Alien Invasion
POSTED BY: SignyM
UPDATED: Wednesday, August 27, 2025 15:09
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Well, since I apparently killed THREE threads 
I thought I'd better start another!
No, this isn't about the US-Mexcian border. Actually, it's much worse...
Quote:www.sciencenews.org/articles/20051224/bob10.asp
As scientific adviser to a group of Maine watermen, ecologist Larry Harris had heard his share of stories. But one tale, told to him 2 years ago, proved unforgettable. A fisherman related how he had been hauling up a dredge used to scout for scallops in nearby Cobscook Bay when he snagged something novel: a life form resembling blobs of pancake batter.
In all his decades at sea, the man said, he'd never encountered anything like it...The stuff looked like it might have come from outer space.
It was an alien, all right, but one of Earthly origins....
Harris was fairly certain that the Cobscook encounter signaled bad news: arrival of what he calls "the tunicate from hell." This devilish species' behavior is a biologist's "worst nightmare," says Harris. This sea squirt reproduces rapidly by several means, has no known predator, and grows over and smothers any plant or animal that doesn't make way. ...
Over the past few years, the smothering mats have turned up in coastal waters as distant as those off western Canada, New Zealand, and Holland....
The Didemnum in U.S. waters is like a squirt on steroids. This "beast" grows several times faster than any other sea squirt known.... A colony's surface is acidic as ... stomach acid. Didemnum sp. grows on on any hard surface—from plastic to gravel—at apparently any depth. Whitlatch has seen it overgrow sponges, sedentary shellfish, and even sea grasses.... Although the lack of any apparent predator suggests that mats of Didemnum sp. are well defended, Whitlatch... induced mats of the Didemnum to spawn and then introduced crabs and certain fish renowned for dining on squirts. He now reports, "We have yet to find anything that will eat even these small Didemnum."
Another troubling lab observation: When it ran out of real estate, Didemnum sp. didn't stop growing, as other squirts do. In a glass tank fed by running water, the Didemnum mat covered the bottom, then grew up a wall. When that, too, was covered, the mat extended onto the underside of the water surface, suspended from a thin layer of bubbles. The colony apparently "used those bubbles as a flotation mechanism. How bizarre," Whitlatch says.
With the economy being globalized and dependent on trade, how can we possibly keep this world from turning into a monoculture of resistant, noxious weeds and pests?
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One more step towards Earth-that-was.
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Invest in better anti-fouling paint on Merchant Ships. 
Junk like this is less of a problem when its can't hitch a ride on ocean going contaner ships.
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There's gonna be an invasion alright.
SergeantX
"Dream a little dream or you can live a little dream. I'd rather live it, cause dreamers always chase but never get it." Aesop Rock
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Originally posted by SignyM:
With the economy being globalized and dependent on trade, how can we possibly keep this world from turning into a monoculture of resistant, noxious weeds and pests?
Stop voting for smelly, intolerant, annoying liberals (Michael Moore, Howard Dean, Hillary Clinton, et al).
H
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Quote:Oh God, oh God, we're all gonna die?
Originally posted by SignyM:
In a glass tank fed by running water, the Didemnum mat covered the bottom, then grew up a wall. When that, too, was covered, the mat extended onto the underside of the water surface, suspended from a thin layer of bubbles. The colony apparently "used those bubbles as a flotation mechanism.
It's like in They Live; they're changing our atmo and seas into their's.
It's an alien conspiracy, and just like in They Live, our leaders are in on it.
Rat bastards.
Think I'm kidding?
Chrisisall
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Here comes the invasion I was telling you all about...
SergeantX
"Dream a little dream or you can live a little dream. I'd rather live it, cause dreamers always chase but never get it." Aesop Rock
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Ummm... Sarge.... You're making me nervous. You're not about to unleash a 
v*rus, are you????
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Please don't think they give a shit.
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Heh... er, not exactly. The Serenity OB is closing soon.
SergeantX
"Dream a little dream or you can live a little dream. I'd rather live it, cause dreamers always chase but never get it." Aesop Rock
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Originally posted by Hero:Quote:
Originally posted by SignyM:
With the economy being globalized and dependent on trade, how can we possibly keep this world from turning into a monoculture of resistant, noxious weeds and pests?
Stop voting for smelly, intolerant, annoying liberals (Michael Moore, Howard Dean, Hillary Clinton, et al).
H
What are you talking about? You think its the "smelly, intolerant, annoying liberals" pushing globablization? Some that you might call liberals are, like Hillary, but Bush and the neo-cons are huge globalists. To be honest about it the far left and far right are against globalization...its the center thats for it. That includes most Democrats and Republicans in power. Oh, and no one has voted for Michael Moore because he isn't a politician.
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Originally posted by Early:
What are you talking about? You think its the "smelly, intolerant, annoying liberals" pushing globablization? Some that you might call liberals are, like Hillary, but Bush and the neo-cons are huge globalists. To be honest about it the far left and far right are against globalization...its the center thats for it. That includes most Democrats and Republicans in power. Oh, and no one has voted for Michael Moore because he isn't a politician.
Your wrong on so many levels. Conservatives like myself and the President favor globalization. Liberals like Hillward Deanooreinton also favor globalization. Both are correct because some form of globalization is a historical imperitive. (A long time ago the world was a single continent, then it broke apart and since that time while the physical distances have increased, social distances have been decreasing because of human technosocial development. Man's ultimate conquest of Earth.)
But its not the same vision. It all comes down to America's place in the world. Conservatives want to make the world America, raising them up to the greatness that freedom and liberty can bestow upon all people and cultures while preserving that which makes us all unique. Liberals want to drown America in the world, reducing us to a common level in some great sociological melting pot the eliminates sovereignty and leaves all persons, regardless of nationality, under the thumb of an intellectual elite dictating power through a pseudo-benign international entity like the UN.
So lets look at the differing approach to the invasion of North America by hostile foriegn species. Liberals want to study, understand, protect, and ultimately accomodate them within our own system. Conservatives want to find and eliminate the invading species, and protect those at risk. I'm talking, naturally, about terrorists and Islamafacism...but the example works for frankenfish and killer bees too.
And Mr. Moore is as political a person as Rush Limbaugh. They're propagandists and a damn good ones. One is willing to sell out his own country for short-term political gain...the other lives in Florida.
H
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