[HN Gopher] A stable protein nanowire of electric bacteria gives...
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A stable protein nanowire of electric bacteria gives clues to
climate change
Author : wglb
Score : 36 points
Date : 2023-02-03 03:33 UTC (19 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (phys.org)
(TXT) w3m dump (phys.org)
| mypalmike wrote:
| "allowing bacteria to transport electrons over 100 times their
| size"
|
| Have electrons have gotten a lot larger since I studied physics?
| I'm almost leaning to believe this poorly written article is
| random AI-generated text.
| [deleted]
| ljf wrote:
| Gets cleared up later in the article
|
| Quote It allows bacteria to produce to highest electric power
| reported possible so far and explains how these bacteria can
| survive without oxygen-like membrane-ingestible molecules and
| form communities that can send electrons over 100-times
| bacterial size. But to date, no one had discovered how they are
| made and what why they so conductive.
| doodlebugging wrote:
| >But to date, no one had discovered how they are made and
| what why they so conductive.
|
| I think the "what why they so" part really clears it up for
| me. LOL
|
| This sentence you chose is the one that had me wondering
| whether anyone had even read it for clarity before posting.
| generalizations wrote:
| Ironically the typo makes it less likely in my mind that it
| was machine generated...it's been a few generations since
| gpt would've made that kind of mistake.
| theWreckluse wrote:
| I think they meant "over distances 100 times their size".
| MarcoZavala wrote:
| [dead]
| doodlebugging wrote:
| This sounds interesting but the short article needs some editing
| to clarify some of the points. It reads as if no one took an
| opportunity to proof-read it before hitting the publish button.
| [deleted]
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