Observed arrival · 2026-09-28
Nematode Earth
An interactive visualization tests the 1914 thought experiment that Earth would remain dimly recognizable if everything but its soil nematodes vanished.
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- Readers of scientific visualization and ecological thought experiments
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- The page reports that Cobb’s prediction of denser nematode ground in cities was tested but not detected.
Field notes
The page describes a roughly half-minute sequence that strips away atmosphere, water, and rock before leaving a nematode-density view. Its live rendering relies on WebGPU, which the observed browser did not expose, so the page displays a still instead. The linked methods page is said to include the data, statistics, and things the project got wrong; the text also reports that a test for denser nematode ground in cities found no detectable signal.
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