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Expect another round of Japan tsunami debris; danger isn’t nuclear … it’s invasive
The Seattle PI ^
| Dec. 8, 2014
| Jake Ellison
Posted on 12/08/2014 9:20:27 PM PST by steve86
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Two interesting slide shows at link.
USCG sinks Japanese fishing boat and exotic foreign sealife.
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posted on
12/08/2014 9:20:27 PM PST
by
steve86
To: steve86
I wouldn’t mind seeing Gamera the giant turtle, as long as he stays on the west coast.
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posted on
12/08/2014 9:27:34 PM PST
by
tumblindice
(America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
To: steve86
USCG sinks Japanese fishing boat and exotic foreign sealife. What? I don't get this. It's the "World Ocean". And short of that, it's the "North Pacific".
Pop Quiz: What's the opposite of "plankton"?
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posted on
12/08/2014 9:30:43 PM PST
by
dr_lew
To: dr_lew
The opposite of Plankton (Plank-town) would be Concreteton (Concrete Town)
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posted on
12/08/2014 9:40:38 PM PST
by
Fai Mao
(Genius at Large)
To: Fai Mao
Genius no more. Not even funny. Please be specific on the species names.
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posted on
12/08/2014 9:46:15 PM PST
by
Fungi
To: Fai Mao
Plankton does actually have an opposite, insofar as every ocean life form is either a plankton, or this.
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posted on
12/08/2014 9:47:20 PM PST
by
dr_lew
To: dr_lew
... OK, it’s not ironclad. There are other categories, but still, it’s a natural dichotomy among open water organisms.
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posted on
12/08/2014 9:53:31 PM PST
by
dr_lew
To: dr_lew
I don’t think the OP wasn’t expecting some kind of plankton inquisition on this thread!
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posted on
12/08/2014 9:58:50 PM PST
by
mrsmith
(Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat Party!)
To: dr_lew
Pop Quiz: What's the opposite of "plankton"? Mr. Krabs?
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posted on
12/08/2014 10:00:08 PM PST
by
dfwgator
To: mrsmith
Nobody expects the Plankton Inquisition!
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posted on
12/08/2014 10:04:25 PM PST
by
tumblindice
(America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
To: steve86
Godzilla Eats Portland!!!!
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posted on
12/08/2014 10:14:22 PM PST
by
llevrok
(I fear the US government more than I do al Qaeda)
To: dr_lew
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posted on
12/08/2014 10:14:40 PM PST
by
Excuse_Me
(Tagline for sale or rent; pithy saying only fifty cent.)
To: mrsmith
Nobody wasn't expecting the Plankton Inquisition!
Ok, I'll tell ya ...
The answer is Nekton ... Nekton can be contrasted with plankton ...
Essentially, Nekton are "free swimmers" such as fish, the exemplar of the type. Many are not aware that Plankton is not a biological classification per se, as it includes larval animal forms, as well as plants.
I have always been pleased to think of the term "nekton" as a justification for Melville's insistence, in Moby Dick, that the whale is a fish. That is, he is using "fish" for "nekton", and this makes the whole thing rhetorically consistent.
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posted on
12/08/2014 10:17:56 PM PST
by
dr_lew
To: dr_lew
I’m thinkin’ napalm. Tried and tested.
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posted on
12/08/2014 10:20:41 PM PST
by
Liberty Valance
(Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
To: Excuse_Me
Klaatu, barada and nekton.
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posted on
12/08/2014 10:27:11 PM PST
by
tumblindice
(America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
To: steve86
Wow what a concept, you mean there has never been a Tsunami of this size before, ever, that has had the same result of debris making to North America?
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posted on
12/08/2014 10:29:30 PM PST
by
Mastador1
(I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
To: steve86
"Invasive Species!!!"
When you get as old as I am, you realize that this is just more environmental hysteria. All creatures emigrate. Just because they hitch a ride with humans doesn't make it unnatural.
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posted on
12/08/2014 10:33:18 PM PST
by
Forgotten Amendments
(Peace On Earth! Purity of Essence! McCain/Ripper 2016)
To: steve86
...potential invasive species hitching a ride on debris thats been out in the ocean these few years. It's a good thing that hasn't happened over and over again for hundreds of millions of years! /s
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posted on
12/08/2014 10:57:52 PM PST
by
TigersEye
(ISIS is the tip of the spear. The spear is Islam.)
To: mrsmith
Will we be able to walk the plankton?
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posted on
12/08/2014 10:59:42 PM PST
by
Veto!
(Opinions freely expressed as advice)
To: Veto!; mrsmith; Lazamataz; xsmommy; SoothingDave; NicknamedBob; MHGinTN
Well, certainly you can always walk the plankdown ...
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posted on
12/08/2014 11:33:39 PM PST
by
Robert A Cook PE
(I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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