[HN Gopher] In Plain Sight: How waste might help us find the mys...
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       In Plain Sight: How waste might help us find the mysterious Velella
        
       Author : dnetesn
       Score  : 29 points
       Date   : 2021-07-19 09:57 UTC (13 hours ago)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (oceans.nautil.us)
        
       | soperj wrote:
       | This was a very cool article about a creature I'd never heard of
       | before. Presents an interesting problem at the end of the
       | article. I feel like the majority of the people trying to fix the
       | plastic in ocean problem don't necessarily spend all that much
       | time on the ocean.
        
         | pvaldes wrote:
         | The article forget a curious fact. Velella is not an individual
         | animal, is a floating city or a floating reef. A colony of
         | several really specialized individuals each one with a mission.
         | 
         | Is a very cool creature. All pelagic ones are 'out-of-this-
         | planet' cool. Glaucus for example is incredible. Sea skaters
         | are just the cherry on top.
        
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