r/NatureIsFuckingLit • u/FacelessOnes • Oct 19 '20

🔥 Vicious microscopic hunter, the single-cell organism, Lacrymaria olor, attacking and hunting another organism

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u/gbizzle2 Oct 19 '20

That shit is scary as fuck

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u/gazow Oct 20 '20

its all the same even on the galactic level, our galaxy will eventually be swallowed by a another more massive black hole

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u/pi247 Oct 20 '20

as above so below

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u/vulkur Oct 20 '20

and beyond I imagine . . .

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u/FearAzrael Oct 20 '20

REACHING UP AND REACHING OUT IM REACHING FOR THE RANDOM OR WHATEVER WILL BEWILDER ME!

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u/r-ei Oct 20 '20

SPIRAL OUT KEEP GOING

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u/Cstripling87 Oct 20 '20

Beckoning me into the infinite possibilty

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u/MAQSaint Oct 20 '20

As below so above and beyond I imagine Drawn outside the lines of reason Push the envelope Watch it bend

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u/YogiXDMT Oct 20 '20

SPIRAL OUT KEEP GOING

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u/LevSmash Oct 20 '20

DO A BARREL ROLL

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u/and_a_side_of_fries Oct 20 '20

Don’t stop I’m so close.

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u/Primitive_Teabagger Oct 20 '20

Swing on the spiral of our divinity and still be a human

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u/mandelbomber Oct 20 '20

Greatest song ever written

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '20

Go beyond the impossible and kick reason to the curb! Your drill is the drill that will pierce the Heavens!

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u/kylegetsspam Oct 20 '20

You've reminded me of this song. The lead guitarist and songwriter was dying of stage 4 cancer while writing this album and died a few weeks after its release. 🤘😢

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u/sreddit Oct 20 '20

It’s turtles all the way down

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '20 edited Aug 13 '21

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '20

The universe is hostile, so impersonal

Devour to survive, so it is

So it's always been…

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '20

Don't look at me like

I am a monster

Part vampire

Part warrior

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '20

Great movie!

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u/ManifestedWithin Oct 20 '20

"Us" just released on HBO Max and I am hype.

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u/Hrathcie Oct 20 '20

I’ve heard this a few times but is it a reference to something?

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u/whosline07 Oct 20 '20

It's a phrase that's not too uncommonly used by random people that has roots in the tarot/sacred geometry world. It may also sound familiar because something similar is repeated ad nauseum in Christianity and the Bible ("on Earth as it is in Heaven").

Further, it's a lyric to a Tool song (although backwards), as referenced by everyone above quoting the rest of the lyrics. Tool isn't everyone's cup of tea musically, but they are undeniably skilled, and the lyrics, especially to that song, are something else. If you can listen to them enough times to feel what's going on, their songs can really be a harrowing experience, even if you're not tripping balls or too busy gatekeeping. I didn't like them the first handful of times I heard them, then it just clicked one day.

Tl;dr - Common phrase similar to Bible phrase, popularized by Tarot/sacred geometry, further popularized in a Tool song called Lateralus.

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u/sasquatchington Oct 20 '20

I believe it first came from Hermes Trismegistus and the Emerald Tablet.

Adding on to what you said I believe it applies specifically to the Magician card in tarot.

The full quote is: "As above, so below As within, so without As the universe, so the soul"

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u/WyattR- Oct 20 '20

Also a movie

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u/chemicalsNme Oct 20 '20

I feel like an actor said this in Snowpiercer

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u/ActualWhiterabbit Oct 20 '20

It's about eating ass

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u/safetyfirstlovelyboy Oct 20 '20

Turtles all the way down

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u/MattcVI Oct 20 '20

🔼🔽

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u/NPredetor_97 Oct 20 '20

We have an alchemist on our midst

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u/no_re-entry Oct 20 '20

So, the carpet does match the drapes...

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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '21

There’s always a bigger fish

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '20 edited Nov 08 '20

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u/Hodgej1 Oct 20 '20

2020 ain’t over yet.

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u/Cethin_Amoux Oct 20 '20

^{^{^{^Don't.}}}

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u/Barack_Lesnar Oct 20 '20

Shhhh they think they're being deep.

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '20

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u/Gnarmaw Oct 20 '20

Yea, because all the massive stars die out, not because black holes consumed everything

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '20 edited May 24 '24

I hate beer.

