Wednesday, March 24, 2010

If you laid every virus head to toe ...

You would get a very slender string of significant length ...
Welcome to Your Viral World | The Loom | Carl Zimmer for Discover Magazine
...Line up all the viruses on Earth end to end (go ahead, I’ll wait), and they’ll stretch over 10 million light years....
Is this conceivable? I know our planet is a seething ball of virii, but even a single light year is a very great length.

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