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MineralMan

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19. Glad to hear it.

Wed Jan 23, 2019, 11:45 AM

Jan 2019

I think it's a promising line of research, indeed.

I'm trying to remember when I first saw an artist's conception of a T-4 phage. It was a long time ago. I immediately made a small metal sculpture that was a representation of it. Sadly, I don't know what became of that. It was made in about 1973, I think. It's somewhere here, but I haven't seen it for years.

I do remember thinking that the structure and it's method of attaching to and injecting its genetic load into a bacterium was pretty amazing. I mean, we're talking about structures at the molecular level with such a thing. Incredible, I think, that evolution produced such a clever design for a parasite of bacteria.

Wonderful!

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So that you could create this OP, OP? Anon-C Jan 2019 #1

I doubt that very much. MineralMan Jan 2019 #2

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Well, that's not a very good answer for a deity-created world. MineralMan Jan 2019 #4

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They are borderline. Voltaire2 Jan 2019 #9

Incomplete, parasitic somethings. MineralMan Jan 2019 #11

I know a T4 when I see one Act_of_Reparation Jan 2019 #16

Yup. I've always been fascinated by the T4 bacteriophages. MineralMan Jan 2019 #17

Pretty wild stuff. Act_of_Reparation Jan 2019 #18

Glad to hear it. MineralMan Jan 2019 #19

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