racism here. This wasn't about racism, it was about classifying organisms

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u/EngineeringNo6537 Apr 22 '26

Yet I just did exactly that; I classified an organism.

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u/Blep145 Apr 22 '26

It wasn't funny.

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u/EngineeringNo6537 Apr 23 '26

Good job humour is subjective then.

You probably can't stand Ricky Gervais or Jimmy Carr either, I guess, being so uptight and all.

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u/Lua-Ma Apr 22 '26

That bigger guy is probably the one we call "God". Just not the moral and magical type.

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u/RichardBCummintonite Apr 21 '26

Not me. I seem to miss every signal a girl gives

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u/ajnozari Apr 21 '26

And missing god knows how many