Posted on 09/24/2023 6:17:57 AM PDT by cotton1706
They’re hungry, hungry mollusks.
Thousands of historic shipwrecks sunk in the American Great Lakes are at risk of being lost forever thanks to invasive, wood-destroying mussels.
The lakes are home to an estimated 6,000 shipwrecks, with some dating back to the 17th century, according to estimates from the University of Buffalo.
The Quagga mussel, originally native to the waters of Russia and Ukraine, is believed to have arrived in the Great Lakes in 1989 — possibly as a result of ballast dumps from transoceanic freighters traversing the lakes.
The population of Quagga mussels has exploded in the waters of the once pristine lakes, where near-perfect visibility made the wrecks easy to see even decades after they went down.
Now the Quagga mussels have taken over, scientists say.
(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...
The obsession with saving every relic is epidemic. Must be money in it for someone. Oh wait, there is, for academics to pursue their passions. Take that to the grocery store and see what you get...
Dude! These are Russians and Ukrainians musseling in on our history!
We call them Zebra Mussels here.
Shouldn't that be what they call them in Africa?
RIMMER: (Suddenly loses his temper) Look, I'm sick of hearing about these stupid cats! My concerns are slightly more meaningful than what coloured stupid smegging cardboard hat I'm wearing! I'm trying to decipher this! This is science, laddie! You can smirk, Lister, but I believe the Quagaars--
LISTER: Quagars?
RIMMER: Quagaaaars! It's a name I made up! Double A, actually! I believe the Quagaars have the technology to give me a new body!
Quagga Marinara…yum!
The obvious solution to fighting this mussel infestation is to widely deploy marinara sauce. In support of this mussel elimination campaign, government pasta subsides must also be enhanced and the availability of additional supplies of garlic and olive oil will be essential to boost consumption of these viscous bivalves.
“Seafood” run amok!
Sounds like a BS premise in order to get gubmint grant money flowing to a group of needy "scientists".
“Sounds like a BS premise in order to get gubmint grant money flowing to a group of needy “scientists”.”
That’s exactly what it is. There is no REAL need to excavate ships that have sunk.
These ships were all written off a long time ago....sheesh
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