This week in jellyfish

[lea123]

If you're ever in Miami, make sure to stay at the Hotel Victor:

http://www.southbeach-usa.com/hotels/top-south-beach-hotels/hotel-victor-99002.htm

In the lobby, the hotel’s original art deco chandeliers hang from vaulted ceilings, while deep purple and vibrant green lounges and sofas sit atop polished-to-perfection terrazzo floors. Hulking curtains drape the walls, as do a selection of paintings — including one that features, of all things, a jellyfish.

It may seem like an odd image to have hanging in a hotel lobby, but the tentacled sea creature was actually Garcia’s inspiration for the Victor. The swirl-shaped furniture, the dangling beaded accents that hang throughout the hotel, the cool darkness of the subterranean spa, and, of course, the oceanic views.

The jellyfish also represents the hotel’s overall atmosphere. “They’re mysterious, they’re beautiful and they’re unique,” says Victoria Prado, the Victor’s vibe manager. “We’re all about provoking the senses,” she adds, and the jellyfish, with its sense-oriented tentacles, embodies that goal.

[StarmanSkye]

The scary thing is jellyfish have existed on earth long before dinosaurs or humans did. They have evolved for millions of years, and contrary to popular belief, are not stupid or blind. They don't have a brain to store memories in, but instead do all their thinking with a "nerve net" located in its epidermis. They can sense their surroundings and some species can even see colour (and have 24 tiny sensory eyes) and are highly evolved to be both unedible and highly deadly.

Goodlie Goddicus Grieficus!!!

Sort-of an Alien-SciFi analogue of a self-replicating self-aware neural-sensory-equipped self-coding bio-viral computer. What if these several-hundred billion neural-nets were able to somehow network thru a type of morphogenic field (or other telepathic means)? Instead of a standard ROM 'brain' they have a kinda reactionary root-drive Random Access program -- or perhaps 'them' store and access memory in a novel, totally-unknown manner. It's like, what if you could hypernetwork-link several-hundred Billion Mac IIE's equipped with rudimentary but state-of-the-art sensory perception mechanisms together, esp. 'what-if?' at Superluminal speed via a 'hidden' dimensional pathway?

'Alien' invasion, right under our noses?

Whoo Knows?

Kick the Woo Factor up a coupla magnitude.

But on the other hand: Processing dried Jellyfish Crispies as an ideal global storehouse protein/carb food source. Should be a tremendous incentive there. But What iF? about pollution contamination from the poisoned ocean environment good ol' Homo Sapiens have accomplished in a little under a hundred years (mostly in the last fifty, actually.)

Seems, in a wise, enlightened, responsible stewardship Global Consciousness way, Humans oughta be working on ways to restore as well as protect crucial ecosystems. A good way to begin would be to 'clean-up' the floating festering/mouldering/decaying many-square-mile carpet-islands of plastic-crap-junk in the major world oceans, specif. in the Pacific off the west coast, which petrochemical plastic compounds are decaying into tiny fragments that are invading and killing-off much of the bottom food-chain creatures, which eat-them as unpalatable but tempting-convenient-fooling 'food'. Something which jellyfish with their well-developed neural-nets-controlled sensory system tentacles apparently aren't enticed by -- unlike crustaceans, birds, other small mammals and fish who gobble small bits of plastic junk as readily as 'real' food. Which sickens or kills them. And perpetuating the die-off disaster.

Scary Shit. Planetary Warfare of a kind we hardly are cognizant of.

AND....
Is there a possible UFO/Visitor connection in this aspect of an unfolding slomo catastrophe/drama?

