२८ ऑगस्ट, २०१९

"First, we thought it was whale poop, but... there was way more of it than any normal sized pod of whales could come up with."



93 square miles of floating rock — pumice (from an underwater volcano).

From the NYT, "A Raft of Floating Rock Stuns Sailors. But Can It Save the Reef?"

२० टिप्पण्या:

tim maguire म्हणाले...

But scientists say, so accept it, denier!

Chris म्हणाले...

All that pumice must have really scratched up their boat's hull.

Dust Bunny Queen म्हणाले...

Maybe if we all stop using plastic straws and carry our groceries in carbon neutral string bags loaded into our horse drawn wagons we can stop the volcanoes from doing ...Oh I don't know, whatever they have done for Billions of years.

Worth a try. Right Gang!!! Suffer for the greater good and all that.

Maillard Reactionary म्हणाले...

"Corals only rarely settle on pumice. When they do, they can't get off."

Corals never get off anything they settle on. They're sessile, with prejudice.

I imagine they avoid pumice because it probably doesn't last very long in seawater.

Maillard Reactionary म्हणाले...

I should have said, "evolution has designed corals to avoid pumice...", lest anyone be misled that corals engage in careful mineralogical studies before transitioning to the quiet life.

Just asking म्हणाले...

Wasn't the Great Barrier Reef on the (apocryphal) list of things to possibly nuke?

Darrell म्हणाले...

See?
Everything heals or it dies.
Great Barrier Reef II.

Wince म्हणाले...
ही टिप्पणी लेखकाना हलविली आहे.
Wince म्हणाले...

Wouldn't it be easier to blame white, male gun-toting humans for using too much Lava Soap (with pumice)?

"These are the hands of Chuck Dorchester, weapons tester for the Armalite Corporation"

LOL. Chuck Dorchester reminds me of the porn names in Boogie Nights: "Those are great names!"

Coincidentally...

Mark Robert Michael Wahlberg. Born: June 5, 1971 (age 48 years), Dorchester, Boston, MA

Chris N म्हणाले...

At Peace Pavilion West, we make pumice soap, pumice bulletin board and a pumice crown for our female high-achievers (yes, crown. EQUALITY).

The losers sell soap on the side of Rte 9.

iScience fact of the day: Pumice is not the ‘shit of the Earth’. However if we don’t regulate the economy and punish non-believers, the Earth will become shit.

Namaste

richlb म्हणाले...

Lava soap uses the "power of pumice."

Fernandinande म्हणाले...

"She's a witch!"

buwaya म्हणाले...

Natural phenomena occur on a scale that humans still cannot compete with.
What happens in this world has very little to do with humanity.

Fernandinande म्हणाले...

Good Sir Knight: "What also floats in water?"

"Bread. - Apples.
Very small rocks." (they meant pumice)

Ingachuck'stoothlessARM म्हणाले...

they smiled with restrained glee as they said "whale poop"

... but it turned out to be volcano poop.

tcrosse म्हणाले...

Traditionally whale shit is a thing there is nothing lower than, not something that floats.

Peter म्हणाले...

The Great Barrier Reef may be saved? By pumice? This will come as a major blow to climate change scientists and activists. I imagine they are already working on proofs to the contrary or even on studies showing the pumice is a mortal threat that was caused by climate change and can only be stopped by massive carbon reductions.

Bilwick म्हणाले...

Whatever it is, it's sure to know more about economics than your average Democratic presidential candidate.

The Godfather म्हणाले...

Seriously, does whale poop float? And, if so, why haven't I been informed?

Fen म्हणाले...

The pumice raft is 1/2,000th the size of the #GreatBarrierReef

Why is this stat relevant?