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- nickrct, on 10/30/2009, -10/+1073Spoiler Alert: Its the smallest
- Awwzm, on 10/30/2009, -9/+1060Enhance...enhance...enhance
- cdnbmatt, on 10/30/2009, -11/+458Just in case you are an idiot like me, this journey is operated by the slider bar at the bottom of the image. Took me like a minute to figure out how it worked. Must be too early.
- whatsgoodike, on 10/30/2009, -1/+353Nicely made little app.
- ehsteve23, on 10/30/2009, -1/+308that must hurt
- hurrayforschool, on 10/30/2009, -8/+279My sperm are the size of coffee beans.
- joker2459, on 10/30/2009, -0/+252the thing hanging between your legs is your penis not sperm
- com2, on 10/30/2009, -0/+229Premature percolation.
- geoboy, on 10/30/2009, -0/+224That is one dirty kitchen counter top.
- JoeNaguib, on 10/30/2009, -3/+186This is really impressive!
- thekronz, on 10/30/2009, -3/+180This is amazing, really puts things into perspective. Before I noticed you zoomed in with that slider bar I thought they were just being dicks and putting a spec on the screen and saying "Yup, there's the carbon atom compared to a coffee bean. Isn't it small?"
- ldsan, on 10/30/2009, -1/+121is an amoeba really that big? apparently theyre visible to the naked eye. i never knew a single celled organism could be so big.
- Qazwe, on 10/30/2009, -12/+121Fake. Humans don't lay eggs.
- ChromaVita, on 10/30/2009, -0/+104They'd get the picture of skin cells and from that get their DNA. They'd use the DNA sample to create a model of the person and then they'd run that against a complete model of society that they created in Visual Basic. Using this complex algorithm they'd be able to relive the person's life entirely, seeing every crime he's ever committed.
- ChiffX, on 10/30/2009, -2/+99Just print the damn thing already!
- JuanFushashi, on 10/30/2009, -0/+90Looks like the lonely killer could have used some...
*Removes Sunglasses*
...carbon dating.
YEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH. - Llanowar, on 10/30/2009, -3/+91***** you! Now you've ruined it all for me!
- nurbsenvi, on 10/30/2009, -0/+86Good use of Flash.
- donkz, on 10/30/2009, -1/+75Now that's a kind of infographic i like
- seantubridy, on 10/30/2009, -8/+79If this was CSI, they would use this technique on a grainy security camera photo to zoom in far enough to show the skin cells on someone - and they would be totally clear. No wonder the general public has such a hard time understanding technology.
- s7rydr, on 10/30/2009, -1/+68going the other way:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wm0bIuAVmOA - Cepster, on 10/30/2009, -1/+66i think I THINK......he may have been kidding
- wakethefallen, on 10/30/2009, -0/+63Actually, scientists have found fossilized evidence of a once living single celled organisms that were close to eight inches long. There is also a single celled algae that is a meter long living today. But somehow, thats just less exciting.
- redlantern64, on 10/30/2009, -1/+62[obligatory bury for stupid penis comment]
- WhiskeyLemur, on 10/30/2009, -3/+62You just need more coffee beans in your system. Or perhaps more carbon atoms.
- nichiplechle, on 10/30/2009, -2/+55reddit looks ugly
- sexymuffin, on 10/30/2009, -1/+52You mean Shenanigans?
- concactus, on 10/30/2009, -0/+50its trying to trick you
- bwthor, on 10/30/2009, -1/+50Hey Farva what's the name of that restaurant you like with all the goofy ***** on the walls and the mozzarella sticks?
- subUrbanLEGEND, on 10/30/2009, -7/+55Now I know what it's like to skydive into a carbon atom.
- robovacation, on 10/30/2009, -0/+47compared
- CrazyEddie041, on 10/30/2009, -0/+46Shall I say it? Yeah, I guess I might as well.
*ahem*
WHOOOOOOSH. - Snoogs, on 10/30/2009, -1/+44[Buried again for calling it 'piano cat' instead of 'keyboard cat']
- epohs, on 10/30/2009, -2/+45And this comment was on Digg several times a day for the last two years. You are losing your edge snotrokit.
- inkubusfan, on 10/30/2009, -2/+44HIV looks like a sex toy.
- ldsan, on 10/30/2009, -2/+44well ya but the amoeba is also the same size as the grain of salt, and i can see a grain of salt just fine.
- greevar, on 10/30/2009, -3/+45Say car Ramrod! Say car Ramrod!
- bsonline, on 10/30/2009, -3/+44Dumbledore gets killed by Snape. Payback's a bitch.
- evil-doer, on 10/30/2009, -0/+40The Anterior Horn Cell of the spine is the largest cell in your body while the Granule Cell of the Cerebellum is the smallest.
Dont believe the sperm and egg thing, its false. - gtrob, on 10/30/2009, -10/+43That's inpressive.
- com2, on 10/30/2009, -0/+31Thats what sh... nevermind.
- Qazwe, on 10/30/2009, -0/+31lol, Must be that time of day.
- supferrets, on 10/30/2009, -0/+31Actually, if you had a human egg in a petri dish, and you knew what you were looking for, you would be able to see it. It would be just a bit smaller than the period on this sentence.
- ChromaVita, on 10/30/2009, -0/+28Well really going both ways.
- RikkiTikki, on 10/30/2009, -0/+28I know, Times New Roman, EVERYWHERE.
- dyslexicsUNTIED, on 10/30/2009, -3/+30i thought the same thing at first, but look at the size of the coffee bean and grain of rice, they are bigger than normal. So no, in actuality I dont think you could see the amoeba. this is just a size comparison.
- Moralogic, on 10/30/2009, -2/+28I was surprised the mouse scroller didn't work on it.
- slashdotordigg, on 10/30/2009, -6/+31Rotate 330. Enhance. Than you see the reflection of the coffee bean.
- musicmanryan, on 10/30/2009, -0/+23This is taken from the website under the infographic:
"How can an X chromosome be nearly as big as the head of the sperm cell?
No, this isn’t a mistake. First, there’s less DNA in a sperm cell than there is in a non-reproductive cell such as a skin cell. Second, the DNA in a sperm cell is super-condensed and compacted into a highly dense form. Third, the head of a sperm cell is almost all nucleus. Most of the cytoplasm has been squeezed out in order to make the sperm an efficient torpedo-like swimming machine.
The X chromosome is shown here in a condensed state, as it would appear in a cell that’s going through mitosis. It has also been duplicated, so there are actually two identical copies stuck together at their middles. A human sperm cell contains just one copy each of 23 chromosomes.
A chromosome is made up of genetic material (one long piece of DNA) wrapped around structural support proteins (histones). Histones organize the DNA and keep it from getting tangled, much like thread wrapped around a spool. But they also add a lot of bulk. In a sperm cell, a specialized set of tiny support proteins (protamines) pack the DNA down to about one-sixth the volume of a mitotic chromosome." - thaprinze, on 10/30/2009, -1/+24OOHHHHHHHHH....
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