[MinM]

Taking Advantage Of The Jellyfish Invasion
by Madeleine Brand

Day to Day, February 3, 2009 · Giant jellyfish can grow as large as six feet in diameter and weigh 450 pounds. Over the years, millions have migrated from the coast of China into Japanese waters. Scientists believe they're floating on ocean currents warmed by global climate change. One Japanese entrepreneur, Kaneo Fukuda, is benefiting from the invasion by marketing jellyfish products, including makeup and mixed drinks. This interview originally aired October 3, 2007.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/stor ... =100185758

[MinM]

Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Strange fish has a see-through head

http://myamazingfact.blogspot.com/2009/ ... -head.html

[sfnate]

The jellies, they're back and they're meaner than ever:


Swimmers feel sting as jellyfish thrive
Peter Fimrite, Chronicle Staff Writer

Saturday, April 18, 2009

Schools of creepy brownish jellyfish known for their painful stings are lurking in San Francisco Bay waving their long, poisonous tentacles like they own the place.

Dozens, if not hundreds, of sea creatures known as Pacific sea nettles have been spotted in the bay feeding on small fish and plankton when they aren't stinging swimmers.

One touch from a nettle's long, brown tentacles will result in a powerful, numbing jolt that can hurt for hours and sometimes days.

The gelatinous creatures are relatively common in the ocean along the West Coast, but nobody can remember so many of them floating in bay waters at one time. The critters, known scientifically as Chrysaora fuscescens, are darker and bigger than the Moon or Bell jellies, which are frequently seen in the area.

Link:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.c ... 174C09.DTL

[Jeff]

Jellyfish the size of dustbin lids wash up on Scottish beaches as climate change heats up sea

By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 9:59 AM on 18th July 2009

Jellyfish up to half a metre long have been appearing on beaches in Scotland following a rise in sea temperature.

Holidaymakers playing on the sands around Banff in the Moray Firth north of Aberdeen have been warned to beware giant stinging jellyfish which have been washed up in their thousands this summer.

'It's very rare to see 40cm plus common jellyfish but the waters have been full of them over the last few weeks,' said Dr Kevin Robertson, of the Cetacean Research and Rescue Unit.

The temperatures are very much higher in the coastal waters this year. Normally at this time of year we measure maximum temperatures of about 14 or maybe 15 degrees, but we are well into higher figures at the moment - around 17 degrees at least.

'It's created ideal conditions for a jellyfish boom and we are seeing much larger specimens than usual as they fulfil their full growth potential.'

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/ ... s-sea.html

[Occult Means Hidden]

Jellyfish Are the Dark Energy of the Oceans

The fluid dynamics of swimming jellyfish have provided a plausible mechanism for a once-wild notion: that marine animals, hidden from sight and ignored by geophysicists, may stir Earth’s oceans with as much force as its wind and tides.

Called induced fluid drift, it involves the tendency of liquid to “stick” to a body as it moves through water — and a little bit of drift could add up quickly on a global scale.

“The mere act of swimming implies that some water travels with the swimmer,” said CalTech engineer Kakani Katija, co-author of the study in Nature Wednesday. “Drift applies to all animals, to anything with a body.”

That the mere motion of animals could play a profound role in water-column commingling was once considered absurd. The sea would surely absorb the force of a flapping fin, to say nothing of a phytoplankton’s flagellae. It was a basic principle of friction, applied to water.

But in recent years, this consensus has sprung some leaks. When added up, winds and tides don’t quite provide enough energy to account for the amount of water-mixing observed in the seas. In 2004, a study found that a school of fish could cause as much turbulence as a storm. Other researchers soon suggested that ocean swimmers could account for the gap. Soon after that, ocean physicists measured enormous turbulence generated by a swarm of krill, a crustacean considered too small to have meaningful mixing effects.


http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/07/jellyfish/

[Jeff]

STH WOODFORD: 'Jellyfish UFO' spotted again

12:22pm Monday 20th July 2009

A "JELLYFISH-LIKE" unidentified flying object (UFO) raised eyebrows when it was apparently spotted over the skies of South Woodford on Friday (July 17).

Three witnesses said they saw the object at around 10pm.

Erick Harding, one of those who claimed to have seen the mysterious craft, wrote on a UFO website: "[It] looked like a jelly fish with a fire at the bottom.

"[It] went off into the west and then came back once more."

