2:30:44I feel like that was established when you defended Astrology
2:30:48you the rat? put the ears XD
2:30:56that sounds good. you're such a good little rat :)
2:31:02@Kraller100 Viruses indeed are organic due to its primarily C+H+O makeup. the question is whether they can be considered alive
2:31:04I'm like 97% the same as a baboon :grinning_squinting_face:
2:31:07don't slugs have similar dna to humans as well?
2:31:12viruses are often not considered living things since they don't fit the rules of "consumes, reproduces" since they work by injecting their DNA/RNA into other cells that then produce new viruses
2:31:32you didn't dissect a frog in middle school?
2:31:35ok tells us the speed of light Nova then:_smile:
2:31:57you can be the doc rat no worries
2:32:04Frog dissection is an american thing
2:32:073.147 :grinning_squinting_face:
2:32:14We did on the living fish instead
2:32:19no people in humanities here? :_PANIK:
2:32:24i did open a kidney in biology class
2:32:31They're proteins though, are individual protein strands alive?
2:32:32a prion is a singular molecule
2:32:40they are protein without DNA
2:32:45prions are just a wonky protein so technically not alive
2:32:55"Alive" has a list of specific criteria
2:33:15"Back in my day" was it before or after the steam engine got invented? lol
2:33:22prions are just ugly ahh proteins that when meeting with a handsome protein, prions influence them to become ugly like them and then since they turn ugly, slowly u die from organ failure
2:33:23we didn't do anything in biology everything fun was in chemistry
2:33:36they aren't that worrying, you just gotta get someone to go in and re-fold them right
2:33:36in my school we opened a chicken heart. in the next day we made yogurt
2:33:40micro bears are cute little things that I like to believe are alive but idk how sentient they are
2:33:57could be worse, there are Viroid-like things called Obelisks discovered in almost all animals in 2024. Nobody knows what they do.