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In the distant ancient days, antibiotics resistance and re-
vitalization of the prokaryotes as
before the first large cities, the driving force of evolution.
outbreaks would do their damage, Viruses did not directly benefit,
decimate a population, and all nor were they harmed from these
would return to the earth as anti-life drugs.
jungle, forest, ocean or sand. A Not respiring, ever, proved to
few of the smarter genetic be good protection against attack.
invaders would roll up into a ball
and wait, for years, decades or Our evil, to us, prokaryotic
even centuries for an opportune organisms have never really left,
but have bubbled along quietly in
moment to make their presence the living soup of our planet.
known. This often caused surprise
and chagrin to the local host During the antibiotic age, every
organism. Injury and death could time a dangerous genetic pattern
popped its tiny head above the
also be part of the package. bubbling soup-life, scientists
Things were going well for the would identify, search and find
another prokaryotic, plant, or
humans and their domesticated method to exploit for its killing
foods after finding, some 80 years power.
ago, that mold pee could kill the Pandemics were kept in their
simple gram-negative bacteria, place, with these native or
Escherichia coli. Once the designed anti-prokaryotes. These
humans found that it could also found or manufactured weapons
kill Treponema pallidum, were often tweaked to be more
commonly known as our friend
syphilis, there was no stopping
the antibiotic revolution. With
wide distribution of these
antibiotics, the decimal based
years ticked along on a regular
basis.
The know-nothing, vaccine-
fearful, low-wattage dominant
species, living on this wet space
ball they called home, expanded
the ignorance of their actions and
pushed Pan Year counting
forward.
Genetic pressures on bacteria,
spurred along by distribution
problems, practically guaranteed
vitalization of the prokaryotes as
before the first large cities, the driving force of evolution.
outbreaks would do their damage, Viruses did not directly benefit,
decimate a population, and all nor were they harmed from these
would return to the earth as anti-life drugs.
jungle, forest, ocean or sand. A Not respiring, ever, proved to
few of the smarter genetic be good protection against attack.
invaders would roll up into a ball
and wait, for years, decades or Our evil, to us, prokaryotic
even centuries for an opportune organisms have never really left,
but have bubbled along quietly in
moment to make their presence the living soup of our planet.
known. This often caused surprise
and chagrin to the local host During the antibiotic age, every
organism. Injury and death could time a dangerous genetic pattern
popped its tiny head above the
also be part of the package. bubbling soup-life, scientists
Things were going well for the would identify, search and find
another prokaryotic, plant, or
humans and their domesticated method to exploit for its killing
foods after finding, some 80 years power.
ago, that mold pee could kill the Pandemics were kept in their
simple gram-negative bacteria, place, with these native or
Escherichia coli. Once the designed anti-prokaryotes. These
humans found that it could also found or manufactured weapons
kill Treponema pallidum, were often tweaked to be more
commonly known as our friend
syphilis, there was no stopping
the antibiotic revolution. With
wide distribution of these
antibiotics, the decimal based
years ticked along on a regular
basis.
The know-nothing, vaccine-
fearful, low-wattage dominant
species, living on this wet space
ball they called home, expanded
the ignorance of their actions and
pushed Pan Year counting
forward.
Genetic pressures on bacteria,
spurred along by distribution
problems, practically guaranteed