It comes a year after the Guardian reported a similar sighting over Charlie Brown's roundabout on the border between Woodford Green and South Woodford, by the Gross family of Baddow Close in Woodford Green.

http://www.thisislocallondon.co.uk/news ... gain/#show

[barracuda]

[Jeff]

Giant Jellyfish Drive Chinese Fishermen Back to Port

August 21, 2009

Chinese fishermen venturing out to sea in the wake of devastating Typhoon Morakot say they encountered an unprecedented number of giant jellyfish off the coast of Zhejiang province.

“There must be thousands of them, like huge mushrooms sprouting on the surface of the water. The biggest was about 7 feet in diameter,” fisherman Lin Jinfu told the Xinhua news agency.

Last month, Japanese marine researchers said they were also alarmed by unusually large numbers of the Nomura’s jellyfish swimming from off the Chinese coast toward Japan’s coastal waters.

Theories for why the population of the invertebrates has spiked this year range from agricultural runoff in East China to overfishing, which reduced the populations of the young jellyfish’s natural predators.

http://www.earthweek.com/2009/ew090821/ew090821c.html


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Monterey Bay Swim: Chase's bay-crossing bid stymied by jellyfish
By JULIE JAG
Posted: 08/21/2009

Bruckner Chase ran into the first cloud of the round, amber-colored pillows just two miles into his attempt to swim across the Monterey Bay. Five hours later, the soft bells with wicked stings had become thicker than the smoke in the sky around Santa Cruz during the recent Lockheed Fire.

After suffering multiple jellyfish stings across his body, including his face, Chase called off his historic swim Thursday halfway between Santa Cruz and Pacific Grove. The former Santa Cruz resident, now from New Jersey, went approximately 12 miles in 6½ hours in his attempt to become just the second person to complete the 25-mile journey. Cindy Cleveland first swam it in an estimated 15 hours in September of 1980.

"I swam through the jellyfish for about four hours and got stung pretty badly for about two of those," Chase, 43, said. "Then the water temperature dropping pretty rapidly kind of did me in."

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Chase, however, had been told jellyfish numbers were down. It didn't take long for him to find out that wasn't the case.

He said he saw no fewer than four different types of jellyfish and that they number in the thousands. Kayaks accompanying Chase tried to clear a path through the jellyfish, but while the bodies would move, the long, stinging tentacles remained.

"There was no path through them," he said. "One of paddlers said it was like scene from Finding Nemo' when they're swimming though jellies."

http://www.mercurynews.com/centralcoast/ci_13175185

[Jeff]

cookies made from giant jellyfish

[brainpanhandler]

Strange jellies of the icy depths
Matt Walker
Editor, Earth News


Crossota millsae, a brilliant red and purple jellyfish found at a depth of 2000m in the Arctic Ocean, is also found off California and Hawaii.


New details are emerging about the life-forms that survive in one of the world's most inaccessible places.

Scientists have published descriptions of a range of jelly-like animals that inhabit the deep oceans of the Arctic.

The animals were originally filmed and photographed during a series of submersible dives in 2005.

One of the biggest surprises is that one of the most common animals in the Arctic deep sea is a type of jellyfish that is completely new to science.

The deep Arctic ocean is isolated from much of the water elsewhere on the globe.

One area, known as the Canadian Basin, is particularly cut off by deep-sea ridges. These huge barriers can isolate any species there from other deep-water animals.

So in 2005, an international team of scientists, funded primarily by the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Office of Ocean Exploration and Research, conducted a series of deep-sea dives using a remote operated vehicle (ROV).

Details of what they found have now been published in the journal Deep Sea Research Part II.

"There were a lot of surprises," says biologist Dr Kevin Raskoff of Monterey Peninsula College in California, US, a leading member of the dive team.

"One thing was just how many different jellies there were, and the sizes of their populations."


More at link:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_ne ... 231367.stm

[ShinShinKid]

More Jellies, eh...


http://www.kitv.com/news/21285907/detail.html

[luv2dive]

Just had to post this to the jelly fish thread :

http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0 ... 40,00.html

[barracuda]

Dolphins play football with jellyfish