- More than 2/3rds of the world's avian biomass is poultry
- There are more Panda Expresses than pandas (edit - in the wild)
stult 3 minutes ago [-]
I didn't know they had Panda Expresses in the wild
sidewndr46 1 hours ago [-]
Aren't there more just about any retail store than pandas?
ortusdux 19 minutes ago [-]
Actually it looks like I had the numbers wrong. There are about 1800 wild pandas and 750 in captivity, while there are about 2200 panda express locations. I think the original fact was "more panda expresses than wild pandas".
Pandas could fit in the top 20, beating out Panera bread (2,225).
anukin 36 minutes ago [-]
How does
“There are more jiffy’s lubes than pandas in the world “
sound?
komodo99 34 minutes ago [-]
Slippery.
Now I want to give a panda a slip-n-slide and film it.
niccl 37 minutes ago [-]
In some book by P G Wodehouse (inventor of Jeeves the butler), one character says (out of nowhere) that all the humans on the planet could fit in a cubic hole 1/2 mile on each side. It took me a little while to convince myself that was true. It still is, apparently
I usually say if every human being on the planet were placed in Texas, it would be less dense than Paris as an argument against an area being "too crowded", but this is an even more jarring comparison.
DennisP 10 minutes ago [-]
Take food production into account and the planet looks a little more crowded.
gumby 1 hours ago [-]
Famously, when asked about a god, J.B.S. Haldane allegedly said that if there is a god or gods, they must have an “inordinate fondness for beetles.”
0cf8612b2e1e 1 minutes ago [-]
There is a Discworld joke about this. After being introduced to the God of evolution, God shows off the magnum opus he has been developing, the cockroach.
adammarples 45 minutes ago [-]
This is because when they would lay a sheet on the ground and shake the branches of a tree, they would often find more species of beetles than anything else. However, they may have been extrapolating a bit far from the few places they tried this.
imzadi 49 minutes ago [-]
I feel like it might be bamboo, but they sort of skipped over grasses
yorwba 34 minutes ago [-]
Grasses mentioned in the article: rice, wheat, maize and sugar cane. I think all of them likely beat the bamboos because there are too many different bamboo species, not a single dominant one.
shevy-java 24 minutes ago [-]
That's not necessarily grasses though. Rice is a Poaceae,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poaceae, so these are covered
by the grass family - but grasses would be the non-eatable
variants in the wild. See Wikipedia:
"The three major families of grasslike plants are true grasses (Poaceae), sedges (Cyperaceae), and rushes (Juncaceae)."
So he at best only did the family Poacaea but where are the
wild poaceae in his calculations?
Tons of things are missing in that article.
shevy-java 26 minutes ago [-]
He did not calculate the weight of bacteria, archaea, viruses?
I understand that they each individually are small, but they
are literally everywhere - and include carbon too.
gkoenig 9 hours ago [-]
It was fun and gave human written. Thanks for that!
elevation 1 hours ago [-]
English words like "goodbye" are contracted from longer expressions after centuries of common use[0]. Reading your phrase "gave human written" made me wonder how this phrase would contract if it were still in use centuries from today.
It’s nice to see he separated the sheep and the goats.
liquid-monthly 4 hours ago [-]
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lukeify 1 hours ago [-]
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imzadi 51 minutes ago [-]
Plastic is a species?
dhosek 22 minutes ago [-]
Ever hear of the Nestene consciousness and the autons?
JoeAltmaier 7 hours ago [-]
Anaerobic bacteria in rock underground. Because they inhabit cubic volume, not 2D surfaces, there can be no comparison.
xboxnolifes 2 hours ago [-]
I'm not sure what cubic volume vs 2D surfaces means to you, but these comparisons are by mass, not volume. Plus, anaerobic bacteria would only come up on top if you counted all of them as one species, which they are not.
QuadmasterXLII 55 minutes ago [-]
Pretty much all life is 1 g / ml give or take 20%
vlyan 42 minutes ago [-]
>There are thousands of species of ants and termites, and just one species of human.
that's rather debatable. unless, of course, you're an adherent of creationism.
pfdietz 39 minutes ago [-]
It's talking about species that currently exist. As far as we know there is only one currently existing species in the genus Homo.
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- More than 2/3rds of the world's avian biomass is poultry
- There are more Panda Expresses than pandas (edit - in the wild)
It looks like 39 restaurant chains have more than 2550 locations - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_largest_fast_food_...
https://www.franchisetimes.com/top-400-2026/
Pandas could fit in the top 20, beating out Panera bread (2,225).
“There are more jiffy’s lubes than pandas in the world “
sound?
Now I want to give a panda a slip-n-slide and film it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grass
"The three major families of grasslike plants are true grasses (Poaceae), sedges (Cyperaceae), and rushes (Juncaceae)."
So he at best only did the family Poacaea but where are the wild poaceae in his calculations?
Tons of things are missing in that article.
I understand that they each individually are small, but they are literally everywhere - and include carbon too.
[0]: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/t2ew2UHaCuY
on the other hand i don’t think I’m physically capable of reading the AI landing pages of every new product on HN.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Blue_Whale_Populatio...
https://xkcd.com/1338/
that's rather debatable. unless, of course, you're an adherent of creationism.