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    3. The bacteria and the human. A certain kind of bacteria lives in the intestines of humans and many other animals. The human can not digest all of the food that it eats. The bacteria eat the food that the human can not digest and partially digest it, allowing the human to finish the job. The bacteria benefit by getting food, and the human benefits by being able to digest the food it eats.

     

    There is also the bacteria that lives on your skin. It is also known as Streptococcus.

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    Actually, I'm not sure we would want to get rid of the mites in our eyes.  While I'm not a biologist, I do know that the typical human has many, many

    of these things living in our lashes (100,000?) in a symbiotic relationship.

    We provide food for them in the form of dead epithelial tissue, and they clean out the dead eithelial tissue.  Humans have adapted to these creatures, and vice versa.  It's just like being bathed in the radiation that pours over and through us every day.  We can think of it as a bad thing, but humans continue to exist and improve - perhaps not in spite of it but becuase of it.

     

    Of course, not washing can have bad effects as well, but the normal amount of mites living on and in us is pretty harmless, and maybe helpful.

     

    National Geographic magazine just published a fascinating article on the exact same thing sometime in the past six months or so.

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    It's like the normal flora bacteria.

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    It would be cool if they let fans write some. The Okudas are pretty busy. One does the video, the other is a consultant for the alien design panels, etc. It is missing a lot of Voyager. But oh well. I think there is a complete list on ditl, but DITL is suposedly down.