Best HFY Reddit Stories: Terrans: Walking Micro Colonies (r/HFY)

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  • Опубликовано: 16 ноя 2024

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  • @Ragnar_Oock
    @Ragnar_Oock 2 года назад +392

    what the doctor/author forgot to point out, is that even if we (humans) live in sympiosis with our gut organisms, it can also kill us if it developed in an other part of our body. E-colis for example, one of the main family of baterias in our stomach would kill us if found in our blood.

    • @Munchkin.Of.Pern09
      @Munchkin.Of.Pern09 2 года назад +59

      That was one of my first thoughts too. My best friend when I was a toddler died because somehow her gut E.coli migrated outside her digestive tract and attacked her kidneys. She was three years old, and the doctors had no idea how it happened. Her name was Celeste Picard.

    • @justinwise4607
      @justinwise4607 Год назад +3

      I love it when you talk nerdy to me

    • @Elusivearth
      @Elusivearth Год назад +11

      @Munchkin of Pern you're a Saint for remembering her and spreading her name and story so many years later, keep on honoring her I'm sure she's happy

    • @The_Racr1
      @The_Racr1 Год назад +3

      @@Munchkin.Of.Pern09 wait a minute

    • @Amoth_oth_ras_shash
      @Amoth_oth_ras_shash Год назад +2

      as ever , everything in moderation and the right spot for shared well being..
      do hoppe humans start apply that on a macro scale for the birth planet soon though ,times already running out

  • @JOEY-xj4ds
    @JOEY-xj4ds 2 года назад +287

    Roses are red
    Earth is basically hell
    *The mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell*

    • @mthercrow3818
      @mthercrow3818 2 года назад +20

      Good one

    • @mrsheep9441
      @mrsheep9441 2 года назад

      Shut up take my like

    • @reesewhittington6778
      @reesewhittington6778 2 года назад

      The birds are not spies. The earth is round. There is no war in ba-sing-se. There is no cellular powerhouse.

    • @johncunningham4820
      @johncunningham4820 11 месяцев назад +6

      You forgot the Other Powerhouse . The Chloroplast .

    • @sleepingbackbone7581
      @sleepingbackbone7581 9 месяцев назад +3

      you had to, right? 😀

  • @littledragonchild1757
    @littledragonchild1757 2 года назад +106

    Favorite story on why human adaptability is terrifying and awesome.

  • @robertbemis9800
    @robertbemis9800 2 года назад +247

    Could be the answer to the Fermi paradox
    Without this symbiotic adaptation, fast moving and adapting life forms are not possible
    Which makes intelligent life even rarer
    Which is why the stars are so silent

    • @robinchwan
      @robinchwan 2 года назад +50

      that, and evolutionary dead ends.. and even aggressiveness more than our own can lead to extinction faster.

    • @robertbemis9800
      @robertbemis9800 2 года назад +31

      @@robinchwan jury still out on us
      We are not an interplanetary species yet, and seam to in love with profits today than survival in a decade

    • @latemanparodius5133
      @latemanparodius5133 2 года назад +22

      Another option: if your society can travel faster than light, why use a communication method that only goes at the speed of light for long distances? It would be faster to have someone travel there in person. Ergo... the period of civilization that emits observable signals would only last until the invention of a method of travelling FTL. Perhaps even shorter, to the point of being able to focus communication signals to a particular target.

    • @robertbemis9800
      @robertbemis9800 2 года назад +9

      @@latemanparodius5133 until they start building enfolding stars in dyson swarms or moving star systems to more convenient areas

    • @jonisalmela2399
      @jonisalmela2399 2 года назад +11

      I like the idea of we are isolated and watched as a soap opera.

  • @bernardrednix756
    @bernardrednix756 2 года назад +104

    They clearly haven't met the Komodo dragon if they think humans are bad

    • @theenderdestruction2362
      @theenderdestruction2362 2 года назад +35

      That thing deserves the name dragon

    • @Darth_Nycta_13
      @Darth_Nycta_13 7 месяцев назад +2

      ​@@theenderdestruction2362 Agreed they truly live up to their name.

