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Smug Viruses (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 47 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (16 children)

Oh, they can spend long periods of time being inert, and then resume activity when conditions change to be more favorable?

... Like a tardigrade? Or a seed?

Oh, they cannot reproduce themselves on their own or within their own species?

... Like a obligate parasite wasp? Or a plant species that relies on a pollinator?

Oh, they do not reach a stable equilibrium within their ecosystem?

... Like humans?

I'll give you that viruses never metabolize and are not capable of homeostasis... but they do not lack 'any' of the characteristics of life, they have some big ones.

They reproduce, evolve, and respond to stimuli.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Mr. Smith's humanity is a virus speech intensifies

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

(Yes I know this is a different scene, but its funnier, and Smith's character arc is that he is a virus.)

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