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In Reply to: RE: Bacteria, huh? I bet some Hollywood hack already is writing a screenplay. posted by tinear on July 18, 2014 at 09:40:05
Known for thriving in dark, hot, frigid, and acidic environments. Thought to be on moon rocks, Mars, and Europa. There is more biomass under the ocean trenches than on the surface of the earth. All bacterial.
I'm surprised that there's no (or little) scifi about it.
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living thing?
Prove it!?
I am confident you are wrong.
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"The largest living fungus may be a honey fungus[201] of the species Armillaria ostoyae.[202] A mushroom of this type in the Malheur National Forest in the Blue Mountains of eastern Oregon, U.S. was found to be the largest fungal colony in the world, spanning 8.9 kmē (2,200 acres) of area.[203][204] This organism is estimated to be 2400 years old. The fungus was written about in the April 2003 issue of the Canadian Journal of Forest Research. While an accurate estimate has not been made, the total weight of the colony may be as much as 605 tons[vague]. If this colony is considered a single organism, then it is the largest known organism in the world by area, and rivals the aspen grove "Pando" as the known organism with the highest living biomass. "
I doubt that we know less about our planet than we do about space.Information science and its application to managing human issues and problems happens to be my field.
I'd be willing to bet that despite our relative ignorance of our oceans, our knowledge base for that is as big as that for space, we have after all been studying them for a good bit longer. Let alone the entire sum of human knowledge, because we are not sensibly separable from this planet, we must include all of that stuff, too.
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Not above. Nor around.
There has been very little exploration of deep earth.
I hardly think it's earth-shaking to say NASA has received far more funding than explorations of inner-earth.
Sequioadendron giganteum.
Don't give me that blue whale schtick. That's obsolete and OBE.
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Bit of a stretch for a colony of fungi.
LOL!
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