Posted on 10/04/2005 4:13:25 PM PDT by anymouse
My dad was 2nd mate in the Merchant Marine in the 20s, and sailed in the Indian Ocean for a while.
One night he sighted what looked like a GIANT wheel (a couple of miles in diameter) spokes and all, slowly rotating off to one side of the ship. He said his hair frizzed up for a second but then blew it off to that photo-lumiscence phenomena and figured the critters were reacting to the throb of the ships engines, turning on and off with the beat, giving it the illusion of rotating. Said he saw more weird stuff in the Indian Ocean than anywhere else.
There's two different things: bioluminescence and phosphorescence.
Phosphorescence is a physical or chemical effect caused when phosphorus that is dissolved in seawater is stirred or disturbed by any kind of fast motion. Like a boat wake or oars, or uh... you relieving yourself.
Bioluminescence comes from light-emitting cells in living things like fish, jellyfish, or even microscopic critters.
Ia! Ia! Cthulhu fhtagn!
Plankton!
I'm sure Gore (of the Internet-inventing intelligence)will be able to connect the glow with global warming.
Actually it looks like a picture of Abrham Lincoln with out a beard. It's looking at him from behind his right side. The first protrustion is his brow and the next lower is his nose.
Happy 5th anniversary, btw.
It's ONLY "W's" Fault if it's BAD;--If it's Neutral, or Good, It's Bill & Hillary Clintons' Idea!!
GET WITH THE "PROGRAM!!"
Doc
J - Check this out. Best I've ever seen is a red tide, although I do plan on seeing the aurora borealis before I die.
Why do I feel like Art Bell's going to be all over this one ...
Both full of missing seamen?
Interesting article.
Wrong! The Bush Administration searches high and low, past, present and future for anything to enhance global warming.
Jules Verne was undoubtedly manipulated by G.W., who was very, very young at the time.
;^))
I am not a marine biologists by I suggest phytoplankton. They are strange little critters.
Jonathan Davis or Dave Mustaine? Whatever, it's refreshing.
James Hetfield, Metallica. For some reason that song came to mind after reading one of the posts lol.
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