Okay, this got me curious. From the wikipedia article on viruses:
Viruses are considered by some biologists to be a life form, because they carry genetic material, reproduce, and evolve through natural selection, although they lack the key characteristics, such as cell structure, that are generally considered necessary criteria for defining life. Because they possess some but not all such qualities, viruses have been described as "organisms at the edge of life" and as replicators.
🚨 Viral meme detected
Maybe undead ? That would explain all those viral zombie apocalypses.
I'm basically a needle for injecting drugs into you without consent, fight me (I'll win anyway, some percentage of time).
I found this to be interesting. The word (and concept) of a virus predates its actual discovery by over 500 years.
The English word "virus" comes from the Latin vīrus, which refers to poison and other noxious liquids. Vīrus comes from the same Indo-European root as Sanskrit viṣa, Avestan vīša, and Ancient Greek ἰός (iós), which all mean "poison". The first attested use of "virus" in English appeared in 1398 in John Trevisa's translation of Bartholomeus Anglicus's De Proprietatibus Rerum. Virulent, from Latin virulentus ('poisonous'), dates to c. 1400. A meaning of 'agent that causes infectious disease' is first recorded in 1728, long before the discovery of viruses by Dmitri Ivanovsky in 1892.
The replicators are real. I still think the version from Stargate SG-1 are the scariest though.
Ok protein spooder
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Viruses are Schroedinger's cat confirmed
Weaponized information.
While technically phages are viruses, i think it is important to label them as phages.
Typically a virus does not look like a robot. The by now rather well known SARS-CoV-2, with its spherical shape is a more common depiction of a virus: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virus
Bacteriophage look like little robots and from the view of a bacterium - they probably are the equivalent of a terminator: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacteriophage
Schrodinger's biology?
I'm just a quirky little lad.
Isn't metabolism one definition of life? If so, they're not alive.
