Worlds largest living creature discovered in Ibiza (sea grass 5 miles long and 100,000 years old)

Ibiza News ^ | 5/27/06

[S0122017]

Survival of the fittest rules. Too bad about this plant.

I hate it when people start japping about "survival of the fittest rules so stop whining about all those lost nature" Any benefit "the fittest" may have quickly disappears when it loses regard for lifeforms around itself. And no, im not a hippie. Im just a biologist who understands what happens to species that use up their surroundings.

[S0122017]

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. Uh oh. I guess the floating sea cows won't have any grazing left in twenty years.

You fail at math :) .

[Jaded]

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.

[F.J. Mitchell]

I bring up survival of the fittest for the irony it represents.Because the geniuses who brought us the phrase "survival of the fittest" and the cult members it spawned, are the same one's who fret about the survival of such species as pests, insects, rodents,etc., over the survival of humanity.

[S0122017]

ok you should include some indication you mean it sarcastically. Difficult to tell..

[Graymatter]

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

[Conservative Texan Mom]

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.

[Doctor Stochastic]

I'm not. I blame Nixon's "Southern Strategy."

[SunkenCiv]

5% per year, times 20 years, equals 100 per cent. :'P

[S0122017]

yes but it is per plant isn't it?

[presidio9]

Since when is sea grass a "creature?"

[new cruelty]

these plants are disappearing at the rate pf 5% per year.

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.

[F.J. Mitchell]

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.

[SunkenCiv]

Ah! The Paradox of Zeno. That Zeno, he always wanted a second opinion.

[rimshot!]

[S0122017]

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.

[From many - one.]

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.

[S0122017]

Cite or species?

[js1138]

World's largest ears discovered nearby.

[rintense]

Formidable Fungus is World's Largest Organism...

Genetically closer to people...

I always knew Clinton was scum! Now there's proof!

[WKUHilltopper]

LOL! Somebody has got to do the gov'ts work!