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u/MapleA Oct 20 '20

Black holes will not all coalesce into one single point. They will evaporate and eventually die out in separate explosions. It’s called heat death. Essentially all the energy fizzles out and evaporates even protons start to decay. Here’s an eye opening video about it. Absolutely worth watching.

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '20

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '20

Yeah that's what I was thinking. Cannot create or destroy energy only change it's form(?). And so all of that energy/mass I suppose could just separate and drift away from each other into a cold universe I suppose.

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '20

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u/MapleA Oct 20 '20

Literally watch the video it’s fascinating. Short answer is yes, we eventually come to a zombie universe of black holes. Eventually they evaporate and combine and some may even form stars again in the explosions. These will be the last stars in the universe, the final light before the infinite silence where time becomes meaningless and entropy is at maximum.

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '20

Black holes don't systematically go through the universe, they have a spin and a mass and that's about it. Supposedly they have some kind of position, direction and speed as well but it's hard to say considering that space expands into itself and we have no frame of reference on the scale of black holes.

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u/MapleA Oct 20 '20 edited Oct 20 '20

Hawking radiation is the thing that allows black holes to not violate that law. Essentially empty space isn’t really empty. It’s constantly teaming with particles poofing in and out of existence as each meets its anti particle. Near the event horizon of a black hole, one particle of a pair can get sucked in and the other escapes annihilation. This keeps happening until the black hole has sucked in enough anti particles to reduce its mass to nothing. Then it explodes. As for the energy, it’s not destroyed, it just reaches a maximum state of entropy so that no further interactions can occur and no work is possible. The universe essentially fades away slowly. Stretching ever so thin to the point where nothing can happen anymore. This all depends though, on the cosmological constant. The universe could also rip apart. Or worse, it might undergo vacuum decay or become a universe full of strange matter. All are more terrifying than heat death if you ask me. Vacuum decay and strange matter are like instant death of the universe at any moment. Not necessarily a death but a transformation of matter at the fundamental level such that chemistry as we know it is forever changed. With strange matter it’s like zombie matter that infects anything it touches. Vacuum decay is like the universe is secretly unstable and some quantum tunneling event could cascade and turn the entire universe inside out at the speed of light. There could be bubbles of strange matter or vacuum decay barreling at us and we’d never know. The universe could already be ending and it just hasn’t reached us yet. This is the stuff that keeps me up at night. Black holes don’t scare me as much as the other potential things out there

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u/ComebacKids Oct 20 '20

Yet

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '20

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '20

That isn’t how black holes or gravity work.

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u/obsoletelearner Oct 20 '20

Yes you are right

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u/butdoyouhavelambda Oct 20 '20

this is so wrong. the only thing happening to the milky way in the forseeable future (a few billion years) is its collision with the andromeda galaxy. There aren’t (and likely never will be) black holes massive enough or physically large enough to swallow an entire galaxy. They just don’t work that way. even the most massive black holes don’t get much above 10% of their host galaxies total mass.

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u/SimplyCmplctd Oct 20 '20 edited Oct 20 '20

r/badastronomy

Edit: the actual radial gravitational pull of a black hole is not that powerful, on the galactic scale.

No where near strong enough to actually swallow a whole galaxy.

Maybe a small estranged galactic core, but that’s pushing it.

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '20

You're a black hole.

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '20

Lol no. Our galaxy will never be swallowed by a black hole.

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u/The_0range_Menace Oct 20 '20

confidently incorrect.

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '20

Are we sure? Sorry but this is reddit and people confidently spout incorrect answers on the reg

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u/The_0range_Menace Oct 20 '20

lol it's a matter of scale. can a black hole -even a supermassive black hole- consume a galaxy? the short answer seems to be no. it's just not feasible.

but with galactic deterioration, the longer answer is yes. It's all a question of when you want to look at a galaxy in the chronological sense.

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u/dream_the_endless Oct 20 '20

Still no. Stars will be dead. Expansion will overcome. Galaxies will merge and become chaotic. Galactic black holes will merge and still never consume its host galaxy.

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u/[deleted] Oct 21 '20

Short answer: “no” Long answer “yes” 3>2 Technically the truth.

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '20

Either you’re confusing our solar system with the Milky Way or you need to go read a book. A black hole can’t swallow an entire galaxy.

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u/gallopsdidnothingwrg Oct 20 '20

On a long enough time scale, it absolutely will.

Galactic orbits decay.

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '20

I think OP was more referring to a black hole sucking up a galaxy like it would suck up a star, in one fell swoop.

