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muzik wrote: December 17th, 2016, 3:24 pm

Rhombic wrote:

if a single cell is removed from the back end of the trailing ant, it becomes a fuse with the peculiar property that its burning reaction grows quadratically.

This one is hilarious!!!!

Remember kids: don't use a magnifying glass to burn ants, because if you burn even a cell off of it, you might end up needing bomb control over.

LifeWiki wrote:the caterpillar, contains over 11 million cells

Biology Exam

1. There's approximately 11 millon cells in a caterpillar.

Hmm, that's surprisingly accurate. An animal cell is about 20um in diameter, so a cluster of 10^6 cells should be around 2 mm. Eleven of those would yield something about 22mm long and 2mm in diameter, which is consistent with a small caterpillar.

In fact, there are almost certainly real-life caterpillars with the exact same cell count as the Caterpillar.

Of course a living caterpillar cell is itself a universal constructor and a lot more and a Life "cell" is something at the sub-quark level by comparison, so it is surely a coincidence if these things line up.

calcyman wrote: January 21st, 2020, 2:47 pm Hmm, that's surprisingly accurate. An animal cell is about 20um in diameter, so a cluster of 10^6 cells should be around 2 mm. Eleven of those would yield something about 22mm long and 2mm in diameter, which is consistent with a small caterpillar.

In fact, there are almost certainly real-life caterpillars with the exact same cell count as the Caterpillar.

Whew, (It's calcyman!) (What about Waterbear, and other things?)


SPAM TIME!

A simulator viewing patterns as real cells: https://github.com/mame/golgi
(Hey, this is SANDBOX!)

Loaves are turned around when they eat Gs
Therefore, if you are on a hang-glider and you crash into some bread...

Moosey wrote: January 22nd, 2020, 10:08 am Loaves are turned around when they eat Gs
Therefore, if you are on a hang-glider and you crash into some bread...

Real life maybe reversed: You ate bread.

XD

LifeWiki wrote:The 16×16 soup with the longest known lifespan lasts for over 47,000 generations before stabilizing.

Yay, a 16x16 bowl of soup!
Oh no, I accidentally tipped it over.
*47,000 generations later*
Hey what’s this?
It’s a bowl of moving soup!

LifeWiki wrote:An arm is a long extension hanging off from the main body of a spaceship (or puffer) that is perpendicular to the direction of travel. Many known spaceships have multiple arms.

yay?

Approximately 1 in 90,000 objects are hats. This may sound low because there's no shortage of them, but count how many objects are in the room you're in right now. A few hundred, right? If you include objects that can't be seen from a distance (can you see a block — I mean a 2×2 LEGO brick — from 20 feet away? What about a bee from that distance?), 1 in 90,000 seems reasonable.

When a glider hits a block in the right way, it becomes a honey farm.
*Crashes hang glider into a lego brick*
AAH! WHY'S THERE SO MANY BEES?!