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Subterranean fungi networks more than 100 quadrillion km in length, study finds
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 11 Jun 2026
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Someone please enlighten me: How can anything that's maybe 0.01m be hosting something 10m long. Maybe I'm embarrassingly missing the obvious here...
It's a network of the microscopic filaments, which, if lined up end-to-end, would be 10m long.
Another one: "There's a half-mile of wire in a pinball machine!" according to pinball manufacturer Stern, and it has been shown to be true for at least one machine.
Thanks. Should've gone to bed earlier, i totally didn't get it 😁
There is also something known as the coastline paradox, in which the length/area/volume of something increases towards infinity the more accurately you try to measure it. I could see it having an effect when measuring at these microscopic scales.