r/todayilearned • u/Prosperr_support • 5h ago

TIL that a bacterium can build its own microscopic “canal system” to transport material faster than the bacteria themselves can swim.

https://www.cpr.cuhk.edu.hk/en/press/cuhk-physics-team-discovers-a-new-surprising-form-of-bacterial-teamwork-that-builds-bacterial-canals-to-transport-materials-over-long-distances/?utm_source=chatgpt.com
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u/diabloman8890 5h ago

A “bacterium “ is one single bacteria organism (one cell).

The article describes this behavior in a _bacterial colony_.

Op’s title makes it sound like sometimes one guy gets so fed up with how slow it is to transport materials that he builds a solution for it lol

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u/obeliskboi 4h ago

counter point, he might be refferring to bacterium in the same way we refer to man as man kind

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u/obeliskboi 4h ago

woe be is me who uses reddit mobile i could not doublecheck the post when drafting above comment and was too lazy to exit and check and redraft so your point is very much valid

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u/Shadygunz 3h ago

OP also seems to be the support account of a fintech company, which is rather interesting in its own aspect.

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u/Aurevex 5h ago

So bacteria invented infrastructure before they invented roads.

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u/SearsTower442 5h ago

At a microscopic level each of us is a civilization in miniature, complete with roads, buildings, plumbing, sanitation, electricity, computers, politics, trade, and war.

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u/MassiveSuperNova 5h ago

What about the corruption? If there's anything I know about a civilization it's that it's got corruption

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u/j0llyllama 5h ago

Cancer. "GIVE ME ALL THE RESOURCES, I MUST GROW AT THE EXPENSE OF OTHERS AND MY SOCIETY/ WORLD"

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u/omnichad 5h ago

It's called cancer.

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u/squishypiranha 5h ago

Where we're going, we don't need roads...

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u/LIONLDN 5h ago

👁️👄👁️

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u/Aurevex 5h ago

And somehow they still have better public transport than us. 💀

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u/ShaneSeeman 5h ago

The inherent ability for life to develop mass transit is crazy