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We are generally not big fans of viruses right now, but we sure are thinking about them a lot. That's right, even astrophysicists are pondering these bizarre little critters. In fact, astro-virology, although very new, is actually an emerging subfield of astrobiology. And that's because it turns out that viruses don't just influence organisms.
They're incredibly important on a planetary scale, perhaps an interplanetary scale. There are more viruses on Earth than all cellular organisms combined, and so they drastically affect our entire biosphere. And it's increasingly believed that viruses are critical factors in the process of evolution,
perhaps even in pre-cellular days. That's right, viruses or their ancestors may have played a role in the origin of life on Earth and may be needed to initiate life on any planet. Oh, and astro-virology is also concerned with the possibility that viruses can travel
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