No, not from my nose but I do remember when my child came down with every single friggin’ cold in the entire universe. Of course, then the rest of us came down with it at which point we could rightly say we’ve got a house of mucous.
On the other hand, I so dig these underwater houses made of mucous.
Scientists have discovered giant sinking mucus “houses” that double the amount of food on the sea floor.
The mucus houses, or “sinkers,” are produced by tadpole-like animals not much bigger than your index finger. As sinkers drop to the sea floor, small sea critters and other food particles get stuck to the mucus and end up on the bottom of the ocean.
And as is my wont, I spy a NCLB lesson in this: traditional means of exploration never would have detected these very cool things. I still don’t see how we can trust that standardized tests will truly measure all aspects of an excellent education.
Truly COOL!
(Makes note to self: Never swallow ocean water again.)
I thought it was nice reminder of the wondrous diversity of life on earth, at least what’s left of it.
Very cool!
And all standardized test meassure is the level of standardization. I want to start an UNstandardized test company — think I’d make as much $$ as EPS?? 😉
This is the best diary of the day.
…it’s not what you think!
Umm, very interesting. Please pass the kleenex, I think I feel something coming on.
Bless you, m’dear.
I had a seashore shot or two intended to show a little glimpse of the factory of evolution. But they’re all out of focus!
So here instead is how to see a billion out on the water. Of course it’s trivially easy to do with salt or sand grains, but this scale is a little more thought-provoking.
The arrow points to a “cat’s paw” or small ripples that betray a faint breeze of 3-4 knots or so. At some point between 3-6 knots, these tiny ripples are several finger-widths high and about two per square foot.
The way to see a billion of these is to get into a boat before sunup, and row offshore out of sight of land on the Great Lakes or the sea. When the early morning breeze begins to stir, and you see these little ripples, stand up and look around.
On all the water you can see, from horizon to horizon to horizon, are roughly a billion ripples.
And below, from Mrs. Gooserock, is a sundown picture 6 minutes old. It’ll remain twilight here in Puget Sound for another hour or two.
Lovely pix.
I have never in my life heard anything more likely to send an entire classroom of 10 year old boys into total anarchy and helpless hysterical laughter. Talk about ROFLMAO! In fact, have scientists investigated the possibility that those snot houses were actually formed by 10 year old boys?
My son is 21 now, but I’ll bet when I tell him about this I won’t even get past the words, “cities of snot,” before he starts laughing so hard he can’t even hear the rest of it.
That would be called a teachable moment, eh?
__ is sinking faster than a giant house of snott!!
Often for the rest of my life!!
Reading this diary (and comments) for the second time and am giggling!
…forgive me for I have sinned…
made me think of Jerry Lee Lewis with a head cold. lol
It’s really quite beautiful.
of the aliens in the movie, The Abyss.
Awesome photos.