Did this account just follow me because I said "midichlorians"?https://twitter.com/MagicalMicrobes/status/882674370295996416 …
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Replying to @BootlegGirl
If so HOW DARE THEY, MIDICHLORIANS ARE OBVIOUSLY MITOCHONDRIA ANALOGUES AND THUS NOT ACTUALLY TECHNICALLY MICROBES
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Replying to @BootlegGirl
And if your response to this is "how can midichlorians be like mitochondria, Anakin is a small child and every cell contains mitochondria>
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Replying to @BootlegGirl
> so how could 9 year old Anakin have an 'off the charts' midichlorian count if they're like mitochondria" and my answer is ASK GEORGE LUCAS
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Replying to @BootlegGirl
Because Qui-Gon definitely both says that a small child who can be picked up easily has more of a thing that is "in all living cells"
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Replying to @BootlegGirl
I mean, the retcon is either "Qui-Gon is full of shit" or "Anakin has more than one midichlorian per cell"
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Replying to @BootlegGirl
There's no one-mitochondrial-per-cell rule, it correlates with how much energy the cell uses
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl
Muscle cells are essentially bundles of mitochondria
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Obviously it's not an explanation for literal magic powers, but there's nothing actually that weird abt superheroes having more mitochondria
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