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Colonial organisms related to vertebrates, salps are more complex than they seem. They possess the rudiments of a complex nervous system and have a varied life cycle.
Beginning as a single barrel-shaped individual, salps then bud off many thousands of times, forming long chains like the first picture. These chains alternately reproduce themselves, male older sections of the chain fertilizing newer female sections.
Common throughout the world's oceans, salps fill an important ecological niche, similar to that of krill. Salps are harmless filter feeders, pumping water through their bodies and straining out plankton.
Colonial organisms related to vertebrates, salps are more complex than they seem. They possess the rudiments of a complex nervous system and have a varied life cycle.
Beginning as a single barrel-shaped individual, salps then bud off many thousands of times, forming long chains like the first picture. These chains alternately reproduce themselves, male older sections of the chain fertilizing newer female sections.
Common throughout the world's oceans, salps fill an important ecological niche, similar to that of krill. Salps are harmless filter feeders, pumping water through their bodies and straining out plankton.
Man that Jay Garbose video would be a lot better if he wasn't terrified of someone using his video without his permission and violating his copyright.
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The deep ocean is absolutely terrifying
I can't even look at a picture of any sort of deep water without imagining what kind of horrors are just beyond visual range
You know that iceberg picture, with the top just jutting out of the water and the colossal mass of ice under the waterline? I know it's a composite, but it still freaks me out every time I see it
One unusual symptom associated with Irukandji syndrome is a feeling of "impending doom". Patients have been reported as being so certain that they are going to die that they beg their doctors to kill them to get it over with.
On the television program Super Animal, a woman compared her pain from childbirth to her experience with Irukandji syndrome: "It's like when you're in labor, having a baby, and you've reached the peak of a contraction—that absolute peak—and you feel like you just can't do it anymore. That's the minimum that [Irukandji] pain is at, and it just builds from there
The British saw Australia and were just like "holy shit, this place is fucking crazy. I wouldn't send a serial rapist here." Then the other British guy was like "wouldn't you?"
good god your muscles would probably cramp up and become useless from all the stinging and you would drown in agony.
How is that not scary?!?
There are two boats on either side of the picture! It seems pretty likely they'd be able to mount a rescue. I mean, it'd be painful, and it isn't like I'd just jump in there, but you guys are all saying how it is the stuff nightmares are made of. There is WAY scarier crap in the ocean than that. It doesn't even compare.
One unusual symptom associated with Irukandji syndrome is a feeling of "impending doom". Patients have been reported as being so certain that they are going to die that they beg their doctors to kill them to get it over with.
The British saw Australia and were just like "holy shit, this place is fucking crazy. I wouldn't send a serial rapist here." Then the other British guy was like "wouldn't you?"
good god your muscles would probably cramp up and become useless from all the stinging and you would drown in agony.
How is that not scary?!?
There are two boats on either side of the picture! It seems pretty likely they'd be able to mount a rescue. I mean, it'd be painful, and it isn't like I'd just jump in there, but you guys are all saying how it is the stuff nightmares are made of. There is WAY scarier crap in the ocean than that. It doesn't even compare.
The giant jellyfish I posted don't have toxins strong enough to have an effect on humans; they're plankton eaters.
The British saw Australia and were just like "holy shit, this place is fucking crazy. I wouldn't send a serial rapist here." Then the other British guy was like "wouldn't you?"
ahahahahah
A lot of people I used to know from highschool wanted to visit Australia after the final exams. They were downright exicted to go there. I was like "Why the hell would you? You guys never watched Discovery Channel or something? Everything there is either venomous or really grumpy. They have goddamn spiders that can survive under water for DAYS and then jump in your FACE and bite you for crying out loud!"
Of course, those people weren't really the sharpest tools in the shed, so...
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Colonial organisms related to vertebrates, salps are more complex than they seem. They possess the rudiments of a complex nervous system and have a varied life cycle.
Beginning as a single barrel-shaped individual, salps then bud off many thousands of times, forming long chains like the first picture. These chains alternately reproduce themselves, male older sections of the chain fertilizing newer female sections.
Common throughout the world's oceans, salps fill an important ecological niche, similar to that of krill. Salps are harmless filter feeders, pumping water through their bodies and straining out plankton.
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I can't even look at a picture of any sort of deep water without imagining what kind of horrors are just beyond visual range
You know that iceberg picture, with the top just jutting out of the water and the colossal mass of ice under the waterline? I know it's a composite, but it still freaks me out every time I see it
The only other video I could find had the most annoying narrator ever
Apparently, there is a type of jellyfish that goes back to the beginning of its life cycle and repeats, making it hypothetically immortal.
I did get this from Wikipedia, so I can't really vouch for the accuracy, but it sounds plausible.
EDIT: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turritopsis_nutricula
and
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological_immortality
Yup
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nomura%27s_jellyfish
I'm not getting to sleep tonight.
you have nightmares involving numerous tentacles and Japanese seamen?
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There are so many!!
you guys are wimps
they're just jellyfish.
giant nateks everywhere
So if you fell into that swarm(?) you wouldn't be freaked out?
I know that's probably animal cruelty, but doesn't anyone else want to maybe poke your foot on them and see if they bobble back up to the surface?
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Jellyfish are pretty scary.
I hate to be that person who keeps linking to Wikipedia, but..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irukandji_syndrome
It'd probably sting a hell of a lot but they're still just jellyfish.
just felt my stomach turn at this, thanks so much
How is that not scary?!?
I think they live around Australia. Most incredibly deadly hard-to-detect things live there.
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There are two boats on either side of the picture! It seems pretty likely they'd be able to mount a rescue. I mean, it'd be painful, and it isn't like I'd just jump in there, but you guys are all saying how it is the stuff nightmares are made of. There is WAY scarier crap in the ocean than that. It doesn't even compare.
I'm never going to swim in Australia.
ahahahahah
The giant jellyfish I posted don't have toxins strong enough to have an effect on humans; they're plankton eaters.
A lot of people I used to know from highschool wanted to visit Australia after the final exams. They were downright exicted to go there. I was like "Why the hell would you? You guys never watched Discovery Channel or something? Everything there is either venomous or really grumpy. They have goddamn spiders that can survive under water for DAYS and then jump in your FACE and bite you for crying out loud!"
Of course, those people weren't really the sharpest tools in the shed, so...
And Disney World is nowhere in sight.
Sublime.
ahahahahaha
This was pretty much exactly what I thought when I saw that