realcleverscience: religiousragings: jtotheizzoe: A Bacterium on a Diatom on an Amphipod I see a lot of science stuff, and it’s pretty hard to get me to say “wow” … Just kidding, I say it all the time! Definitely said it when I saw this wonderful representation of the scale differences between the domains of life. In one picture! Just remember, there’s about a trillion of those little bacteria on and in you all the time, just that tiny. We are our own ecosystems, and we continue to be ecosystems even after we die. yeah brb I’m just gonna watch this another 89 times, quietly dying a little more with each repetition. ….Now that my jaw is off the floor, um. Further reading: How Scanning Electron Microscopes Work.

realcleverscience:

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jtotheizzoe:

A Bacterium on a Diatom on an Amphipod

I see a lot of science stuff, and it’s pretty hard to get me to say “wow” … Just kidding, I say it all the time!

Definitely said it when I saw this wonderful representation of the scale differences between the domains of life. In one picture! Just remember, there’s about a trillion of those little bacteria on and in you all the time, just that tiny.

We are our own ecosystems, and we continue to be ecosystems even after we die.

yeah brb I’m just gonna watch this another 89 times, quietly dying a little more with each repetition.

….Now that my jaw is off the floor, um. Further reading: How Scanning Electron Microscopes Work.

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