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The fact that almost everything gardeners grow is exotic and not native is indeed one of the most important facts there is to consider. Most of us gardeners love nature, but by introducing our exotics to our local landscapes we also alter the fabric of life's local web.
We cosmopolitan humans, travelling around the whole planet, carry with us, each of us, more viruses than there are stars in the entire known universe which is about 26 billion light years in diameter, or some construct that approximates that vast size. Each one of us 7 billion humans has on and in our bodies that many viruses! That's a 10 with something like 23 zeroes after it!
1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
Not sure what they call that in 'illions or in petas or teras, but it's huge.
Now, all those viruses can change, mutate. The insidious thing is, some viruses don't even use DNA. Those other ones use RNA. None of them have their own DNA or RNA. They use those nucleic acids that their host has. iMPORTANTLY, by far, most of the hosts for viruses are Procaryote cells, commonly called Bacteria cells.
Bacteria cells outnumber the cells in our own bodies! By an also huge number.
All this talk about micros compared to our human bodies is just one thing, ya see. The micros have a similar numbers relation with all of our plants and animals.
But most other animals do not travel like we do, as much as we do.
But suddenly, in the big picture of earth's history, all things are become COSMOPOLITAN.
Now, almost any, almost all organisms are travelling the globe with us.
We have to be careful.
We cosmopolitan humans, travelling around the whole planet, carry with us, each of us, more viruses than there are stars in the entire known universe which is about 26 billion light years in diameter, or some construct that approximates that vast size. Each one of us 7 billion humans has on and in our bodies that many viruses! That's a 10 with something like 23 zeroes after it!
1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
Not sure what they call that in 'illions or in petas or teras, but it's huge.
Now, all those viruses can change, mutate. The insidious thing is, some viruses don't even use DNA. Those other ones use RNA. None of them have their own DNA or RNA. They use those nucleic acids that their host has. iMPORTANTLY, by far, most of the hosts for viruses are Procaryote cells, commonly called Bacteria cells.
Bacteria cells outnumber the cells in our own bodies! By an also huge number.
All this talk about micros compared to our human bodies is just one thing, ya see. The micros have a similar numbers relation with all of our plants and animals.
But most other animals do not travel like we do, as much as we do.
But suddenly, in the big picture of earth's history, all things are become COSMOPOLITAN.
Now, almost any, almost all organisms are travelling the globe with us.
We have to be careful.
