Electrochemical potential enables dormant spores to integrate enviro signals
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Re: Electrochemical potential enables dormant spores to integrate enviro signals
#2Bacteria count sheep in their sleep. Brilliant!
Re: Electrochemical potential enables dormant spores to integrate enviro signals
#3Bacteria count sheep in their sleep. Brilliant!
_Electric_ sheep, even!
Re: Electrochemical potential enables dormant spores to integrate enviro signals
#4Would be nice to read the whole article
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#5Re: Electrochemical potential enables dormant spores to integrate enviro signals
#6Spore op-amps?
Re: Electrochemical potential enables dormant spores to integrate enviro signals
#7'integrating' is a complex way of saying 'stuff leaks across a boundary slowly, and eventually when enough has leaked it triggers the spore to wake up'
Re: Electrochemical potential enables dormant spores to integrate enviro signals
#8'integrating' is a complex way of saying 'stuff leaks across a boundary slowly, and eventually when enough has leaked it triggers the spore to wake up'
Nothing wrong with that, after all that’s how the good ol’ 555 timer works!
Re: Electrochemical potential enables dormant spores to integrate enviro signals
#9'integrating' is a complex way of saying 'stuff leaks across a boundary slowly, and eventually when enough has leaked it triggers the spore to wake up'
Yeah, this feels dangerously close to claiming a woman's body is counting the months/days before they deliver a baby.
And, to be fair, I think the actual research was more about modeling how it works. Not claiming that they count, per se.
That is, just because you can model something mathematically, does not mean that the thing being modeled is the same as doing the math. Falling is not the same as calculating an equation, as it were.
Re: Electrochemical potential enables dormant spores to integrate enviro signals
#10a strong contender for best headline of the year