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Why Do I Laugh at Aaronk1994?

ADDENDUM: Aaron has apparently removed the video to which this video is a response, I don't know if I should take this as an admittance of his being in the wrong, but if it is, I would rejoice in his intellectual honesty in recognizing when he has erred. Aaron if you read this I would respect you much more as a person if I saw you admit that you were incorrect in your calculations. Here's one example of why I laugh. This is a link to the article on the bacterium that can double every 10 minutes http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pubmed&pubmedid=13888946 Here's the text that was read in the video: Lawlz and rolfcopterz all around, apparently aaron does not know the first thing about simple population dynamics. The growth rate of a population of any given species is not determined by simple biotic potential, that is to say, the maximum possible reproductive rate of the population. In reality, the growth rate of a population is almost entirely based on what is called carrying capacity. A carrying capacity is the number of organisms a habitat can support given it's available resources. However, lets give aaron's way of thinking a try. The bacterium PSEUDOMONAS NATRIEGENS has a generation time of slightly less than 10 minutes, that means that every ten minutes a population of this bacteria can double itself, under optimal circumstances. If aaron is correct in his population projections, a culture of that bacteria that started with only 1 organism should be able to fill the earth's oceans in less than 1 day. Now, I may be off by a bit on the calculation. I didn't know exactly how large this particular bacterium was so I used a normal size for a bacteria (about a 1 micron radius). I then looked up the volume of the Earth's oceans and using simple division could find how many of the bacteria would be required to fill it. After I had this number, I could use the formula [final number(time)=initial number X 2 ^ (time / doubling time)] to find time, which was about 23 hours. I may be off on the math some but I think that you can all still see the point.

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