What is the world's largest living creature? Posted on 05/30/2006 11:14:02 PM PDT by LibWhacker
What is the world's largest living creature?
Scientists from the CSIC. the University of the Balearic Islands, Portugal, Carribean and the USA have discovered a Posidonia Oceanica, of more than 8 kilometers in length, and 100,000 years old.
The 'Posideonia Oceanica' is, in layman's terms 'sea grass', and the wavy plains of this plant found off the coasts Ibiza and Formentera, have been, since 1999, part of the reason for the award to Ibiza as a 'Heritage of Humanity'.
The huge plant was discovered between 'Es Freus' (the straits that separate Ibiza from Formentera) and the 'Ses Salines' beach....and quite by accident, as there are more than 100,000,000 of these plants in the area.
The bad news is that, because of the pollution in the Mediterranean, these plants are disappearing at the rate pf 5% per year.
He sure porked up didn't he? Maybe not, maybe it's just the crazed look on his face. He's beginning to look like Teddy and BillyJeff.
ok you should include some indication you mean it sarcastically. Difficult to tell..
Yeah well---there's a 60-acre spider web up in British Columbia...they SAY it was made by lots of little spiders.
http://www.cbc.ca/story/news/national/2002/11/22/spiders021121.html
Hmmm...depending on which end is up, that could be an aquatic hildabeast, a squid with a hilarry a$$, or just a large squid pooping a turd.
I'm not. I blame Nixon's "Southern Strategy."
5% per year, times 20 years, equals 100 per cent. :'P
yes but it is per plant isn't it?
Since when is sea grass a "creature?"
5% per year, times 20 years, equals 100 per cent. :'P
Interesting. I wonder if that means the plants would be gone in 20 years or 100+/- years.
For example- If, in 2006 there are 100 seagrass creatures (plants), then in 2007, that amount is reduced by 5% to 95 plants. In 2008, the amount of plants reduces another 5% from 95 to 90 (rounding to the nearest whole number), and in 2009 the number is down another 5% down from 90 to 86. And so on and so forth. By 2020, there would be 49 plants and by 2106 the last plant would be withering and gone by 2110.
Just a thought.
Sorry. I'll start making my sarcasm more evident. I forget that not everyone has been reading my opinion's so long that they can read my mind.
Ah! The Paradox of Zeno. That Zeno, he always wanted a second opinion.
[rimshot!]
Wasn't the Zeno paradox solved with the discovery with a universal minimum size? It basically suggests every distant with is crossed consists out of numerous very small minimal-size-distances. As nothing can be smaller than these basic bits the last bit to be crossed is teleported.
Can you give me a cite or species on that. I do occasional exhibits on nature themes and that would fit nicely in a "world records" one.
Cite or species?
Genetically closer to people...
I always knew Clinton was scum! Now there's proof!
LOL! Somebody has got to do the gov'ts work!
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