new life form just dropped.
turns out its inside you right now, and nobody has any clue wtf it is, where it came from, or what it does.
rad!
https://www.sciencealert.com/obelisks-entirely-new-class-of-life-has-been-found-in-the-human-digestive-system
turns out its inside you right now, and nobody has any clue wtf it is, where it came from, or what it does.
rad!
https://www.sciencealert.com/obelisks-entirely-new-class-of-life-has-been-found-in-the-human-digestive-system
Comments
One example:
https://microbiologysociety.org/publication/past-issues/what-is-life/article/are-viruses-alive-what-is-life.html
A definite yes. But I can't be more precise. :)
50+ years of reading science fiction and watching Star Trek make me very open-minded on the subject of whether "life as we understand it" is the only kind of life to be found throughout the cosmos.
Wired: there are a bunch of obelisks inside you
Actually, the single-word zigackly panel is from a different page. Who knew?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obelisk
maybe peer review just takes a while
It's been 10 months since @dereklowe.bsky.social wrote about them, somehow I missed it at the time
https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/what-s-obelisk-anyway