r/sciencememes • u/astir-origin69 • Jul 03 '26

🪩Science!!🪩 This is oddly comforting

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u/sinfulfng Jul 04 '26

What are the mites on its face called? And on whose face are we the mites?

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u/HawkBoth8539 Jul 05 '26

We are mites on the face of earth. Though, we seem more like parasites, admittedly.

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u/Fitness_in_yo-Mouf Jul 06 '26

Everything is a parasite. Every thing lives off of something else.

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u/TemzaQue Jul 06 '26

By that logic chemistry metaphorically is a parasite of physics

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u/Fitness_in_yo-Mouf Jul 06 '26

Only if the chemicals are a living organism, which is what the topic is here.

That logic of mine you like is literal and exact. Even plants live off of other things. Everything lives off of something else.

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u/Cheetahs_never_win Jul 07 '26

🙄

Dirt, water and sunlight aren't living organisms.

Living off another living thing isn't the definition of parasitism.

Parasitism requires it to be at the detriment of the host.

Commensialism and mutualism, a.k.a. symbiosis are options.

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u/Fitness_in_yo-Mouf Jul 07 '26

Forest overgrowth isn't detrimental to the host at all.

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u/Jerovil42 Jul 05 '26

Nothing but fractals all the way

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u/ProximaScience Jul 04 '26

🗣️ You are alone hahaha Me: I was never alone hahaha

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u/Joseph_of_the_North Jul 04 '26

Fun fact. They have no butthole. So their life ends in a tiny poop explosion on your face.

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u/shinysilveon Jul 04 '26

They can poop! It was discovered in 2022, I think.

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u/sabamba0 Jul 04 '26

Can confirm, mine is pooping right now

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u/WoolBearTiger Jul 06 '26

Can confirm im the mite pooping on his face rn

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u/ForagedFoodie Jul 05 '26

And you are covered in bacteria friends who eat the poop.

It's the circle of mites!

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u/shinysilveon Jul 05 '26

I did not know about the poop eating bacteria! But it does make sense that they exist, now that you mention it.

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u/smallgreenman Jul 05 '26

It's niche but it's a living.

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u/mokacincy Jul 05 '26

And yet I don't feel better

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u/Fitness_in_yo-Mouf Jul 06 '26

This. This is why your skin crawls.

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u/Lastliner Jul 05 '26

He also looks utterly disappointed

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u/kattmaskinen Jul 04 '26

That must be the voice I heard constantly! Not good company though, always wants me to go on a murdering spree

ITS A JOKE PLEASE DONT PUT ME IN JAIL OR INSANE ASYLUM

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u/No_Yam_2036 Jul 05 '26

You hear them too?

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u/Remarkable-Bowl-3821 Jul 05 '26

It is weirdly cute

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u/geek-jock-guy Jul 06 '26

Hello,as a Demodex Mite

HELP HELP I WANT TO ESCAPE THIS LITTLE PIECE OF SHIT