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ooli@lemmy.world to science@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 months ago

'Obelisks': Entirely New Class of Life Has Been Found in The Human Digestive System

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'Obelisks': Entirely New Class of Life Has Been Found in The Human Digestive System

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ooli@lemmy.world to science@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 months ago
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Peering into the jungle of microbes that live within us, researchers have stumbled across what seem to be an entire new class of virus-like objects.
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    Why would you want the mystery virus to reproduce?

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      It’s not a virus, and I think that @[email protected] was saying that they’d like the study reproduced, not the Obelisks.

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        I know that my comment deserved an “/s” since I was playing off of unclear pronouns and the article’s use of “virus-like,” but I felt that admitting that I was in on the joke undermined the humor. I stand by my choice and accept my downvotes for the chuckles.

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          That was a joke?

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            Behold my humor: subtle, confusing, and mostly for myself

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              You took your shot at subtle, fartographer. It didn’t pass muster as much as gas.

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                “It didn’t pass muster as much as gas” is now my favorite phrase of the week. I’m stealing that to throw in everyone’s faces and act all smug and sophisticated when I say it.

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                  Behold my humor: smug, sophisticated, and incomprehensible online.

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              Just like my farts!

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                Your farts are for myself? I collect weird things…

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      Because they’re not a virus. And they’re a new discovery, we don’t know how they reproduce.

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      Don’t kink shame me

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