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Size of Life

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2530 points eatonphil | 1 comments | 10 Dec 25 16:02 UTC | HN request time: 0.213s | source
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jphoward ◴[10 Dec 25 16:33 UTC] No.46219833[source]▶
It seems to be like some of the scales slightly off?

If you are looking at the ladybird (ladybug) with the amoeba to the left, the amoeba isn't an order of the magnitude smaller - it would actually be visible by the human eye (bigger than a grain of sand)? Indeed, the amoeba seems the same size as the ladybird's foot?

Similarly, this makes the bumblebee appear smaller than a human finger (the in the adjacent picture), which isn't the case?

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1. glenstein ◴[10 Dec 25 17:01 UTC] No.46220239[source]▶
I'm seeing the amoeba as approximately the size of the heel segment of a ladybug's leg. I consider lady bugs pretty small in an intuitive sense, their legs quite small and the smallest end segment to be especially small. I think that leaves an amoeba on the fringes of distinguishable perception which seems right to me, unless I'm overestimating their size.