Amazing facts

[BlasterBates]

This is an interesting fact I've just discovered:


https://www.nature.com/articles/nrmicro.2016.177

To help conceptualize the sheer number of viruses in existence, their current biomass has been estimated to equal that of 75 million blue whales (approximately 200 million tonnes) and, if placed end to end, the collective length of their virions would span 65 galaxies

[northernladuk]

I do love these facts that puts the size of stuff in perspective....but they aren't really facts are they. It's just an estimate.

There was that 'fact' years ago that the weight of all the ants in the world equals the weight of all the humans but someone took a quick look at the population growth and increase in average weight of people and it fell quite a way short of what they claimed.

Still pretty incredible but not really that accurate and certainly not a fact.

[ladymuck]

I do love these facts that puts the size of stuff in perspective....but they aren't really facts are they. It's just an estimate.

There was that 'fact' years ago that the weight of all the ants in the world equals the weight of all the humans but someone took a quick look at the population growth and increase in average weight of people and it fell quite a way short of what they claimed.

Still pretty incredible but not really that accurate and certainly not a fact.

I was about to say 'and they say you're no fun at parties' and then I realised who I was talking to.

[AtW]

75 mln space whales

[northernladuk]

I was about to say 'and they say you're no fun at parties' and then I realised who I was talking to.

..eh.. hang on.. what???

[vetran]

Here you go....

[ladymuck]

Another Amazing Fact (TM) is that the first Resident Evil film is 20 years old this year.

[vetran]

Another Amazing Fact (TM) is that the first Resident Evil film is 20 years old this year.

ooh Milla Jockovich + tight leather= winner

[Mordac]

ooh Milla Jockovich + tight leather= winner

You'll be on a register for that. And I'm not referring to the crap spelling...

[SueEllen]

You'll be on a register for that. And I'm not referring to the crap spelling...

She's 46 so was a proper adult then.