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submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

Viruses are Schroedinger's cat confirmed

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

Ok protein spooder

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Oh great virus! What is your wisdom?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

R E P R O D U C E

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Nice, thanks

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Isn't metabolism one definition of life? If so, they're not alive.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

You commented twice

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Weird, i didn't even got a server timeout, which is usualy the cause.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Weaponized information.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

But phages are the most ubiquitous form overall. Maybe not as relevant if you mean viruses that infect humans.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Schrodinger's biology?

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