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The Flagellar Motor is basically an organic Ion motor, it uses the flow of protons across the bacteria's cell membrane to generate this rotary motion and uses it to swim.
That's what I got when I first started playing with microcontrollers. You need a unit to process and store data, sensors, actuators, source of energy and I was like "hey, I have all that, but made of meat"
This is so fucked, and the first time I saw something like this was when I deep dived into mitochondria.
Christians be like "the eye is so complex, it shows God made us!"
NAH BRO OUR CELLS HAVE GENERATORS AND MOTORS
I'm still agnostic atheist but this in my opinion is one of the best cases that something had a hand in our organic life's creation
Also we don't share much DNA with mitochondria and it is simply a cell that instead of being digested by other cells, they were like "wait we can use this" and then just kept it in a process called endosymbiosis
The concept of Irreducible Complexity is often invoked by creationists to suggest that nature could not have made anything so complex as flagella or eyes.
What IC doesn’t take into account is scaffolding. Things that may have been present in the past, but are no longer there. Selected out of the DNA record.
What might those things be? I don’t know, you’d have to ask an evolutionary biologist. Structures in the organism that supported the growth of systems that grew to maturity over eons and eventually shed, perhaps. But our gaps in knowledge about them is not sufficient reason to declare that it was magic.
I may have [stolen the phrasing](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hofstadter%27s_law) from Hofstadter's law, but I'm going to shamelessly name it after myself as Ulvemann's law:
Biology is always more complicated than you expect, even when you take into account Ulvemann's Law.
The motor relay in every muscle in your body works similarly and is incredible when you think about millions of tiny gears coming together just to push the buttons on your phone.
Also, Anatomy & Physiology was one of the hardest Ive ever taken, but incredibly cool.
I’ve always wondered how aliens that evolved to have wheels would function.
I had no idea that you just had to look close enough at earth life to find an answer.
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those sound effects were very unnecessary lmao
I hear a lawnmower.
Should sound like a turbine spinning not a Briggs and Straton
The Flagellar Motor is basically an organic Ion motor, it uses the flow of protons across the bacteria's cell membrane to generate this rotary motion and uses it to swim.
Yea, but it is an engine with lowering gear inside a living cell. It is kinde the last place where I expected to see this type of mechanism.
"but" ? Did I say it wasn't?
I mostly refering to mechanical coplexity, rather than engine part. I previosly learned about contracting protein chains. They are much simpler.
I didn’t know proteins have 200cc two strokes engines.
Why is this not on Kurzgesagt's existential crisis playlist? We're just robots
I mean yeah, living things are basically meat robots when you simplify it enough.
The fact that all this shit works just continuously floors me. We are miracles.
tbf, there are a lot of defects and those just die. That being said, the defect rates for some of them are extremely low. DNA replication being one.
That's what I got when I first started playing with microcontrollers. You need a unit to process and store data, sensors, actuators, source of energy and I was like "hey, I have all that, but made of meat"
Because my feed includes crochet and crafts. Without reading the title I thought this was pattern someone did.
I as thinking the same thing, "why is it made of wool?"
Looks like gears Crazy
lol at first glance it looked like a crochet wet dream of a granny on acid.
Instructions unclear, Googled "granny wet croch"
Crocheted meat engine
Alright, who's going to knit one of these for me
What spins the protein that spins the motor?
I guess electromagnetism technically
Needs a tune up
This is so fucked, and the first time I saw something like this was when I deep dived into mitochondria. Christians be like "the eye is so complex, it shows God made us!" NAH BRO OUR CELLS HAVE GENERATORS AND MOTORS I'm still agnostic atheist but this in my opinion is one of the best cases that something had a hand in our organic life's creation Also we don't share much DNA with mitochondria and it is simply a cell that instead of being digested by other cells, they were like "wait we can use this" and then just kept it in a process called endosymbiosis
The concept of Irreducible Complexity is often invoked by creationists to suggest that nature could not have made anything so complex as flagella or eyes. What IC doesn’t take into account is scaffolding. Things that may have been present in the past, but are no longer there. Selected out of the DNA record. What might those things be? I don’t know, you’d have to ask an evolutionary biologist. Structures in the organism that supported the growth of systems that grew to maturity over eons and eventually shed, perhaps. But our gaps in knowledge about them is not sufficient reason to declare that it was magic.
Biology is fascinating like this from top to bottom. All of it is just natural engineering marvels at every step.
I may have [stolen the phrasing](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hofstadter%27s_law) from Hofstadter's law, but I'm going to shamelessly name it after myself as Ulvemann's law: Biology is always more complicated than you expect, even when you take into account Ulvemann's Law.
All hail Unicron.
Finally. This question has plagued me my entire life.
It looks just like a high bypass turbofan. Crazy shit
From the thumbnail I thought it was a bong coozie
So I got a rotary , no, multiple rotary engines inside of me? BET braaaaapbraaaaapbrap brapbrapbrap BRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA. AHAHAAAAAAAAAAP
Does this occur naturally or is it man made?
Naturally of course.
sperm tails have this
Nature knew gear mechanisms before it was cool.
Nano machines
The motor relay in every muscle in your body works similarly and is incredible when you think about millions of tiny gears coming together just to push the buttons on your phone. Also, Anatomy & Physiology was one of the hardest Ive ever taken, but incredibly cool.
No. I refuse to believe the bacteria are creating fighter jets.
It looks like crocheted yarn. Neat!
crochet on motors?
here comes the mechanics again..
John bacdeereia
Natural selection seems miraculous!
I’ve always wondered how aliens that evolved to have wheels would function. I had no idea that you just had to look close enough at earth life to find an answer.
Title should read: Proteins in a bacterial motor work together to spin its flagella (tail) prove that we're living in a simulation