People really think this. Most peoples knowledge stops at "evolution is when thing become better". And people that do realize don't talk about evolutionary pressure in the gut microbiome in the comic community.
Fry eats gas station sushi and gets parasites. They actually improve everything about him, but he fights them off because he wants to know Leela is attracted to him and not whom the worms made him into.
Fredric Brown wrote a fun very short story (he was known for page-long short stories) about a scientist who discovered immortality and took the serum, but he had a cold at the time, so the bacteria also became immortal, took over his body, became pneumonia and put him in a coma. Eventually, his colleagues buried him.
I mean, what kind of immortality are we talking about here?
If your cells have been locked into "last known good configuration" then there's no reason for anything inside you to evolve because nothing is changing.
Or maybe you aren't immutable, but like a ship of theseus, in which case why would your internal biome evolve away from the eternally balanced environment it lives in? Crabs haven't evolved for millenia because once perfection is achieved, where else can you evolve?
Tldr, what I'm saying is, vampires should be more worried about bursting with crabs than dinos.
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all of the comments are assuming this is how evolution works... and most dont even seem to be sarcastic
do people really think this is how it works or am i going crazy?
People really think this. Most peoples knowledge stops at "evolution is when thing become better". And people that do realize don't talk about evolutionary pressure in the gut microbiome in the comic community.
They got their evolution knowledge from digimon. Bacteria turns into dinosaur turns into refrigerator turns into skeleton.
then it turns into car
Yeah, obviously they won't evolve into dinosaurs, they'll evolve into crabs
try { lifeform.Evolve(); } catch(...) { lifeform.Crab(); }
If they live forever, they're not evolving. They're mutating.
the person lives forever, its the bacteria inside them that evolves
Mitochondria. They found their niche (every multicellular creature in the world) and won. Very little change since then.
Just wait until your evolved bacteria turn you into a toxic wasteland.
Wait, wasn't this a Futurama episode?
Fry eats gas station sushi and gets parasites. They actually improve everything about him, but he fights them off because he wants to know Leela is attracted to him and not whom the worms made him into.
Ah, actually I was thinking the one where bender is floating in space and the colony of little aliens on his belly go to war with the ones on his ass
I was thinking of the "I don't want to live on this planet anymore" episode where they become God and plant life on the new planet.
They sure played with this theme a lot
straightens glasses
adjusts pocket protector
Ummm, ackchyually, it was an egg salad sandwich, not sushi.
The hero we need, not the hero we deserve.
My ancestors came in on the sandwich
Lucky! The closest I get to that is that one of my ancestors came ON a sandwich.
Yeah, we don't tend to mention great-uncle Dave much..
Gas station egg salad sandwich, with a black tomato slice
Fredric Brown wrote a fun very short story (he was known for page-long short stories) about a scientist who discovered immortality and took the serum, but he had a cold at the time, so the bacteria also became immortal, took over his body, became pneumonia and put him in a coma. Eventually, his colleagues buried him.
Edit: Found the story. Got the details slightly wrong, but the gist was the same- https://fb2.top/the-second-fredric-brown-megapack-434391/read/part-16
Yikes. You don't bury immortal bacteria. You burn them so they're not bacteria any more,
Luckily, the body naturally purges out unwelcome living inhabitants in the GI tract.
As in your diarrhea them out before they could burst out through your abs.
But... what if they evolve the ability to survive purges and then put the skill points into bursting out via abs?
Jokes on them, I don't have abs
I mean, what kind of immortality are we talking about here?
If your cells have been locked into "last known good configuration" then there's no reason for anything inside you to evolve because nothing is changing.
Or maybe you aren't immutable, but like a ship of theseus, in which case why would your internal biome evolve away from the eternally balanced environment it lives in? Crabs haven't evolved for millenia because once perfection is achieved, where else can you evolve?
Tldr, what I'm saying is, vampires should be more worried about bursting with crabs than dinos.
Great, not only do we have to worry about vampires, now we have to worry about vampires that give us crabs too? What a world we live in.
Are the bacteria inside you part of you?
Just before they burst out you get to live a symbiotic beneficial relationship with internal dinosaurs.
New fear unlocked
By the time that happens you'll have carcinized and your chitinous shell will be strong enough to hold them in
(yes I know carcinization doesn't work that way)
well evolution doesnt work that way either so its fine
That's just more friends to outlive :(
No the best part is getting to find out firsthand:-).