Glen -
Are you trying to "chap my a**" ?
I *knew* I could depend on you to suss out another level of meaning in
any words I used ;) Much appreciated!
The article leaves me wondering two things:
Does NASA study this stuff as well? Seems like space colonization
might hinge on this... keeping a healthy microbiome in a microgravity
and overly sterile environment.
Are *we* a key part of the microbiome of the planet? It seems
like *we* are an essential element of the "living crap" of mother earth
and our "virulent" destruction of other species and habitat even for
ourselves, might have similar implications. Though I suppose that the
analogy might be better with the "skin biome"?
In any case, maybe someone should dose Nick's coffee with a fresh
innoculant? This might be an important reason to attend FriAM, to
maintain a healthily compatible "collective biome" by "shooting the
shit" in person? I do sometimes imagine ourselves (on this e-mail
list) as Asimov's Solarians in our "Splendid Isolation", communicating
via "Holograms"...
http://asimov.wikia.com/wiki/Solaria
- Steve
On 08/11/2015 08:36 PM, Steve Smith wrote:
I'm surprised *anything* bores the living crap out of you!
What's not so boring is that Nick's crap _is_ alive! But he may have the cause
and effect reversed:
https://www.mvppt.com/can-the-bacteria-in-your-gut-explain-your-mood/
micro-organisms in the gut tickle a sensory nerve ending in the fingerlike
protrusion lining the intestine and carry that electrical impulse up the vagus
nerve and into the deep-brain structures thought to be responsible for
elemental emotions like anxiety.
Perhaps being bored doesn't get the living crap out of you. Perhaps the living
crap causes your boredom. 8^)
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