Wait for it, wait for it. OK, here they are.

mollwollfumble said:

Wait for it, wait for it. OK, here they are.

I like this.

:)

The speed of such a mite, relative to the body, will be about 0.2 metres per second.

Other parts of their bodies move faster so perhaps some other bodily critter on their hands or legs wins the race instead.

LOL, not that many people know about Antarctica 1 and 2, I have that exact same photo in my bucket

boppa said:

LOL, not that many people know about Antarctica 1 and 2, I have that exact same photo in my bucket

Neat, I like that.

I did consider nematodes as an alternative to Demodex folliculitis but the chance of an astronaut having one in his bloodstream or muscles is too small. I didn’t even find any single-celled animal that had a better claim to fame.

Tadpoles have 400 teeth?

Have you counted them?

The Rev Dodgson said:

Tadpoles have 400 teeth?

Have you counted them?

Yes!

mollwollfumble said:

The Rev Dodgson said:

Tadpoles have 400 teeth?

Have you counted them?

Yes!

That’s a very strange hobby.

mollwollfumble said:

The Rev Dodgson said:

Tadpoles have 400 teeth?

Have you counted them?

Yes!

You would only need to do two half jaws.

Very good, as usual

.. but I don’t get the BLAST one.

Talking of strange hobbies, I just looked up Arnold Layne, and discovered it was produced by Joe Boyd.

Never knew he was associated with Pink Floyd.

The Rev Dodgson said:

mollwollfumble said:

The Rev Dodgson said:

Tadpoles have 400 teeth?

Have you counted them?

Yes!

That’s a very strange hobby.

Counting teeth seems to be a common hobby, looking on the web I can see that people have counted the teeth of snails and armadillos for instance.

BLAS is short for “Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms”
BLAST is short for “Basic Local Alignment Search Tool”
Both are famous pieces of software and only an idiot like mollwollfumble could get them confused.

http://www.netlib.org/blas/
https://blast.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Blast.cgi