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Rock-eating fungi flourish deep below our feet

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    • plc@feddit.dkEnglish
      2 days

      That equals roughly 250 fungal cells in a single drop—or more than 12 trillion cells in an Olympic-sized pool.

      That’s a “half a gitaffe” moment right there.

        • LongLive@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2 days

          half a giraffe? what is this reference?

            • plc@feddit.dkEnglish
              2 days

              It’s a few years ago now.

              https://www.sciencetimes.com/articles/36593/20220314/asteroid-half-size-giraffe-hits-iceland-2-hours-astronomers-spotted.htm

              https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/adelaide-afternoons/half-a-giraffe/13800376

              • YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.todayEnglish
                2 days

                Like in American News they compare everything to something else. The common refrain being we will use anything but the metric system(which I kinda call bullshit on because every science class is taught in metric).

                I think the irl example was "this asteroid is 12 & 1/2 giraffes wide…* Or something along those lines.

            • bagsy@lemmy.worldEnglish
              2 days

              This right here is proof life that will go on, no matter what stupid things humans do to ruin their environment. You would need to melt the entire earth to rid it of all life, and even then I’m not 100% sure every organism would perish.

              • AbidanYre@lemmy.worldEnglish
                2 days

                They look like big, good, strong hands, don’t they?

                • The fungi having an existential crisis.

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