Microbe Mat the Size of Greece Discovered In the Sea 135
NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "A mat of microbes the size of Greece has been discovered on the sea floor off the Pacific coast of South America. 'These tiny creatures can join together to create some of the largest masses of life on the planet... A single liter of seawater, once thought to contain about 100,000 microbes, can actually hold more than one billion microorganisms...'"
first psot (Score:1, Funny)
At the bottom of the ocean is a good metaphor for Greece's economy right now!
Microbe mat (Score:5, Funny)
Don't worry... (Score:5, Funny)
Please carry on with your regularly scheduled consumption.
Is there economy better than Greece's? (Score:5, Funny)
Hmmm???
The real question is (Score:3, Funny)
can I eat it?
Re:Is there economy better than Greece's? (Score:5, Funny)
yes, there is.
Re:Don't worry... (Score:3, Funny)
How can we trust you? (Score:5, Funny)
Liar. Your user name implies you may be the avatar of this very consciousness!
the size of Greece? (Score:5, Funny)
Comparison to Greece? (Score:5, Funny)
has anyone seen a map of Greece with all it's crazy islands and jagged coasts? How can you compare the size of anything to that country
Next time, compare vs something with a somewhat reasonable shape.
like Saskatchewan damnit!
Re:Plenty of (little) fish in the sea (Score:4, Funny)
More importantly there are plenty of unexplored function libraries in the 1 billion marine microbial species waiting to activate.
That's no microbe mat... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:the size of Greece? (Score:5, Funny)
does this mean we will need to bail them out as well?
That might be rough, I hear they have a lot of sunken assets.
Re:How can we trust you? (Score:3, Funny)
You, er... might want to stay away from eastern Oregon [wikipedia.org], though.
There's ... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Ray of Science (Score:5, Funny)
What's this? A science story from NewYorkCountyLawyer?.....
Actually there is a bit of evidence, not publicly available, which would support your theory that I may have been a little bit out of my element with this story:
This was the first of my 232 stories that was actually improved by the Slashdot editor.
Re:Comparison to Greece? (Score:5, Funny)
Are you saying you, for one, welcome our country-sized microbe overlords?
No. Of course not. What do you take me for?
I'm saying these are the good microbes, who are our friends, and will help to protect us from the bad microbes who wish to be colonize, and ultimately devour, us.
Your imagination is running riot. I wish you would calm down, and rely upon science, as I do.
Subconscious influence (Score:5, Funny)
You probably picked this article to submit because of your daily dealings with other types of slime molds.
Hurry! (Score:3, Funny)
No,the real question is (Score:3, Funny)
will it blend?