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Bob_Scopatz
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It's true!

Must.
Eat.
Plankton!

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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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Tstorm
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We'll need the marines to fish out this threat.

[Razz]

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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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Swampjedi
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It's the Krabby Patties. They want them. And when they don't get them... they get angry.
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Dagonee
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Oh, Tstorm, you krill me!
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Orincoro
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I KNEW IT! I've been sayin all along haven't I??????

[Eek!] [Eek!]

Damn you plankton!!!!!!!

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Juxtapose
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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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Tante Shvester
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quote:
Originally posted by Bob_Scopatz:
Must.
Eat.
Plankton!

Whale just see about that.
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KarlEd
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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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Dan_raven
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Its not Tetonic Shift, its Planktonic shifts.
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Bob_Scopatz
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Anyone who denies this is a bloomin' idiot!
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Noemon
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[Wave]
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KarlEd
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I'll see your [Wave] and raise you a [The Wave]
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Dagonee
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quote:
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.

We need to improve our funding for algaebra.
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KarlEd
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We shore do. If enough of us carp about it, we can keep math illiteracy at bay.
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Orincoro
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STOP THE PUNS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!

[Eek!] [Mad] [Eek!] [Cry] [Angst]

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erosomniac
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PJ, I'd like to request a sticky.
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Primal Curve
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I always knew coral-ation==causation!
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Dagonee
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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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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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Luet13
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[Roll Eyes] <groan>
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Narnia
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*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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Dagonee
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Ain't puns a beach?
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Ron Lambert
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If these puns don't stop, we are going to have to take punitive measures against the pungent punsters.
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Dagonee
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Did you get tongue-tide saying that?
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Bob_Scopatz
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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!

[Wave]

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Dagonee
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Good buoy, Bob.
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Orincoro
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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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erosomniac
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quote:
I brine good tidings, and throw reefs upon you all.

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

How can you be so anchored in optimism? The ebb and flow in our lives reveals one clammy pearl of truth: it's sink or swim, baby, sink or swim.
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Bob_Scopatz
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I think the way to fight those plankton is to pool our resources.
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Bob_Scopatz
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My dog wants to keep some as pets: fido's plankton
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quote:
My dog wants to keep some as pets: fido's plankton
That one hurt my feelings.
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