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PHIZ KALIFA
Dec 21, 2011

#mood
like if you took generations to breed a huge plasmid or maybe invented an embiggening ray and blasted it upon some fuckin, Tardigrades or some bullshit. just got yourself a macroscopic water bear the size of an entire couch.

here's a fun article to get this conversation started. listen to this poo poo:

quote:

Bdelloid rotifers are microscopic superstars inside a drop of water. These tiny transparent animals—which can be found all over the world (even Antarctica!)—are masters of survival and reproduction. When water becomes scarce, they dry up like brine shrimp, surviving for years completely desiccated. When water returns, they rehydrate themselves and continue on as good as new. Rotifers are all female and reproduce asexually, laying eggs that don't need to be fertilized and are essentially clones of themselves.

anyway enjoy this thread which is 100% original and not a pastiche at all.

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Alien Sex Manual
Dec 14, 2010

is not a sandwich

I want a giant bacteriophage I can ride around in like a mecha.

PHIZ KALIFA
Dec 21, 2011

#mood

Alien Sex Manual posted:

I want a giant bacteriophage I can ride around in like a mecha.

alien sex manual, floating aimlessly in bacteriophagical protoplasm: this was slightly more awesome in my imagination

DNAmage
Oct 8, 2005

Occult Scientist
Cannot turn to attack.
He mixes biotech and sorcery with sinister results

Alien Sex Manual posted:

I want a giant bacteriophage I can ride around in like a mecha.

This. T4 bacteriophage is the coolest.

SirSamVimes
Jul 21, 2008

~* Challenge *~


Jay_Zombie
Apr 20, 2007

We're sealing the tunnel!
This.

But 10 stories tall.

PHIZ KALIFA
Dec 21, 2011

#mood
jenny mccarthy getting crushed beneath an enormous pseudopop from a three ton Mumps virus

GRINDCORE MEGGIDO
Feb 28, 1985


Jay_Zombie posted:

This.

But 10 stories tall.

Groping its baseplate and tail fibers

Sereri
Sep 30, 2008

awwwrigami


He is a miracle of modern science!

Aix
Jul 6, 2006
$10

Jay_Zombie posted:

This.

But 10 stories tall.

thats a virus

OMFG FURRY
Jul 10, 2006

[snarky comment]
hydra are pretty cool since they are essentially immortal

Spazzle
Jul 5, 2003

Why wasn't this in the op?

https://www.giantmicrobes.com/

Suspect A
Jan 1, 2015

Nap Ghost
Stentors are cool an all but I gotta go with amoebas. They're so wicked.

A Grand Egg
Jan 12, 2020

by Pragmatica

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Elentor
Dec 14, 2004

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Jay_Zombie posted:

This.

But 10 stories tall.

I'd like to see that fighting a giant jumping spider.

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