[headdie]

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/huge-viruses-may-open-pandoras-box-french-study-175025001.html#VbRQIn

basically scientists have discovered a virus like object which is twice the size of any previously known virus and can be seen under a conventional light based microscope

[Black Wolf]

Wow. If it does turn out to be a separate tree of life the implications ar immense, staggering.

Big news.

[StarSlayer]

By your choice of title I had hoped on of the rovers had found some bacteria under a rock on Mars or something.  Still interesting though.

[Fury]

By your choice of title I had hoped on of the rovers had found some bacteria under a rock on Mars or something.  Still interesting though.

Close enough. Australia.

[StarSlayer]

From the folks that brought you:

[BloodEagle]

Researchers say they were "extremely surprised" by the discovery of what they are calling "Pandoraviruses," which are not believed to be the type that make people sick.

I've played this game!  It's waiting until it gets enough evolution points to turn us all into zombies or something!

[Fury]

StarSlayer, did you just make a reference to menstruation?

[Shivan Hunter]

Looks like that's supposed to be an image link but the site doesn't allow hotlinking.

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[quote author=StarSlayer link=topic=85086.msg1701154#msg1701154 date=1374255616]
From the folks that brought you:

[img]http://themetapicture.com/media/funny-platypus-face-facts.jpg[/img]
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[StarSlayer]

 
I'll show you, you hotlink blocking bastards.

Crazy Australian Pandorvirus, from the folks that brought you:



And here I was wracking my brain with what a platypus had to do with PMS...

[Lorric]

I never knew the platypus was venomous. Interesting creature.

[MP-Ryan]

I never knew the platypus was venomous. Interesting creature.

Only the males.  The female spur doesn't contain venom.

[SpardaSon21]

Between this, box jellyfish, crocodiles, and sharks that have learned to enjoy the taste of human, I'm never going swimming anywhere in Australia.

[Lorric]

I never knew the platypus was venomous. Interesting creature.

Only the males.  The female spur doesn't contain venom.

Thanks. I went looking into it right after I posted that and found out first, but thanks anyway.

Really nasty stuff that venom by the sounds of it. 

Also didn't know it's the only egg laying mammal. The platypus certainly gave the conventions of nature a big figurative middle finger.

I'm doing it my way, whether you like it or not, Mother Nature! I'm gonna have a bit of everything!   

EDIT: Misinformation struck through.

[Bobboau]

it's the only egg laying mammal.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echidna

[Lorric]

it's the only egg laying mammal.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echidna

And that's what happens when I skim things, I was skimming down for the venom and missed the bit about the extant species.

Thanks. 

[MikeRoz]

I'm confused. Wasn't this Voyager episode aired over a decade ago? Why is it news now?

[Bobboau]

related to OP

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viral_eukaryogenesis

[niffiwan]

Between this, box jellyfish, crocodiles, and sharks that have learned to enjoy the taste of human, I'm never going swimming anywhere in Australia.

Oh come on, where's your sense of adventure?  There's plenty of places you can swim without worrying about those particular nasties

Of course, you forgot to mention the stonefish, blue ring octopuses, cone shells (Conidae, i.e. snails with harpoons!), stingrays & highly venomous sea-snakes, and probably a whole heap of other nasties that live in the water around here

[An4ximandros]

I am not going to northern South America/southern Central America ever. It is not just Australia/New Netherworld.

[Goober5000]

I'm confused. Wasn't this Voyager episode aired over a decade ago? Why is it news now?

Don't you mean the TOS episode?