I Loves Me some internet
Yesterday I suddenly had the burning question strike me. “what is the largest known cell?”
I never seemed to have a free, focused moment to ask the net yesterday, but this morning I suddenly remembered, queried and eh voila it is the ostrich egg. Or if one means the longest cell, it’s a nerve cell in a giant squid. Or if it’s the largest cell in the human body the gametes cover both largest and smallest.
posted by Stella Magdalen @ 4/04/2008 09:17:00 AM
8 Comments:
quick without thinking what is the largest
(and probably oldest) known life form?
barry
Umm I had to think just a little, is it megladon, the blue whale or the 5 acre fungus?
And I thought the largest cell was where Scooter Libby hangs out...
hah!
anyway i don't know.
bee
Wait, are we talking biggest cells or deepest hells? Well I suppose those might be reserved for traitors to humanity, not piddling little countries anyways. On second thought.... With that bunch...
And, now I do know that it is the giant Seqouia, because it's root network intertwines so.
Some claim it is the Great Barrier Reef but to my mind that is not a single entity.
armillaria ostoyae one particular critter
covers an area about 3.5 miles across
and is between 2500 and 7200 years old.
google it if you wanna get creeped.
bee
So I didn't do to bad. Except for missing the actual largest organism. Cuz the blue whale is the largest animal, the fungi thing I was mostly right I just didn't know they had found a larger one in OR. And the megalodon thing, well... there's no accounting for that.
i wonder if the sequoia is the correct answer weight wise. some of those coastal redwoods are big mammas as well. i got some pics of the gals standing by some a cupple years ago. near crescent city/trinidad. a few weeks later someone got badly mauled by a cougar on the path where we were.
i digress.
barry
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