tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6745817778350624453.post792104845864365493..comments2024-03-28T17:58:25.581+13:00Comments on The Flaxen Saxon Chronicles: Viruses: Dead or Alive? Flaxen Saxonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03431645401478120921noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6745817778350624453.post-14492459544626647282020-11-02T19:54:50.103+13:002020-11-02T19:54:50.103+13:00Both need to be sterilised by napalm.....Both need to be sterilised by napalm.....Flaxen Saxonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03431645401478120921noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6745817778350624453.post-31736320887323656182020-11-02T01:59:42.305+13:002020-11-02T01:59:42.305+13:00Not actually inert, but not really alive, either.
...Not actually inert, but not really alive, either.<br /><br />Got it! Viruses are politicians!Ted Treenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03392121240286596231noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6745817778350624453.post-56923940483357291812020-10-24T10:45:41.392+13:002020-10-24T10:45:41.392+13:00They may not know much about this virus thingy but...They may not know much about this virus thingy but the one thing that seems to be certain is its colour. Red sphere with green toadstools growing all round it.<br />Obviously the Marketing Girl from Golgafrincham had a hand in this farrago.Doonhamernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6745817778350624453.post-73583649280865189772020-10-17T22:25:50.124+13:002020-10-17T22:25:50.124+13:00Hello Dave, knowing how my brain works, it is goin...Hello Dave, knowing how my brain works, it is going to get a lot worse. Arse.Flaxen Saxonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03431645401478120921noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6745817778350624453.post-15813057794116038462020-10-16T23:08:28.477+13:002020-10-16T23:08:28.477+13:00When I was younger everything seemed so simple. Sc...When I was younger everything seemed so simple. Science, at least as taught by my Professors, was so beautiful and seemed to fit in a myriad of boxes/classifications. As I've matured, intellectually, I'm bereft of an intellectual high ground to but stand upon and gain perspective. I'm lost in an intellectual fog from an exalted position. I suspect our minds are not well disposed to sort this stuff/shit out baring a few intellectual geniuses. I hear that even Einstein's theories of relativity are inadequate. What hope have us of mere pedestrian, intellectual gifts? I will go to my grave being totally confused and perplexed. Flaxen Saxonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03431645401478120921noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6745817778350624453.post-86490734472706058172020-10-16T01:08:48.702+13:002020-10-16T01:08:48.702+13:00I agree with the Dozer. I was happily ignorant of ...I agree with the Dozer. I was happily ignorant of most of this and now you've spoiled my afternoon by actually making me think for more than a few seconds.<br />I suppose I could get used to it, given time.Dave Sparrownoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6745817778350624453.post-33362517414794322612020-10-15T23:32:42.589+13:002020-10-15T23:32:42.589+13:00A nice description of the classification conundrum...A nice description of the classification conundrum. As more of a mathsy/physicsy/engineery kind of bloke myself, there's already enough weirdness in those fields without you making things worse. <br /><br />Some time ago I read a sentence that said something like; "There are more viruses on this planet than any other biological entity". The term 'Biological Entity' solves the problem for me by dodging the issue. I remember looking at my first corpse & realising that there is more to life than an acronym. I don't really know what 'life' or even 'consciousness' is.<br /><br />Missis Wossname doesn't really describe 'life' - they're just some descriptors pertaining to an entity. If I consider a black box with inputs & outputs then I can measure voltages, currents etc. & maybe devise some function that connects what goes in & what comes out. But if I'm looking at a bicycle pump then those things are meaningless & different parameters are needed to understand what's going on. Is it the same with biology? <br /><br />Perhaps there's a parallel with the relativity & the quantum worlds. Big stuff & small stuff can be considered and their behaviour predicted very well, but using different sets of incompatible equations. Yes - there will probably be something else that might explain both but we don't know what it is yet. It might require a completely different approach - say, the abandonment of space-time concepts - as a basis for its construction.<br /><br />DevonshireDozerAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com