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[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 months ago (2 children)

At this scale we'd be seeing with electrons not photons, and everything would be gold coated. It's unlikely the head would be transparent. But other than that, not bad. False color gets applied to the B&W EM images, which helps.

Rabies is shaped like a bullet!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

hmm yes rabies looks like a bullet because once you are shot with it you are dead

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

That was my takeaway too. I knew Ebola was a big long shape, so it didn’t stand out much, but then “ohhh of course rabies just randomly looks like invisible nano bullets!”

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Dannng. Cool reference pictures, thanks for sharing.

Complex viruses seem almost too complex to function. Just from a human lead engineering standpoint, I can see so many points of failure

[–] dch82 3 points 2 months ago

Viruses throw dung at the wall and see what sticks.

A real life genetic algorithm, essentially.