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A Solution for Coral Reefs in Peril
Alien54 writes "At the recent Coral Reef Symposium in Bali, Indonesia, scientists concluded that most of the world's ocean reefs have been killed or severely damaged with the remainder in certain jeopardy. Disastrous reverses in reef health threaten marine biodiversity, tourism, fisheries and shore protection worldwide. Reefs die for many reasons: rising water temperatures, sewage flows, eutrophication, disease, and negligence. A reef ecosystem that took hundreds of years to grow can be destroyed in a single afternoon by dredging, dynamite or cyanide fishing. But there is a solution. In pilot installations in Mexico, Panama, Indonesia, Maldives, Thailand, and Papua New Guinea, artificial reefs have been built where corals grow rapidly even in stressed environments. Applying a low voltage electrical current (completely safe for swimmers and marine life) to a submerged conductive structure causes dissolved mineral crystals in seawater to preciptate and adhere to that structure. Surviving coral fragments are mechanically attached, and end up doing very well indeed. During the 1998 warming, fewer than 5% of the natural reef corals survived. But on the artificial reefs, 80% of corals not only survived, they flourished. Corals from these reefs are now recolonizing the surrounding natural habitats."
Do not move to the middle of Africa, will die from lack of electricity and internet connection.
LOL, you thought you were going to get a +5 funny with that!
Hehe Troll... I'm Offtopic!
Is this one of those objuscated coding contests?
Y'know, I wondered about that for about a nanosecond. Too bad I didn't even care enough to pop-up the Merriam Webster Dictionary window I keep open all the time and check...
Coral is my girlfriend and this thread keeps getting weirder.
That was actually quite a funny post. A '3' at least.
The pun does not work so well when the editors cannot spell "coral" properly, but well done to you anyway,sir. Good work
So every Jerry's Kid that comes through here spewing pro-open-source crap or plagarising viewpoints on current events from library message boards gets handed some mod points? Is that how it works? Apparently so, given how the parent was modded.
Let me clue you short-bussers in: at worst, the parent was Offtopic. At best, it was Funny. The system will remain broken for as long as you simpletons continue to blindly lash out at every post that is not the typical uptight, bland, chin-stroking pseudo-intellectualism.
Wipe the foam from your mouth, put down the $4 chai, and relax. There is room for humor here.
Oh, and there's an apostrophe in "it's" (meaning "it is").
Did anyone else read that as "A Solution for Corals Reefs in Perl"?
I thought it was some chaos simulator in Perl.
#include <sig.h>