Fun fact- spraying soapy water on a cockroach will kill them. They have numerous perforations in their body called sphericals- which they breath through. The dish soap breaks the surface tension of water and drowns them.
He's fine. He's been taken to a big petri dish upstate where he can romp and play and infect people from New Jersey, and they feed him raw chicken out of the garbage every night.
Pretty much any soap or detergent is alkaline enough to either burst the cell wall or render it useless and kill the cell. It doesn't have to be "antibacterial" soap.
This is because soap is amphiphilic (water & oil loving), cell membranes & some viral membranes are the same, with the the oily bit sandwiched between water loving layers. Soap molecules can then basically spear themselves into the membrane and break them up :)
I hate the Lume commercials that try to convince people that regular soap isn't good enough. Lying in order to sell a product to solve a problem that doesn't exist.
I am a protein. All living organisms need me to function. A basic building block of the human body, I'm made from amino acids found in ribosomes. Proteins give energy to everything from flowers and butterflies to heroes who turn in Communists. I am a protein.
That’s what I had read too. Soap is just a saponifier - bonds to the oils on your body to wash things away. I didn’t know it also mechanically killed germs.
bingotown
This kills the germ.
jaggcomputing5
Haha! Take that lipoproteins!
OliverOtter
I like to stare 'em in the nucleus and see the very moment they realize I'm not their habitat.
DaBaDoop
JesusofMethlehem
Grapeape2000
This kills the germ
CaptainDiddleFartingAround
I know it went through a whole pandemic but it still seems like people don't know how to wash their hands.
SJohnson23
Mr Stark? I don’t feel so good.
mboswi
That look like murder.
chowfornowbrowncow
Fun fact- spraying soapy water on a cockroach will kill them. They have numerous perforations in their body called sphericals- which they breath through. The dish soap breaks the surface tension of water and drowns them.
TinyLiehon
I-... is that microbe gone be ok? I've already named it
MirroredImage
He's fine. He's been taken to a big petri dish upstate where he can romp and play and infect people from New Jersey, and they feed him raw chicken out of the garbage every night.
mnrelo
Horrible death
memiter
what about skin cells_
SnowPeas22
What are those two glowing yellow on top?
DaddyRobotBeepBoop
Fuck you COVID!
TheSlouchOfBethlehem
dissolve that punk-ass bitch
FlaminkoFactor
Pop a fuckin cap in that ciliate's membrane
Lonecoon
Get dissolved, idiot.
JustDriftingAboutTheInterWebs
ThatSonOfaBitch
Bear claw!
wybaugh2112
rrarhr
Drmart
Haha. He ded.
possumattack
Technically *pushes up glasses* it's solubilizing the cell membrane and structures, not dissolving.
ThatSonOfaBitch
"Soap! My only weakness! How did you know?" - Protozoa, probably
koops
Comic-Con attendee also
pthoman
Now to make him go zoom zoom zoom.
ObiWanKenobitch
Make his heart go boom boom boom (this kills the Protozoa)
pthoman
Oh no! Now who will talk to the aliens?
sardonislamir
Hold on, what kind of soap?
TheRicM
The ciliate membrane dissolving type
ardtay
Pretty much any soap or detergent is alkaline enough to either burst the cell wall or render it useless and kill the cell. It doesn't have to be "antibacterial" soap.
Raeya
This is because soap is amphiphilic (water & oil loving), cell membranes & some viral membranes are the same, with the the oily bit sandwiched between water loving layers. Soap molecules can then basically spear themselves into the membrane and break them up :)
PicassoCT
Insane in the membran..
TheRicM
That's insane...in the membrane
grannystabber
What?
TI99Kitty
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RijB8wnJCN0
grannystabber
....insane in the brain
LuluMikimaumau
why is spongebob on the second one. or am I just drunk
cousteau
This kills the germ.
AmyBethMegJo
I hate the Lume commercials that try to convince people that regular soap isn't good enough. Lying in order to sell a product to solve a problem that doesn't exist.
SingleActionArmy
digitreal
Video evidence dem liberals are breaking down walls by introducing gay chemtrails to make us weaker.
SacrificialClam
Must be using this on the border wall. That explains how all them illegals are gettin over and tekkin er jerbs
JustDriftingAboutTheInterWebs
Soap bubbles have rainbows. Coincidence? I think not.
NateintheNorth
More like: if it's doing this to the bacteria imagine what it's doing to my skin!! And my mouth when I drink it! And my rectum when I....
ThatSonOfaBitch
HeraldofOmega
Video evidence Cyclops exists.
BeaverOnFire
No. They are protecting us from the gay frog space lasers!
TsubakiTragic
Still, there is a possibility of land rights for gay whales tho.
HandoB4Javert
CanIGetSomeExtraSalt
the mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell
ThatSonOfaBitch
Exactly to the letter everything I remember from the anime "Cells at Work". Well except that those Platelets are freaking cute.
AShartInTheWind
Not-So-Fun-Fact: Long COVID is causing a lot of people in their 30s & 40s to have mitochondria equivalent to someone 80+.
januarylover
I am a protein. All living organisms need me to function. A basic building block of the human body, I'm made from amino acids found in ribosomes. Proteins give energy to everything from flowers and butterflies to heroes who turn in Communists. I am a protein.
Infinias
JustDriftingAboutTheInterWebs
*was
ThatSonOfaBitch
Wait what changed? Oh... (sad face)
HeresYourSauce
Was, as the cell is dead. (The fact is still true)
pm1001
*was
whatthewho
HeresYourSauce
I assumed as a kid what soap did was help wash off germs. It does, but it also breaks down their cell walls, killing many kinds outright.
jesuisgur
I always wondered why germs don't build up a resistance to soap the way they do to antibiotics...
notadiddler69
Germ genocide. Germocide?
HeresYourSauce
Germicide. I think it's a little archaic, but still used.
NacLac
Which is what most people who just use water forget.
ThoroughBurrow
There’s people like that? 🤦♂️
NacLac
I did as a kid for a bit. See people at my office who do that daily
ivymantled69
That’s what I had read too. Soap is just a saponifier - bonds to the oils on your body to wash things away. I didn’t know it also mechanically killed germs.
demoncatmara
It can kill viruses that way too
denimdenis
We should be looking into injecting soap directly into our veins /s
SciencePetsComputers
Covid-19 is killed by soap. It's got a fatty membrane that dissolves in it.
InTheDistanceAPlaintiveEnglishHorn
Yes this is due to the basic mechanism of what soap even is. Just Google surfactant