Happy Mother’s Day

13 responses to “Happy Mother’s Day”

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   paladinsf

   May 10, 2009 at 5:11 pm

   enjoy the day my friend all the best bob

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   tifotter

   May 10, 2009 at 6:15 pm

   Aww thank you. Beautiful cygnets.

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3. 

   zenera

   May 10, 2009 at 6:31 pm

   pretty, merci*

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   avlxyz

   May 10, 2009 at 11:01 pm

   interesting square crop 🙂

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   roupen

   May 11, 2009 at 8:35 pm

   🙂 nice pic and caption

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   NYCandre

   May 11, 2009 at 10:34 pm

   Sweet shot for mother’s day

   (and appropriate for our global warming age re: the overgrowth of floating weeds)

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   jurvetson

   May 12, 2009 at 12:26 am

   more dramatic in the open seas…

   

   but they do sequester a fair bit of carbon…

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   nhr

   May 12, 2009 at 6:48 am

   > but they do sequester a fair bit of carbon…

   only to release it a bit later, as they rot, as even more harmful methane (^^;

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9. 

   TomiTapio

   May 12, 2009 at 9:44 am

   Nice scene, plenty of foodstuffs.

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10. 

    jurvetson

    May 12, 2009 at 3:43 pm

    tomi – spoken like a true carnivore….. 😉

    nhr – I was referring to the phytoplankton growing in the sea photo, not the duckweed.

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    nhr

    May 12, 2009 at 5:08 pm

    I had indeed the freshwater duckweed in mind, but a blooming of ocean phytoplankton caused e.g. by targeted iron fertilization or unwanted eutrophication could also lead to the formation of anoxic or hypoxic ocean volumes acting as methane sources…

    We are doomed 😉

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    jurvetson

    May 12, 2009 at 10:20 pm

    Interesting.. and in the Baltic no less. Very shallow there… I wonder how it compares to the open ocean. And where did all those methane hydride deposits come from anyway…

    Yes, yes, we are doomed. The Baltic looks like nano wormsign to me.

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    nhr

    May 13, 2009 at 4:51 am

    I recommend the following defense strategy: mine and capture these gooey, teeming clathrate thingamajigs while there’s still time, zap them with microwaves to eliminate their protective water shell, and immolate them in purifying auto-da-fé bonfires (^^;

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