see the joke is, in the USA, if you were taught in public schools, you were told the "mitochondria is the power house of the cell" as an analogy. you were told this many times, on repetition
At my school, they showed a video about all the different parts of the cell where each part was a character with a different "job" and looking back it was pretty racist. I specifically remember that the Lysosome was a garbage man with a Mexican accent. Very cool science video for children... very cool 🫤
Also outside the USA
One of my profs described the nucleus as the "power house of cell operation". You could just about measure the speed of sound by tracking the wave of students' faces transitioning to pure confusion.
Some chaotic evil shit right there. That mofo knew exactly what he was doing.
As they say, out with the old, in with the nucleus.
I learned about it from Parasite Eve.
Cooling towers
The coolest kind of towers
Sir, a second plane hit the cooling towers.
It's energy gradients to extract work all the way down, @Nougat@fedia.io
I said!
From Duracell to Powerhouseofthecell.
It's like poetry, it rhymes.
Wouldnt adenosine triphosphate be the real energy and mitochondria just stealing credit for the work of its children?
Sort of?
ATP basically packages the energy, like wires, or the battery.
But the power-house/generator that makes them would be the mitochondria under most circumstances, since one of the main mechanisms to do that lies within the mitochondria.
mitochondria is called a parasite for a reason...
I always wonder how many people think the cooling towers are "chimneys" blowing "smoke".
What happens when nano plastics overwhelm them though? :/
Hahah negentropy goes brrrr
