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Thread ID: 135727 2013-12-05 11:00:00 Google Earth, Google Sky, Google Books...Is there a Google Life? Johnnz (7246) PC World Chat
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1361647 2013-12-05 11:00:00 Just wondered after I was unable to find a picture of a particular native plant online whether or not there exists an effort by any big company like google to categorise all living things on earth the same way they have done with aerial photography of the planet. It would be quite neat to have an interactive map (name, family, genus, etc. with at least a picture) showing all known life forms (species of plant, animal, etc.) and perhaps a history done in family tree style showing how we understand they have all evolved. Perhaps this would require more data capacity than google earth does even? Johnnz (7246)
1361648 2013-12-05 13:29:00 The Encyclopedia of Life - http://eol.org/

700,000 entries so far of the 1.9 million currently known, although nobody really knows an exact number. New plants are still being discovered and bacteria species are almost too numerous to count.
Winston001 (3612)
1361649 2013-12-05 19:08:00 Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy perhaps? Not on Amazon as yet though. ;) R2x1 (4628)
1361650 2013-12-06 20:29:00 Which plant? KarameaDave (15222)
1361651 2013-12-07 06:36:00 Google Knowledge Graph is what you're after Chilling_Silence (9)
1361652 2013-12-07 07:06:00 Is there a life WITHOUT Google ;) R2x1 (4628)
1361653 2013-12-07 09:06:00 Is there a life WITHOUT Google ;)

Heh, I was going to say something much the same...
Agent_24 (57)
1361654 2013-12-07 22:31:00 Is there a life WITHOUT Google ;)

Silly question... :D
johcar (6283)
1361655 2013-12-09 03:27:00 The Encyclopedia of Life - http://eol.org/

700,000 entries so far of the 1.9 million currently known, although nobody really knows an exact number. New plants are still being discovered and bacteria species are almost too numerous to count.Worse is what I recently watched... apparently there are 40 times each human's body-weight in insects on this planet. The programme's suggestion was we eat insects!!!!! I personally ain't gonna try it... gimme a tomato any day! Or on occasion a McDonald's.
Greg (193)
1361656 2013-12-09 04:08:00 Just noticed the URL...

EOL'd

:lol:
Agent_24 (57)
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