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Longest Chemical Name: 64,060 letters
mycro writes "A new article on Wikipedia shows the longest chemical name, reaching 64,060 letters. Methionylalanylthreonyl...leucine is a chemical name for enaptin, a nuclear envelope protein found in human myocytes and synapses, which is made up of 8,797 amino acids. It is involved in the maintenance of nuclear organization and structural integrity, tethering the cell nucleus to the cytoskeleton by interacting with the nuclear envelope and with F-actin in the cytoplasm."
People are just going to call it "The chemical compound that cannot be named in less than 60,000 characters." Whoops.
After all, I am strangely colored.
...no wonder nobody has anything to say yet. We're all still trying to get our brains past the first sentence.
I dare the contestants of the Scrips-Howard spelling bee to get that one. "May I hear that word in a sentence?" "Uh...... (nervous) no."
it's like the linguistic equivilant to an irrational number. brilliant!
-- If you try to fail and succeed, which have you done? - Uli's moose
If someone spelt it wrong, how would we know?
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Wow, this will REALLY help masters and doctorate students who have to write research papers with a minimum page count...
Jds
Methionylal-
anylthreonyl... oh just
call me enaptin.
Besides, the name can't even be used in Scrabble.
It's a small world and it smells funny; I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money; Take back what I paid (SoM)
The artist formerly known as , formerly known as Prince, has changed his name to the 64,060 symbol long name of a protein referred to as 'Methionylalanylthreonyl...leucine'.
His upcoming album will have a 10 page foldout with his name printed on it.
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As an atheist I must say this seems like a possible arguement for intelligent design I mean LOOK AT IT!
I guess I'd need to look into it's functionality but that doesn't seem like something that just SPRINGS into existence.
On the positive side all the sci-fi where they talk about advanced races with overly complicated DNA well they need to move forward right now...Like when we actually got to mars.
News for Nerds? Check.
Stuff that Matters? Um... Well... Oh, nevermind...
Slow news day, methinks.Insert witty comment *here*. I'm fresh out of wit...
Yes it may have been vandalism and was corrected but this vandalized version just got me laughing.
"I think we forgot an "e" in there someplace..."
This little tidbit was the most interesting part of this whole thing.
You have been warned.
Take that, pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis!
"The newly born animals are then whisked off for a quick run through a giant baking oven." --heard on Food Network
It's encrypted!
... utemrcetemrcetemrceteeihulni
See freq analysis at http://www.fizzl.net/projects/crypto/
The plaintext is simply:
wioglcnteaeante
I think I also saw Cthulhu there somewhere...
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Would be a kickin' name for a rock band.
Or not.