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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?
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.
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.
Probably your mom, the whale.
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.
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.
I second this, Thrive is a good game. It's also open source (though by buying it on Steam you're supporting the devs)
It's $4.99 right now!
It’s 8675309 right now!
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Guys, I think it's $4.99 right now!
Dear god, I just saw the multiple reply carnage a day later - I never received a confirmation message that my comment was posted. 🤣
It's all good 😂 and I think most of us here are tech savvy enough to understand how and why it happens. I've done it plenty myself in the past. 👍
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)
Tide of battle goes up, tide of battle goes down. You can't explain that.
eh pretty much the blood war then
the ocean is filled with viruses, mostly for bacteriophages, archaea virus(viruses that infect archaea, and other organisms. and most viruses can only be seen with electron microscope, because they are smaller than the wavelength of light. and there are just beginning to discover a large community of them this one is called PELV-1, which infects Pelagodinium phytoplankton. Alot of other giant viruses infect amoebas.
micrometer scale is massive for viruses, thats the size of a small cell.
Nice. 😎
Right?! A LifeStraw would catch that.
Sir, that's a lollipop glued to your scanning machine.