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星期二, 九月 19, 2006

The Krill!!, the krill!!!

No, not the Krell from "Forbidden Planet" (1956)
[ http://imdb.com/title/tt0049223/ ]
but krill, the maintenace of large marine life on
much the the planet.
[ http://www.abc.net.au/ra/innovations/stories/s1722888.htm ]

Imagine an icy aquarium forever
"...we decided to build a purpose-built facility which maintains the krill at zero degrees but the researchers can live comfortably at about 15 to 18 degrees, which is much better for all the experimental equipment as well of course."

"We still don't know how big their population is. I mean estimates range but somewhere in the order of 160 million tonnes. An enormous biomass of animals, and at the moment man's fishing 100,000 tonnes a year and that makes it the biggest of the Antarctic fisheries at present."

Now all re-read Deep Range by Arthur C. Clarke and stop your rivers and
sewers from discharging into the ocean.

Of course we could relate to the increasing alarm about commercial fisheries
and their reduced catch of large szied fish.

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