I think that’s a deep space invasion craft coming our way. It’s clearly hundreds of kilometers long.
Trebuchetsays
Having now clicked the link, I read this:
In a surprising new finding, scientists at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology showed that the salps’ nets are remarkably engineered to catch extremely small particles that scientists assumed would easily slip through the 1.5-micron holes in the nets.
(My bold)
Sounds like WHOI is channeling the Discovery Institute!
This is very interesting, but the headline’s a little inaccurate: the smallest & most abundant organisms in the ocean are viruses, at several million per cubic centimetre.
Crip Dyke, Right Reverend Feminist FuckToy of Death & Her Handmaidensays
@fabianocaccin:
Y’know, I’m beginning to think you’re right…
ChasCPetersonsays
whatever viruses are, they ain’t ‘organisms’.
gardengnomesays
Actually it looks more like a General Products #3 Hull (with customer modifications).
affirmedatheistsays
I, for one, welcome our spacefaring gelatinous overlords.
our gelatinous cousins!
Looks like Babylon 5.
I think that’s a deep space invasion craft coming our way. It’s clearly hundreds of kilometers long.
Having now clicked the link, I read this:
(My bold)
Sounds like WHOI is channeling the Discovery Institute!
That’s no salp. It’s a space station.
This is very interesting, but the headline’s a little inaccurate: the smallest & most abundant organisms in the ocean are viruses, at several million per cubic centimetre.
@fabianocaccin:
Y’know, I’m beginning to think you’re right…
whatever viruses are, they ain’t ‘organisms’.
Actually it looks more like a General Products #3 Hull (with customer modifications).
I, for one, welcome our spacefaring gelatinous overlords.