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Giant one-celled organisms discovered over six miles below the ocean's surface
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| October 23, 2011
| Jeremy Hance
Posted on 11/05/2011 2:55:33 PM PDT by neverdem
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To: Repeal The 17th
Assuming that this is a serious question, a mango is a tropical fruit about the size of a human fist. That means that these single cell organisms are huge, as one normally thinks of single cell organisms as being, literally, microscoopic, i.e. only visible in a microscope.
To: AndyJackson
“...a mango is a tropical fruit about the size of a human fist...”
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I know, just my flippant comment and point being that,
a more logical comparison would have been to the size of a fist.
Why, of all things, would someone compare something to the size of a mango?
Certainly not the first thing that would come to most folk’s mind.
To: neverdem
""These and many other structurally important organisms in the deep sea need our stewardship as human activities move to deeper waters."
Translation: another way ecofascists can lock-up areas from mineral exploration
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posted on
11/06/2011 1:21:42 PM PST
by
pabianice
(")
To: FrogMom
How do they know thats a single cell? It was blogging on singlecellmatch.com 8*)
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posted on
11/06/2011 1:23:57 PM PST
by
pabianice
(")
To: neverdem
I'm a single-cell organism.
Wanna see my nucleus?
:)
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posted on
11/06/2011 1:29:48 PM PST
by
SIDENET
("If that's your best, your best won't do." -Dee Snider)
To: Repeal The 17th
How big is a mango? hmmm about 5'6" or so ;)
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posted on
11/06/2011 8:11:24 PM PST
by
gopheraj
To: Free Vulcan
Yep. Tastes like chicken... only different.
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posted on
11/07/2011 8:20:09 PM PST
by
Grimmy
(equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
To: Condor51
At the depth of these things the pressure exerted on them is 15,750 psi or 2,268,000# / Sq Ft. They probably don't feel a thing since the pressure inside of them is also 15,750 psi or 2,268,000# / Sq Ft.
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posted on
11/07/2011 8:28:31 PM PST
by
piasa
(Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
To: PALIN SMITH
A conference of lawyers? I believe the actual term (similar to a "pride of lions") would be an argument of lawyers.
I would have preferred an infernum or a slime but it wasn't my call...
Cheers!
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posted on
11/14/2011 8:52:46 PM PST
by
grey_whiskers
(The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
To: SIDENET
You've got some HOT Golgi bodies.
Cheers!
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posted on
11/14/2011 8:55:05 PM PST
by
grey_whiskers
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To: piasa
Inside the cell wall probably just a touch higher.
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posted on
11/14/2011 8:55:26 PM PST
by
steve86
(Acerbic by nature, not nurture (Could be worst in 40 years))
To: pabianice
I thought single-celled organisms reproduced
asexually...OTOH, sex had to have started somewhere, and it doesn't look like there's much ELSE to do down there.
It's like downtown Fargo ND after 11:00 PM on Saturday night...
Cheers!
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posted on
11/14/2011 8:56:19 PM PST
by
grey_whiskers
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