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Mysterious Compound Seen as Key to Ocean Life

livescience.com — Scientists believe heterotrophs, organisms that cannot produce their own food—such as bacteria—produce and release the mysterious group of organic chemical compounds into their surrounding environment as they decay and new studies are now focusing on understanding CDOM in the oceans.

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  • inactive, on 02/17/2008, -2/+14Clone this ***** and send em to Mars! Once we got water send seeds! Once we got plants send animals! Once we got stable ecosystems send humans to ***** it all up!
  • inactive, on 02/17/2008, -0/+6Cloverfield FTW
  • Dotmeister, on 02/17/2008, -0/+6Seabed Necter?!
  • misskari, on 02/17/2008, -3/+8SLUSHO??
  • jmoh, on 02/17/2008, -0/+4Soylent Green?
  • inactive, on 02/17/2008, -1/+5Don't worry people, just cause its a science article doesn't mean your comments will be seen as "stupid" if it isn't scientific. Just post your thoughts.
    I think this is cool. With the synthetic DNA created by Craig Venter and Co. ...maybe soon they'll be able to start producing photosynthetic bacteria for the recycling of CO2 into O2.
  • ray42, on 02/17/2008, -3/+7Slusho?
  • replaysMike, on 02/17/2008, -0/+4That'd explain why there's so many sharks with friggen' lasers on their backs.
  • ryan83189, on 02/17/2008, -0/+4is it H2O?
  • MrDo, on 02/17/2008, -0/+3ADAM?
  • fatb0y42, on 02/17/2008, -0/+2great. something i'm going to have to learn eventually.
  • inactive, on 02/17/2008, -0/+2Max Cohen was unavailable for comment.
  • cygnus2112, on 02/17/2008, -0/+2I already have DCOM all figured out. It's that darn WCF that's keeping me from being popular at work with the ladies.
  • Worldchrisis, on 02/17/2008, -1/+3This discovery of CDOM was the key...
  • Tapewormz, on 02/18/2008, -0/+1Yeah, that was the first thing that popped into my mind too... SLUSHO. :)
  • oriole, on 02/17/2008, -0/+1Unreadable, terrible writing.
  • allisonaxe, on 02/17/2008, -0/+1damnit, someone always beats me to it!

    ....by 7 hours.
  • scarz99, on 02/17/2008, -4/+4Now only to find the key to our lives....
  • palpacino, on 02/17/2008, -4/+3I read it as "understanding CD-ROM in oceans" and almost marked it as another enviro-spam on Digg.
  • aceslick911, on 02/17/2008, -5/+4cool.
  • cledford, on 02/17/2008, -9/+3^ Tool.
  • FoxFaction, on 02/17/2008, -14/+1OH NO THE GOVERNMENT IS HIDING THESE SECRETS FROM US!!111one

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