2026-09-19 09:05 UTC
@TheBreadmonkey@beige.party Something on the radio today about analysing swabs from subway stations across the world. Did I hear correctly that 94% of the viruses in the samples were previously unknown?
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@benroyce@mastodon.social 2026-09-19 10:14
@TimWardCam@c.im @TheBreadmonkey@beige.party yeah we know a lot. but it's like shining a flashlight in the dark the endless mutations don't interest me. not even new species of well known orders interest me. what interests me are entirely new orders of creatures we still do not know for example, we recently discovered something that is not quite cellular life, and not quite a virus it's cellular life we have caught in the process of devolving into a virus https://amazingzoology.com/a-microbe-that-may-be-on-its-way-to-becoming-a-virus/