This is similar to what happens with Asian giant hornets (those murder hornets that made it to the US a couple years ago)-- when a scout finds a honeybee hive it brings back a troop that goes in and just murders everything in sight, and with European bees there’s nothing they can do. Meanwhile the Asian bees know to lure the scout into the hive and then surround it with a bunch of bees, creating a bee ball. Then they vibrate and heat themselves up, and since the bees can withstand temps a few degrees higher than the hornet, they manage to overheat it to death.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asian_giant_hornet#Native_honey_bees
Me picturing this animated.
#NatureIsFuckingMetal
Raid boss tactics
It’s like the time I had a sorcerer NPC cast fireball on themself to get a total party kill.
Trump voters in a nutshell
High temperature isn’t there to kill pathogens. Instead it’s there to help the immune system, because biochemistry (chemistry in general) works better in higher temperatures.
Source: “Immune” by Philipp Dettmer.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7812885/
Temperatures during a fever can go high enough to damage cells and interferes with normal functions, it also interferes with viral, bacterial and fungal replication and other mechanics.
Not all chemistry ‘works better’ at higher temperatures with many proteins only functioning well within very narrow temperature ranges.
Not all chemistry ‘works better’ at higher temperatures
I was referring to Arrhenius’ equation. Of course that doesn’t apply anymore when you reach denaturation temperatures. Very high fevers are deadly.
It’s there to help the immune system do what?
To help the immune system do what?
What scifi media is that clipped from?
My 4 AM brain thinks it’s from Ahsoka
Thanks, I’ll take a look.
It’s definitely star wars. Probably skeleton crew if not Ahsoka
laughs in lupus
Something something never lupus
My life is just one big House MD meme
