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I'm not really sure I understand the idea. More flesh on the
bone. |
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Is this something to do creating a bathyscaphe to visit deep-
sea aquaculture? |
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At my fourth reading over a week, I think that [Zimmy] is suggesting a transparent trench composed of honeycomb materials for strength, lowered into the sea so you can walk between the fishes. |
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Underwater transparent tunnels in aquaria are Baked. |
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Submerged viewing galleries on coral reefs are Baked. |
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Not recognizing much innovation here ... |
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I think it might be about bees. |
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The actual wax honeycombs produced by bees are not exactly
load-bearing for anything much more than some honey and,
well, a bunch of bees. |
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On the other hand, bees are not reknowned for excreting plastic. |
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Wasps make nests out of paper, also employing a hexagonal
layout for optimum packing density, but they're a different
species. Also, their nests are not waterproof (and even better,
not fireproof). |
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We are not convinced that bees have a significant role to play in
sub-aquatic engineering. |
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Just as the water spider is the only known spider species to live underwater, so the water bee (alas found only in tropical climes, and in fact a species of wasp) is the only bee to do so. Water bees create domed combs anchored to reed stems, and the space under the comb is filled with air brought in in the bees' fur. |
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They're a commonly-cited example of species symbiosis
- they're known for domesticating species of coral
and feeding the coral the nutrients it needs while
coercing it to build coral honeycomb structures for
their underwater hives. Algae within the hive cells
excrete oxygen so the hive cells (which have their
openings facing downwards) gradually fill with air. |
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There are even theories that the fluorescent stripe down the water bee's thorax arose from horizontal gene transfer from the coral. |
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Debatable. More likely to be viral, I would guess, or something weird. When you get two organisms closely coexisting for millions of years, you'll get the occasional bit of DNA transfer. This his how we know that horseriding goes back a very long time in Essex. |
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//very interesting thing I've been reading lately that parallels the thinking of that with social sciences and history// Probably seductive bollocks, but any narrative is better than no narrative. |
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This raises very profound philosophical questions -
are we not men? |
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Some parts of us are human, others are from other species or are
entirely synthetic. We are a hegemonising cybernetic swarm with
a shared collective consciousness. |
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Any other questions (as long as it's not Orange or Pink) ? Go on,
ask us a
Green question, we're good at those. |
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Well, technically and numerically speaking, we are largely bacteria. A lot of us is virus. But we're a bit men. Apart from those of us that are women. |
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And " Probably Seductive Bollocks " is not unacceptable for a band name - the fans would just call it PSB, and the first album could be called " Never Mind the Bollocks ". |
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// videos of basil 30'down in the Mediterranean Sea // |
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I'm picturing one of those informal mafia burials-at-sea, with
concrete footings. This would make sense if Basil had been a
grass;
there would be your autotroph, and thence would unfold the rest
of the
ecosystem , badabing, badabang. |
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// videos of basil 30'down in the Mediterranean Sea
//
I was thinking of a Fawlty Towers
re-enactment |
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BASIL: "Blup bubble bup burble ?" |
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BASIL: "BUBBLE BURBLE BLUP ! " (hits MANUEL with spoon) |
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No, can't see it working. |
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pressure, honey comb, basil , cylinder. Clearly this is
hydroponics in a bubble at 30 ft to extend small island
richness and add further dimensions to the face of the
planet. |
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//pressure, honey comb, basil , cylinder// |
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That sounds like a married surgeon improvising imperiously in
the field. I'm now trying to picture what injury she's
treating. |
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Bee sting on an open wound? |
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A bee sting on an open wound just wipe it away with the basil. In, might be a different case entirely and may need the cylinder, pressure and after, the honeycomb. |
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