BREAKING: Huge Science Nerds Unveil First Electron Microscope Image of Woke Mind Virus (hexbear.net)

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[-] Red_Sunshine_Over_Florida@hexbear.net 15 points 1 year ago

I love those virus shapes. They always fascinated my as a kid in science class.

[-] SnAgCu@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago

it's wild how they just look like little guys, how did that happen

[-] comrade_pibb@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago

and what little dances are are they doing with those little legs??

[-] SpiderFarmer@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's crazy how cute a lot of these things look under a microscope. Even E coli. looks adorable wriggling around.

[-] ValpoYAFF@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago

The "legs" grab onto bacterial cell membranes to insert the central stalk like a syringe. It is a specialised adaptation to parisitism of a specific kind of host, which is observed in many advanced obligate parasites. This kind of specialisation results from many generations of co-evolution.