Slashdot Mirror
Many New Species Found Under Antarctica
gt_mattex writes to tell us The Globe and Mail is reporting that quite a few new species have been found in the ocean beneath the Antarctic ice. From the article: "It is too early to say exactly how many new species were discovered in the Antarctic, many in the Weddell Sea, where ice crushed the ship of Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton in 1915. The scientists saw more strange creatures than familiar ones, says Ron O'Dor, an expert in octopuses and squid from Halifax's Dalhousie University and the chief scientist in charge of producing the first marine life census of the planet by 2010."
Ernest Shackelton is Chuck Norris's father.
Here comes the Second Impact. Glad I'm a couple hundred miles inland and not living in Japan...
I keep telling myself I'm not the desperate type.
IT's the ANCIENT outpost
"Somebody in this camp ain't what he appears to be. Right now that may be one or two of us. By spring, it could be all of us."
I value politeness. If you extend it to me, I'll extend it to you.
The article describes some pretty odd creatures.
I mean, without a picture of that centimeter-in-diameter protozoan, how the hell am I supposed to imagine how it looks like, much less the more important facets of such a discovery... such as how does it taste?
Don't you worry! We will have those scary new species gone in no time!
Other then that
;)
Seek also the difference between "then" and "than"
See my journal for slashdot ID's by year. Mine created in 2005. http://slashdot.org/journal/289875/slashdot-ids-by-year
Well if the global warming craze didnt tell you anything, I give it 20 years, and you can see whats really at the bottom of the ocean...
My god -- it's full of geeks.
What changed under Obama? Nothing Good
Yes but have they found any evidence of Elder Things yet? Or at the very least some Shoggoths?
Everything in Australia is deadly. The spiders are deadly, the snakes are deadly, the crocodiles are deadly, the plants are deadly, the driving in Sydney is definitely deadly, the TV commercials are lethal... I never did find out what happened to those rabbits that escaped from a research facility on a Government-owned island and made it to shore, back in '95. As I recall, they were being used for some research into some lethal pathogen or other. Since there are Australians still alive, I take it that the crisis was brought under control, but that was cutting it a little fine. I guess we can add the Australian Government to things that are lethal, though.
It's a small world and it smells funny; I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money; Take back what I paid (SoM)
A new isle at the fish market!
Do not look into LASER with remaining eye!
"so stop talking about it and move on, or change your attitude about life in the ocean"
I can attest to that.
I used to believe it would be the worst thing in the world. If it was forced upon me, I thought, I would surely die rather than submit to such a harsh and painful existence. How could I eat? How could I breathe? Both would come at significant hardship, all as my skin shrivelled and those few comforts I'd brought from my land-dwelling past rusted away.
Yes, I was someone who, like many, clung to the land desperately.
How silly that attitude seems to me now. The atmosphere is clogged with pollutants, the crops doused with carcinogens, the cities governed by rich men who guide the masses' efforts into their own purses.
This is what changed my attitude about life in the ocean, and that is what, I hope, will help you change yours.
Drain the oceans?!? That's ridiculous -- where would they go??? I guess you could find something that sucks really hard, like Digg, put a straw in it, and plop it on the beach.
But it would make much more sense to rapidly evaporate all of them, perhaps with a large scale hairdryer task force and/or a few strategically placed nukes.
https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere
Naah, Vegemite is like 1080, only toxic to non-natives :)
You can learn a lot about a person if you just take the time to inject them with sodium pentathol
are octopuses, not octopi.
Attr. to Patricia T. O'Conner, as is the quote, "Octopi is for suckers".
I am not a crackpot.
Instead of listing all of the deadly things about Australia, it's much easier to list the non-deadly things:
- some of the sheep
Thanks Terry Pratchett.
I remember growing up in adelaide.
'don't' walk on the grass without shoes'
'don't lean on the hedges'
'don't go near the lizards'
'don't dig in the garden'
and in Broadbeach
'don't play with the jellyfish'
'don't go in the sea without shoes'
Not that these rules worked especially well on me, I broke almost all of them on a reguler basis, and so did my friends. It's amazing Aussie kids survive to adulthood.
I came to england at 7, and was shocked to find kids running from pissy little spiders and bee's....
mmm.. octopie *drools*
- I choked on the red pill and now I'm stuck in limbo
myxomatosis was released back in 1950, and suppressed the rabbit population quite thoroughly for a couple of decades before they started to evolve immunity.
Steady on. You'll start a flamewar with the creationists.
What if a bunch of rabbits intelligently designed immunity?
May contain traces of nut.
Made from the freshest electrons.
My current favorite:
/ norfanz/psychrol2.htm
http://www.amonline.net.au/fishes/about/fieldwork
The name they gave it is fine, but 'Sploork' seems like a better fit to me.
Nerd rage is the funniest rage.
yea, I refer to this as the "cut and run" date. At which point we all know the ocean life wins. I think we need to "stay the course." Not set a date that the ocean life can hide until.
Paying taxes to buy civilization is like paying a hooker to buy love.
Gamingmuseum.com: Give your 3D accelerator a rest.
And don't forget koalas. They a lurking everywhere waiting for human flesh. Even a small koala can rip you apart in a matter of seconds.