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"Though eating electricity seems bizarre..." I think when you get down to the virus and microbe level, there isn't a lot that's truly analogous to our layperso
by 13of40 7y ago
"Though eating electricity seems bizarre..."
I think when you get down to the virus and microbe level, there isn't a lot that's truly analogous to our layperson's understanding of "an animal eating a chunk of stuff it found".
- ytpete 7y agoRight -- like eating photons seems bizarre too when you frame it that way... Yet we don't find it odd that plants derive energy this way without consuming physical chunks of stuff.