China scientists discover giant viruses in the deepest place on Earth:
The first known batch of viruses retrieved from the deepest point in the Mariana Trench includes giant species bigger than some bacterium, according to a research team in Shanghai.
The many legends of giant sea creatures have been largely debunked because of the challenges to large, complex life forms at the greatest ocean depths.
But the researchers discovered several giant viral species, including mimiviruses – which typically use amoeba as their hosts – in sediments taken from a seabed nearly 11,000 metres (36,000 feet) below sea level at Challenger Deep.
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(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 31 2021, @08:05PM (4 children)
it was mailed in from their lab.
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Saturday July 31 2021, @08:14PM (1 child)
No, silly: the bats dove down and got it and spread it to humans that way!
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(Score: 2) by krishnoid on Saturday July 31 2021, @08:56PM
Wait, I can't have something that large infect me, such as via the respiratory or oral route [youtu.be]!
(Score: 5, Funny) by Tork on Saturday July 31 2021, @08:18PM (1 child)
🏳️🌈 Proud Ally 🏳️🌈
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 31 2021, @11:33PM
All Tork! [ultimatemovierankings.com] No balls!
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Saturday July 31 2021, @08:17PM (1 child)
If there are Mimiviruses, then we need an Oswald and Lewis vaccine.
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(Score: 2) by istartedi on Sunday August 01 2021, @01:16AM
Obligatory Drew Carey Show reference. [youtube.com]
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(Score: 4, Insightful) by weilawei on Saturday July 31 2021, @09:25PM (7 children)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 31 2021, @09:48PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvdf5n-zI14 [youtube.com]
(Score: 2) by Beryllium Sphere (r) on Sunday August 01 2021, @12:06AM (4 children)
Why do you believe there's a risk of an amoeba-targeting virus infecting humans, and of it causing illness?
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Sunday August 01 2021, @01:10AM
Are you able to offer an argument towards the impossibility of such a scenario?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by Reziac on Sunday August 01 2021, @03:21AM
Certain amoeba can infect the human brain, tho that's not where they'd normally live.
https://www.livescience.com/22626-brain-eating-amoeba-neti-pots.html [livescience.com]
Occurs to me to wonder if such a virus could alter the amoeba's behavior, perhaps like... this.
And there is no Alkibiades to come back and save us from ourselves.
(Score: 2) by pe1rxq on Sunday August 01 2021, @08:51AM
Humans might be safe. Trump voters probably not....
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 03 2021, @12:12AM
Because the Chinese eat anything they can get their hands on?
...Sorry couldn't resist, bad taste joke or is it a joke in bad taste?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 01 2021, @01:06AM
Why not? This is how you make the humanity evolve resistant to more viruses.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by PinkyGigglebrain on Saturday July 31 2021, @09:44PM
If one ignores Architeuthis dux [wikipedia.org] and Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni [wikipedia.org].
Of course they aren't Kaijus [wikipedia.org] so I guess they don't count.
"Beware those who would deny you Knowledge, For in their hearts they dream themselves your Master."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 31 2021, @11:57PM (4 children)
You'd think they learned their lesson.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by c0lo on Sunday August 01 2021, @01:08AM (2 children)
Yeap, they learned the lesson good. This is how you push the US economy lower and cause infighting there. (large grin)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 01 2021, @10:45AM (1 child)
But the pink-hairs are already doing that for them.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 01 2021, @10:53AM
You got it wrong, it's the green-hairs
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 01 2021, @02:47AM
(Score: 1) by Coligny on Sunday August 01 2021, @02:15AM (1 child)
Not this sh1t again …
If I wanted to be moderated by mor0nic groupthinking retards I would still be on Digg and Reddshit.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 01 2021, @12:22PM
So you think all reasearch on viruses should stop? How would that help. You've committed a hasty generalisation - some bd therefore all bad. Please evolve a less binary brain.