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Plankton in the Clouds
An anonymous reader writes "NASA is reporting that the September 1997 Pacific hurricane, Nora, was able to deliver sea salt and plankton as far inland as Oklahoma. The tale-tell signs of prismatic light halos around cirrus clouds pointed to ice crystals with nucleated hexagons and sea-salted clouds. Various proposals have been made previously about such 'life in the clouds' proposals on other planets like Jupiter and Venus."
Is now only a few billion years of evolution away...
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They have plakton in the sky AGAIN??
when you have sea salt and plankton.
... or plankton in the sky with diamonds?
Going by the no. of articles on Slashdot, one would think NASA is a huge, highly successful org., and one intent on extending the frontiers of technology. Cutting off all the chaff, I guess there's very little NASA's doing that's relevant. The hype built around them is not matched by anything they've turned out, over the last 3 decades.
Too much hype, too little advancement.
If you keep throwing chairs, one day you'll break windows....
So they found some dead plankton. I'd be much more impressed about the connection with Venus if they were still alive while in the clouds some how.
Is there life in the rings around Uranus?
Means I can be the first to get the crabby patty recipe
Based on this article, I have to ask: Could saltwater have been a better explanation for this beautiful phenomenon? Does anybody here know?
life as we know it is possible anywhere there is water. At this point, simple life forms like algea and bacteria on an extra-terrestrial world wouldn't excite me more than a "that's damn cool" type reaction. I'm to the point now that I'd expect there to be simple life on some of the other worlds in our solar system. I'd be a lot more surprised of all the planets and moons around us were completely dead. Now if they found concrete proof of extinct complex organisms on mars, or a sea full of life on Europa, It'd be a very exciting day. Jupiter's natural radiation could heat Europa's innards enough for life to thrive. Some say that the amount of radiation from jupiter would kill everything off; but life has a tendency to find a way to overcome obstacles. After all, despite all our efforts, spammers exist, trolls keep posting and the Saddams of the world keep on having their way.
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Attempt no landings there!
Up in the clouds the conditions are too violent and volatile and material transfer is past, so life may land up there, but it is difficult for it to develop from there, unless the whole cloud is made of primodial soup, like the depths of jupiter where there is thich murky cloud where scientists think life is possible.
But life forming in clouds like venus has, sorry i dont bite.My Aurora : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o91ZsGwJYyg
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There have been reports of dogs, people and farm animals to name a few in the clouds during several tornados! This must say alot about the possibility of life on Jupiter!!!
How about when a twister sucks up a pond full of fish and rains it on a city somewhere else...
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Plankton in the sky with algea?
I seem to remember someone finding spiders and vaious bacteria way up before, and as soon as they brought them back down to eath they came back alive. Curse my bad memory.
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Where the plankton comes sweeping down the plains!!!
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Plankton, pffft I want fish to rain down from the sky.
thank God the internet isn't a human right.
I always kind of thought the term was tell-tale.
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I guess once the FAA gets word of this, they'll require algae impact testing on airliner windshields
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prismatic light halos around cirrus clouds pointed to ice crystals with nucleated hexagons and sea-salted clouds
right. run that by me again?
Hey this plankton came from cloud No 9, came with a tiny harp.
"Give orange me give eat orange me eat orange give me eat orange give me you." -Nim Chimpsky
If you find this concept interesting, and enjoy Sci-Fi, try the book Wheelers by Ian Stewart and Jack Cohen. It's a neat book that fleshes out this concept in intricate detail. I picked it up in a clearance sale at my local book store, and was glad of the purchase!
-Ben
That's nothing when compared to dropping piles of seagulls on Utah.
by Freeman Dyson talks about this in his wonderful book published in 1999. Specifically he talks about the chances of finding lifeforms on Mars and Europa (a satellite of Jupiter). He suggests looking into the space around Europa instead of on the surface for "freeze dried fish".
From the final chapter: "Every time there is a major impact on Europa, a vast quantity of water will be splashed from the ocean into the space around Jupiter. The water will partly evaporate and partly condense into snow. Any creatures living in the water not too close to the impact (meteor impacts) will have a chance of being splashed intact into space with the water and quickly freeze dried."
I'm not sure if this book has been reviewed in slashdot, but it deserves another shot since so much here is relevant especially after the last shuttle disaster. Dyson is dead on track here.
Okie Stereotypes "Yes, I'm from the Sooner State, I tell them -- land of wheat fields, Indian reservations, TV evangelists, and country music; and who could forget the setting of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Oklahoma: 'O-o-o-oklahoma, where the wind comes sweepin' down the plain.'
A state shaped like a kitchen utensil, as if the founders who drew the boundary lines had consigned it to serve as a perpetual building block of the Southwest, an essential part of the meal that no one sees, all glamour and strength hidden from view, what remains on the stove after servers carry away entrees on fancy china plates and lace napkins -- a part of the United States that everyone knows instinctively, but which few can place on a map."
By the way, there are more than 700 National Merit/Achievement/Hispanic Scholars at the University of Oklahoma. How does your state university compare?
Let's see, things common in Oklahoma, not in Europe:
1) Women shaving Pits, Legs (OK Yes, Euro No)
2) Correction for sorry ass crooked teeth (OK Yes, Euro No)
3) Hygiene, (aka Taking a shower, brushing teeth, using deodorant, etc) (OK Yes, Euro No)
4) High standard of living (OK Yes, Euro No) (I make over 180K/year that's about 110 pounds, doubtful the Euro-Trash makes that much, however since he is "so far evolved" I'm surprised)
5) Taxes that are equitable (OK Yes, Euro No)
I'd have to say overall Euro-trash is far behind in most areas. I wonder when they will "evolve".
I've read before about how fish and tadpoles and even frogs "rain from the heavens" in some places, and it's clear that this happens. This article could bring into question some of the "evidence" that archeologists find that they claim points to an area being underwater. If enough fish and frogs and now plankton rain down in an area over time, and this stuff sort of piles up, how would they be able to tell if there was really marine life there, or if is simply an artifact of this weird kind of rain that is filled with this sh.. er... stuff? And what about tornadoes and hurricans and such that can carry mountains of this kind of debris??
Some days it's just not worth chewing through the restraints.
IAJAP, I am just a programmer, but
If this living material is present at that level, do we think it can precipitate out ? and if so, what impact do you think this would have on projects that analyse the minute traces of life in remote areas ? Actually, what impact might that have on umbrella sales ???
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plankton that was picked up by a hurricane out of the water, died and didn't originate there is a hell of alot different than life that developes in the clouds. I would thinkl that someone who knows how to type and use a computer would be smart enough to realize this but hey, maybe I've overestimated the inteligence required to do those kinds of things.
how can slashdot claim to want less trolling and flamebait and then mod that at 5 funny ?
TANG
some klingons !
the plankton in the clouds put you!!