Toxic Algae

[urbpan]

I've got to go see this. Unfortunately, they don't say what species it is.

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[kryptyd.livejournal.com]

Bleh! That happened at my local lake before. Some people's dogs died and the local fish got decimated. I still swim there for some reason...

[cottonmanifesto.livejournal.com]

yes they do - Microcystis aeruginosa

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

Huh? I must have missed it. Maybe I'll see some on the ride home.

[cottonmanifesto.livejournal.com]

well, they just said 'microcystis' but googling provided the rest.

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

Aren't you clever!

[cottonmanifesto.livejournal.com]

why yes, thanks for noticing! :p

[derekdicaprio.livejournal.com]

This is right near my work. Go near the Museum of Science. There's TONS of it.

That's not the half of it!

[turil.livejournal.com]

Appearently, there is an even more insane bacteria that is just now starting to take over the entire planet's oceans. It's supposedly one of the original forms of life on this planet - a part of the primordial ooze - that has been mostly dormant for, well, all those billions of years since life started here. And now, because we've sufficiently deoxygenated the ocean so much, this ooze is coming back in force, at an astounding rate of a football field a day.

I'm not sure where David saw the article, but here's a similar one (http://www.latimes.com/news/local/oceans/la-me-ocean30jul30,0,6670018,full.story) from the La Times.

We really are in for a crazy ride on this planet pretty darn soon. I'm sure the predictions are nothing like what's really going to happen to the Earth and our silly human species...

Re: That's not the half of it!

[turil.livejournal.com]

Wait, it's not a bacteria. It's Algae. I think David said "microrganism" and I translated that to be "bacteria". I could never be a "hard" scientist...

Re: That's not the half of it!

[turil.livejournal.com]

And... It's a football field an hour, not day. I'd make a crappy reporter, too!

Re: That's not the half of it!

[by-steph.livejournal.com]

It's cyanobacteria which is kind of both. So, you are double right.

Black helicopters

[by-steph.livejournal.com]

I wonder if the Museum of Science has been doing something naughty? Improper waste discharge?

This made me think about that. Oceanographic Museum of Monaco and Caulerpa taxifolia: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/algae/chronology.html

Re: Black helicopters

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

Good conspiracy theory, but the MOS is downstream from the algae bloom. I blame MIT, and their secret biowarfare division.

Re: Black helicopters

[turil.livejournal.com]

I blame the DCR (aka the new MDC) and the Earthday festival!

Re: Black helicopters

[trywhy.livejournal.com]

i blame all those kids that poop in the charles.

[disenchantedgrl.livejournal.com]

that's a bit disheartning.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_bazilisk_/]

That's surreal. That first paragraph sounds downright sciencefictionesque.