The World's Largest Really Small Thing 28
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)."
Dupe of yesterday's story (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Dupe of yesterday's story (Score:1, Offtopic)
Re:Dupe of yesterday's story (Score:1, Redundant)
Re:Dupe of yesterday's story (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Dupe of yesterday's story (Score:2)
D... (Score:1)
More reports... (Score:1)
so what if its a dupe?? (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:Jesus Efin Christ (Score:2)
Do you read the site?
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=58887
Re:Jesus Efin Christ (Score:2)
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/
Guess you don't.
RUN FOR THE HILLS! (Score:4, Funny)
Re:RUN FOR THE HILLS! (Score:1)
Re:RUN FOR THE HILLS! (Score:1)
Since they don't read
As well, since it is commonly known that noone actualy reads the articles, why should the
Between these two points, a discussion on dupe detection would be trite.
Ready for this one? (Score:4, Funny)
Nice try (Score:3, Funny)
New topic area: Dupes (Score:5, Funny)
Not A Dupe (Score:3, Informative)
The second article that everyone thinks is the dupe (http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03
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')
Re:Not A Dupe (Score:2)
Re:Not A Dupe (Score:2, Informative)
This story appears to be a meme virus (Score:1)
Re:This story appears to be a meme virus (Score:1)
Hmm.... (Score:2)