    • @theenderdestruction2362
      @theenderdestruction2362 7 месяцев назад

      @@Darth_Nycta_13 did you know they eat corpses so people have to bury thr dead deaper then normal

  • @gibthegrey2214
    @gibthegrey2214 2 года назад +130

    Fun fact the microorganisms in your gut can effect your mood, appetite, food preferences, and more

    • @killsode4760
      @killsode4760 2 года назад +16

      the gut has a significant nerve connected to it, just the same way our thunb, index, and middle finger all have a significant nerve connection

    • @zyanidwarfare5634
      @zyanidwarfare5634 2 года назад +34

      I like to imagine some amoeba in your gut just goes “hey bitch I want tacos” and that’s why I suddenly wanted Taco Bell this morning

    • @KingMarkus222
      @KingMarkus222 2 года назад +2

      Interesting

    • @wyvernharries4788
      @wyvernharries4788 2 года назад +7

      That's way to explain why I have a hankering for McDonald's fires at 4:00 in the morning. Lol

  • @Exile_Sky
    @Exile_Sky 2 года назад +47

    .... I love that analogy. "Hey want a sandwich?" lol.

    • @dimanarinull9122
      @dimanarinull9122 2 года назад +5

      which is very close to how the mitochondria actually works.
      biochemical interactions are kind of too complicated to remember who worked out what so I don't remember the exacts.

  • @WVER-gc2fs
    @WVER-gc2fs 2 года назад +19

    Arctus2020 here! I'm three months late but thank you so much for reaching out and taking interest in my story!! It's an honor to have this read! 😀

  • @leyrua
    @leyrua 7 месяцев назад +8

    It's funny how framing a science lesson in the context of aliens being baffled by our biology makes it much easier to pay attention to the lecture. 😂

  • @rainbowchaser73
    @rainbowchaser73 2 года назад +23

    being predispositioned toward teamwork as a evolutionary necessity

  • @deannavest8887
    @deannavest8887 2 года назад +37

    Even our cells are pack bonded bro

    • @frostbyte2384
      @frostbyte2384 5 месяцев назад +4

      Oh good grief, you are right. It is literally genetic for us to pack bond with ANYTHING that does not immediately try to kill us. Seriously we have dogs, horses, cats (kind of), some birds, single celled organisms inside us, what else?

    • @kevinpeters6709
      @kevinpeters6709 Месяц назад +1

      @@frostbyte2384the Russians are working on foxes, and monitor lizards are surprisingly easy to tame. Perhaps even domesticate if a breeding program was developed

  • @DEMONOFLOVEANDDEATH
    @DEMONOFLOVEANDDEATH 2 года назад +13

    Bless the Narrator
    Bless the Author

  • @maxhax367
    @maxhax367 2 года назад +50

    Humans: walking bio-weapon factory

    • @Nyghtking
      @Nyghtking 2 года назад +10

      One Karen could destroy the universe.

    • @petrimal
      @petrimal 2 года назад +13

      Oh gosh, how do they use toilets on something like a community station? Do they have to have a separate room just for the absolute bio-manace that comes out of us?

    • @jamesmilton6529
      @jamesmilton6529 2 года назад +3

      There somwhere on youtube a first contact story of a human making a alien delegation ill with a fart.

  • @mtpender69
    @mtpender69 2 года назад +10

    "Embrace the gifts of Papa Nurgle."

  • @markmulder9845
    @markmulder9845 2 года назад +34

    Simply putting it, Life on Earth evolved on a death world, then the death world got a lot more mild to what we know today. Then the sapients rose and discovered nuclear weaponry.

