PHOTO IN THE NEWS: New "Rainbow Glow" Jellyfish Found

nationalgeographic ^ | March 16, 2009

[JoeProBono]

Look on the bright side—this luminous new jellyfish species doesn't sting.

Jellyfish expert Lisa Gershwin caught the unnamed species in early March while swimming near a jetty off the Australian island of Tasmania with a "phototank"—a small aquarium that makes it easy to photograph sea life.

The jellyfish does not emit its own light, as bioluminescent creatures do. Rather, its rainbow glow emanates from light reflecting off the creature's cilia, small hairlike projections that beat simultaneously to move te jellyfish through the water.

[JoeProBono]

[Carpe Cerevisi]

Great, the world’s first gay jellyfish.

[the long march]

I guess it must be a slow news day down under. The Monterey Bay Aquarium has had these types of critters in the display cases for some number of years

[HighlyOpinionated]

Great, the world’s first gay jellyfish.

Fortunately I did NOT have coffee in my mouth when I read that.

[stevio]

No way, the rainbow is God’s covenant that he won’t flood the Earth again. This is cool.

[DYngbld]

beat me to the punch. That was the first thing that crossed my mind.

[hedgetrimmer]

You mean the Monterey Bay Fish Prison, don’t you? :-)

[JoeProBono]

[the long march]

Ooops. Yeah sorry I forgot the proper terminology. My OC skills are so Mac limited (lol)

[Ann Archy]

God had sooooooo much fun creating the most fabulous looking things in the sea.

[rwfromkansas]

Now this would be cool to have in a saltwater aquarium.

[the long march]

And so are my typing skills should read PC ( as in politically correct)

[a fool in paradise]

[maggief]

Kewl, though I thought this was another Barney Frank thread.

[dblshot]

That’s just a jelly fish who ate a pack of Skittles.

[JoeProBono]

[tet68]

Well, you have to admit, if there was a way to have sex with it, a gay would find it.

[a fool in paradise]

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2009/03/obama-alqaeda-t.html

You should no longer call them “enemy combatants.”

Technically, of course, the president and Atty. Gen. Eric H. Holder Jr. have an accurate parsing point. These men were “enemy combatants.” That’s why they were captured and sent there. But as long as they are in Guantanamo they can’t actually be “enemy combatants.” Which explains the tall surrounding fences, razor wire and armed guards.

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Swim On and Not In My Fishtank are going to protest for the release of these detained schoolfish...

[BunnySlippers]

I want one!

[JoeProBono]