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Microscopic little goobers didn't even have brains and they fundamentally changed the world forever

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[–] Owl@hexbear.net 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Oh yeah? Well my bathroom was devoid of oxygen for a billion years after the fart I just let rip in there.

[–] miz@hexbear.net 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

think-mark the fan should be motion activated!

[–] DasRav@hexbear.net 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Proof that being brainless, in your lane and just existing can have unintended consequences down the line.

[–] WhatDoYouMeanPodcast@hexbear.net 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Not only can, but everything has unintended consequences. That's show biz, baby

[–] corgiwithalaptop@hexbear.net 3 points 1 day ago

Except for me, I can do whatever I want

[–] kleeon@hexbear.net 20 points 1 day ago

thank god for bacteria dude. I really enjoy that oxygen shit

[–] Wmill@hexbear.net 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I've been breathing cyanobacteria farts this whole time not plant farts sadness-abysmal

[–] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

plants are just cyanobacteria arcologies

[–] Wmill@hexbear.net 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

saul-stare alright smart fella am I a plant fart smella or not

[–] DogThatWentGorp@hexbear.net 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

First (known) mass extinction event because you couldn't metabolize O2? Do you HATE having lots of ATP or something?

[–] LeeeroooyJeeenkiiins@hexbear.net 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Hexbear users referring to the GENOCIDERS who caused the first MASS EXTINCTION as "little goobers" and calls it a "fun" fact, I knew that dirty owl was sus

[–] DogThatWentGorp@hexbear.net 3 points 1 day ago

Hexbear DESTROYED by rock hard FACTS and REASON

[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Shout out to cyanobacteria! Inventing oxygen was really genius

one of the inventions of all time.

[–] Zoift@hexbear.net 10 points 1 day ago (2 children)

The purple sulfur bacteria were photosynthezing just fine without shitting the air combustable. Imagine just throwing your waste up in the air and letting it fall down around you instead of stacking it into neat mineralized layers beneath you, disgusting.

You do not, in fact, have to hand it to them.

[–] Dort_Owl@hexbear.net 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You just don't like knowing you sniff bacteria farts huh

[–] Zoift@hexbear.net 11 points 1 day ago

Currently huffing sulfides out of pure spite rn maddened The cope burns

But no farts = no baja blasts. It blasts for thee

[–] KoboldKomrade@hexbear.net 9 points 1 day ago

All that oxygen also helped create banded iron, which is a primary ore for iron. It also looks real cool and is technically an "extinct" ore. Since most of the iron is now oxidized, it can't be re-laid as banded iron, so new banded iron deposits can't form.

[–] PorkrollPosadist@hexbear.net 4 points 1 day ago

You telling me I'm breathing germ farts?

[–] radio_free_asgarthr@hexbear.net 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Other similar fun fact: a significant amount of coal comes from the time between when trees evolved and fungi evolved the ability to breakdown wood.

[–] Belly_Beanis@hexbear.net 5 points 1 day ago

One hope I have for Earth's far-future is bacteria will evolve that can eat plastic. Humans may wipe out all each other and all other life on the planet, but nature will heal after we're gone. New life forms and ecosystems will emerge. After millions of years, they may even research our civilization the way we research dinosaurs.

[–] Crucible@hexbear.net 8 points 1 day ago

I like when everybody got so into making oxygen that it made the atmosphere catch fire

[–] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 day ago

That is a fun fact

[–] BountifulEggnog@hexbear.net 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Tiktaalik gets a lot of hate but those fuckers deserve some too

[–] Abracadaniel@hexbear.net 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

No they're fine, all that land was literallyfree-real-estate

[–] huf@hexbear.net 3 points 1 day ago

it was already full of plants and fungi and insects, wasnt it? so no, it wasnt free real estate, vertebrates were filthy colonizers

[–] AssortedBiscuits@hexbear.net 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Wouldn't the ocean be some fucked up mud color then from somewhat reflecting the orange off the green water

[–] SchillMenaker@hexbear.net 2 points 1 day ago

Idk why but these sound like Rush lyrics to me

[–] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 6 points 1 day ago

we're all fart sniffers in the end

[–] Arahnya@hexbear.net 3 points 1 day ago

thank you little bluegreen guys