Some Things Jellyfish

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Cosmic Jellyfish

Image: GALEX/Chandra/Hubble/Spitzer

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Jellyfish movie - A Kleinian movie

From the Math department @ Harvard

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A moon jellyfish.

Credit: Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary

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Crocheted Jellyfish @ Monster Crochet

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Snips from here and there...

"First animals and plants appear as flatworms, jellyfish and seaweed. ..."

"They were constantly hit by asteroids, cosmic snowballs and meteors. ..."

"Pentagon wants to build giant blimps for use in wartime. What could possibly go wrong?"

"I tend to think of it as some kind of cosmic joke. ..."

"Above a ruined planet's deathbed scene mushroom cloud like a monstrous jellyfish"

"we are drawn back to the ocean's edge"

[mikeytherat]

1. Jellyfish - One of the best pop bands ever.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jellyfish_(band)



mikey_the_rat

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3. Sounds sort of "Genesis" like. nt

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8. Today's news about Roger Manning - of Jellyfish

04/13/06

" Does the name Roger Manning ring a bell? As a founding member of the fantastic '90s alt-pop group Jellyfish, Imperial Drag as well as The Moog Cookbook, Manning has rocked the keyboards on a number of fantastic bands. If you haven't heard Jellyfish's "The King Is Half-Undressed" off their Bellybutton album, it is the perfect power pop track for a sunny spring day. Roger Manning is also a sought-after session keyboardist, who has worked with Beck, Suede, Tim Burgess, Morrissey and Air.

Manning is now signed to Cordless Recordings, which is the e-label run by the Warner Music Group. The label will be releasing his solo album this fall and is being precluded by a three-song cluster on May 2nd."

http://www.antimusic.com/dayinrock/06/april/13/19.shtml


Jellyfish Co-Founder Goes Solo

http://www.thetripwire.com/news/2006/4/12/jellyfish-co-founder-goes-solo

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14. I'll second that. "Spilt Milk" is a masterpiece.

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2. WOW!!!! That was beautiful!

Thank you so much for that. Bookmarking.




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4. thanks

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5. kick for effort and beauty

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6. Info about the "Cosmic Jellyfish" & Jellyfish Blooms

Space telescopes capture a cosmic jellyfish
17:46 13 January 2006

"A cosmic jellyfish appears to pulse with light in this multi-wavelength image of the Cartwheel galaxy, compiled from images taken by four space telescopes.

The galaxy probably came by its distinctive shape when a small galaxy – possibly one of the objects at bottom-left of the image – collided with it head-on 100 million years ago. The crash set off ripples in the large galaxy's gas that led to concentric rings of star birth.

"It's like dropping a stone into a pond, only in this case, the pond is the galaxy and the wave is the compression of gas," explains Phil Appleton of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, US. "Each wave represents a burst of star formation – the youngest stars are found in the outer ring."

http://www.newscientistspace.com/article.ns?id=dn8582

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I enjoy the similarity between the look of the star formations (Cosmic Jellyfish) and life here - the first "simple animals". It sounds like they live through a lot of conditions of salinity, temperature, etc. So that's good for them (more adaptable than WE are - IOW).

And besides - they look cool.


On Jellyfish and "blooms" (sounds like a global warming indicator :shrug: ):

A group of jellyfish is often called a "smack." Many species of jellyfish are also capable of congregating into large swarms or "blooms" consisting of hundreds or even thousands of individuals. The formation of these blooms is a complex process that depends on ocean currents, nutrients, temperature and oxygen content. Jellyfish will sometimes mass breed during blooms, thereby causing large booms in jellyfish population and reportedly raising major ecological concern for a possible jellyfish outbreak.

According to Claudia Mills of the University of Washington, the frequency of these blooms may be attributed to mankind's impact on marine life; she says that the breeding jellyfish may merely be taking the place of already overfished creatures. Jellyfish researcher Marsh Youngbluth further clarifies that "jellyfish feed on the same kinds of prey as adult and young fishes, so if fish are removed from the equation, jellyfish are likely to move in."

Increased nutrient in the water, ascribed to agricultural runoff, has also been cited as an antecedent to the recent proliferation of jellyfish numbers: scientist Monty Graham says, "ecosystems in which there are high levels of nutrient ... provide nourishment for the small organisms on which jellyfish feed. In waters where there is eutrophication, low oxygen levels often result, favoring jellyfish as they thrive in less oxygen-rich water than fish can tolerate. The fact that jellyfish are increasing is a symptom of something happening in the ecosystem."

Areas already majorly affected by jellyfish blooms include the northern Gulf of Mexico, where "moon jellies have formed a kind of gelatinous net that stretches from end to end across the gulf," and the Adriatic Sea.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jellyfish

Fried egg jellyfish

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7. Golden Jellyfish in Palau

"In some areas, jellyfish have also been the victims of the same conditions that led to blooms in other regions. In Palau, home to Micronesia's Jellyfish Lake, the El Niño climate event of 1998 significantly warmed the lake, wiping out the rare golden jellyfish that live there, said marine biologist Mike Dawson of the University of California at Los Angeles. Golden jellyfish have evolved over millennia to live in a lake permanently cut off from the sea.

"The situation was seemingly hopeless," said Dick Dewey, a scientist at Portland State University in Oregon. "Palau's reputation as one of the 'seven biological wonders of the world' had been based on this magnificent lake and its jellyfish."

When climate and weather patterns returned to normal, the lake's water temperatures dropped to a more usual 86 degrees from the 95-plus they had hit during El Niño. "Amazingly," said Dewey, "golden jellyfish larvae attached to the floor of the lake survived."

http://www.eurocbc.org/page727.html

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9. "Jellyfish could be key to neuroprotection"

A calcium-binding protein derived from jellyfish is edging closer towards entering the supplements market, following the laboratory studies showing potent anti-aging activity on brain cells.

Wisconsin-based Quincy Bioscience was at Expo West at the weekend sharing the results of rat studies using its orally-acceptable branded supplement, Prevagen. It said that the lab studies showed a 28 to 45 percent improvement in cellular protection in the rodent models.

Quincy president Mark Underwood, who discovered the calcium-binding properties of aequorin (a protene excreted by a certain species of jelly fish) ten years ago, said that the market launch for Prevagen is anticipated for 2007.

But the research phase is by no means over. He told NutraIngredients-USA.com that the company is currently investigating the cognitive effects of the protein in a live rodent population, and is expecting to see positive results.

This study will be completed by the end of the summer....

http://www.nutraingredients-usa.com/news/ng.asp?n=66682-quincy-bioscience-prevagen-aequorin-cognitive-function

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[texas1928]

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11. ...

[texas1928]

12. Thank you...

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