>>2700713theres something about these bacteriophages that imbews in me a kind of fascinated disgust. like looking at the reproduction or mastication of some disgusting unthinking insect or a slug. really gives me the shivers. i think its the awe they inspire; in that they have no thoughts or feelings, just genetic programming, and a total ubiquity in our ecosystem. quite powerless we are to stop their proliferation and reproduction, inside even our own bodies.
i get weirded out by imagining its mandibles crunching and breaking apart a cell wall, injecting its RNA tendrills into a cell.
