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    School Children Turn Sea Monsters Into Space Candy

    Gourmet Magazine's History of Space Food Reveals Our Ultimate Goal: Distilling Cheap Liquor In Space

    Thanksgiving Dinner is Sadder in Space

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    Image of sicboi sicboi
    09/17/09

    In reply to School Children Turn Sea Monsters Into Space Candy
    man on man, if it wasn't hard enough trying to discourage Japan's ppl of not condoning eating whale and dolphin meat, now they've turned on to this poor creature? crikey
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    09/19/09

    @sicboi: IIRC, this jellyfish is overrunning Japan's waters. The herds can use a little thinning.
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    Image of CleverName CleverName
    09/17/09

    In reply to School Children Turn Sea Monsters Into Space Candy
    I prefer peanut butter and jellyfish, thank you.
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    MISS MERCY STREET promoted this comment Grey_Area approved this comment CleverName was starred CleverName was unstarred
    Image of twophrasebark twophrasebark
    09/17/09

    @JonTLewis: LOL. But I'm not sure why.
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    Image of tetracycloide tetracycloide
    09/17/09

    In reply to School Children Turn Sea Monsters Into Space Candy
    let's hope none of the biologically immortal jellyfish teach it to these behemoths.
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    Image of Blue_Thark Blue_Thark
    09/17/09

    In reply to School Children Turn Sea Monsters Into Space Candy
    If it got its tentacles around you, would you feel the sting? Not sure how poisonous these are, but I know the bigger critters tend to be less harmful in terms of venomousness.
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    Roklimber promoted this comment Edited by Blue_Thark at 09/17/09 8:20 AM Blue_Thark was starred Blue_Thark was unstarred
    Image of Roklimber Roklimber
    09/17/09

    @Blue_Thark: Indeed. And when it comes to jellyfish, apparently it is the case that the smaller they are, the more poisonous: take the example of the irukandji jellyfish. One hell of a sting. Google it for info on the researcher who discovered it and spent a week in the hospital in agonizing pain.
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    Image of Trai_Dep Trai_Dep
    09/18/09

    @Roklimber: I hope its scientific name is Cnidari Oh My GOD The Pain The Pain Please Kill Me NOW The Pain Oh God Sweet Death Come NOW!
    Because that'd make studying for Biology tests so much easier.
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    Edited by Trai_Dep at 09/18/09 1:18 AM Trai_Dep was starred Trai_Dep was unstarred
    Image of Tomb: R.O.A.C.H. Tomb: R.O.A.C.H.
    09/17/09

    In reply to School Children Turn Sea Monsters Into Space Candy
    Well, they are called JELLYfish..
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    09/17/09

    @Tomb: R.O.A.C.H.: oh, you.
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    Image of twophrasebark twophrasebark
    09/17/09

    In reply to School Children Turn Sea Monsters Into Space Candy
    Open up and say "ah" because when all the other sea life is dead this is what we'll be eating.

    Bon appétit.
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    Image of snarklenyc snarklenyc
    09/17/09

    In reply to School Children Turn Sea Monsters Into Space Candy
    Screw candy, that thing's so big it could solve a housing crisis...hollow that guy out and stick a chimney in him
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    Image of John ya ya John ya ya
    09/17/09

    In reply to School Children Turn Sea Monsters Into Space Candy
    There's a sea monster out there somewhere looking for one of it's eyes.
    And it's pissed.
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    Image of Jeriba Jeriba
    09/17/09

    @John ya ya: I wish I had a star so I could promote this comment.
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    Image of queensowntalia queensowntalia
    09/17/09

    In reply to School Children Turn Sea Monsters Into Space Candy
    Frank, I'm relatively sure its a bit of a forced perspective. I believe the jellyfish are pretty big but not THAT large. I recall hearing something about this photograph in that regards.

    In other news: cool ocean creature and we turn it into food. That's humans for ya. Wonder how long it will take for us to drive them extinct.
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    Image of Rumtum Rumtum
    09/17/09

    @queensowntalia: That may be the case, but ... a 100 pounds of seawater is about 12 gallons, and jellyfish are pretty close to seawater in density. But they are also structured like umbrellas, so they could cover a much larger area.
    Pretty humongous for a blob of gelatinous muck in any case.
    I do apologize for using the gallons and pounds and such, but I am an old fart and never grokked metric.
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    MISS MERCY STREET promoted this comment Edited by Rumtum at 09/17/09 8:00 AM Rumtum was starred Rumtum was unstarred
    Image of RandomFrequentFlierDent RandomFrequentFlierDent
    09/17/09

    @queensowntalia: I think you're right about the picture.

