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c0nc0rdance@c0nc0rdance.bsky.social |
In the cold waters of the Pacific coast of the US & Canada are forests of giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera. Under optimal conditions, they can grow as much as 2 feet (0.6 m) per day, to heights of 175 ft. Let's talk about the weirdness of giant #kelp & how it can help us.
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Humphrey Bogart's Hairpiece
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That growth rate is pretty bonkers, how can the cells even divide that fast. It takes time to organize your chromosomes and the cell still needs to do all its other cell-y things! Just nuts.
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Lee Benfield
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Subnautica nerds desperately harvesting to get gauze and lubricant.
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c0nc0rdance
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First, giant kelp ISN'T A PLANT. Nor is it animal or fungus: it's a protist, the odd category that includes a wide variety of unicellular & multicellular organisms. As a protist, it follows different rules from plants: no roots, the whole organism is photosynthetic.
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Alexa Sadier
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By far my favorite diving sites, entering these cathedrals and crossing the pass of a giant sea bass or other local never gets old. Biologist paradise.
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Willemite Crater
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That means they grow about an inch per hour or ~1/64th of an inch per minute, which is just nuts. It wouldn't take very much magnification to be able to see it grow in real time.
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Barry Goldman
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@wcratcliff.bsky.social one day... kelp will evolve ways to bring minerals up from the depths to the surface where they are needed and the surface of hte earth will transform again!
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