# @seed on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/BguM8yVnJ2k
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/34248011-seed-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/postThumbnails/d2618feb4a.jpg
- **Posted:** 2018-03-24T21:59:05.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Seed (@seed) — https://gondola.cc/seed

## Caption

Close your eyes and visualize a #microbe for a second. The average one ranges between 1 µm to about 5 µms in size. That’s a #micrometer, 1 millionth of a meter. On average, a microbe is almost a million times smaller than the average #human.⠀
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But lined up end to end, all the microbes on #Earth would stretch some 10 #billion light-years—beyond the #moon, beyond the #sun, beyond Alpha Centauri, out past the edge of the Milky Way, past neighboring #galaxies, all the way to the edge of the visible #universe. 💫✨🌟⠀
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If we lined up all the #humans end to end, we would only reach roughly 11.7 million kilometers into space. So, we’d make it to the moon 🌚 (384,400 km away), but fall way short of #Mars (225 million km away).⠀
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The #truth is, we live in a #microbial #world, and not the other way around.

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humans, billion, world, sun, microbe, earth, micrometer, microbial, galaxies, universe, moon, mars, human, truth

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