Posted on 12/28/2011 8:21:06 AM PST by decimon
Remarkable images of life from one of the most inhospitable spots in the ocean have been captured by scientists.
Researchers have been surveying volcanic underwater vents - sometimes called black smokers - in the South West Indian Ridge in the Indian Ocean.
The UK team found an array of creatures living in the super-heated waters, including yeti crabs, scaly-foot snails and sea cucumbers.
They believe some of the species may be new to science.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.co.uk ...
I’ve got a volcanic vent but no creatures inhabit it.
Beyond the sea ping.
Try that bar on Wilmer Street.
Like moths to a flame...
This is interesting, actually causes one to ask more questions than we have answers for.
Such as: Volcanic areas are not common, they are wide-spread - and as they produduce an island eventually - they are relatively short lived. So, where do these creatures come from? I would ‘think’ they would be attracted to the volcanic activity due to nutrients, minerals and the warmer water - as well as the fact that the increased temperatures may create a haven in which they are free from predators. I just can’t imagine that these new lifeforms we are finding there - spontaneously evolved - at that site.
Still, interesting stuff ...
Pelosi??????????????
“I’ve got a volcanic vent but no creatures inhabit it.”
Are you sure?
Do you know what lives in your eyelashes?
http://www.worsleyschool.net/science/files/eyelash/creatures.html
My understanding is that larvae or eggs released by tha creatures are carried upwards by the superheated water. At a lower depth the water cools, the eggs are carried laterally by ocean currents before dropping back into the depths. If they are fortunate,they find another vent to colonise. If not, well......that’s life.
I’ve wondered that myself. Crabs at least have a planktonic stage in their lifecycle....so perhaps their young larvae travel around for a while seeking out such vents?
The Blue Oyster?
Is that the name? I've only heard tell of it. ;-)
I chose 'Wilmer' for the 'gunsel' in The Maltese Falcon. If you're not familiar with the story then 'gunsel' is apparently an old, obscure gay slur. I guess Hammett was being sly.
Okay. Never saw that.
Sea Cucumbers.....animals without brains?.....I’ll bet they vote Democrat.....Pearl Fish.....feeds from the anus of a sea cucumber?.....we have the winner in THE WHAT KIND OF FISH WOULD BILL MAHER BE CONTEST?.
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LOL! And true!
LOL! And true!
” ‘gunsel’ is apparently an old, obscure gay slur”
As an old, obscure specimen my own self, I do not think that word means what you think it means.
I’ve always seen it used to mean a punk with a gun he’s too quick to use, like...well, like the punk in The Maltese Falcon.
That said, I climb up upon my soapbox, joints creaking, to harangue once again about that use of the word “gay.”
The very first step in the legitimization of homosexuality was to pressure people into refraining from using derogatory terminology for homos. “You *have* to call them ‘gay people.’ It’s mandatory, and if you don’t fall in line, we’ll tell everybody that you’re a bigot.”
The establishment of that first principle, that the use of derogatory terminology was in some way wrongful, paved the way for everything that has come since.
If we are to restore sanity, if we are to roll back the advances of the liberal agenda for the legitmization of homosexuality, we must first make it once again socially acceptable to deplore homosexuality. If homosexuality is deplorable, then it must be perfectly all right to refer to it in derogatory terms. That principle can be established by insisting on one’s privilege of calling a spade a spade—just as the homos established the opposite by denying that privilege.
Those who think they are somehow engaged in some productive course of action by refraining from the use of such terms as faggot, rump ranger, butt cowboy, twinkie, swish, pouf, etc., are dead wrong. All they are doing is conceding that all-important first battleground—the battleground of words—without even a struggle. Pre-emptive surrender.
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