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fossilesque@mander.xyzM to Science Memes@mander.xyzEnglish · 2 days ago

The virus she told you not to worry about.

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The virus she told you not to worry about.

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    micrometer scale is massive for viruses, thats the size of a small cell.

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      Right?! A LifeStraw would catch that.

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      Nice. 😎

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    How does one discover a virus in the ocean? Are there just viruses living in the ocean and scientists out there getting beakers of ocean water to microscope?

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      Pretty much.

      The ocean is a war zone, an endless battle between bacteria and viruses. Trillions of dead every day; weapons developed and discarded as the tide of battle ebbs and flows.

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        Yeah but viruses are obligate intracellular parasites - they can’t survive for long outside of a host cell and have to reproduce using the machinery of a host cell. I’m curious what this virus is parasitizing.

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          Depends on the virus. Some of the hepatitis viruses can live for months outside of a host.

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            And many bacteria can live for years in hard vacuum. That doesn’t tell us anything about the environment they need to live though.

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              The differences between surviving, living and thriving can be pretty big.

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                Especially seeing we haven’t even made up our minds on whether they’re ever alive to begin with.

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          Probably your mom, the whale.

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        Tide of battle goes up, tide of battle goes down. You can’t explain that.

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        This sounds like a game I would play the shit out of

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          It’s called spore

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            Honestly that stage of the game doesn’t last long enough. It’s the best part.

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              Have you played Thrive? It aims to be the game that Spore should have been and it’s pretty cheap. It’s a work in progress but the cell stage is already a lot deeper than Spore’s.

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                I second this, Thrive is a good game. It’s also open source (though by buying it on Steam you’re supporting the devs)

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                  It’s $4.99 right now!

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                  It’s $4.99 right now!

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          well, there was a game called “Everything” from 2017 where you can do that….
          (i recommend playing it before reading about it but: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everything_(video_game) ).
          (also, very good with weed)

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        eh pretty much the blood war then

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      Sounds like it.

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    Sir, that’s a lollipop glued to your scanning machine.

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