Research [dead or alive ...] 
For demonstration purposes, I invite you to try an experiment: Take a child by the hand. Any which, a Walloon, a Flemish, even a small child * Brussels disabled, who cares, it's only to be included in the set. But not this one is mine, you never know.
other hand, here's an apple * . Place the apple on the head of the child. If you have found a little girl, even better, compared to the prettiness of the numbers. This is truly a beautiful setting. A few steps back, a little longer. There.
Now, slowly pull out the crossbow * that you hide under your jacket. Or that you had slipped into your handbag, if you're a lady. Insist the child to keep quiet.
Sometimes the sight of the weapon awakens in them I do not know what primal instinct, like tears or cries but also other physical manifestations * most unexpected. I do not doubt that you will calm him down. Kids * are sometimes so boring we regret they are delivered with a switch.
Now, highlight and line your dart playing with fruit chubby. Do not move. What's going on?
Nothing.
The apple is there, in the heart of a drama which will disappear certainly but she does not think a moment to step aside. No movement to avoid an end. She stayed there, oblivious to his fate, proud and snobbish face death. No action, it remains available * you decide the fate for her.
As she does not move, we conclude that the apple is not a living being.
You know it's difficult to separate the story that lives and what does not live. Do not confuse what is with what death was never endowed with life. The idea of determining the motion, * the ability to move as the main criterion was quickly found overtaken by the facts.
trees always seem to do on-site even if the forest is progressing and that the wood beforehand. And plants are however many living beings as they age and breed. But what about these jellyfish * whose life cycles are repeated ad libitum Aeternum these anemones and sea * to whom it is enough to draw on beans to get the heirs?
It's been a long time we asked the question for viruses: alive or inert? Depending on where we place the circumlocutions * are complicated not to say: a cluster of cells, a combination of biological particles, any kind of expression to circumvent the difficulty of knowing where the squeeze.
If you let a virus alone in a neutral location * it nothing happens. Even lying on the apple that is placed on the child's head, he will not move and remains available to the destination you choose for him. No reaction.
As long as it does not find the host that he waits for Prince Charming * who come to him out of sleep, the virus is not alive. It does not IS. It comes to life inside the cell from someone else. A sort of Tanguy * but with a few thousand friends at home. And that recur, see, that's disgusting.
Sometimes lively, sometimes not.
Scientists * scratched their heads debating among themselves the status of this "thing". And you know what? By dint of observations, they ended up falling ill on a virus. A virus that had caught a virus! However, as Wikipedia reminds * :
" All living beings can be infected by viruses."
QED. End of the experiment 1. booby-Note: remember to return the child to his mother
we did not get in trouble with the authorities ...
1. I read this news on Life Science @ but I have found no trace on the internet.
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The original photo is Lola Mansurov *
