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Anonymous Sun Mar 26 09:08:02 2017 No.8779781 [Reply] [Original]

Are viruses alive?
Viruses don't seem very alive to me.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 26 09:09:22 2017 No.8779785 >>8779781 they're alive the same way 4chan zombies are alive

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 26 10:20:36 2017 No.8779901 No. Don't let a virologist tell you otherwise. t. Virologist.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 26 10:40:18 2017 No.8779936 they live a borrowed life.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 26 10:40:25 2017 No.8779937 >>8779901 But how they infect people?

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 26 10:41:52 2017 No.8779940 >>8779937 The ability to infect is not one of the requirements of being alive.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 26 16:33:10 2017 No.8780827 >>8779781 Define alive

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 26 16:38:23 2017 No.8780836 >>8779937 Is fire alive?

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 26 16:41:46 2017 No.8780843 >>8779781 http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Are+viruses+alive%3F

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 26 16:46:03 2017 No.8780855 Are the atoms that make a cell alive?