Probably your mom, the whale.
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klemptor@startrek.website 1 month agoYeah 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.
BigDiction@lemmy.world 1 month ago
onslaught545@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Depends on the virus. Some of the hepatitis viruses can live for months outside of a host.
Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
And many bacteria can live for years in hard vacuum. That doesn’t tell us anything about the environment they need to live though.
8uurg@lemmy.world 1 month ago
The differences between surviving, living and thriving can be pretty big.
Dasus@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Especially seeing we haven’t even made up our minds on whether they’re ever alive to begin with.