"There are approximately 52,000 species of vertebrates, which include the largest organisms ever to live on the Earth."

What's wrong with this statement?

12/17/2007 7:48:24 PM

include(s)?

12/17/2007 7:49:29 PM

not THE EARTH

it's THE U

12/17/2007 7:50:44 PM

Last time I checked sequoias don't have vertebrae.

12/17/2007 7:54:34 PM

http://www.infoplease.com/spot/fungus1.html

this is fairly cool

12/17/2007 8:00:31 PM

12/17/2007 8:01:18 PM

unless 52k is wildly inaccurate... i don't see the problem with that statement?

12/17/2007 8:02:45 PM

^^^Hmm, interesting.

^Seriously? I mean, maybe the largest walking land organism, and largest swimming organism...

[Edited on December 17, 2007 at 8:03 PM. Reason : merf]

12/17/2007 8:02:51 PM

Maybe he has a different opinion of what consitutes a living organism.

12/17/2007 8:34:09 PM

At least he did not botch the spelling of organism and imply something more Freudian.

12/17/2007 8:38:50 PM

12/17/2007 8:39:17 PM

ZOMG CATS!

12/17/2007 8:43:47 PM

werent dinosaurs pretty big?

12/17/2007 9:10:51 PM

whales have a spine, right? their pretty fuggin huge

12/17/2007 9:19:23 PM

Blue whales are thought to be the largest animals to have ever lived.

[Edited on December 17, 2007 at 9:28 PM. Reason : But sequoias are probably larger, and also that fungus thing.]

12/17/2007 9:26:52 PM

Quote :

"A fungus living three feet underground is estimated to cover 2,200 acres"

that is much larger than any fucking fish!

12/17/2007 9:27:30 PM

Quote :

"The largest mammal on earth is the blue whale and it is actually the largest animal to ever have lived on this earth, even bigger than the largest recorded dinosaur. Adults can grow up to 100 feet long and weigh 100 tons."

12/17/2007 9:29:42 PM

no, he's saying that there are trees and shit (which are classified as organisms, but not vertebrate) that are bigger than any vertebrate

12/17/2007 9:30:05 PM

"There are approximately 52,000 species of vertebrates, which includes the largest vertebrate to ever live."

12/17/2007 9:32:45 PM

so whales are huge + are vertebrates = kinda works with the prof's statement because there can't be _that_ many other organisms that large, so it is included as 'one of the largest' because there are so few things bigger...wait wat?

12/17/2007 9:32:54 PM

so whales are huge + are vertebrates = kinda works with the prof's statement because there can't be _that_ many other organisms that large, so it is included as 'one of the largest' because there are so few things bigger...wait wat?

12/17/2007 9:33:46 PM

you godamned communist heathen

12/17/2007 9:35:22 PM

you godamned communist heathen

12/17/2007 9:35:43 PM

Why did twin buttfuckers end up in my thread?

12/17/2007 9:37:53 PM

Quote :

"Moreover, while humans and most species are divided into only two sexes, mushrooms contain over 36,000 sexes."

12/17/2007 9:38:06 PM

this is pilgrimshoes and his brother

12/17/2007 9:42:36 PM

well omarbadu said i cant post it again

i figured that'd be fun for at least more than 5 posts

12/17/2007 9:43:30 PM

you're the worst kind of faggot

12/17/2007 9:47:25 PM

nice work

if you're going to quote me from the chatterbox

then do it

12/17/2007 9:48:14 PM

loser. you want in. sorry, i reject you.

12/17/2007 9:52:42 PM

that just doesnt even make sense

12/17/2007 9:53:45 PM

like you do? whatever, b.

12/17/2007 9:55:13 PM

Just because someone is a professor or has a PhD/doctorate doesn't really mean they know what they're talking about.

12/17/2007 9:58:55 PM

correction, the fungus that you are talking about........


actually is single celled organisms and the colonization of them forms the large fungus which covers all that land, so its not considered one organism........just a bunch of little ones.

and so if you want to base your information like that

Aspen trees are larger than that because they are a bunch of genetically identical trees linked by one single root, so in a sense, they are the same as the fungus but just measured in different parameters.

the great barrier reef though, if you want to think of biggest living thing is the largest because of its size. but thats not genetically identical but neither are sequoias, because just like humans, trees have their own genetic variability

depending on how you measure, whether by volume, mass, length, or height....it could be a number of things. the largest animal is the blue whale while the sequoia is the largest living organism by volume and mass

[Edited on December 17, 2007 at 10:38 PM. Reason : .]

12/17/2007 10:37:22 PM

send him a response with nothing but a fail pic

12/17/2007 10:46:36 PM

I think that comma is unnecessary

12/17/2007 11:04:55 PM

36,000 sexes?

How is this possible?

12/17/2007 11:39:18 PM