Spoiler: it's "just" a display. Bacteria are not doing any calculations. Unlike the crab computer.
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The what now computer?
Here's the summary for the wikipedia article you mentioned in your comment:
Mictyris guinotae is a species of soldier crab of genus Mictyris, endemic to the Ryukyu Islands of Japan. They were named after Danièle Guinot, a professor at the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle in France, and were first treated as a separate species in a tribute volume to Guinot.
Imagine living your entire live as a sentient being not knowing you're actually just a logic gate in a huge-ass computer.
I would bet there's someone who has made a custom ass shaped computer case.
"What up YouTube, today we're going to build a custom gaming PC for our special guest: Sir Mixalot!"
That's basically reality for all of us right now
Guess it's not long until the Vogons come.
Well, they really could stand to get on with it, you know?
If we're really unlucky, they might read us some of their poetry.
Spoiler alert: 42
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My gut bacteria runs Doom at a smooth 60 fps
My gut bacteria runs Doom at a smooth 60 fps
I’m not sure I want to know what the ‘f’ stands for here.
Farts per stomach?
Farts per second...obviously
They keep you regular. Specifically your fps
The real OLED screen.
Time to fight the cacademons.
my final conclusion is to run doom on cells it would take about 600 years
Would six hundred and sixty six suffice?
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