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- capiCrimm, on 10/12/2007, -5/+119@chompy
Nothing kills quicker then a koala. - Chompy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+99Australia, eh? I think the first question one must ask about *any* animal found in Australia is "how fast can it kill you?"
- agrabob, on 10/12/2007, -3/+101"There are a number of reports in Australia of kids engaged in "Bluebottle" fights - where they throw stranded Physalia at each other - being badly stung by inadvertently playing with Glaucus and Glaucilla, both of which, by concentrating the most venomous of Physalia's nematocysts, are much more deadly."
Holy hell! I thought bottle rocket fights sound dangerous. Those aussie kids are just as crazy as their US couterparts! - inactive, on 10/18/2007, -2/+50Yup. We all have to be VERY careful when walking under any tree. Who knows when one of these furry little bastards is gonna droop on ya!
- Roger, on 10/12/2007, -4/+34Wow two front page dragon stories at once.
Thats proof enough for me that they exist. - BlackCow, on 10/12/2007, -2/+22Yeah... evolution sure is wonderful.
- pronouncable, on 10/12/2007, -4/+19Counter digg bomb, deploy!
- CptCarnage, on 10/12/2007, -3/+15LOL! Yep those drop bears are dangerous!! (For anyone who doesn't know drop bears were from a Terry Pratchett book The Last Continent. Thickly padded butts these things would fall out of trees onto there preys heads and eat them while they were unconscious. He also alludes to the amount of poisonous things in Australia)
- Jemulov, on 10/12/2007, -2/+13What's even cooler than the photo is the photographer. The pictures she takes are amazing. Just look at all the other pictures in her profile.
She's kinda hot too. - Elranzer, on 10/12/2007, -4/+14More of a Pokemon than a Digimon.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9wait...you guys liked that movie? Or did I get stuck in another one of those 'digg everyone down for the hell of it' threads?
- kysle, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9Nudibranchs rock!
Everyone should SCUBA dive. 'nuff said.
PS: Fireworms are cool, too! - luigi1015, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8Ah, good.
I see the Ministry of Magic is doing it's job well and keeping all you muggles from believing in dragons and unicorns. - mikev, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8@ohgr: It's old.
@sillykalcifer: What? English please. - AoiTakuma, on 10/12/2007, -4/+9ha oops, apparently my sarcasm tag got deleted somehow. oh well
- aximbigfan, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6you, my slime-trailing friend, are the coolsest slug on th planet...
- Ethiopian, on 10/18/2007, -1/+4Australia is a cool country to live in you just have to live by the motto "if it stings piss on it" and ull be fine :) except dropbears those guys $%$% you up hardcore
- cankillar, on 10/12/2007, -8/+11I wonder if you can keep these as pets?
- qshady, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5I agree. Nudibranchs are some of the most beautiful creatures on earth. Hermissenda crassicornis, anyone? http://www.divebums.com/FishID/Images/McCarthy/hermissenda1_gm.jpg
- qshady, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4To see nudis sans SCUBA, going to a public salt water aquarium that pulls its water right from the Pacific is your best bet. I know there is one in Port Townsend, Washington, about an hour from Seattle. I don't SCUBA, so that's where I've seen all mine.
- AlphaEta, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Okay, quick question.
When my wife and I went snorkeling in Hawaii we were told that if we touched the coral it would somehow kill them. The explanation was that the oils from our skin were toxic to cnidarians. It seemed like *****, and in my mind it's more likely that all the fat ass, lazy mainlanders (myself included) got worn out swimming and thought it would be a good idea to take a quick 5 by standing on the reef (I didn't do that, but quite a few idiots did).
You guys seem to know what you're talking about, so is it our human taint that kills the coral, or is it because we're a bunch of unhealthy mouth breathers who think the reef is a park bench? - tghd, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5I disagree with this. I love scuba diving but if you were to put everybody in the water our already fragile reefs would disappear almost instantly.
