@misttad I don’t know. It was creepy like the director’s last movie “Oddity”. I still feel like he could have done more.
But I shouted shaa especially when he was drawing that chalk circle at the basement.
Chisouse eh !!!!
That thing in the picture is real, and there are more of them on Earth than there are stars in the whole universe. Billions of them are inside your gut right now. It is a virus, and it spends its entire life doing one job: finding bacteria and tearing them open.
It is called a bacteriophage. Those spidery legs are how it hunts. Each one is built to chase a single kind of bacteria, and the legs feel their way across a cell’s surface until they lock onto the exact spot they were made to grab. Once it has a grip, the phage works like a tiny syringe. Its tail clamps down, drills through the cell wall, and pushes its DNA straight inside.
The way it gets that DNA inside is what makes it look engineered. A phage crams its genetic code into its head so tightly that the pressure inside hits about ten times what is in a bottle of champagne. Then it punches through the wall and lets go. The DNA fires in like a loaded spring, all 169,000 letters of it, in about 30 seconds. The cell is taken over and forced to build copy after copy of the phage until it fills up and bursts, sending a fresh wave out to hunt.
A single drop of seawater holds millions of these. A handful of soil holds billions. Out in the open ocean, they wipe out somewhere between 15 and 40 percent of all the bacteria every single day. Those bacteria are a huge part of how the sea handles carbon, so by killing so many of them, phages help shape how carbon moves between the ocean and the air. Curtis Suttle, the marine scientist who measured this, found the daily kill can reach 40 percent.
Bacteria that have stopped responding to our antibiotics already kill around 1.27 million people a year, and that number is climbing toward nearly 2 million by 2050. Phages do not touch human cells. They go after bacteria and nothing else, so doctors are turning back to them. In a 2025 trial, adding a phage treatment on top of standard antibiotics pushed the cure rate for a deadly blood infection up to 88 percent, against 58 percent for the antibiotics alone. The larger, final-stage trial starts later this year. The most common thing on the entire planet is a tiny virus you will never see with your own eyes, and it may be the reason we survive once our antibiotics quit working.
@GloriousGod01 This is a wrong way of looking at women. Even though, it might look like you’re right now.
You can’t help but see it that this is your perspective of the flower. It’s just a bit sad for you.
@TheCinesthetic The thing about robin williams post is that.
There is something very sad about it. The fact that all those Love and light and happiness he stood for all his life couldn’t save him.
In the end, he killed himself. There is something wrong in it for me.
This water has been running for almost 2,000 years, and nobody turns it on. The Romans found a spring up a hill and ran a stone channel down to their city. Then they walked away. The spring never dried up, so the water never stopped. You can find it under an old Roman market in İzmir, Turkey, and the channel is big enough to climb into and walk down.
There is no pump and no machine anywhere in it. The Romans just used gravity. They found water sitting higher than the city, then cut a channel that sloped downhill the whole way, gentle enough that the water kept moving without tearing up the stone or sitting still and going stale. Get the slope right one time, and the water carries itself for good. They got it right.
The same trick is still working over in Rome. The water in the Trevi Fountain, the one tourists toss coins into, is fed by a Roman channel called the Aqua Virgo that was finished in 19 BC. Rome once had eleven of these water lines running into the city. Ten of them eventually broke down and died. That one never did, and it has carried water for more than two thousand years without a break.
Part of why any of this still stands is the concrete. In 2023, MIT scientists broke open a chunk of old Roman concrete to see what made it last. It heals itself. The Romans had mixed in little lumps of lime that earlier scientists wrote off as careless work. When a crack opens and rain gets in, the lime dissolves, then hardens back into fresh stone and seals the gap before it spreads. It is the same concrete in the dome of the Pantheon, which has held up with no steel inside for nineteen centuries.
So that video is really just good math and a spring that outlived everyone who ever knew its name. The empire that built the channel fell more than 1,500 years ago. The water is still moving, the same way it always has, downhill and on its own.
@Juxtmarvel Intelligence in women always lean towards Feminism which can make them appear confrontational. And, most men want to avoid that.
And, Atleast, you can understand why? It can be exhausting. Plus you can’t fight women too.
So Avoidance is best course of Action
@manufcnow Not really? Tactically, I don’t think he is that astute. We were so lucky in games, like Brentford and Everton. We were overwhelmed in those games.
Unlike in Amorim’s tenure we had bad luck. I’m not wishing carrick bad. But I hope it works out for him