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?
The virus she told you not to worry about.
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danc4498@lemmy.world 2 months ago
absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz 2 months ago
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.
klemptor@startrek.website 2 months ago
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.
bitjunkie@lemmy.world 2 months ago
This sounds like a game I would play the shit out of
iAvicenna@lemmy.world 2 months ago
eh pretty much the blood war then
muntedcrocodile@hilariouschaos.com 2 months ago
Sounds like it.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 months ago
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.
Kyle_The_G@lemmy.world 2 months ago
micrometer scale is massive for viruses, thats the size of a small cell.
OldChicoAle@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Nice.
shalafi@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Right?! A LifeStraw would catch that.
Dasus@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Hudell@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Sir, that’s a lollipop glued to your scanning machine.
Hupf@feddit.org 2 months ago
DickFiasco@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
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