wikipedia link for those who just wanna learn about giant virus's.
The wildest thing to me is that the viruses that prey on giant viruses work by infecting bacteria/algea, and then waiting for a giant virus to infect it too before it attacks.
The bacteria get infected with an anti-virus virus! It's just like Norton on computers!
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ummthatguy@lemmy.world · 35 pts · 77d
File footage:
turtlesareneat@piefed.ca · 7 pts · 77d
They never really explained why they could fly
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 77d
probably some gas chamber it has, pretty much deflates when they die.
Davel23@fedia.io · 4 pts · 77d
Aw, I was hoping for Operation: Annihilate! or maybe The Immunity Syndrome.
ummthatguy@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 77d
The Immunity Syndrome's example is rather on the extra-large side reminiscent of the giant amoeba from Evolution.
The creatures from Operation: Annihilate! just tend to make me hungry.
hopesdead@startrek.website · 4 pts · 77d
They’re called macrovirus.
tinylightshow@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 77d
Macrocosm!
ummthatguy@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 77d
The Janeway's "Ellen Ripley" moment!
tinylightshow@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 8 pts · 77d
Definitely between this, Year of Hell, and Shattered are all definitive Ellen Ripley energy!
otter@lemmy.ca · 14 pts · 77d
You might also enjoy learning about phages
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phage_therapy
Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz · 8 pts · 77d
Pox viruses incl smallpox are of this type.
I wonder what the smallest host:virus size ratio is, is there a virus that gets spawned by a cell only big enough to fit 2 protein coats?
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 6 pts · 77d
wierdly giant viruses mostly infect amoebas, rare instance infecting out unicelluar eukaryotes.
IPeaceInYourFace@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 77d
Good. Fuck em
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 pts · 77d
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r53u0mjnFOc