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Watch the water?

12:05 pm 12+5 >17 ???

Deep Trekker?? → alien reference ergo Star Trek? (see pic)

Jelly Fish on screen → reference UK? English Channel?

Jelly Fish news

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/potential-jellyfish-species-blood-red-192524693.html

Potential New Jellyfish Species Is a Blood-Red Beauty

Matthew Hart

Tue, August 10, 2021, 3:25 PM·2 min read

Scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (or NOAA) recently put out a report describing a dive into an underwater canyon. Like one we’d expect to come from a trip to Enceladus, the report described different weird ocean creatures. One aquatic animal spotted was a jellyfish that looks like a mix between a jumbo blood cell and an umbrella. The throbbing, bobbing thing may even be a whole new species of jellyfish.

A large red jellyfish, which looks like a mix between a blood cell and an umbrella, floating through the blue ocean.

A large red jellyfish, which looks like a mix between a blood cell and an umbrella, floating through the blue ocean.

NOAA

The NOAA released the dive report in late July of this year. In it, they sum up a look at the water column of the underwater canyon. The water column is a concept used in oceanography to describe the characteristics of seawater at different depths of a defined geographical point. The explorers took a look at this canyon from the ocean’s surface down to a depth of 3,500 feet.

The remotely operated vehicle, Deep Discoverer, eyed more than 650 individual creatures during the dive. This included an array of ctenophores, siphonophores, arrow worms, and larvaceans. All weird-sounding names to be sure, because they’re all bizarre ocean aliens. Especially the siphonophores, such as this translucent tube of wiggly zooids. (Zooids are the weirdest!)

Deep Discoverer saw the scarlet jellyfish at around 3,000 feet below the ocean’s surface. NOAA explorers are certain the jellyfish is a member of the genus Poralia. However, they say they still can’t identify its species. This leads them to consider whether it is a new species of jellyfish altogether. Regardless, the crimson animal is a glorious, undulating flower petal of the deep. One that looks freakin’ giant even though its bell is likely only around four inches in diameter.

After the mysterious Poralia, the second-most intriguing animal from this dive was the helmet jellyfish. This weirdo alien, shown in the video above, would’ve surely taken the cake for the oddest oddball had scientists not already cataloged it. Just look at the way the oculus-looking thing moves. But it better be careful… We know sea creatures love to lure things into traps.

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cont'd – more jelly fish news:

What Was the Petrozavodsk Phenomenon, the Jellyfish-Shaped UFO Seen Over Russia in 1977?

UFO projects declassified petrozavodsk phenomenon jellyfishMOVIE NEWS

ByMargeaux SippellPublished on August 9, 2021

On Sept. 20, 1977, what would later become known as the Petrozavodsk phenomenon occurred when sightings of a huge, jellyfish-shaped object in the sky were reported by people in Russia and Finland, according to the Soviet Secrets episode of Netflix’s Top Secret UFO Projects: Declassified docuseries.

The six-episode series covers the stories of people who say they’ve seen unidentified flying objects and other extraterrestrial phenomena all over the world.

One of the strangest sightings the series investigates is the Petrozavodsk phenomenon, named after the northern Russian town of Petrozavodsk, Karelia, which was at that time a part of the Soviet Union.

According to the docuseries, in the early morning hours of that fateful day in September 1977, eyewitnesses reported an amethyst-colored object with pulsating tentacles of light reaching down from the craft to the city below.

“That case which took place in Petrozavodsk was a real one. And that transformation which people reported when [the] UFO took a different form gave a lot of material for thinking, for discussion,” UFO author Valery Uvarov says in the docuseries.

According to UFO researcher Paul Stonehill, the Soviet government’s explanation for the incident was that people had simply seen a satellite launched by the Russian space program.

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A drawing of the UFO people say they saw over Petrozavodsk, Russia in 1977 pictured in Netflix’s Top Secret UFO Projects: Declassified

“People felt unusual psychological gloom the day before. This cannot be explained by Cosmos launching,” Stonehill says in the docuseries, referring to the Soviet spacecraft named Cosmos. “And the Soviets, they tried to cover up after that — but it’s a very strange case, and Petrozavodsk is in north Russia. It’s a very interesting territory. They have had UFO sightings for centuries.”

According to the Netflix docuseries, the Petrozavodsk incident prompted a meeting at the Soviet Ministry of Defense in Moscow, “the outcome of which was the creation of two new departments devoted to top-secret UFO research,” the narrator of the docuseries says.

But Stonehill says that the explanation given to the public didn’t match up to the investigation being done behind closed doors.

