3 ms·
Worship? I appreciate I only have a sample size of one - but then, so does the 'it's no big deal' crowd. On this planet we have no alternative routes to the s
by Jedd 3y ago
Worship?
I appreciate I only have a sample size of one - but then, so does the 'it's no big deal' crowd.
On this planet we have no alternative routes to the same outcome, and no clear evidence that alternative routes a) couldn't have come about, or b) did but were subsequently out-competed.
I suggest everyone with a Fermi-opinion is in the same camp - massively speculative and a single datapoint (unless you count the myriad (in their absence) counter-points).
- andrewflnr 3y agoThe original bacteria that were engulfed to become mitochondria are the "alternative route". It's clearly possible for a cell to have oxygen metabolism on its own because that's how we got here. So the question is, is endosymbiosis the only way to integrate that with a large, complex cell? When you phrase it that way, it should be clear which way the odds lie. But yes, "worship" is not quite the right word for whatever obsession it is that people have with mitochondria.