Posted by jakeman on February 14, 2006, at 1:16:46
In reply to Lar's Lament, posted by Larry Hoover on February 13, 2006, at 22:31:04
> Every time it happens, it annoys me to no end. Some freaky little virus, a form of "life" which does not even bother to contain DNA, hijacks my body, and turns it into a virus factory. Just so it can, in turn, perchance go on to do the same thing to the next unsuspecting person.
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> One influenza virus particle weighs, on average, 1.74 X 10^8 Daltons, or 2.89 X 10^-16 grams. That's 28.9 femptograms. Less than the smallest speck. Far tinier than a mote. I outweigh the little bastard by a factor of 3.32 X 10^20, but I can't just crush him to smithereens. No.
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> Instead, he sneaks on board, and over days, hoards of his kin, churned out by the hijacked machinery of my own body, evoke fatigue and ache and pain and breathing problems.
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> I've done my best to contain the virus. I don't think I've infected another person. That is all that I can do, in protest.
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> I hate you, Mr. Flu. But chances are, I've spent many times more energy thinking about you than you've thought about me. Virus 1, Lar 0.
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> :-/
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> Lar
Lar, that's amazing that you have so accurately described the virus. It exists for some reason.
Any ideals? I guess every life form is pushing ahead in every way it can.~Jake
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