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The World's Largest Really Small Thing

Posted by timothy on from the bacteria-envy dept.

nut writes "The Beeb has a story on the discovery of the world's largest virus. It is nearly the size of a bacterium and lives in amoebae commonly found in your air-conditioning system. It has been linked to pneumonia in people, but isn't known to cause disease itself. More reports here(1), here(2) and here(3)."

9 of 28 comments (clear)

  1. Dupe of yesterday's story by SteWhite · · Score: 3, Informative

    It's a dupe. Original here.

    1. Re:Dupe of yesterday's story by mythr · · Score: 4, Funny

      Oh yeah? What I really hate is all the duplicate posts telling us about the duplicate posts telling us it's a dupe.

  2. so what if its a dupe?? by CableModemSniper · · Score: 2, Insightful

    This one has a much better, clever title, that references a previous story!

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    Why not fork?
  3. RUN FOR THE HILLS! by Froze · · Score: 3, Funny

    Oh My God, worlds largest virus is duplicating! At this rate we will all be taken over by rampant duplicate posts^H^H^H^H^H virus' before you know it.

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    -- The morphemes of your disquisition are ascertainable, but they have eschewed an ambit of transpicuous exposition.
  4. Ready for this one? by Henry+V+.009 · · Score: 3, Funny

    No....Tony Blair's the dupe.

  5. Nice try by Sabbath.sCm · · Score: 3, Funny

    Not the fastest dupe in the world, but it was a nice try nevertheless.

  6. New topic area: Dupes by Bourbon+Man · · Score: 5, Funny

    I think they should start a new topic area, maybe with a copying machine for an icon. Then put all of timothy's posts in there from now on. Maybe an annual awards ceremony each year (The Slashy Awards) and Most Dupes could be a catagory.

  7. Not A Dupe by Stinson · · Score: 2, Informative

    The First article everyone thinks is the original (http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/ 28/230236&mode=thread&tid=134), is about a very large fungus that grows in the woods.
    The second article that everyone thinks is the dupe (http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/ 29/1647251&mode=thread&tid=134), is about a virus that grows in a water tower.
    They might be related items as they are talking about the largest of each species, they are NOT the same article.
    rtfa ('manual' replaced for 'article')

    1. Re:Not A Dupe by NicoNet · · Score: 2, Informative

      This article is a dupe of http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/2 8/1751226 though, this article and that article are both about the Mimivirus.