son, happy birthday
son, happy birthday
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I did not realize that tardigrades were so small. Previously I thought one would be able to see one with the naked eye.
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Most species grow to half a millimetre. So they're just barely visible to the naked eye; like a small spec of dust.
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That would be mildly terrifying
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Being naked isn't that scary
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I'm not a biologist but there is no way in hell that a virus can be as big as a living organism right? That's probably not a bacteriophage
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Definitely not, a bacteriophage is like 500 nanometres. A tardigrade is 0.5 mm, or 500 000 nanometres, literally 1000x the size.
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I am a microbiologist, there's no way in hell that's a virus.
Edit: it's probably a radiolarian skeleton, maybe genus cornutella.
Edit 2: it's indeed a cornutella skeleton: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/comment/12782032
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Is that really a virus? That would be huge for a virus.
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It's a radiolarian skeleton, more info here: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/comment/12782032
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That bacteriophage looks awesome tho, I want one to scale
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