
Microbes: Secret Rulers of the World?
The Infinite Monkey Cage
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Are You a Fly?
We've got microbes living on us and inside us, but not directly inside ourselves. They are probably the ghosts of something called alpha proteo bacteria. Back about two and a half billion years ago they formed some kind of new cell. And so these structures inside us, these miteconjure, they really look like proto bacteria. That that film about a man, anda i, being transported in a mat transporter may have had scientific floors. I just love the fact, as you use the word ghost aswellas people weren't disturbed enough by how much of their bodies are actually diseases, essentially.
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