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Brilliant Pics of Bizarre Sea Critters
An anonymous reader writes "Today, scientists have announced the completion of the first ever Census of Marine Life. The colossal 10-year effort involved 2,700 researchers from 80 countries. To mark the occasion, Discover's blog 80beats has a photo gallery of some of the most marvelously strange sea creatures photographed in the course of the census. The blog post also explains some of the census's most important findings, including the dramatic decline of many commercially important large marine animals, and troubling new evidence of a decline in the phytoplankton that serves as the base of the marine food chain."
We seem to want to look toward space, toward distant planets trying to find even scant evidence of strange, spectacular creatures. And yet ones as strange and spectacular as you can imagine remain undiscovered right here at home.
Just give 'em more mercury.
No a census is when you hire WAY more people than necessary, forgoing all logic and prudence, in an effort to ease the unemployment rate on the population. Then the first month after you bask in the glory of how you have reduced unemployment. Then you admit that it was temporary once the right people start pointing out what you did. Then 6 months after you hired all of these already redundant people you let them all go...
It would have been cheaper to just send them their check instead of creating all the administrative (busy work) of 'employing' them.
That's what a census is. You have an outdated definition. That was so 1980.
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Hmm...It would appear that in my haste to get a semi-relevant first post, I neglected to type the word "the". This is almost as bad as the time I accidentally my whole hard drive.
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Etymology Latin, from cnsre to assess
No wonder Latin died off... not enough vowels.
>> Might be nice to get the unwashed masses thinking (well, in a general manner of speaking) about something else than sex.
On Fark this would become a tentacle porn thread in under five posts.
It probably saw it's reflection in the camera lens.
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That is a female blobfish, you insensitive clod !!!
How do they taste?