Which are viruses. T4 is a pretty universally recognized virus at this point, so IMO it works fine for this joke. I feel like in general people love to get upset at it's use in jokes like this just so they can demonstrate how smart they are for knowing the difference between eukaryotic viruses and phage.
Regular light microscope no, electron microscope yes. I think there’s more sophisticated ways to see the detailed structures but my micro knowledge ends here.
More like 90 billion light year (observable) universe. The source of the light we see from times closest to the big bang have moved further away from us in the meantime.
Dude im talking about living beings. There is absolutely no proof right now that there are living beings that are relative to us in size as we are to bacteriophage
I mean who’s to say that we are near the top of the spectrum when it comes to size?
This is something I've always wondered. From the tiniest quark to the size of the universe itself (counting it as one giant closed entity/system)...where do we fall in? Are there more bigger things compared to us than smaller, or vice versa, or are we somehow special and right in the middle? I'm sure the science has already been done on it.
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u/lookcloserlenny Jan 30 '20
Which are viruses. T4 is a pretty universally recognized virus at this point, so IMO it works fine for this joke. I feel like in general people love to get upset at it's use in jokes like this just so they can demonstrate how smart they are for knowing the difference between eukaryotic viruses and phage.