“They couldn’t explain the presence of the jellyfish-like object over Petrozavodsk. If it was only Soviet technology that they had mistaken, why create a special program to study UFOs?” he asks.

According to a report from the Academy of Sciences of the USSR done by scholars L.M. Gindilis, D.A. Menkov, and I.G. Petrovskaya on the Petrozavodsk phenomenon in Oct. 1977, eyewitness observers in Leningrad reported that the UFO had “a bright luminous cylindrical body slowly descending towards the horizon,” and that “the body shone with a dazzling white light,” with rays of light emanating from it in all directions.

The report also notes that observers who say they saw the phenomenon flying over Helsinki, Finland, reported “the passage of a brightly luminous spherical body,” that “left a trail of smoke as it moved.”

The report is available to read via Astronet.ru, an online project for sharing scientific research supported by Moscow State University’s GAISh research institution as well as the Russian Foundation for Basic Research and several other organizations, according to the project’s website.

With only eyewitness reports to go on, we may never know exactly what happened in the sky in September 1977. But there is never a lack of theories in Top Secret UFO Projects: Declassified, streaming now on Netflix.

>>14329107

>It's a red jellyfish that resembles a submarine. Red October?

dunno – that's a good guess…there's even more jelly fish comms:

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>>14329054

My close encounter with the King of the Stingers: He's known as The Rottweiler, but when JOHN HUMPHRYS was attacked by jellyfish it taught him a painful lesson about who really rules the animal kingdom

Jellyfish have roamed our planet's seas for at least 600 million years

They can be found everywhere - from the freezing waters of the Arctic to the warm waters of the tropical oceans. They're not even limited to salt water

One species has even been described by scientists as 'biologically immortal'

By JOHN HUMPHRYS FOR THE DAILY MAIL

PUBLISHED: 18:02 EDT, 9 August 2021 | UPDATED: 18:02 EDT, 9 August 2021

The sting felt much the same as you'd get from a nettle. A vigorous, young nettle admittedly, but not particularly unpleasant.

And anyway, I rather like stinging nettles. They're great for butterflies, taste really good in soup and the sting goes away pretty quickly. But it wasn't a nettle that had stung me. It was a jellyfish.

I was swimming off the coast of the Llyn Peninsula in north Wales — one of those countless bits of Britain that are so lovely you have to wonder why we are all apparently desperate to go abroad for holidays.

My assailant was rather lovely, too. It was a compass jellyfish: about six inches in diameter, translucent, with dark orange lines radiating out from the centre of its bell. Less easy to spot were the tentacles stretching beneath it. They got me on my wrist, which turned red and throbbed for a while. But no big deal. The second time was a different story.

The next day I was swimming in the same area (not very sensible with the benefit of hindsight) and brushed against the tentacles of another compass. A bit bigger than the first, but the same reaction. My wrist swelled a little, but the pain was no worse than the first sting. No harm done. Or so I thought.

It was when we were having breakfast about half an hour later that I started feeling a bit odd. Very odd.

I tried eating my porridge but my hand was shaking so much I couldn't get the spoon to my mouth. And it wasn't just my hand: my whole body was trembling. Then I started shivering. It was one of our really hot days (remember them?) but I might as well have been sitting in a freezer.

I lay down, covered myself in thick blankets and fell asleep. When I woke up, I felt a bit light-headed but I'd stopped trembling. So no harm done?

Maybe not, but a friend who knows about these things warned me that some people can have an allergy to jellyfish stings, so it might be wise to avoid them in future. Shouldn't be a problem, I thought. We'd just find a bay free of them.

John Humphrys (pictured) recounts a brush with a jellyfish off the Llyn Peninsula in north Wales [File photo] +2

John Humphrys (pictured) recounts a brush with a jellyfish off the Llyn Peninsula in north Wales [File photo]

Fat chance. They're everywhere this year. My daughter lives in Colwyn Bay, where there's a very long and lovely sandy beach. Perfect for dog walkers and swimmers. Until the invasion of the jellyfish.

They're floating in our seas and decomposing on our beaches. And they're not just disgusting, they can even hurt you when they're dead. Some of them, including the compass, have tentacles that can sting after they've been detached from the body.

All of which highlights a question that I have been pondering for many years. What is the point of jellyfish?

The world is full of nasty creatures, and many of them can be pretty unpleasant. Yet most of them serve a purpose. Mosquitoes cause a great deal of suffering but birds love them — especially swallows and martins.

