Microscopic little goobers didn’t even have brains and they fundamentally changed the world forever
Proof that being brainless, in your lane and just existing can have unintended consequences down the line.
Not only can, but everything has unintended consequences. That’s show biz, baby
Except for me, I can do whatever I want
I’ve been breathing cyanobacteria farts this whole time not plant farts
plants are just cyanobacteria arcologies
alright smart fella am I a plant fart smella or notyes
Oh yeah? Well my bathroom was devoid of oxygen for a billion years after the fart I just let rip in there.
the fan should be motion activated!
thank god for bacteria dude. I really enjoy that oxygen shit
The purple sulfur bacteria were photosynthezing just fine without shitting the air combustable. Imagine just throwing your waste up in the air and letting it fall down around you instead of stacking it into neat mineralized layers beneath you, disgusting.
You do not, in fact, have to hand it to them.
You just don’t like knowing you sniff bacteria farts huh
Currently huffing sulfides out of pure spite rn
The cope burns
But no farts = no baja blasts. It blasts for thee
Other similar fun fact: a significant amount of coal comes from the time between when trees evolved and fungi evolved the ability to breakdown wood.
One hope I have for Earth’s far-future is bacteria will evolve that can eat plastic. Humans may wipe out all each other and all other life on the planet, but nature will heal after we’re gone. New life forms and ecosystems will emerge. After millions of years, they may even research our civilization the way we research dinosaurs.
First (known) mass extinction event because you couldn’t metabolize O2? Do you HATE having lots of ATP or something?
Hexbear users referring to the GENOCIDERS who caused the first MASS EXTINCTION as “little goobers” and calls it a “fun” fact, I knew that dirty owl was sus
Hexbear DESTROYED by rock hard FACTS and REASON
Shout out to cyanobacteria! Inventing oxygen was really genius
one of the inventions of all time.
Tiktaalik gets a lot of hate but those fuckers deserve some too
No they’re fine, all that land was literally
it was already full of plants and fungi and insects, wasnt it? so no, it wasnt free real estate, vertebrates were filthy colonizers
All that oxygen also helped create banded iron, which is a primary ore for iron. It also looks real cool and is technically an “extinct” ore. Since most of the iron is now oxidized, it can’t be re-laid as banded iron, so new banded iron deposits can’t form.
I like when everybody got so into making oxygen that it made the atmosphere catch fire
That is a fun fact
we’re all fart sniffers in the end
You telling me I’m breathing germ farts?
in fact when there’s pollen in the air, you’re inhaling plant sperm :p
Wouldn’t the ocean be some fucked up mud color then from somewhat reflecting the orange off the green water
Idk why but these sound like Rush lyrics to me