The truth is the majority of certified scuba divers are vacation divers that dive once or twice a year and never really get good at. Although not wanting to hurt the environment they carelessly swim through the reefs hitting kicking and touching corals and picking up animals. They don't understand the consequences of their actions but the results are widely felt. Think Hawaii and Florida.
On a side note Nudi's are awesome ohhh and if anybody has a saltwater aquarium and is thinking about buying a nudi DONT do it. Tropical nudibranchs are not herbivores they are extremely picky carnivores that will die in your aquarium!! - kysle, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I learned it as a combination of both the pressure from your hand, feet, octopus, whatever crushes the coral (which grows really, really slowly), and that, yeah, the oils can kill some organisms. I'm not sure how much I believe the latter, but there is stuff like: http://www.sei.org/touch.html , that supports it.
Best practice is - keep your hands to yourself and don't drag your hoses (besides, you can damage them [I've even heard of someone getting their octopus caught and the hose ripping. Whoops.]) - skyfire1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Who's that Pokemon?
Its slugdragonazor! - kysle, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3@tghd:
Hmm, perhaps I was a bit hasty, but I love diving so much I want everyone to try it. It is true that resorts and such should pay more attention to the environmental factor when showing new divers the ropes and then there's the fact that new divers go all over the place.
What a dilemma! Maybe all new divers should be forced to practice in this pool before going into the ocean: http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/pool/115footdeep-pool-makes-diving-for-pennies-a-struggle-218663.php - Virtuatech, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Direct link to the video: http://educatedearth.net/video.php?id=3029
- themastersb, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1So lizards came from slugs?
- Ratking, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I am a sentinel of the MoM, encouraging disbelief.
Occupants of The World of Warcraft is also not real, nor occupants of Middle Earth. - Virtuatech, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1More information and a video: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glaucus_atlanticus
- triscuitbiscuit, on 10/12/2007, -6/+7thethink, you took the words right out of my mouth... It is absolutely incredible some of the designs which exist in nature.
- raithetarkon, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I have an entirely irrational hatred and fear of slugs... but this one is kind of cool.
- postitnote, on 10/12/2007, -6/+7Sorta looks like this pokemon:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Silver_v.jpg - Ratking, on 10/18/2007, -4/+5Is there some subversive Dragon marketing campaign hitting Digg.
They're not real man.
Both unicorns and dragons will continue to not and never have existed. - barbobot, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4What about komodo dragons? do they exist? What about the tooth fairy? could you tell us more things that don't exist?
- MasterOfSmurfs, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Now if these could breath fire and fly I think my life would be complete
- MicroKusa, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Can I get a link to the picture on a different site? (upload somewhere else?)
- SLUGnation, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I welcome another member to the SLUGnation family
sick ass ***** right there - SpOuK3, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Is this a real thing ? It looks like glass or something ... ho! well ...
- goblinshark, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2its just a pelagic nudibranch.....
- x0nIMIn0x, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3I originally read this comparison on another website, but it is apt:
This creature looks like it just popped out of a Jim Woodring comic. I half expect to see Frank riding it into the twilight. - chaoskaizer, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1"little blue chinese dragons" turn out to be a sea slug
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http://nano-tech.freehostia.com - rigelt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0simply wonderful! Still some things around to discover on our planet. Even for us internet junkies who thought to have seen 90% of this world's pictures ;-)
Hey - who cares about some oceans on distant planets - the heck we don't even know our own ones very well... - digirat, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3don't have me fooled. looks like a world of warcraft screenshot. busted.
- LoneCrow, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0How is this a dragon again?
- Goldberry, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Wow! I saw my first nudibranch in 1968, down in La Jolla, CA at low tide. It was velvety black and electric blue. This one is a lot more ornate. How gorgeous! Thank you for sharing this unique creature.
- ecshome, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0learn something new everyday.....
- control7, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I'd be worried that thing would jump up and suck my face off.
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