Virophage

Damn it, while I’m out immers­ing myself in the sci­ence fic­tion world all week at Denvention 3, sci­ence goes and spits out some­thing truly amaz­ing and I’m only just now read­ing about it. Check this out:

There is a large virus that gets sick by becom­ing infected by a smaller virus.

If that does not blow your mind, then noth­ing will.

It def­i­nitely set­tles the debate for me as to whether or not viruses are life. Maybe one of the def­i­n­i­tions of life should boil down to “some­thing that can be infected by a virus.”

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