At the other end of the food chain, a tiger in the wild wouldn't think twice about having us for lunch. But they're magnificent creatures. The world would be a poorer place without swallows and tigers.

too long – will continue

continued – jelly fish

*thought - maybe a reference to undersea communication lines …?

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As for the sea, it's home to the finest food on the planet, and even if you don't eat fish you can admire their beauty and their effortless elegance.

But jellyfish? They're just boring blobs of . . . well. . . jelly. They don't even have a brain. They just float around, carried hither and yon by the tide until they get washed up on the beaches and die. Or sting innocent swimmers like me.

They can even kill. Not very often admittedly, but why risk it? One fisherman in Wales told me he was getting reports from swimmers of a species of jellyfish called lion's mane appearing off Anglesey — and they pack a mighty sting that can land you in hospital.

They're big, too. Longer than a blue whale some of them. The Portuguese man o' war is not strictly a jellyfish but its sting is even worse and they make the occasional appearance in our waters too.

But the Al Capone of the jellyfish world is the Australian box. You don't mess with a box if you know what's good for you. Forget sharks, the box jellyfish is reckoned to be the deadliest creature in the sea.

And here's the thing that's so spooky about jellyfish. You can understand why a shark wants to eat you. He's hungry. Jellyfish don't get hungry — or not, at any rate, in any way we might understand. Not only do they have no brain, they have no heart either. Or blood. Or bones.

What they do have are receptors that detect light, vibrations and chemicals in the water. Intriguingly, they also have a sense of gravity. All of which means they can navigate from one patch of sea to another.

The experts reckon we are seeing more of them right now in our waters because our seas are getting warmer thanks to global warming. But no one really knows.

What we do know is that they are everywhere — from the freezing waters of the Arctic to the warm waters of the tropical oceans. They're not even limited to salt water.

Some species have been found in freshwater lakes and ponds — but there's probably no need to worry about your youngsters paddling in the local pond just yet.

I say 'just yet' in jest. But for all my disparagement of jellyfish, it's impossible not to respect them and to wonder what they might be getting up to in a few million years from now. Because it's a fair bet they will be doing their thing long after we humans have stopped offering them tempting targets.

My assailant was rather lovely. It was a compass jellyfish (pictured): about six inches in diameter, translucent, with dark orange lines radiating out from the centre of its bell. Less easy to spot were the tentacles stretching beneath it [Stock image] +2

My assailant was rather lovely. It was a compass jellyfish (pictured): about six inches in diameter, translucent, with dark orange lines radiating out from the centre of its bell. Less easy to spot were the tentacles stretching beneath it [Stock image]

They are, quite simply, the greatest survivors on this planet there have ever been. Forget the dinosaur or the ancient bony fish which evolved more than 50 million years ago. Forget insects and trees and flowers and ferns and even fungi.

Jellyfish have roamed our planet's seas for at least 600 million years. That's long before the Permian-Triassic extinction some 250 million years ago, better known as the Great Dying.

It killed off more than 90 per cent of the species on Earth. But not the jellyfish.

And there's something else. As we pick our way around all those jellied corpses on the beach, we might pause to reflect that some of their cousins possess a power that we can only wonder at.

It is a power that makes them unique in the animal kingdom, that defies everything we have ever been taught about life. It is the power of immortality.

Sooner or later, every living creature dies because eventually its cells stop dividing. But there is one species that has been described by scientists as 'biologically immortal'. It is the only creature to which that description has ever been applied.

It is a tiny jellyfish called the Turritopsis dohrnii which lives in the Mediterranean Sea and in the waters of Japan. It is able to turn back time by reverting to an earlier stage in its life cycle.

So, yes, I have developed a new respect for these extraordinary creatures now that I know a bit more about them.

Even so, I shuddered a little when I saw the picture in these pages a few days ago of a fish trapped inside a compass jellyfish — the very species that gave me such a nasty turn.

The idea of a man-eating jellyfish may be the stuff of science fiction. But in a few million years . . ?

>>14329213

Thank you bakes!

(device switch)

>>14329284

these two have big lead ins…reminds me of the attack on th St. lucie nuke plant….

The last hurrican we had..(after the attack) had a very short lead in time in the news and NOAA center.

The sarcastic in me wants to tell lefties that Trump is killing them with the vaccine and using his unvaxxed supporters to create variants to kill them.

And yet they still want everyone to get vaxxed.

I gotta stop.

i gotta stop

I will not talk to lefties

I will not talk to lefties

I will not talk to lefties

I will not talk to lefties

I will not talk to lefties

I will not talk to lefties

>>14329268

For you Mr. Pig