{"id":71218,"date":"2020-08-15T01:22:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-15T05:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/?p=71218"},"modified":"2020-07-27T01:33:17","modified_gmt":"2020-07-27T05:33:17","slug":"can-viruses-travel-between-planets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/?p=71218","title":{"rendered":"Can Viruses Travel Between Planets?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With the global pandemic of COVID 19 still encompassing the word, we are generally not big fans of viruses right now. But we sure are thinking about them a lot. That\u2019s right, even astrophysicists are pondering these bizarre little critters. In fact, astrovirology, although very new, is actually an emerging subfield of astrobiology. And that\u2019s because it turns out viruses don\u2019t just influence organisms &#8211; they\u2019re incredibly important on a planetary scale. Perhaps an interplanetary scale. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Can Viruses Travel Between Planets?\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/o2ZcvPW5EcI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Virology Links: <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dr. Vincent Racaniello&#8217;s Columbia University virology course: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLGhmZX2NKiNldpyRUBBEzNoWL0Cso1jip\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list&#8230;<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">PBS Eons Where do Viruses Come From? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=X31g5TB-MRo\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/X31g5TB-MRo<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the global pandemic of COVID 19 still encompassing the word, we are generally not big fans of viruses right now. But we sure are thinking about them a lot. That\u2019s right, even astrophysicists are pondering these bizarre little critters. In fact, astrovirology, although very new, is actually an emerging subfield of astrobiology. And that\u2019s because it turns out viruses don\u2019t just influence organisms &#8211; they\u2019re incredibly important on a planetary scale. Perhaps an interplanetary scale. Virology Links: Dr. Vincent Racaniello&#8217;s Columbia University virology course: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list&#8230; PBS Eons Where do Viruses Come From? https:\/\/youtu.be\/X31g5TB-MRo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":9298,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[127],"tags":[97,551,853],"class_list":["post-71218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-edu","tag-education","tag-education-saturday","tag-space-time"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71218"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71219,"href":"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71218\/revisions\/71219"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}