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Giant Amoebas Discovered in Deepest Ocean Trench
OurAmazingPlanet.com ^ | 10/21/11

Posted on 10/21/2011 9:39:48 PM PDT by NormsRevenge

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1 posted on 10/21/2011 9:39:51 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
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To: shibumi

“The Old Gods?” ping.

;D


2 posted on 10/21/2011 9:41:44 PM PDT by Salamander (Alice Cooper hit me with a stick.)
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To: NormsRevenge

“The identification of these gigantic cells in one of the deepest marine environments on the planet opens up a whole new habitat for further study of biodiversity, biotechnological potential and extreme environment adaptation.”

Then I’ll make sure not to try to site a business anywhere near them.


3 posted on 10/21/2011 9:43:33 PM PDT by ModelBreaker
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To: NormsRevenge

they are just a bunch of happy amoebas.


4 posted on 10/21/2011 9:47:32 PM PDT by Sea Parrot (Democrats creation of the entitlement class will prove out to be their very own Frankenstein monster)
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To: Sea Parrot

Maybe they’re simply obese??


5 posted on 10/21/2011 9:49:04 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: NormsRevenge

Them Xenophyophores ...you get you a mess of ‘em and thems good eatin’!


6 posted on 10/21/2011 9:50:17 PM PDT by Tainan (Cogito, ergo conservatus sum)
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To: NormsRevenge

They call them Giant, but they don’t give us a size? Are they big enough to eat a salmon, or big enough to eat a Destroyer?


7 posted on 10/21/2011 9:51:00 PM PDT by theDentist (fybo; qwerty ergo typo : i type, therefore i misspelll)
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To: NormsRevenge
Mr. Sulu armed the all phasers!
8 posted on 10/21/2011 9:52:09 PM PDT by Trueblackman (Posting on FR since 1998 and 100% teleprompter free post as well.)
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To: NormsRevenge
So THAT's where my brother in law went.

/johnny

9 posted on 10/21/2011 9:57:34 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (gone Galt)
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To: NormsRevenge

It is one of my wonders why land animals were as big as they were; intuitively it would be assumed larger cells were in affect.


10 posted on 10/21/2011 9:58:17 PM PDT by raygun (http://bastiat.org/en/the_law DOT html)
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To: theDentist

From the Article, they can reach a diameter of up to 4 inches.


11 posted on 10/21/2011 9:58:33 PM PDT by Little Pig (Vi Veri Veniversum Vivus Vici.)
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To: Salamander

Was it dreaming down there?

For “aeons?”


12 posted on 10/21/2011 9:59:33 PM PDT by shibumi (Hey! No Problem!)
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To: theDentist
Yep, I looked for a size, too.

Nanometers to lightyears, I've got a converter to something I can understand.

I did hear that it moves almost one furlong per fortnight.

/johnny

13 posted on 10/21/2011 9:59:37 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (gone Galt)
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To: NormsRevenge

pics or it didn’t happen


14 posted on 10/21/2011 10:04:48 PM PDT by Marie (Cain 9s Have Teeth)
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To: theDentist

The article says ‘exceeding four inches’


15 posted on 10/21/2011 10:08:36 PM PDT by MHGinTN (Some, believing they can't be deceived, it's nigh impossible to convince them when they're deceived.)
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To: shibumi

Kind of interesting to learn that amoebas communicate with each other and will sacrifice themselves as a group to make a ‘stalk’ so some of the genetics survives when rations become short. When Einstein learned of this, he was astonished.


16 posted on 10/21/2011 10:11:01 PM PDT by MHGinTN (Some, believing they can't be deceived, it's nigh impossible to convince them when they're deceived.)
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To: Trueblackman; theDentist
Yep, I looked for a size, too.

IIRC, the giant amoeba that ate the Enterprise was 11,000 miles across.

17 posted on 10/21/2011 10:14:12 PM PDT by rhinohunter
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To: Trueblackman; theDentist
Yep, I looked for a size, too.

IIRC, the giant amoeba that ate the Enterprise was 11,000 miles across.

18 posted on 10/21/2011 10:14:22 PM PDT by rhinohunter
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To: Trueblackman; theDentist
Yep, I looked for a size, too.

IIRC, the giant amoeba that ate the Enterprise was 11,000 miles across.

19 posted on 10/21/2011 10:14:34 PM PDT by rhinohunter
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To: Trueblackman; theDentist
Yep, I looked for a size, too.

IIRC, the giant amoeba that ate the Enterprise was 11,000 miles across.

20 posted on 10/21/2011 10:14:42 PM PDT by rhinohunter
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