New forms of life discovered inside human bodies

https://www.earth.com/news/scientists-find-new-forms-of-life-inside-humans-rna-carriers-obelisks/

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  1. Recently, a team of researchers stumbled upon strange entities, or obelisks, living inside of human bodies that had escaped notice until now.

    What researchers uncovered are entities they’ve chosen to call “obelisks.” They do not resemble typical life forms & their name comes from distinctive shape.

    Unlike standard viruses, they do not appear to encode protein shells. These differences suggest that life’s definitions might need some rethinking.

    It is not just a single type of obelisk. Thousands of unique varieties have turned up when scientists comb through genetic datasets.

    Obelisks don’t fit neatly into existing categories. Not standard viruses, classic bacteria, & not exactly viroids. Discovery hints we may be missing entire classes of RNA-based life challenging current textbooks. This complicates efforts to catalog & understand the full range of microbial life.

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  3. So now we’ve got secret life forms in our bodies? At this point, I’m half expecting a tiny society to pop up and start running elections.

  5. Wait until I tell my doctor that my obelisks hurt. 😆

  7. This is so cool! And biology textbooks now need to be edited again! 😂

  9. We got these obelisks today… Vaults, the other day… What’s next? A hidden temple? I’m scared to find out, but these are mind-blowing findings.

  11. What if we are all just some cells in a bigger creatures body

  13. Based on my extensive research in my youth, are we sure that cells don’t build these obelisks to improve their line of sight of the surrounding areas?

  14. All I can think when I hear the word Obelisk is the yu gi oh card lol.

  16. It doesn’t state the difference of whether this was a **new** discovery or if these obelisks are **new** to the human body – could anyone clarify?

  26. If we haven’t found life on other planets then we are just not looking hard enough – all these lifeforms on earth and we can’t communicate with any of them – keep discovering.

  27. Man, I was hoping we were creating plastic life in our bodies, wouldn’t that be neat.

  31. How do they know they’ve escaped notice until now? Maybe they are brand freaking new!

  33. …and yet some people think the thought of aliens is ridiculous, we dont know Jack shit.

  35. It’s an energy field created by all living things. It surrounds us and penetrates us; it binds the galaxy together.

  38. Is this about the women sleeping with 100 men in a day again???

  39. What if it’s not that they weren’t already discovered, but more that they’re brand new?

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