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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...
An Eye for an Eye will make the whole world blind - Gandhi
when you have sea salt and plankton.
... or plankton in the sky with diamonds?
Is there life in the rings around Uranus?
Means I can be the first to get the crabby patty recipe
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!!!
Give it another 7 years ;-)
If I seem short sighted, it is because I stand on the shoulders of midgets
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.
If Mr. Edison had thought smarter he wouldn't sweat as much. --Nikola Tesla
Where the plankton comes sweeping down the plains!!!
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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.
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