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Given how long bacteria have been on earth, and how they live from ice to desert to even nucler waste, and how fast they evolve and freely swap DNA, how has not
by asdlfj2sd33 17y ago
Given how long bacteria have been on earth, and how they live from ice to desert to even nucler waste, and how fast they evolve and freely swap DNA, how has not a single one of them already evolved the ability to consume more kinds of matter?
Answer: No free lunch, every advantage carries a cost. Any "super" bug we come up with will enter a world with vicious competitors who've been with us since long before the dinosaurs.
- endtime 17y agoI don't really find the argument "It hasn't happened naturally so it could never happen artificially" compelling...
- asdlfj2sd33 17y agoPerhaps you may change your mind if you read up on how easily bacteria swap DNA and just how many of them there are and all the places they live and all the things they eat. Or to put it another way, what happened since bacteria have been around? Humans. Humans started out as single celled creatures like bacteria. And if we can get from that to humans, is it not reasonable to assume that bacteria have had the time to figure out how to multiply as fast as possible?