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Concentrations of the natural pigment chlorophyll in coastal waters have been shown to rise prior to earthquakes.

These chlorophyll increases are due to blooms of plankton, which use the pigment to convert solar energy to chemical energy via photosynthesis.

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Posted by Tstorm (Member # 1871) on :
 
We'll need the marines to fish out this threat.


 

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Posted by littlemissattitude (Member # 4514) on :
 
Reading the article, it sounds to me more like the plankton blooms are an indication of a coming quake, not a cause of the quake.
 

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Posted by Swampjedi (Member # 7374) on :
 
It's the Krabby Patties. They want them. And when they don't get them... they get angry.
 

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Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
 
Oh, Tstorm, you krill me!
 

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Posted by Orincoro (Member # 8854) on :
 
I KNEW IT! I've been sayin all along haven't I??????



Damn you plankton!!!!!!!
 

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Posted by Juxtapose (Member # 8837) on :
 
See? We really should be listening to the environazis. We could've been saving whales this whole time.

And I'd just to like to say, I consider this another example of the Bush administration's incompetence. Their lack of vision and leadership in combating the planktonic menace constitutes a gross executive failure. All that money that was used to bribe the rich and dumped into Iraq should have been going to fight the War on Phytoplankton.
 

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Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :
 

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Originally posted by Bob_Scopatz:
Must.
Eat.
Plankton!

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Whale just see about that.
 

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Posted by KarlEd (Member # 571) on :
 
Juxtapose,
I agree. This current administration's attention to environmental issues is but a drop in the ocean of what is needed. If we don't get a sea change soon, we'll be left adrift.
 

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Posted by Dan_raven (Member # 3383) on :
 
Its not Tetonic Shift, its Planktonic shifts.
 

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Posted by Bob_Scopatz (Member # 1227) on :
 
Anyone who denies this is a bloomin' idiot!
 

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Posted by KarlEd (Member # 571) on :
 
I'll see your and raise you a
 

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Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
 

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Originally posted by KarlEd:
Juxtapose,
I agree. This current administration's attention to environmental issues is but a drop in the ocean of what is needed. If we don't get a sea change soon, we'll be left adrift.

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We need to improve our funding for algaebra.
 

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Posted by KarlEd (Member # 571) on :
 
We shore do. If enough of us carp about it, we can keep math illiteracy at bay.
 

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Posted by Orincoro (Member # 8854) on :
 
STOP THE PUNS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!


 

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Posted by erosomniac (Member # 6834) on :
 
PJ, I'd like to request a sticky.
 

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Posted by Primal Curve (Member # 3587) on :
 
I always knew coral-ation==causation!
 

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Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
 
We'll either have to sponge off the efforts of our friends and anemones or we will flounder because our technological richter mortis makes us too inflexible to change.
 

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Posted by TrapperKeeper (Member # 7680) on :
 
The bush administration has been so shellfish regarding matters of phytoplankton that their approval ratings will hit the deck. Bush will be so battered someone will need to call a sturgeon.
 

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Posted by Luet13 (Member # 9274) on :
 
<groan>
 

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Posted by Narnia (Member # 1071) on :
 
*laugh* I wish I was remotely clever.

I did think of the little plankton with the deep voice when I read this thread title though. I love that guy, he's the only funny thing about SpongeBob.
 

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Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
 
Ain't puns a beach?
 

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Posted by Ron Lambert (Member # 2872) on :
 
If these puns don't stop, we are going to have to take punitive measures against the pungent punsters.
 

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Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
 
Did you get tongue-tide saying that?
 

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Posted by Bob_Scopatz (Member # 1227) on :
 
I finally got Noemon's <wave> one. LOL. I was about to use a "wave" pun and realized that I'd already been scooped. Sandbagged again!


 

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Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
 
Good buoy, Bob.
 

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Posted by Orincoro (Member # 8854) on :
 
I brine good tidings, and throw reefs upon you all.

Life is a beach, and an ocean, basque in it.
 

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Posted by erosomniac (Member # 6834) on :
 

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I brine good tidings, and throw reefs upon you all.

Life is a beach, and an ocean, basque in it.

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My dog wants to keep some as pets: fido's plankton

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