To date, only 5 to15 percent of all life on earth has been discovered and described.

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"The National Science Foundation (NSF), in cooperation with the ALL Species Foundation, has announced an important new strategy to discover, describe and classify Earth's species. By some estimates as many as 90 percent of living species are unknown to science, and traditional approaches to discover them are unacceptably slow, scientists say."

I would like to download documentaries on their successes.

― Sébastien Chikara (Sébastien Chikara), Monday, 29 September 2003 14:50 (twenty-two years ago)

I would hope that among these 90% are sasquatch, dinosaurs or three-foot long mantis creatures with horns but they're probably all bugs, grass and bacteria... How sad. Interesting nonetheless!

― Dale the Titled (cprek), Monday, 29 September 2003 14:56 (twenty-two years ago)

By some estimates as many as 90 percent of living species are unknown to science ...

Uh-uh. That's wot I've always been suspecting, lying on the grass and seeing all manner of minuscule-to-small creaturettes going about their business on and above the ground. And I'm not livivng in a rain forest! :)

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Monday, 29 September 2003 15:01 (twenty-two years ago)

a good twenty to thirty per cent of them live exclusively in closests and under beds, are allergic to light, and are invisible to anyone over 7.

Science sucks.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Monday, 29 September 2003 15:08 (twenty-two years ago)

50% of unaccounted species probably only exist 20,000 leagues under the sea and probably included 1000 different types of plankton and coral-types, oh well.

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 29 September 2003 15:23 (twenty-two years ago)

i really hope there are ENORMOUS squids down there too

i'm excited about seeing Finding Nemo now

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 29 September 2003 15:24 (twenty-two years ago)

sebastien, you want to date only 5 to 15 percent of all life on earth?

I'd say that is still pretty adventurous.

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 29 September 2003 16:13 (twenty-two years ago)

and ambitious.

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 29 September 2003 16:15 (twenty-two years ago)

They haven't found me yet, I see.

― Chris P (Chris P), Monday, 29 September 2003 16:51 (twenty-two years ago)

The big question posed by scientists here: Of the 90% of species undiscovered, which ones can we eat?

― Dale the Titled (cprek), Monday, 29 September 2003 16:58 (twenty-two years ago)

If they're undiscovered how do we know there's 90%?

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Monday, 29 September 2003 17:04 (twenty-two years ago)

I believe that this is actually saying that only 5% to 15% of all night life has been discovered and described. One, most people go to bed too early, and two, scientists rarely get past the velvet ropes into the best clubs. It all adds up, really.

― Skottie, Monday, 29 September 2003 17:05 (twenty-two years ago)

100% of the human population can pull random numbers out of their ass. Even scientists!

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Monday, 29 September 2003 17:13 (twenty-two years ago)

To date, only 5 to 15 percent of all life on earth has been discovered and described.

Hopefully these numbers will increase with the continued success of Friendster and Nerve etc.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 29 September 2003 17:28 (twenty-two years ago)

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