Bassler proposes that bacterial quorum sensing, due to its billions of years of evolutionary refinements, was (is) probably the proto-model for all subsequent communication systems. Bacteria use chemistry as a communication language and all living organisms use beneficial bacteria for life. There is an entire bacterial Internet in and on our bodies. Tiny little computers performing, input-->processing-->output. Neat huh?
As I recall, the protagonist wakes up in the hospital, having hone to sleep on Tuesday night. The world is very quiet - no traffic, etc. so it seems like Sunday. It is, in fact, Wednesday but the world (as he knew it) has come to an end.''When a day that you know is Wednesday, starts off sounding like Sunday, there's something seriously wrong somewhere.'' - John Wyndham (from his book, The Day of the Triffids)
What does this mean??
Maybe one needs to read the book to understand the reference. Hmm.
Off the top of my head and not having read the book.
And a man is a plant eating animal.
Fair's fair.And a man is a plant eating animal.
Wyndham also wrote The Midwich Cuckoos - every woman in the village gets pregnant at the same time and all of the children are look-alikes. The movie version was called Village of the Damned.
In an astonishing co-inky-dink, I spotted a Triffid in the wild just yesterday.
And was a terrific movie also, for its day.
It's because of instances like this I always carry a bottle of seawater.
I'm trying to remember if they had the "zip guns" in the movie. In the book, they shot something like a throwing star that would take a triffid's head clean off.
