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Mysterious Purple Sea Orb Stymies Scientists
Yahoo News ^
| 7/28/16
| Stephanie Pappas, Live Science
Posted on 07/28/2016 6:44:29 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
"Have a look at that dark purple blob on the left, there."
With those words, scientists aboard the Exploration Vessel Nautilus uncovered a marine mystery: a small purple orb tucked halfway under a rock off the coast of California.
Researchers are so far stumped as to what the colorful, bumpy little ball might be. Their best guess is that it might be a gastropod (a mollusk such as a snail or slug that belongs to the class Gastropoda) called a pleurobranch and possibly a new species.
(Excerpt) Read more at yahoo.com ...
TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Science
KEYWORDS: gastropod; mysterious; ocean; purple; scientists; stymies
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To: NormsRevenge
Does it taste like chicken?
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posted on
07/28/2016 7:16:40 PM PDT
by
umgud
(ban muslims, not guns)
To: adaven
Wondered whether anyone would get the reference. :-)
To: Big Red Badger
Lol...how many of us FR denizens can finish that line?
To: NormsRevenge
You have been stymied !
To: NormsRevenge
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07/28/2016 7:46:57 PM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(SOME IMAGES MAY BE DISTURBING VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED;-{)
To: NormsRevenge
Looks like a more colorful version of a freshwater bryozoan colony.
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posted on
07/28/2016 8:15:53 PM PDT
by
piasa
To: NormsRevenge
Poke it with a stick.
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posted on
07/28/2016 8:27:28 PM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(Obama is more supportive of Iran's right to defend its territorial borders than he is of the USA's.)
To: rightwingcrazy
I was gonna say! I think I’ve seen a few of them around the house ... grandkids ...
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posted on
07/28/2016 8:29:43 PM PDT
by
dr_lew
To: NormsRevenge
What could possibly be more enjoyable than reading about ‘stymied scientists’?
(Well, maybe ‘baffled boffins’ might do it...)
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posted on
07/28/2016 8:34:27 PM PDT
by
Zeppo
("Happy Pony is on - and I'm NOT missing Happy Pony")
To: NormsRevenge
A new kind of Lichi nut.
A Barney dropping.
Bill Clinton’s nose after a good night of partying.
The BLOB RETURNS!
Hillary’s brain.
Joe Biden’s brain.
MOBY GRAPE!!
To: NormsRevenge
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posted on
07/28/2016 11:04:34 PM PDT
by
Trillian
To: NormsRevenge
Peyote button, far out man.
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posted on
07/29/2016 5:15:33 AM PDT
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DAC21
To: NormsRevenge
Do not taunt purple fun orb.
To: NormsRevenge
I’m not saying it’s aliens, but...
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posted on
07/29/2016 5:22:50 AM PDT
by
Fresh Wind
(Hey now baby, get into my big black car, I just want to show you what my politics are.)
To: P.O.E.
That’s what came to my mind first. (Mine are blue, not purple.)
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posted on
07/29/2016 5:29:24 AM PDT
by
MayflowerMadam
(Trump loves America and will protect the people who live here first, last and always. - Coulter)
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