There are 10 million trillion microbes on the ocean floor for every human being on the planet

… according to the newest estimates just released by German biologists.

Based on the mass of a single E. coli bacterium being about 665 femtograms, that means that the ocean floor contains about 0.2 exagrams of microbial biomass, or somewhere in the neighborhood of 600,000 Empire State Buildings.

Oh, and that’s less than 10% of the previous estimates. We were WAYYYYYY off! More at Nature News. 

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    MICROBESSSS!
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    I wonder how much is deep below ground in the athenosphere and like places,
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    You go, Microbes! You go!
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    so that’s like...one … add infinite … multiply...a big...
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    Astonishing! There can be no doubt that our planet is a living organism, not just some random rock in the universe.
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