What Is The Other 99.99% Of Life?

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Written & Researched by Leila Battison. Check out her channel:-
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Video edited by Pete Kelly. Check out his channel:-
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Narration by David Kelly. Check out his channel:-
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Thumbnail Art by Ettore Mazza
Artwork by Khail Kupsky
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www.vox.com/science-and-healt...
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www.pnas.org/content/115/25/6...
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...
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In the afterlife, I imagine that I can watch the whole history of the Earth unfold like a movie. So I get a birds-eye view, I can zoom in and out, and I can Fast-Forward, Pause, and Rewind at will. I can see the Earth form, change, Life emerge, extinction events, and repeat. What a show that would be.

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I've dreamt of basically that exact idea, extending it to the notion that you could see not only the history, but all of the future as well. The entirety of the universal time cube. Unfortunately, when it comes to the afterlife, I follow Occam's Razor. As much as I would love for this to be the case, I will go through life under the assumption that the termination of life will give way to oblivion. That being said, once I reach that point, I'd be extremely grateful to be proven wrong. Although at the same time, I feel like you wouldn't want to exist for eternity. Even if I could see the entirety of the universe, I'm sure that at some point I would tire. The self has to be put to rest at some point . . . I'm just of the opinion that in present day it's all too early.

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23:50 so few people mention Linné when speaking about science and biology! He's one of the 'founding fathers" of science, and yet barely anyone mentions him. So utterly strange. We're taught all about him in Swedish schools obviously, isn't anyone else?

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Archea lives everywhere including on and in ourselves. They were discovered in extremen environments, but we're later found virtually everywhere

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Super stuff - thank you. Where do the viruses fit in with all of this is something that it prompted me to think; are they a quasi-life and how do they relate to the kingdoms discussed in the video.

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both virus & prion entities are escaped 'machineries' sorta...

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Think of viruses as broken fragments of code. DNA and RNA write the "code" which tells our cells how to make new cells and all the parts of our body. Just like computer code, if you cut and paste an incomplete segment of code, it might cause problems, not function as intended. That's what viruses do. Cells pick them up and read them thinking they are reading proper code, and they follow the instruction but the instructions are a mess and things get messed up.

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I've ready Wilson's book about ants; an easy-to read book and I learned from it. I had no idea, though of his childhood experience.

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Last time I was this early, I was still a sperm cell. Also, memento mori.

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Good vocabulary word: memento mori.

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You were never just a spermie bud, those short-lived suckers need a lady cell to hide in, and she had the other half of what was needed to develop a big, beautiful boi. The word you need is *zygote.* Co-conspirators win most of the time. ps: death allows new minds to come up with new stuff. As a crusty I know I'm already wasting oxygen (mostly). IOW death is vital to the success of life.

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@@peterclark6290 so basically for the last part you're basically saying successive generations stand on the shoulders of previous generations?

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@@peterclark6290 Also, you're correct that we started out as a zygote. I have a human anatomy for dummies book right beside me.

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@@StaticBlaster Absolutely: the really productive time for the human mind is the period after the myelinisation starts, which is why most genius declares itself aged 25. Wisdom (40+) although valuable is restricted to the understandings mastered up until the brain has realigned those thoughts (a superhighway is a good analogy) - however that brain becomes more impervious to new concepts. Death removes the decaying wood. (2) I'm so delighted you can make good use of the 'for Dummies' series.

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There is this great story about Van Leeuwenhoek about his discovery of living sperm cells. He describes them and made drawings of them. Yet he also describes how he left his wife still panting in bed, so that noone would think he got the sperm cells by committing the sin of Onan (i.e. masturbating). He didn't want to upset his sensitive pious god fearing audience after all...

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I will think about this story next time I visit his grave, I live in the same city as he did.

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Have you got a source for this? I would greatly appreciate it. (I'm writing a novel about Leeuwenhoek and Vermeer)

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@@aljoschalong625 I read it in a book by Floris Cohen. Dutch title: 'De herschepping van de wereld. Het ontstaan van de moderne natuurwetenschap verklaard'. page 221. The English title is: 'The rise of modern science explained: A comparative history'. It is a secondary source though. So I don't know how it was precisely written down by Van Leeuwenhoek himself.

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@@aljoschalong625 A slightly different and less scholarly mention of the same story occurs in "A mind of its own: A cultural history of the penis," David M. Friedman, p. 75.

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