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Create a lava lamp that is the right environment for sulphur-vent bacteria, or some other visible wiggling life form that likes hot amorphos environments, jar the little guys in the clear lamp with a heat element & light under it and place it in your dorm room...or office etc.
Not only do you have
the "mystical" blobs changing densities up & down, but little bugs swimming in all that glowing murk. Two cools in one! Chicks Dig it.
Retros- How to make a lava lamp
http://www.oozinggoo.com/ll-form5.html
ahh-how to make a lava lamp, with specific ingredients [macncheesy, Oct 05 2004, last modified Oct 17 2004]
Hydrothermal vent
http://web.uvic.ca/...othermal-vents.html
[hippo, Oct 05 2004, last modified Oct 17 2004]
The DeepBUG project
http://www.chm.bris...k/deepbug/index.htm
My previous research project, which is dragging on a bit, but which could be quite interesting if I could get the damn machine to give me some numbers [hazel, Oct 05 2004, last modified Oct 17 2004]
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Excellent, as long as the power doesn't ever get shut off. |
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Might be difficult to ship. And what do you feed a sulpher-vent lifeform? |
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Make the lamp similar to an eco-sphere. It's a remarkably simple ecosystem that Macncheesy is talking about. Of course, it depends... on.. a constant influx of sulfides.... oh dear this isn't going to work. |
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Shame they all die when you turn the lamp off. |
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There is a disco-heating element that stays on :) |
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I like it, sign me up. (WTAGIPBAN) |
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Has any aquarium yet managed to install a sea vent environment? |
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A hydrothermal vent fishtank would be
very cool. There might be some
technical challenges in maintaining
sufficient pressure such that the wter
can be at 400C and still be liquid but it
would look good. |
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//Shame they all die when you turn the lamp off.// Why should they? They will probably go into some hibernating state when it gets too cold. How else could they spread across the ocean floor. |
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//And what do you feed a sulpher-vent lifeform?// |
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You feed em sulphur [phoe]. Probably in the form of H2S. That's what lots of the deep biosphere bacteria eat. We think. We're not entirely sure. See linky for a (rather sparse) page about my previous research project. Sadly few results posted as yet - I'm analysing the samples as I type... |
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Top idea - not sure about the practicalities of it though. These bacteria are fuckers to grow outside their environment. |
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I really didn't think chicks WOULD dig it, but then I read [blissmiss]'s post... hmmm... shows what I know. |
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[hazel] how does solubility of H2S vary with pressure? Do those poor critters just starve to death at atmospheric pressure because there is not enough H2S in the water? |
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