New Estimate Suggests 5.5M Species On Earth, Not 30-100M 256
An anonymous reader writes "How many species share our planet? According to a recalculation by an international research team, the number is significantly lower than we thought — only around 5.5 million."
Well yeah, now... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Well yeah, now... (Score:4, Funny)
hey, dude... BP is trying as hard as they can to get the rest of them, too. It's just taking a little longer than first thought. Cut them some slack.
Re:from the depends-how-you-count dept (Score:3, Funny)
Depending on where you start (Score:5, Funny)
Each more delicious than the last!
Hmm... maybe I should have had breakfast this morning...
BP claims responsibility (Score:4, Funny)
London, England. Today BP Chairman Johan Georing declared responsibilty for the recently discovered mass extinction of species on Planet Earth. "With 10 to 15 million down," Georing said, "we only have four or five million more to go. And just look how well we seem to be doing this month."
Re:from the depends-how-you-count dept (Score:4, Funny)
I count 0, 1, 11, 10, 110, 111...
My gears don't wear out as fast as yours.
This is an industry sponsored study (Score:4, Funny)
Re:from the depends-how-you-count dept (Score:4, Funny)
4, 5, 6, 1, 2, 3...
Re:Well yeah, now... (Score:5, Funny)
So in order to kill Master Splinter, we must use flame throwers, got it.
Re:Well yeah, now... (Score:4, Funny)
In contrast, if you kill them all with fire (which they are very unlikely to be immune to) then none will survive to the next generation so the local population dies completely.
A rat immune to poisons AND fire would be amazing. In a few generations, we could have rats that are poison resistant, fire-resistant, metal-resistant, you name it.
Awesome.
Basically, we'd have a group of cleric-rats.
Re:from the depends-how-you-count dept (Score:5, Funny)
Good thing he has 11 of them!
Re:Well yeah, now... (Score:3, Funny)
after we've killed off a bunch of them.
How can you be so calm when this study alone just wiped out an estimated 94.5% of all species on Earth?
Re:Well yeah, now... (Score:3, Funny)
Stop anthropomorphizing evolution, it hates it when you do that.
Re:from the depends-how-you-count dept (Score:5, Funny)
There are 10 kinds of people: Those who understand Gray code, those who don't, and those who mistake it for binary.
Re:Bzzt! Wrong (Score:4, Funny)
I would like to participate in the study to find out. I will graciously accept the burden of attempting to mate with a supermodel and see if we can produce offspring.
Re:Bzzt! Wrong (Score:5, Funny)
We're like mules, same species, just practically incapable of reproduction.
Re:from the depends-how-you-count dept (Score:3, Funny)
I count 1,2,4,5... for there is the number I never mention except to explode the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch.