This Virus Shouldn’t Exist (But it Does)
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Hidden in the microverse all around you, there is a merciless war being fought by the true rulers of this planet, microorganisms. Amoebae, protists, bacteria, archaea and fungi compete for resources and space. And then there are the strange horrors that are viruses, hunting everyone else. Not even being alive, they are the tiniest, most abundant and deadliest beings on earth, killing trillions every day. Not interested in resources, only in living things to take over. Or so we thought.
It turns out that there are giant viruses that blur the line between life and death – and other viruses hunting them.
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@Connor O’Riley maybe they will make a video about it
“”””Someone who had accidentally found this channel and now addicted to this channel 💞💚💗”‘””
@Quake 👋
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Can’t believe these things evolved to affect computers
@Mhmd – MC
Not a bright one are you. The og post was a joke; they said real viruses evolved to affect computers.
@Vijay No.
Men created in laboratory those viruses to destroy humanity but instead those viruses evolved to affect computers
@Cherenkov no they dont, its a joke. are you going to r/whoosh me?
@Mhmd – MC we are not serious, we know about everything you said
Next video: We’ve discovered the viruses that attack the viruses have their own viruses, but those viruses are actually double agents for different viruses, and those viruses used the virus as a Trojan horse virus, virally.
And that video went viral
I’ll just use my Trace Buster Buster Buster.
Yo didn’t expect to see you here!
*what did i just read*
Vídeo after the one u said: viruses that eat them selfs as breakfast and eat their family as lunch, and eat planets as dinner we’re discovered
Reminds me of what my Professor said when he saw that we were utterly confused about something that fails clear classification.
“Why is it so confusing you ask? Because Mother Nature doesn’t care how humans classify things.”
@Fred thats all well and good, but they give it the particle/wave duality and base all of quantum mechanics off of it. As well as our idea of light having a speed, as if its moving, when it has a rate of inductance. When we figure out / further research that combines all variations of light (ie magnetism, electricity) (which are different modalities of the same thing, like water, ice, and steam.) we will make leaps and bounds of progress. point is thoh, we have misclassified (purposefully in order to advance pharmaceutical industry) a natural cellular process into an attacking enemy that you can catch/infect from/to others instead of the real cause, an environmental culprit.
*GENIOUS!*
@KO Manic sus
@PlumBirb sussy
@Blake Malone You are not a scientist, are you?
As a stem cell biologist, I think viruses are so fascinating! Although they are comparatively simple, viruses have been incredibly successful in evolution. Retroviruses, for example, can cut the DNA of their host open and integrate their DNA. This is how we humans actually got 5-8% of our total DNA. Although this process can be detrimental for us we also benefited from retroviruses as they gave us genes for making placentas (I made a video about this!). I guess you could say our DNA got.. viral *badumtss*
@Google made me do it Uh thats an very exciting question! Looking forward to the answers!
Weird because the comments from your your channel say “as a” molecular biologist, a stem cell biologists, and just a human biologists. Which is it? Or are you just a student? Because it seems youre just promoting your channel
@Google made me do it I know that salmonella does actually affect the chicken it infects, it’s just that it’s not that relevant to us, because we don’t value a chicken’s life as highly as a human’s. Our bodies also don’t deliberately make any viruses, we are just used as hosts to replicate and spread them. Viruses have sort of evolved alongside their hosts so that they’re optimally adapted to use them for their survival. I believe it’s strictly a one way relationship (a parasitic one).
@Google made me do it I’ll take a shot, though please also wait for other more informed commenters.
I think the main idea is that the immune systems of certain organisms evolve to become increasingly effective against the viruses that typically infect them. There is essentially an evolutionary arms race between viruses and their hosts. Since viruses depend on their hosts however, there is evolutionary pressure for the hosts population to remain sufficient for further viral propagation, so there often exists a sort of equilibrium where viruses are less lethal (this is not a hard and fast rule) and the host organism’s continued adaptations in immune response.
In many cases, the viruses specialize in infecting certain species, which may or may not affect their ability to infect other organisms; it depends on their binding target and how similar this target is across species. For organisms with highly advanced immune systems (I think bats are one of them), the viruses that are also able to infect humans would also be well adapted to avoiding our immune response, which makes for extremely transmissible viruses.
@ass fucker the joint pounder You can use punctuation in voice-to-text. You just have to say it aloud. “Blah blah blah PERIOD” for example. Or “how are you, question mark” The computer puts it in there properly if you tell it to.
“Let me see what you have”
“A KNIFE!”
Nice Kurzgesagt. Nice.
What?
God that had me dying. I love that vine
Yes
8:08
And that semi-aggressive poke-poke is gold!
“Nature is metal.”
Truer words were never spoken.
I disagree, nature is blue.
@Obscure Genesis dabba dee dabba da
“Imagine a mouse crawling into your mouth and using your guts and bones and fat tissue to build a mouse factory.”
No. I don’t think I want to imagine nightmare fuel.
Give it a try, in case one day it will happen to you.
“Imagine a mouse crawling into your mouth and using your guts and bones and fat tissue to build a mouse factory.”
I ABSOLUTELY WILL NOT IMAGINE THAT TYVM THO
@elosant I’m a fan of his actually
@Proud Beaner II found the British weirdo that forgot to drink his tea oi oi
@elosant he got accused by some low IQ feminists unfortunately
Yea I didn’t like that analogy.
Welp, there goes my sleep schedule.
“Imagine a mouse crawling into you through your mouth and using your bones and guts and fat tissue to build a mouse factory”
Diving from existential into body horror now, are we?
This example and the real explanation really reminded me of a book called Cold Storage, where a mutated fungus uses humans like that, subsequently forces them to climb onto high places and explode for maximum spore spread
Wasn’t there a movie like this too?
Soon they will go to cosmic horror and make Yog-Sothot ducks