    • @evernewb2073
      @evernewb2073 2 года назад

      earth has never been harder to survive than it is today...possibly close to literally "today" though my personal guess would lean towards a couple centuries ago when the oceans were still a lot healthier.
      short version is that while macro-scale life has had something or other smash the reset switch with a damned sledgehammer a fair few times micro-scale life has both gone mostly unaffected by the majority of these cataclysms and simultaneously benefited from the rapid rediversification, in short it has made far FAR more progress in development and has never really stopped getting scarier.
      really short version: the common cold 65 million years ago would have hit a lot harder than a giant asteroid setting off volcanos worldwide and a few years of black skies, go back a couple more mass extinctions and you even start finding animals that were somehow surviving without an adaptive and/or active immune system, closest thing we have these days is stuff like the horseshoe crab and those use reactive systems that can detect signs of an infection at a few parts per trillion then scramble to completely seal off anything that smells wrong.

    • @phantomwraith1984
      @phantomwraith1984 Год назад +7

      When the sapient decided that "return to monke" had to apply to their own world as well

    • @Sorain1
      @Sorain1 Год назад +1

      "Simply putting it, Life on Earth evolved on a death world, then the death world got a lot more mild to what we know today. " Then nature decided 'Boring!' "Then the sapients rose and discovered nuclear weaponry."

  • @SandwichDoggy
    @SandwichDoggy 5 месяцев назад +4

    Funny how recently the Nitroplast (organelle for fixing nitrogen in certain algae) was confirmed to also be the ancestor of a separate bacteria that got eaten and became a roommate, alongside the mitochondria and chloroplast

  • @TheGelatinousSnake
    @TheGelatinousSnake 2 года назад +18

    Without mitochondria… xenos should be sedate but efficient at best.. and slow at worst.

  • @CaptainAwsome
    @CaptainAwsome 2 года назад +14

    the mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell

    • @jackdenny5009
      @jackdenny5009 2 года назад +2

      Are you a time traveler? It says you made this comment 2 months ago when this video came out today.

    • @mothdemon
      @mothdemon 2 года назад +3

      @@jackdenny5009 some people can watch videos early. NetNarrator has a large backlog of videos already posted, but are private, and supporters can see them before they are made public.

    • @hanneskarlbom6644
      @hanneskarlbom6644 2 года назад +1

      @@mothdemon I like the time traveler explination more.

  • @phantomwraith1984
    @phantomwraith1984 Год назад +10

    Humans would actually need to do very little fighting if we go to war with an alien race. All we need to do is land on their world and.......cough

  • @geoshark12
    @geoshark12 2 года назад +10

    Was this all for a mitochondria joke

    • @NcrXnbi
      @NcrXnbi 2 года назад

      Sorry if I am stupid. But I didn't get it.
      Care to explain it.

  • @The_Viscount
    @The_Viscount 2 года назад +3

    My takaeay: Mitochondria is the Powerhouse of the Cell!

  • @jakevex4198
    @jakevex4198 2 года назад +6

    The human body in itself is a ecosystem an inherently it is fascinating but disgusting

  • @austinteal3645
    @austinteal3645 4 месяца назад

    "Mitochondria, THE POWERHOUSE OF THE CELL"

  • @asandrewsilvaw
    @asandrewsilvaw 2 года назад +2

    Great reading

  • @issacclarke2264
    @issacclarke2264 4 месяца назад +1

    This was just one big joke about the mitochondria being the powerhouse of the cell.

  • @ODST626
    @ODST626 2 года назад +3

    This has to be a new record for my being early

  • @cloudedarctrooper
    @cloudedarctrooper Год назад +5

    Maybe the more extreme a deathworld is-while still being within the realistic capability of its home species to leave the planet-then the more likely a sapient is to evolve from selective pressures that push for empathy, smarts, cunning, and creativity, than it is to come from selective pressures purely for predation and aggression.
    My inspiration for this statement?
    1: this story.
    2: the full story for "when deathworlders meet"
    I really like when deathworlders meet.
    It's a fun story :3

  • @samuall.sheperd8515
    @samuall.sheperd8515 2 года назад

    12:50 the creaking chair

    • @austinteal3645
      @austinteal3645 4 месяца назад

      NetNarrator the powerhouse of RUclips

  • @petrimal
    @petrimal 2 года назад +3

    For the emperor, for Khorne, for the algorithm!

