Isn’t it one in every four different animals that are beetles? I’d imagine if you picked four random animals they’d mainly be nematodes. Or if it’s by mass they’d be humans and cows!
You’ll have to have a referendum, consulting each bacterium and asking if they identify as part of the collective known as “you” or as an independent organism
Isn’t it one in every four different animals that are beetles? I’d imagine if you picked four random animals they’d mainly be nematodes. Or if it’s by mass they’d be humans and cows!
Pedantry is always important! I would argue that ants would be selected over humans by both mass and population
Ah, I was thinking of this xkcd but it’s land mammals only!
I did some low-effort Googling and now I’m seeing that maybe some sea critters like krill have the highest non-bacteria biomass.
Either way, none of these are beetles!
The world truly belongs to bacteria, and we’re just along for the ride.
But biomass shouldn’t be relevant here, right? Individual numbers determine how many friends you might potentially have.
I’m considering the hovertext and I consider the pounds of bacteria in me to be Me. How are we dividing this out?
Do the bacteria in you consider you to be one of them (so to speak), or are you just a cruise ship?
I do have a few swimming pools
You’ll have to have a referendum, consulting each bacterium and asking if they identify as part of the collective known as “you” or as an independent organism
I am no anarcho-syndicalist commune a watery bint lobbed a scimitar at me