{"id":470797,"date":"2010-03-24T23:02:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-25T03:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5587346.post-6629018432004105696"},"modified":"2010-03-24T23:03:36","modified_gmt":"2010-03-25T03:03:36","slug":"if-you-laid-every-virus-head-to-toe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/470797","title":{"rendered":"If you laid every virus head to toe &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>You would get a very slender string of significant length &#8230;<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/loom\/2010\/03\/24\/welcome-to-your-viral-world\/#\">Welcome to Your Viral World | The Loom | Carl Zimmer for Discover Magazine<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/loom\/2010\/03\/24\/welcome-to-your-viral-world\/#\"><\/a>&#8230;Line up all the viruses on Earth end to end (go ahead, I\u2019ll wait), and they\u2019ll stretch over 10 million light years&#8230;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Is this conceivable? I know our planet is a seething ball of virii, but even a single light year is a very great length.<small><\/small><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>See also:<\/div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/notes.kateva.org\/2009\/12\/most-marvelous-world-of-virus.html\">The most marvelous world of the virus<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/notes.kateva.org\/2006\/01\/why-would-virus-fatten-animal.html\">Why would a virus fatten an animal?<\/a> (2006)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/notes.kateva.org\/2010\/01\/dark-matter-dna.html\">Dark matter DNA<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/notes.kateva.org\/2010\/03\/reflections-on-my-personal-bacterial.html\">Reflections on my personal bacterial companions<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/notes.kateva.org\/2010\/02\/computers-viruses-intelligent-design.html\">Computers, viruses, intelligent design, natural selection, memes, mitochondria and, of course, the Fermi Paradox<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img width='1' height='1' src='https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/5587346-6629018432004105696?l=notes.kateva.org' alt='' \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You would get a very slender string of significant length &#8230; Welcome to Your Viral World | The Loom | Carl Zimmer for Discover Magazine &#8230;Line up all the viruses on Earth end to end (go ahead, I\u2019ll wait), and they\u2019ll stretch over 10 million light years&#8230;. Is this conceivable? I know our planet is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":711,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-470797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/711"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=470797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470797\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=470797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=470797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=470797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}