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• Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Is that really a virus? That would be huge for a virus.

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  • SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s a radiolarian skeleton, more info here: lemmy.blahaj.zone/comment/12782032

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• gianni@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I did not realize that tardigrades were so small. Previously I thought one would be able to see one with the naked eye.

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  • Sabre363@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That would be mildly terrifying

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    • Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Being naked isn’t that scary

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  • azi@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Most species grow to half a millimetre. So they’re just barely visible to the naked eye; like a small spec of dust.

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  • PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’m not a biologist but there is no way in hell that a virus can be as big as a living organism right? That’s probably not a bacteriophage

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    • ByteJunk@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Definitely not, a bacteriophage is like 500 nanometres. A tardigrade is 0.5 mm, or 500 000 nanometres, literally 1000x the size.

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    • SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I am a microbiologist, there’s no way in hell that’s a virus.

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• iAvicenna@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  how is that a bacteriophage?

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  • meyotch@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yeah looks like a diatom skeleton. And the scale is quite wrong

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    • azi@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It looks nothing like a centric or pennate diatom

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• Mothra@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  That bacteriophage looks awesome tho, I want one to scale

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