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If one were to take some bacteria and somehow enlarge them to the size of a basketball and release them to the wild, what would happen?

>> No.3607867

Enlarge how?

>> No.3607870

I imagine they'd explode. Their structures just aren't equipped to handle the macro-scale.

>> No.3607886

>>3607867

With enlarging machine.... duh...

>> No.3607887

They would die immediately.

>> No.3607888

>>3607886

I mean, are the individual atoms bigger, or are you adding more of them?

>> No.3607892

I guess you could say your idea is...

sick.

>> No.3607898

Okay, I'll play along OP.

They would bump into shit and fall over and starve to death.

>> No.3607925

They would pop and become puddles of slimy salt water.

>> No.3607930

>>3607892
That was pretty bad

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so the implication is that they would be some kind of unstoppable eating machine.

that is, until you hit em with some bactine spray.

>> No.3607959

>>3607892
I can't find my "bdum tsst" pic. But if I could, I would have posted it....:(

>> No.3608009

>>3607945
What if they evolve?

>> No.3608027

>>3607945
>so the implication is that they would be some kind of unstoppable eating machine.

Who is implying that? Why would that be?

>> No.3608043

>>3608027
Because they would quickly evolve, and can transfer genes to each other via plasmids.

>> No.3608071

>>3608043

The question is pretty much moot, because they couldn't even live. But assuming they could, there's no reason they would be more "unstoppable eating machines" than real bacteria is. And I'm assuming they couldn't evolve very quickly at all, because a larger organism could never reproduce that quickly and could never reach large enough populations that allow real bacteria to evolve so quickly.

>> No.3608130

>>3608071
But would it be possible to build a machine that is some sort of 3D cellular automaton that uses genetic algorithms to evolve itself extremely fast?
I've always wondered why evolution is so slow? I want to see fucking insane creatures composed of abstract shapes that calculate problems so complex they're impossible to understand, not this boring stuff we call "life" on planet Earth.
If humans wanted to destroy all life on Earth other than humans, we could easily do it. That is really depressing.

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>>3607846
>take some bacteria and somehow enlarge them to the size of a basketball

Oh, Don't be silly... that would require Very large Atoms....

Do you know how expensive those are these days?

>> No.3608648

Theres a reason cells are so small. It has to do with volume to surface area ratio. Think about it.

>> No.3608664

>>3608648
Some unfertilized eggs get quite big and are one cell.

>> No.3608666

>>3608418
> bose-einstein condensates
> merge into one super atom
> repeat
> build uber-bacteria
> ???
> profit

>> No.3608668

>>3608648
Nerve cell in a giraffe's legs are fuckhuge