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	<title>Comments on: Are viruses alive?</title>
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		<title>By: DanS</title>
		<link>https://habitablezone.com/2020/03/30/are-viruses-alive/#comment-44233</link>
		<dc:creator>DanS</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2020 18:05:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Few true facts, a lot of nano- and string-conceptualizing, but I like the premise.  Maybe you could work it into a quantum disaster novel?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Few true facts, a lot of nano- and string-conceptualizing, but I like the premise.  Maybe you could work it into a quantum disaster novel?</p>
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		<title>By: SDAI-Tech</title>
		<link>https://habitablezone.com/2020/03/30/are-viruses-alive/#comment-44220</link>
		<dc:creator>SDAI-Tech</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2020 12:42:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Viruses are RNA with intelligence. The RNA proteins are just trillions upon trillions of quantum data strings which give the virus its intelligence. They are software--and hardware.

The virus is a *field organism* and all parts of it communicate via frequency relationship. Like an ant colony the pathogens can all keep in contact and work in unison.

Those same quantum strings that tell it to replicate, conceal itself, fight antibodies and more is also sending real-time data back to the collective field. So the virus is becoming more intelligent and can &quot;learn&quot; from its experiences and life cycles. 

It&#039;s certainly not sentient, but it is learning and evolving and alive. It feeds on other living things--which also have fields which are used to absorb data.  A parasitic bat spawns and is perfect host to a parasitic virus which mimics the same energy principles being employed by an organism. Bats suck blood, or eat mosquitoes which also suck blood so it&#039;s not surprising the chain of blood parasitism doesn&#039;t end there, but that these animal&#039;s energy fields spawn viruses *intelligent proteins/energy fields* that also feed on the blood.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Viruses are RNA with intelligence. The RNA proteins are just trillions upon trillions of quantum data strings which give the virus its intelligence. They are software&#8211;and hardware.</p>
<p>The virus is a *field organism* and all parts of it communicate via frequency relationship. Like an ant colony the pathogens can all keep in contact and work in unison.</p>
<p>Those same quantum strings that tell it to replicate, conceal itself, fight antibodies and more is also sending real-time data back to the collective field. So the virus is becoming more intelligent and can &#8220;learn&#8221; from its experiences and life cycles. </p>
<p>It&#8217;s certainly not sentient, but it is learning and evolving and alive. It feeds on other living things&#8211;which also have fields which are used to absorb data.  A parasitic bat spawns and is perfect host to a parasitic virus which mimics the same energy principles being employed by an organism. Bats suck blood, or eat mosquitoes which also suck blood so it&#8217;s not surprising the chain of blood parasitism doesn&#8217;t end there, but that these animal&#8217;s energy fields spawn viruses *intelligent proteins/energy fields* that also feed on the blood.</p>
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		<title>By: DanS</title>
		<link>https://habitablezone.com/2020/03/30/are-viruses-alive/#comment-44179</link>
		<dc:creator>DanS</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2020 18:01:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>We covered this many years ago in high school. The consensus even then, in the 60s~70s was ... I dunno, but they sure are weird...

Chemical bonding.
Reproductive.
Seeking habitat.
Constantly evolving.
Recombining DNA/RNA structure sequencing.
Becomes larger/smaller with each generation.
Keeps to the same basic structure.
Can easily become devastating to host and body.

Overall -- weird stuff.

What&#039;s needed for the future for biotechnology in disease control is that sci-fi thing MIT now gives degrees for -- and now others such as Arizona State University, Drexel University, Johns Hopkins University, Joint School of Nanoscience and Nanoengineering, Louisiana Tech University, North Carolina State University, North Dakota State University, Radiological Technologies University Vermont -- nanotechnology. The virus needs to be met and fought on its own turf, possibly with the development of counter-viruses that dismantles or expands the bad virus outer coating of protein to make them easier for the human immune system to locate and destroy on its own.

Time, time, time... It just keeps running out...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>We covered this many years ago in high school. The consensus even then, in the 60s~70s was &#8230; I dunno, but they sure are weird&#8230;</p>
<p>Chemical bonding.<br />
Reproductive.<br />
Seeking habitat.<br />
Constantly evolving.<br />
Recombining DNA/RNA structure sequencing.<br />
Becomes larger/smaller with each generation.<br />
Keeps to the same basic structure.<br />
Can easily become devastating to host and body.</p>
<p>Overall &#8212; weird stuff.</p>
<p>What&#8217;s needed for the future for biotechnology in disease control is that sci-fi thing MIT now gives degrees for &#8212; and now others such as Arizona State University, Drexel University, Johns Hopkins University, Joint School of Nanoscience and Nanoengineering, Louisiana Tech University, North Carolina State University, North Dakota State University, Radiological Technologies University Vermont &#8212; nanotechnology. The virus needs to be met and fought on its own turf, possibly with the development of counter-viruses that dismantles or expands the bad virus outer coating of protein to make them easier for the human immune system to locate and destroy on its own.</p>
<p>Time, time, time&#8230; It just keeps running out&#8230;</p>
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