rocks shaped like faces
Do you dare deny it?
I did have a pet rock as a kid, and I liked it more than normal rocks.
Viruses don’t singlehandedly consume matter and produce byproducts so they are not alive
The rare xkcd I find charming and relatable rather than charming and arcane.
They may not be alive but prions scare the ever living fuck out of me.
🚨 Viral meme detected
I found this to be interesting. The word (and concept) of a virus predates its actual discovery by over 500 years.
The English word “virus” comes from the Latin vīrus, which refers to poison and other noxious liquids. Vīrus comes from the same Indo-European root as Sanskrit viṣa, Avestan vīša, and Ancient Greek ἰός (iós), which all mean “poison”. The first attested use of “virus” in English appeared in 1398 in John Trevisa’s translation of Bartholomeus Anglicus’s De Proprietatibus Rerum. Virulent, from Latin virulentus (‘poisonous’), dates to c. 1400. A meaning of ‘agent that causes infectious disease’ is first recorded in 1728, long before the discovery of viruses by Dmitri Ivanovsky in 1892.
I knew iOS was poison
It passed through the bacteria filters! So small that it passes by the filters and it kills–poison, toxin. But wait, it can be diluted to lowest effective concentration, and then with addition of host it grows back to high concentration. What poison does that?
The replicators are real. I still think the version from Stargate SG-1 are the scariest though.
Ok protein spooder
Isn’t metabolism one definition of life? If so, they’re not alive.
You commented twice
Weird, i didn’t even got a server timeout, which is usualy the cause.
Oh great virus! What is your wisdom?
R E P R O D U C E
Nice, thanks
Viruses are Schroedinger’s cat confirmed
While technically phages are viruses, i think it is important to label them as phages.
Typically a virus does not look like a robot. The by now rather well known SARS-CoV-2, with its spherical shape is a more common depiction of a virus: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virus
Bacteriophage look like little robots and from the view of a bacterium - they probably are the equivalent of a terminator: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacteriophage
Schrodinger’s biology?
Weaponized information.
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I’m just a quirky little lad.