Size of Life - Hacker News

Posted by eatonphil 1 day ago

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dsign 1 day ago|

Amazing!

I always thought that the best we could do for targeted drug delivery was an adenovirus. But after seeing that parasite being only slightly bigger than a red blood cell, I think we can do better...

nrhrjrjrjtntbt 1 day ago||

I am sure everyone has their own mind blown moment, and for me it was there being an animal about the size of a red blood cell.

cgh 1 day ago||

“Compressible rodent” was not a phrase I thought I’d ever hear but I’m glad I did. Worth the price of a couple of coffees.

danielfalbo 1 day ago||

For comparison: ASML machines print chips with precision up to 2nm.

https://www.asml.com/en/products/euv-lithography-systems/twi...

jfarlow 1 day ago||

And the atoms in the proteins and DNA that are exactly replicated to the atom each have a feature sizes resolved at fractions of a nanometer in 3 dimensions (and likely in time/dynamics too).

ag8 1 day ago||

Not 13?

MagicMoonlight 1 day ago||

He always makes great content, I love it.

8-prime 1 day ago||

My main takeaway was that I had no clue how large Krill can get. To think that Antarctic Krill is as long as the Bee Hummingbird is tall is absurd to me.

p2detar 1 day ago||

I’m pleasantly surprised that Tyrannosaurus rex’s tiny hands were depicted so accurately. As far as I recall, scientists are still puzzled about why it even had hands. Apparently, they were too small to be useful for anything, not even scratching its face.

JDEW 1 day ago||

Beautiful site. Also very pleased to see the mitochondrion being referred to as the powerhouse of the cell, as is law.

takira 1 day ago||

Did a great job keeping the scale jumps fresh. Every step had a little twist instead of just a commonly known larger animal on the next slide. Wild that the Japanese spider crab is basically the same size as an orangutan.

mda 1 day ago|

I like the stuff un the sute but the number if partners and affiliates in the consent window is very off putting.

troupo 1 day ago|

It's only 141 TCF vendor(s) and 69 ad partner(s), with no way to reject all, and you have to manually click on every "vendor" to remove consent.

It's the second or third time I see this "managed by Google compliant with IAB" (note: not with GDPR)

thn-gap 1 day ago||

This is super infuriating. I wish there was a way to offshore the effort and work needed to toggle each option off to the culprit website. Perhaps when website A presents you with such hostile prompts, take their contact email, and subscribe it with automation to each of the vendors. I'm just too tired of this shit.

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