And if we think of how little we humans are in comparrison to the vastness of an ever (for now anyway) expanding universe, well we are like giants compared to the so lovely Shewanella bacterium.
The article included below thanks to the BBC I believe, but dont quote me on this, just shows that when we let scientists look for new discoveries, they are not all looking out into deep space, but in to deep space.
You can just scroll down to my art
if you so desire. I am just adding this incase you didnt come across it yet and like me find it interesting..
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Bacteria power 'bio-battery' breakthrough
The shewanella bacterium is found in lakes and rivers all over the planet
Bacteria could soon be acting as microscopic "bio-batteries" thanks to a joint UK-US research effort.
The team of scientists has laid bare the power-generating mechanism used by well-known marine bacteria.
Before now it was not clear whether the bacteria directly conducted an electrical charge themselves or used something else to do it.
Unpicking the process opens the door to using the bacteria as an in-situ, robust power source.
Power play
"This was the final part of the puzzle," said Dr Tom Clarke, a lecturer at the school of biological sciences at the University of East Anglia (UEA), who led the research. UEA collaborated with the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Washington on the research project.
Before now, Dr Clarke told the BBC, the bacterium being studied had been seen influencing levels of minerals in lakes and seas but no-one really knew how it did it.
The bacterium, Shewanella oneidensis, occurred globally in rivers and seas, he said. "They are in everything from the Amazon to the Baltic seas," said Dr Clarke.
The strain used by the researchers was taken from a lake in New York.
"Scientists noticed that the levels of iron and manganese in the lake changed with the seasons and were co-ordinated with the growth patterns of the bacteria," Dr Clarke said.
However, he added, what was not known was the method by which the bacteria was bringing about these changes in mineral concentrations.
To understand the mechanism, Dr Clarke and his collaborators made a synthetic version of the bacterium and discovered that the organism generated a charge, and effected a chemical change, when in direct contact with the mineral surface.
"People have never really understood it before," he said. "It's about understanding how they interact with the environment and harnessing the energy they produce."
Understanding that mechanism gave scientists a chance to harness it, said Dr Clarke, and use it as a power source in places and for devices and processes in inaccessible or hostile environments.
"It's very useful as a model system," he said. "They are very robust, we can be quite rough with then in the lab and they will put up with it.
A paper about the research was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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Now for the latest art which apart from God and myself, you are the first to see.
You may well have seen this one above before, but now I have worked more on it.
Below though is a whole new kettle of fish.
You will not have seen this before, unless of course you
are either a practitioner of remote viewing, or you crept
into my home earlier when I drove mum to the hospital!
So first, here it is a few ways around.
Now with the mirror image function on my camera.
It is midday now and I must get on with other things.
I will share though that the above painting is still wet
I will decide when it is dry how to procede. Ha ha thinks
I, how about I look to do a bit of guerilla gardening soon.
I can plant sunflower seeds all over the place. Maybe
I could even sow some when I go to the art studio in London.
And also put them in small manilla packets labelled `To be sown with love` and given away!
Ta ta for now my brothers and sisters and all those yet to realise we are one. Peter.
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