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Mysterious Purple Sea Orb Stymies Scientists
Yahoo News ^
| 7/28/16
| Stephanie Pappas, Live Science
Posted on 07/28/2016 6:44:29 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
"Have a look at that dark purple blob on the left, there."
With those words, scientists aboard the Exploration Vessel Nautilus uncovered a marine mystery: a small purple orb tucked halfway under a rock off the coast of California.
Researchers are so far stumped as to what the colorful, bumpy little ball might be. Their best guess is that it might be a gastropod (a mollusk such as a snail or slug that belongs to the class Gastropoda) called a pleurobranch and possibly a new species.
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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Science
KEYWORDS: gastropod; mysterious; ocean; purple; scientists; stymies
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A mysterious purple orb found at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean stumped NOAA scientists onboard the Nautilus research vessel. (NOAA)
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posted on
07/28/2016 6:46:29 PM PDT
by
NormsRevenge
(Semper Fi - Monthly Donors Rock!!)
To: NormsRevenge
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posted on
07/28/2016 6:46:35 PM PDT
by
Dr. Bogus Pachysandra
(Don't touch that thing Don't let anybody touch that thing!I'm a Doctor and I won't touch that thing!)
To: NormsRevenge
It is a flip-flop you dummies.
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posted on
07/28/2016 6:47:03 PM PDT
by
disndat
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posted on
07/28/2016 6:47:06 PM PDT
by
NormsRevenge
(Semper Fi - Monthly Donors Rock!!)
To: NormsRevenge
Available at your local toy store
To: NormsRevenge
To: NormsRevenge
Obviously it’s an ultraviolet party light. You can’t see the light flashing from it because the camera is not UV sensitive.
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posted on
07/28/2016 6:49:23 PM PDT
by
arthurus
To: NormsRevenge
I have alway wondered since they started including purple Trix cereal... Now I know...
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posted on
07/28/2016 6:50:31 PM PDT
by
BigEdLB
(Take it Easy, Chuck. I'm Not Taking it Back -- Donald Trump)
To: NormsRevenge
It’s Jerry Garcia come back to earth.
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posted on
07/28/2016 6:50:56 PM PDT
by
VTenigma
(The Democrat party is the party of the mathematically challenged)
To: NormsRevenge
egg of the giant purple people eater
To: NormsRevenge
Ask for them by name.
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posted on
07/28/2016 6:52:31 PM PDT
by
P.O.E.
(Pray for America)
To: NormsRevenge
Is this the same type nasty orb that’s all over Hillary Clinton’s back and legs [and caused her to have hairy toes]
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07/28/2016 6:52:58 PM PDT
by
Mr Apple
(HILLARY SQUIRMS AS SHE KICKS OUT YOUNG BLACK GIRL youtube.com/watch?v=Xd22I12jY7c)
To: butlerweave
The One Eyed, one Horned ,,,?
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07/28/2016 6:53:05 PM PDT
by
Big Red Badger
(UNSCANABLE in an IDIOCRACY!)
To: NormsRevenge
I, for one, welcome our new purple overlords.
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posted on
07/28/2016 6:55:37 PM PDT
by
lafroste
To: TalonDJ
Email me at my personal page. There is something that needs to be said to you.
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posted on
07/28/2016 6:55:57 PM PDT
by
4Runner
To: NormsRevenge
that’s cool. thanks for posting.
i would love to see more oceanic exploration rather than space, seems there is so much we don’t know about our own beautiful planet.
they just discovered a new species of whale too.... amazing what still hides in our vast oceans.
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posted on
07/28/2016 6:58:54 PM PDT
by
sdpatriot
("Never retreat. Never explain. Get it done and let them howl.")
To: P.O.E.
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posted on
07/28/2016 7:02:16 PM PDT
by
Talisker
(One who commands, must obey.)
To: NormsRevenge
Japanese businessmen are bidding big yen for the opportunity to eat it.
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posted on
07/28/2016 7:04:12 PM PDT
by
corkoman
To: Larry Lucido
Its full of starfish!
HAH! A most excellent reply. Love it!
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posted on
07/28/2016 7:15:13 PM PDT
by
adaven
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