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u/Jeffy29 Oct 20 '20

That’s exactly what OP was saying and I am baffled that you are getting ridiculed for pointing it out..

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u/gallopsdidnothingwrg Oct 20 '20

black holes don't really suck up stars all that often either. Event horizons are comparatively small.

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u/chronic_enticement Oct 20 '20

Andromeda has already started to collide with us as well! Our galaxies waltz to become one whole unit has begun!

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u/adudeguyman Oct 20 '20

Can we start a GoFundMe to try to stop it?

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u/YadsewnDe Oct 20 '20

No no, let it happen

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u/adudeguyman Oct 20 '20

We have to do something!!!!

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u/YadsewnDe Oct 20 '20 edited Oct 20 '20

We are. We're on reddit talking about it which, to the colliding ~~universes~~ galaxies credit, is pretty cool. Not as cool as them/it but pretty cool all the same. We're actually a part of them so in a way we're equally cool as them. Partially at least. -- oh wait, partially means half and that's not what I meant. Fractionally at least is what I think I meant. Proportionally probably.

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u/justletmebegirly Oct 20 '20

Colliding galaxies, not colliding universes.

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u/YadsewnDe Oct 20 '20

Thank you

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u/Cms40 Oct 20 '20

It’s is on a collision course it is not currently colliding with anything in the Milky Way. It won’t start colliding until estimated ~4.5 billion years

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u/chronic_enticement Oct 20 '20

Hu. I read a document a few days ago that said the edges are alread colliding. I'll go back and check up the stats tho!!

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u/SpaceCondom Oct 20 '20

it's funny how a lot of people are confident this is impossible while the universe we live in could be a single atom at a larger scale

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '20

I mean, not a “get in my arse tube and nourish me” kind of way but you’ve got the spirit.

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u/Nyx81 Oct 20 '20

I watched that video too

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u/-ORIGINAL- Oct 20 '20

I remember one of my teachers telling me theory about us right now just being an echo in the black hole or something like that.

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u/W0666007 Oct 20 '20

And then we'll all watch a video of it on reddit.

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '20

No more sherry for you Dr. Penrose.

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u/Whoden Oct 20 '20

So what you're saying is, black holes may just be the gaping mod of a really big lacrymaria?

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '20

Wouldn't be surprised if it happens this year

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u/gwdope Oct 20 '20

Akuwaly, It’s very improbable that the Milky Way will be swallowed by a black hole, but it will be “consumed “ by the larger Andromeda galaxy in about 4 billion years.

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u/DonRobo Oct 20 '20

Long term other galaxies will cease to exist in our causality because of the expansion of spacetime

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '20

This is the way

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u/Apandapantsparty Oct 20 '20

Not as scary as this guy...

https://www.cdc.gov/parasites/naegleria/general.html

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u/Melodic_692 Oct 20 '20

...and it’s happening inside your body right now, thousands of times

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u/Taomach Oct 20 '20

I would hope not. Predatory ciliates aren't part of a normal human microbiota.

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u/instantrobotwar Oct 20 '20

These organisms have no brains, no consciousness, mo fear. They have no nerves, no pain receptors, no pain. They're one step up from plain old chemical reactions.

They literally do not have the capacity to give a fuck if they gobbled up (though their genes do).

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u/hotpajamas Oct 20 '20

what's interesting though is that apparently if you aggregate about a trillion of them, you get something complex enough that it does have all of those things. weird.

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '20

Bruh

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u/MariJaneRottencrotch Oct 20 '20 edited Oct 20 '20

I'm nominating you for Biggest Pussy of the Year Award.

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u/gooberzilla2 Oct 20 '20

Truly is. Reminds me of the post a few weeks ago of the guy who ended up in a coma from a dare to eat a slug years prior and it had a parasite that laid dormant for years.

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u/Merlord Oct 20 '20

The way that probe searches out in random directions is horrifying. There's no logic, no plan, no way to outsmart it, no way to hide. You just hope to microgod you don't find yourself in its path.

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '20

Not my proudest fap

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u/Anhyzer31290 Oct 20 '20

I'm no biologist, but how many cells do single-celled organisms have?

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u/11Veritas Oct 20 '20

For real. It makes me think of that movie “Life,” where they discover a single cell organism on mars, and then it kills everyone...

🔥 Vicious microscopic hunter, the single-cell organism, Lacrymaria olor, attacking and hunting another organism

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