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Some are less temporary than others. Bleach, for example. Autoclaves. Magma.
by sliverstorm 13y ago
Some are less temporary than others.
Bleach, for example. Autoclaves. Magma.
- ISL 13y agoAgreed.
- dropit_sphere 13y agoAlso, remember that evolution, in life, markets, or software, has a very hard time making discontinuous leaps. Life finds a way. Unless a meteor falls from the sky and blots out the sun, in which case it apparently doesn't.
- mullingitover 13y ago> Unless a meteor falls from the sky and blots out the sun, in which case it apparently doesn't. Deep water hydrothermal vent ecosystems beg to differ :)
- opnitro 13y agoAlso birds.
- grondilu 13y agoWell, we're talking about antibiotics so you want something that kills bacteria without killing the cells of the person in which the bacteria are. If what you're looking for is harmless for human cells, it's just a matter of time until bacteria find a way to resist it.
- dllthomas 13y agoWell, reducing introduction of microbes to the interiors of human beings reduces the need to deploy "antibiotics" in the sense of "sufficiently harmful for bacteria, sufficiently harmless for humans". Not a complete solution, but being better about reducing spread is probably a component - particularly in the surgery portion of all this.