File this one under things I didn’t need to know:
Only if you’re a plant
Ever watch Invader Zim? The episode where he learns about “germs” and tries to eradicate them? Pretty funny. I stopped worrying about the fact that nothing in this world is clean; so much less stressful!
At last! We finally understand that epidemic of snow-related plant infections killing so many of our loved ones.
That must be what makes it taste so good.
Except when the falling snow looks yellow.
Hate to break it to you - but bacteria are everywhere. I’m not sure why that’s a surprise. There’s a reason stuff goes through an autoclave or something similar before it can be considered sterile.
What is more - that’s a good thing.
Eventually the fun will taken out of everything.
We should treat all the snow with antibiotics. That will make us safe.
Some ski resorts add bacteria to water to make snow in relatively warm temperatures: Snomax.
I wonder if this means that when life first arose on Earth, the presence of bacteria altered the weather patterns by promoting snow nucleation. Sounds almost like the Gaia hypothesis to me.
You’ve also got critters in your eyebrows.
Until an antibiotic-resistant strain of superbacteria evolves and destroys us all.
Destroy us all! Destroy us all! Destroy us all! (ad infinitum) </Billy & Mandy>
As someone on these boards once said: “I have an immune system and I’m not afraid to use it!”
That and someday I want to experience a white Christmas. Bring on the Bacteria Snow.
There’s poop on your toothbrush, too. Dust mites still give me the willies, though.
If you want to feel better about the germs in your life, watch How Clean Is Your House. It always inspires me to do my dishes. Yesterday, they had a guy who washed his dishes, when he considered it necessary, with his dirty socks. Then he hung them out to dry and wore them again.
I’ll let that sink in.
He hung them out to dry and wore them again, continuing the cycle. The current sock had over a hundred billion bacteria, including e coli, salmonella, staph, and listeria on it. He was alive, but disgusting.