    As far as harvesting them, it's worth considering that human activities have led to an increase in the population of these jellyfish and the increased numbers can be detrimental to other species that are already struggling. There's a chance it could even out.
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    Image of queensowntalia queensowntalia
    09/17/09

    @Rumtum: hah. As an American, I'm good with non-metric. I guess that makes me old fashioned. :p Good point about the density.
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    09/17/09

    @RandomFrequentFlierDent: yeah, that's a very good point.
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    Image of J_Frank_Parnell J_Frank_Parnell
    09/17/09

    In reply to School Children Turn Sea Monsters Into Space Candy
    Dear God, please tell me that picture is photoshopped.
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    09/17/09


    @J_Frank_Parnell: I think there might be some perspective shenanigans happening in that particular picture. The largest specimen recorded had a diameter of 2.3 m (but its tentacles were 36.5 m). I think this picture is a better representation (and still pretty enormous).
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    Image of hamshank hamshank
    09/17/09

    In reply to School Children Turn Sea Monsters Into Space Candy
    will it take their attentions away from whales? Cause that would be nice ...
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    Image of bakana bakana
    09/17/09

    @hamshank: Especially since much of Japan's 'whale' meat comes from coastline dolphin butcheries.
    I'm not crazy about eating animals in general, but I'd prefer killing/eating something with no central nervous system to killing/eating something with super-simian intelligence like a dolphin.
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    Image of ManchuCandidate ManchuCandidate
    09/17/09

    In reply to School Children Turn Sea Monsters Into Space Candy
    I approve as someone who, as a kid, was given candied cuttlefish as a snack.
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    Image of Aidan_ Aidan_
    09/17/09

    @ManchuCandidate: What's it taste like?

    And thank you Lauren, for what is sure to be the most amusing headline of the day.
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    Image of tetracycloide tetracycloide
    09/17/09

    @ManchuCandidate: i still remember eating it with peanut butter back in high school.
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    Image of ManchuCandidate ManchuCandidate
    09/17/09

    @Aidan_:
    Sweet, um, cuttlefish?

    The thing about cuttlefish is that the taste is rather unique. And chewy.
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    09/17/09

    @ManchuCandidate: Is delicious!
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    09/17/09

    @crashedpc : ゴキブリ and 蟑螂 division: with a name like cuttlefish, it sounds like my tongue could just wrap itself in a warm chewy blanket and take a nap.
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    Image of Arkenbow Arkenbow
    09/17/09

    @Aidan_: The headline looks like a pitch for the latest anime out of Japan. And I'd probably watch it.
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    Image of skeksis skeksis
    09/17/09

    @Aidan_: I've never had candied cuttlefish, but dried cuttlefish is like very chewy dried fish. Fish jerky, really.
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    09/17/09

    @Arkenbow: It's definitely an anime logline. Add some giant robots and you're golden.
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    Image of Chip Overclock Chip Overclock
    09/17/09

    @skeksis: I remember having "squid jerky" and a can of strawberry juice as the snack on a flight between two cities in China. Had a sort of "uncanny valley" quality to it in the sense that it was a completely familiar ritual with completely different substitutions.
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    05/21/09

    In reply to Gourmet Magazine's History of Space Food Reveals Our Ultimate Goal: Distilling Cheap Liquor In Space
    Has anyone ever actually 'savored' Everclear? I'd think it would start burning a hole through your tongue if you tried. I mean, it's great for setting plates on fire in the parking lot, but I don't picture it as something you really try to experience the flavor of.
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    05/21/09

    In reply to Gourmet Magazine's History of Space Food Reveals Our Ultimate Goal: Distilling Cheap Liquor In Space
    "Hand-pollinating plants in space sounds like a nightmare."


    I saw on TV a couple of months back how in parts of China, honeybees have gone extinct, and so now they have vast armies of people hand-pollinating plants using small paintbrushes, one flower at a time.


    With our own honeybees mysteriously disappearing here in the USA, I fear the nightmare is going to be us having to hand-pollinate plants here on Earth.

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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    05/21/09

    @frankenstoen: The Kage Baker book I review last week had little robot pollinators called biis on Mars because the lack of a magnetosphere screwed up the real bees behavior.


    We may have to resort to something like that.

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    Image of Meirelle Meirelle
    05/21/09

    In reply to Gourmet Magazine's History of Space Food Reveals Our Ultimate Goal: Distilling Cheap Liquor In Space
    Will eating a space tomato make you get superpowers?
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