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Sir, that’s a lollipop glued to your scanning machine.
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?
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.
This sounds like a game I would play the shit out of
It’s called spore
Honestly that stage of the game doesn’t last long enough. It’s the best part.
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)
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.
Depends on the virus. Some of the hepatitis viruses can live for months outside of a host.
And many bacteria can live for years in hard vacuum. That doesn’t tell us anything about the environment they need to live though.
The differences between surviving, living and thriving can be pretty big.
Especially seeing we haven’t even made up our minds on whether they’re ever alive to begin with.
