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Microbes

posted 14 years ago by scerevisiaety1
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The vast majority of life on planet earth are microbes. I admit that being a microbiologist that I'm biased in this, but it is absurd to put out two series about species on Earth and not cover bacteria and archaea at all. Even human beings are more bacteria than they are human. There is plenty of amazing videos out there of microbe behavior, or more could be filmed, Focusing solely on the eukaryotic domain of life as if that is all there is on the planet, or the most important of them occurs too often and is wrong on both accounts.

[–] aerie01-1 14 years ago

Good point. While cheetahs and elephants and the rest of the so-called "charismatic megafauna" tend to get people all excited, it's the microbial life that makes the whole planet tick. The problem is, they'd probably dumb that down too, like they did with this one, and then, what's the point?

[–] vienna200 14 years ago

if that stuff is so cool then why dont you release a documentary about bracteria and stop crying about it

[–] ingres77 14 years ago

While vienna's comment is stupid, there is a valid point there.

While microbial life may be ubiquitous, I don't know that it's compelling enough to warrant a major series like this. I would like to see a short form documentary released by the BBC, though. That could be interesting.

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[–] Zoyer 14 years ago

Well, on Planet Earth, they did cover those "Snotties." Those were basically acidic colonies of bacteria. I wouldn't mind seeing a documentry based on a variety of them, though.

[–] kumarihpx 8 years ago

Yes, please. I love this idea!

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