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Covey · 08-03-2005, 04:51 PM

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Originally Posted by skennelly

Well, I found it to be pretty damn interesting. Makes me think twice about getting caulerpa for my fuge now.

Hey Skennelly if your caulerpa makes it from Illinois to an ocean alive it belongs there it earned it.
Anybody got any Caulerpa taxifolia that stuff looks like it could beat out my Bubble and Caulerpa Mexicana I got.

Covey · 08-03-2005, 05:14 PM

That show was a lesson more in Eco-Politics than anything else.
The one scientist saying "The sky is falling":
Ever time a new piece of science comes out someone spins it into a new doomsday theory. Killer Asteroids, 700' Tsunami, the new ice age. They cry wolf too often and it ruins their credibility. Does a program on Caulerpa really need spooky music and time capture video? Come on if you just watched this program you would think this stuff grew a couple of feet an hour

. And I'm a freakin' Liberal.
The establishment Monaco scientist (think stuffy french accent) all like "Well maybe it is a naturally occurrence." Read DENIE, DENIE, DENIE. Some lawyer probably told him to say that. Lets see the Monaco Aquarium running and OPEN system for some of their tanks. They admit they had the Taxifolia in them. The first outbreak happened literally under the aquarium. Yeah right it natural.
Anyway like most thing the true ends up somewhere in the middle but nobody notice because they got sick of the BS and stopped paying attention.

skennelly · 08-04-2005, 06:56 AM

Your definitely right Covey

. That was more of a generalized comment. Who knows maybe the caulerpa could modify itself to live in fresh water and take over the great lakes.

inwall75 · 08-07-2005, 11:54 AM

For those who missed the special, Nova did a small write up of the problem.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/algae/chronology.html

Matt Rogers · 08-22-2005, 09:55 AM

Now there is a seaweed problem in Hawaii. oh joy.

Covey · 08-22-2005, 12:25 PM

Not Caulerpa for once though. There got to be a Tang out there willing to give it a shot.

Gresham · 08-23-2005, 11:50 PM

Matt, the Monterey Bay has like over 60 invasive macro algeas. Makes HI's 10 - 30 look a bit better