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Anonymous Wed Apr 25 02:51:48 2018 No.9697294 [Reply] [Original]

Why do viruses look like nano-tech machines?

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 25 02:52:38 2018 No.9697296 >>9697294 because they are

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 25 02:54:14 2018 No.9697301 Just this one does

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 25 02:54:59 2018 No.9697303 >>9697296 this, panspermia is probably a thing, both natural and directed.

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 25 02:59:00 2018 No.9697306 File: 77 KB, 640x431, Virus-640x431.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I mean just look at this fucking thing how can this non-living thing exist and not have a purpose?

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 25 04:10:47 2018 No.9697395 >>9697294 Are saying it is weird for things to have structures with a purpose?

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 25 04:17:17 2018 No.9697409 >>9697395 living things*

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 25 04:31:15 2018 No.9697439 >>9697306 >not have a purpose It does have a purpose. It's a virus. It's purpose is to infect, adapt and spread.

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 25 04:34:54 2018 No.9697446 >>9697294 So lets end this debate its a no brainer. Viruses are living.

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 25 04:55:03 2018 No.9697470 File: 70 KB, 559x836, too_intellectual_to_understand_orwell_or_lovecraft.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Virsuses are nonliving. They become living once they enter a host.

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 25 04:58:02 2018 No.9697474 How does it inject the genetic material?

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 25 04:58:51 2018 No.9697477 >>9697474 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFXuxGuT7H8

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 25 09:32:30 2018 No.9697751 >>9697474 by binding to receptors

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 25 09:35:19 2018 No.9697758 >>9697306 nothing has a purpose, pretty easy. and structures aren't hard either

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 25 19:56:13 2018 No.9698353 >>9697477 >that explosion at the end, scattering horrible little bio-robots everywhere. Legitimately 8/10 on the terror scale.

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 25 21:49:09 2018 No.9698551 How do they move? do they use the tail fibers like cilia or do they just float along until they bind to something?

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 25 22:06:52 2018 No.9698586 >>9697294 A shit ton of different proteins look like nano-tech machines

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 25 22:12:37 2018 No.9698591 >>9697294 Pretty much all life has "nano-tech machine" elements at the molecular level. Check out flagella or myosin "walking" along an actin filament and then get back to me; phages are amateur stuff.