Thursday, August 10, 2023

Nature's Wonders: The Amazing Sea Slug

Nature's Wonders: The Amazing Sea Slug Absurd Creature of the Week: This Crazy-Looking Sea Slug Has an Ingenious Secret Weapon [Click]

All over our world’s oceans, the many astoundingly colored species of nudibranch are eating things like the vicious Portuguese man o' war, incorporating their stingers or toxins into their own skin, and using them to fend off predators.
- (Wired: November, 2014

Nudibranch on Wikipedia [Click]

15 comments:

  1. Beautiful photo, Cat.
    ---Alan

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    1. I just selected it. Thank wiki media commons.

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  2. Sorry, Listener. I didn't see your comment on post timing till after the new thread went up.

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    1. No worries!

      I've just posted threads through August 21st...primarily because I have a busy week ahead. I often post 2 to 4 weeks ahead when I have a cache of photos to work with. But if you have something you'd like to post sooner, feel free to bump something to a later date.

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    1. Further research suggests that LK-99 is not a superconductor but rather has "funky" magnetic properties. How this affects the magnetic levitation idea isn't clear to me.

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    1. Hey, man, no big deal. Now, if it were one of those pinko, un-American Democrats, that would be a different story. But Clarence? He's as pure as the driven snow!

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  5. I have a friend on Maui, who lives there, in Kula, with his two children. They are safe and he is hoping to bring food to people in dire need. With his permission, I have given his contact information to World Central Kitchen, in hopes that they can fund his efforts and those of other folks in the local food industry there...just as they recently did in Vermont.

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  6. 5PM, we are just back from doctor's office (no big deal), shopping, banking, and visiting. A lot of cars on the road, temperature around 96-97 F, clouds were gathering (about 95% cover at the moment), but it doesn't look like there will be rain, and the weatherperson agrees.
    ----Alan

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    1. I figure that the GOP could do a lot worse than Christie [and may well].
      ---Alan

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  8. Do SUPERMASSIVE black holes ever MERGE? | The Final Parsec Problem [Click] A huge gravitational wave detector is set to be launched in 2037, which should be able to detect gravitational waves associated with mergers of supermassive black holes. So I might still be alive when that happens . . .
    ——Alan

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