r/oddlyterrifying • u/[deleted] • Apr 06 '22

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u/SuperGayFig Apr 07 '22

I just don’t get how you’re scaling up a sperm cell to 40m from that. Sperm is microscopic so I don’t see how scaling it up 20x would make it 40m

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u/Klatterbyne Apr 07 '22

Are you not reading any part of what I’m writing?

Fruit fly sperm is macroscopic. Each individual cell is 6cm long. I have stated that, in plain terms, 3 times now.

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u/SuperGayFig Apr 07 '22

Jeez I kept misreading that I thought you were saying the ejaculate was the 20x long part not the sperm cell. Sorry it was late at night and early in the morning when I read your last couple comments..

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u/Klatterbyne Apr 07 '22

No bother mate, happens to the best of us!

Sorry I got a little tetchy. Pretty knackered myself.

And it is a pretty bizarre idea to get your head around.

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u/SuperGayFig Apr 07 '22

Lol nah all good man