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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: MP-Ryan on March 05, 2014, 02:48:27 pm

Title: Hey pithovirus, you so fat dat...
Post by: MP-Ryan on March 05, 2014, 02:48:27 pm

...I can see you with a light microscope pretty damn clearly: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/03/140304071433.htm

30,000 year-old amoeba-specific virus discovered in Siberian permafrost.  Which isn't so perma these days.  And it's 1.5 µm long and 0.5 µm wide, which makes it the largest virus ever discovered.

Title: Re: Hey pithovirus, you so fat dat...
Post by: StarSlayer on March 05, 2014, 02:56:22 pm

Everything was bigger in the Pleistocene!

Title: Re: Hey pithovirus, you so fat dat...
Post by: Flipside on March 08, 2014, 09:31:01 am

They had to, the legs kept falling off when the Pleistocene dried out...

Badumtish...

Title: Re: Hey pithovirus, you so fat dat...
Post by: yuezhi on March 11, 2014, 10:56:09 pm

Prehistoric viruses coming back to life and infecting mankind? Bah, humbug!
We's already got more than enough.