Even if we nuked the whole earth to oblivion, turn the surface into glass, and evaporated the seas, some microbes would still survive deep underground. What we really need is an asteroid impact that turns the whole crust into molten lava and splatters it all over the solar system. Even that method might not work perfectly, but it's our best chance.
Hospitals are dangerous for children, the elderly and immuno-compromised patients not because of risk of contagion, but because the bacteria that have survived the aggressive chemicals hospital surfaces are cleaned with are the strongest ones (shamelessly plagiarised from my 8th-grade chemistry teacher).
The bacteria in hospitals generally aren't surviving cleaning products, most simply can not survive bleach or whatever anymore than you could survive having your skin liquidated.
They are however often antibiotic resistant both because those tend to be what needs hospitalization in the first place and the resistance developing from treatments.
Then the real problem happens:
It is functionally impossible to clean everything that needs to be cleaned in a hospital room to prevent someone immunocompromised, aka basically all sick and injured people, from being at risk of catching it.
Look at all the nooks and crannies involved on a hospital bed alone and think about what actually needs to happen to clean it.
Do you think that happens every time?
The curve of every door handle for every patient for every visitor?
All the tubing, wiring, and electrical panels on the various monitoring systems?
Same dude as in the movie/comic, yes. At one point he was so angry at the sea destroying one of his bridges build to attack somebody, that he whipped the sea to show who is the master and who is the subjugated one.
we'd have to drag some real big rocks out of orbit into the planet to glass it. not sure we ever had enough nukes even in the heyday of bomb production to actually glass the planet. we could cooperate to distribute the strikes uniformly but even then we wouldn't glass the planet.
now, humanity might go with such a coordinated program, but the planet will burp, continue to undergo geological changes, and a few million years later there would be hyperintelligent octopi or capybara driving around.
but a nice rock, say, about the size of rhode island, that might do it. especially if it's coming at a good clip.
31 Comments
mxeff@feddit.org · 42 pts · 306d
If we would kill bacteria entirely, we would doom ourselves inevitably.
Quilotoa@lemmy.ca · 18 pts · 306d
But if bacteria killed us entirely, the world would go on with barely a whimper.
WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today · 0 pts · 305d
Oh yea, technically there would be life. But to what end? Same ol suffering as usual, with no purpose.
But we just had to mess it up, we could have had it all.
pilferjinx@piefed.social · 2 pts · 305d
What's life without friends along the way?
LambdaRX@sh.itjust.works · 24 pts · 306d
We must join the winning side, and become bacteria.
judgyweevil@feddit.it · 6 pts · 306d
Bacteria will win, but we don't know which bacterial species or strain
TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 305d
You could think of every cell of a human body sort of like a bacterial cell. In that sense, we already have joined the winning side.
themeatbridge@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 306d
Bacteria constitute 56% of the cells in your body. You're more bacteria than human.
snooggums@piefed.world · 9 pts · 305d
By number of cells, but not by volume.
themeatbridge@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 305d
Yeah but that's because many human cells are really big.
essell@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 305d
Speak for yourself!
I've been exercising 💪
TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip · 11 pts · 305d
Even if we nuked the whole earth to oblivion, turn the surface into glass, and evaporated the seas, some microbes would still survive deep underground. What we really need is an asteroid impact that turns the whole crust into molten lava and splatters it all over the solar system. Even that method might not work perfectly, but it's our best chance.
medem@lemmy.wtf · 7 pts · 305d
Hospitals are dangerous for children, the elderly and immuno-compromised patients not because of risk of contagion, but because the bacteria that have survived the aggressive chemicals hospital surfaces are cleaned with are the strongest ones (shamelessly plagiarised from my 8th-grade chemistry teacher).
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social · 1 pts · 305d
Well, it's a quarter right.
The bacteria in hospitals generally aren't surviving cleaning products, most simply can not survive bleach or whatever anymore than you could survive having your skin liquidated.
They are however often antibiotic resistant both because those tend to be what needs hospitalization in the first place and the resistance developing from treatments.
Then the real problem happens:
It is functionally impossible to clean everything that needs to be cleaned in a hospital room to prevent someone immunocompromised, aka basically all sick and injured people, from being at risk of catching it.
Look at all the nooks and crannies involved on a hospital bed alone and think about what actually needs to happen to clean it.
Do you think that happens every time?
The curve of every door handle for every patient for every visitor?
All the tubing, wiring, and electrical panels on the various monitoring systems?
Formfiller@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 305d
We would kill’s ourselves if we killed bacteria entirely
Angelusz@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 306d
What. You have all the wrong ideas. No kill, symbiotic.
LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 306d
I hearby declare war on water.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 305d
Don't them ideas
Angelusz@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 305d
Become desert O.o
Wrufieotnak@feddit.org · 1 pts · 305d
Didn't think Godking Xerxes would use the fediverse.
LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 305d
Care to explain who godking xerxses is to us mortals? Is it a reference to the battle of thermopile?
Wrufieotnak@feddit.org · 2 pts · 305d
Same dude as in the movie/comic, yes. At one point he was so angry at the sea destroying one of his bridges build to attack somebody, that he whipped the sea to show who is the master and who is the subjugated one.
LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 305d
Lol, sorry I edited this. That's comical. He wasn't the only man to attack the sea, nor promote a horse to rank. History is full of fun
AmidFuror@fedia.io · 6 pts · 306d
Two kingdoms of life vs. one species.
15% of Earth's biomass vs. 0.01%.
psycho_driver@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 306d
The meek shall inherit the earth.
WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today · 5 pts · 305d
Speak for yourself. There is a good chance we are going to glass the planet.
mojofrododojo@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 305d
we'd have to drag some real big rocks out of orbit into the planet to glass it. not sure we ever had enough nukes even in the heyday of bomb production to actually glass the planet. we could cooperate to distribute the strikes uniformly but even then we wouldn't glass the planet.
now, humanity might go with such a coordinated program, but the planet will burp, continue to undergo geological changes, and a few million years later there would be hyperintelligent octopi or capybara driving around.
but a nice rock, say, about the size of rhode island, that might do it. especially if it's coming at a good clip.
Superdooper@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 305d
Well plenty of materials for windows then
plyth@feddit.org · 5 pts · 306d
If we go digital and all water is used to store energy, life would become difficult for bacteria.
limer@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 306d
I can see how bacteria may have developed our ancestors to be their hosts.
It’s like cats. People think they are the masters. People also think the gut biome is there to serve them. Silly people
idiomaddict@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 306d
We’re just caretakers for grass in the end