  • @brianlips8346
    @brianlips8346 Год назад

    Thanks for the story 😅

  • @thunderbird4636
    @thunderbird4636 2 года назад

    Awesome story it was very interesting

  • @kunalkorag
    @kunalkorag Год назад +1

    Ah yes humans the powerhouse of the universe.

  • @rohanjarande
    @rohanjarande 2 года назад

    I like this one.

  • @happy_amoeba
    @happy_amoeba 2 года назад +1

    I liked this one!

  • @BeeKisses
    @BeeKisses 2 года назад

    Yo not ok how tf did I miss this episode!

  • @captainfraser3827
    @captainfraser3827 2 года назад

    as they say, life finds a way

  • @alexdedich6377
    @alexdedich6377 2 года назад +1

    Awesome

  • @KingMarkus222
    @KingMarkus222 2 года назад

    Oh I know this one!

  • @reuvenpolonskiy2544
    @reuvenpolonskiy2544 4 месяца назад

    Beutifull story

  • @peterwall8191
    @peterwall8191 2 года назад +11

    Where, oh where ,did this survival of the fittest idiocy originate? It has always been ,genetic survival of the population best adapted to their environment!
    And if you think we are "tough" as a species ..forget about it. We are incredibly fragile. We die at the drop of a hat.
    The one thing we have going for us, is that we mutate in every generation.
    Most are neutral as the experts call them. In other words .. they don't work. The few that do, is what has kept us extant as a species.

    • @Lorkanthal
      @Lorkanthal 2 года назад +1

      Which is exactly what survival of the fittest means. If an organism develops a beneficial mutation it survives to pass it on while one that develops a detrimental one gets killed and doesn't pass on its faulty genes.

    • @sillyking1991
      @sillyking1991 2 года назад +4

      'the one thing we have going for us'. LMAO BRO.
      sweating: not a common trait among mammals. helps to keep our temperature down so we can keep moving/working far longer than our competition..we have that going for us
      our bipedal nature (alongside overall musculature): allows for long range, accurate, throwing...we have that going for us
      and those are just the things that i, a laymen, know that we have going for us (and also leaving off our intelligence/technology).
      with all that said: these stories are all from hte premise of 'what if instead of when we meet aliens, they're all superior to us, we're superior to them'. so like...chill out, its not meant to be scientifically accurate.

    • @Uglyminesword
      @Uglyminesword 2 года назад +3

      You should really find the original humans are space orks post that started this entire genre.
      People don't realize how ridiculously hardy we are as a species because to us its just normal or some minor adaptation. But it's all stuff that no other species on the planet is capable of.

  • @mattbrown5511
    @mattbrown5511 Год назад

    The xenobiologist must marvel at the human skin and hair. The mouth all the way through the to the anus would astound him (?). Each has its own ecological system in place and can be beneficial or malicious to the human.

  • @WiredTurkey316
    @WiredTurkey316 2 года назад

    For the algorithm

  • @evernewb2073
    @evernewb2073 2 года назад +2

    huh...a hfy story pretending to be scientific that _isn't_ utter bullcrap, nice!

  • @randomguy-tg7ok
    @randomguy-tg7ok 2 года назад +9

    Could you do us all a favour and look up how to pronounce some words you don't know how to pronounce? Amoeba, Eukaryotic... it's a bit off-putting - at least to me.

    • @Hopalongtom
      @Hopalongtom 2 года назад +16

      An error in the alien translation software.

  • @WayneJorgensen
    @WayneJorgensen 3 месяца назад

    Is this ai? I keep picking up mis pronunciation?

  • @homoerectus6953
    @homoerectus6953 Год назад +1

    FFs barry my gut bacteria is a cutn....but my cutn...........i love you Barry.

  • @jimmycoyote74
    @jimmycoyote74 2 года назад

    For the algorithm