Stories
Slash Boxes
Comments

SoylentNews is people

posted by mrpg on Saturday July 31 2021, @07:28PM   Printer-friendly
from the china...viruses... dept.

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.


Original Submission

This discussion has been archived. No new comments can be posted.
Display Options Threshold/Breakthrough Mark All as Read Mark All as Unread
The Fine Print: The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. We are not responsible for them in any way.
(1)
  • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 31 2021, @08:05PM (4 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 31 2021, @08:05PM (#1161778)

    it was mailed in from their lab.

    • (Score: 2) by Gaaark on Saturday July 31 2021, @08:14PM (1 child)

      by Gaaark (41) on Saturday July 31 2021, @08:14PM (#1161779) Journal

      No, silly: the bats dove down and got it and spread it to humans that way!

      --
      --- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. ---Gaaark 2.0 ---
    • (Score: 5, Funny) by Tork on Saturday July 31 2021, @08:18PM (1 child)

      by Tork (3914) Subscriber Badge on Saturday July 31 2021, @08:18PM (#1161782)
      If the lab really wanted to know what these viruses could do they could just send a sample to Florida.
      --
      🏳️‍🌈 Proud Ally 🏳️‍🌈
      • (Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 31 2021, @11:33PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 31 2021, @11:33PM (#1161806)

        All Tork! [ultimatemovierankings.com] No balls!

  • (Score: 2) by Gaaark on Saturday July 31 2021, @08:17PM (1 child)

    by Gaaark (41) on Saturday July 31 2021, @08:17PM (#1161781) Journal

    If there are Mimiviruses, then we need an Oswald and Lewis vaccine.

    --
    --- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. ---Gaaark 2.0 ---
  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by weilawei on Saturday July 31 2021, @09:25PM (7 children)

    by weilawei (109) on Saturday July 31 2021, @09:25PM (#1161788)
    Let's do the time warp again! Fuuck me. Please, stop retrieving novel viruses and bringing them to human population centers.
    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 31 2021, @09:48PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 31 2021, @09:48PM (#1161792)

      Please, stop retrieving novel viruses and bringing them to human population centers.

      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)

      by Beryllium Sphere (r) (5062) on Sunday August 01 2021, @12:06AM (#1161809)

      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

        by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Sunday August 01 2021, @01:10AM (#1161820) Journal

        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

        by Reziac (2489) on Sunday August 01 2021, @03:21AM (#1161858) Homepage

        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

        by pe1rxq (844) on Sunday August 01 2021, @08:51AM (#1161915) Homepage

        Humans might be safe. Trump voters probably not....

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 03 2021, @12:12AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 03 2021, @12:12AM (#1162511)

        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

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 01 2021, @01:06AM (#1161818)

      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

    by PinkyGigglebrain (4458) on Saturday July 31 2021, @09:44PM (#1161791)

    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.

    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)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 31 2021, @11:57PM (#1161807)

    You'd think they learned their lesson.

    • (Score: 3, Interesting) by c0lo on Sunday August 01 2021, @01:08AM (2 children)

      by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Sunday August 01 2021, @01:08AM (#1161819) Journal

      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)

        by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 01 2021, @10:45AM (#1161929)

        But the pink-hairs are already doing that for them.

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 01 2021, @10:53AM

          by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 01 2021, @10:53AM (#1161931)

          You got it wrong, it's the green-hairs

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 01 2021, @02:47AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 01 2021, @02:47AM (#1161848)
      That they can manage such stuff a lot better than the USA or the NATO countries?
  • (Score: 1) by Coligny on Sunday August 01 2021, @02:15AM (1 child)

    by Coligny (2200) on Sunday August 01 2021, @02:15AM (#1161838)

    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

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 01 2021, @12:22PM (#1161940)

      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.

(1)