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Haunting Sounds from the Largest Living Thing

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I was hoping this would be about Oregon’s “humongous fungus”, which would seem to be larger than this in every metric (3.5 square miles vs 0.15; 7,500+ tons vs ~6,000). Unfortunately it makes for a far less impressive tourist attraction than it sounds – especially when you drive 8 hours to get there just for it to be covered in a foot of snow! (still a beautiful trip I do not regret in any way, a must for anyone in PNW).

https://thatoregonlife.com/2020/01/largest-organism-humongou...

I bet the Earth chuckles at our attempts to label either of these the largest living things. I guess as Guinness Book entries go, these will do until something surpasses them. I've got to think that there is a more massive fungus in the Amazon for example.

Is the humongous fungus bigger than Pando? I had heard that Pando is the biggest living thing on earth some time ago.

By which degree does this article make Pando bigger than the humongous fungus?

Edit: Wikipedia agrees with the article saying that Pando is considered the biggest organism by mass. But it also says the humongous fungus could be up to 35000 tons, which is almost six times Pando's mass

Wikipedia only says it’s the largest tree by mass.

Ugh, what a load of LLM. Here's the real link:

https://www.ecosystemsound.com/beneath-the-tree

I'm curious, what makes you think the OP is LLM generated?

This doesn't have the hallmarks of typical LLM blogspam to me, and has actual quotes from people involved and, best I can tell, an actual author on the byline.

"Largest living thing" on url matching "science" ? Yeah blogspam.

The definition is so loose that it could be talking about literally anything.

My vitriol stems mainly from the number of ads.

But also, the title says "sound", so any text I have to sift through before getting to an actual sound is just, well, noise.

I was hoping this would be about Oregon’s “humongous fungus”, which would seem to be larger than this in every metric (3.5 square miles vs 1.5, 7,500+ tons vs ~6,000). Unfortunately it makes for a far less impressive tourist attraction than it sounds – especially when you drive 8 hours to get there just for it to be covered in a foot of snow! (still a beautiful trip do not regret in any way, a must for anyone in PNW).

https://www.sciencealert.com/haunting-sounds-made-from-the-w...

If your article is going to talk about haunting sounds, I expect at least a small soundbite without having to click deeper.

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