Wednesday 23 January 2019

Cell Time:

Bad Guys, Nutters and Theistic monks all get constrained into cells (small rooms) .. sometimes good guys have to enter and deal with the cell's inmates.
Ruger Mk. IV: Proof Of Evolution v Intelligent Design Complexity Theory.

The cells of our bodies and brains are VERY MUCH smaller - and more importantly - much more complicated:
A Typical Animal Cell - Yes We Are Animals - Looks like a screenshot from an episode of  Game Of Thrones    - a little world all of it's own.

No kidding but I always thought cells were sort of round with a dot in the middle.

If you push your way through the Plasma Membrane and have a poke about inside you'll meet all sorts of clever shit in there wobbling around in the jelly-like Cytoplasm .. including Ribosomes, Cytoskeleton fibres, Endoplasmic reticulum (sorry ..didn't mean to swear), a Golgi apparatus, Lysosomes & Peroxisomes, - Mitochondria and a Nucleus.

Here's a decent explanation:  https://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/primer/basics/cell

This is really all too much for a has-been fork-lift driver to absorb - but there are said to be 37.2 TRILLION of these cells already in my body without me absorbing or developing any more eh.

That's 37,200,000,000,000 in the current way of thinking .. but the older BRITISH 'trillion' would have had six times more zeros. - Either way that is quiet a few cells that might choose to start to go wrong sometime.

(- Thinkers among us will have sussed that a modern Trillion is a million times smaller than an old fashioned one). That's deflation for you.

Now I've probably got this wrong - but reading

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multicellular_organism

I get the impression that we humanoids, the pinnacle of intelligent life here (excepting politicians and 'nobility') .. are merely a collection of cooperative viruses .. if you'd like to argue this point you may have to do some more reading eh.

- Here is some more reading that explains the function of the Golgi Apparatus or "Complex" .. if you can understand it - you are in the wrong job:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golgi_apparatus

- Here is a human cell (  ) - Can't see it? Ah you'll need to magnify it about 7,000 times.

So - If a 'grain' is 1/7000th of a pound - how many 'granules' are there in a grain of 'Trail Boss' or 'Bulls-eye' pistol powder?
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'QuakeMaker' 185 grain 9 mm ammunition from Seismic Ammo of Oklahoma is coyly described as sub-sonic ..
but having HIGH MOMENTUM .. Due on the market soon - it will be interesting to see ballistic gelatin penetration testing.
Warning Warning: Do not shoot these QuakeMakers anywhere near The Southern Alpine Seismic Fault-line.

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Don't forget that we kiwis down here are all struggling upside-down near The Roaring Forties.

Marty K.


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