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Topic: Acropora and you!
Posted By: deedo
Subject: Acropora and you!
Date Posted: March 21 2005 at 1:51pm

check this out. pretty cool what's out there.

Acropora millepora (Hayward et. at. 2004)

and YOU!

we all looked the same the first days of our lives. neat huh? So now researchers have found that cnidarians may have mirror symetry like us and they may not be diploblastic like everyone has always assumed. We are all one! Somewhere in the waaay back a coral like critter was our grandad!

 



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Posted By: Mark Peterson
Date Posted: March 21 2005 at 2:50pm
I looked like that before I was born ...it's a good thing I waited nine months or I'd be the ugliest person alive.

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Posted By: Mark Peterson
Date Posted: March 21 2005 at 2:51pm
Or the most beautiful coral....

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Posted By: Jared Wood
Date Posted: March 21 2005 at 3:28pm

I've always wanted to build a human skeleton out of live rock and then fill it with different coral for the organs.

Brain coral in the head, anemone for the stomach, sponge for the lungs, etc.

That would be cool.  Wierd, but cool.



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Posted By: Shane H
Date Posted: March 21 2005 at 3:35pm
Jared,

You need to get more sleep or something ...


Posted By: chrisslc
Date Posted: March 22 2005 at 10:21am
yeah, seriously jared, that's a wee bit creepy. ....

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Murray, Utah just north of the park.
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Posted By: chrisslc
Date Posted: March 22 2005 at 10:22am
... but I bet we could make you one out of something other than live rock !

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Murray, Utah just north of the park.
"It's all the same to the clam" -Shel Silverstein


Posted By: Jamison
Date Posted: March 22 2005 at 10:30am
Jared, I've got a nice pink finger leather if you find yourself in need of an appendix. Or I could bring over a big fan in hopes that you might get some fresh air.

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Posted By: jfinch
Date Posted: March 22 2005 at 1:42pm
I must be the only one sick enough to find Jared's idea intriguing!  Use aggrocreate to form the skeleton (laying in your tank).  Then fill it with corals to mimic organs!  Brilliant!

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Jon

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Posted By: jfinch
Date Posted: March 22 2005 at 1:54pm

Let's think this out...

woods polyps = hair
lobophyllia = brain
polyphyllia = tongue
medusa worm = throat
red ball sponge = lungs
pom pom xenia = heart ('cause it pumps )
blastamussa = kidneys
sea apple = stomach
a large sympyllia = intestines
Jamison's pink leather = appendix
green star polyps = leg/arm hair
acropora = hands/feet

What else...

am I morbid?



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Jon

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Posted By: Richard L.
Date Posted: March 22 2005 at 2:19pm
Hey you guys are way creepin me out.  You guys watched way too many of those crumy b-grade movies!

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Richard
Alpine, UT


Posted By: Weimers
Date Posted: March 22 2005 at 2:26pm

Yeah, you should subscribe to netflix or something!  Or get a bigger tank!! 

green star polyps for arm hair?  That's oookey!  Or just plain "eww!!"  Yuck!  How about a brownish colored encrusting gorgonian instead?



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Posted By: jfinch
Date Posted: March 22 2005 at 2:32pm
Too much CSI

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Jon

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Posted By: Jake Pehrson
Date Posted: March 22 2005 at 3:13pm
Originally posted by jfinch jfinch wrote:

am I morbid?

Morbid? Maybe

Demented? YES



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Posted By: DVadar
Date Posted: March 22 2005 at 3:56pm
Originally posted by jfinch jfinch wrote:

Let's think this out...


woods polyps = hairlobophyllia = brainpolyphyllia = tonguemedusa worm = throatred ball sponge = lungspom pom xenia = heart ('cause it pumps )blastamussa = kidneyssea apple = stomacha large sympyllia = intestinesJamison's pink leather = appendixgreen star polyps = leg/arm hairacropora = hands/feet


What else...


am I morbid?



You could use two Metalic Blue Mushrooms for the eyes. This I think would look better than button polyps or large zoos.
Another sick thought, you could probably buy a fake skeleton(like they use at schools) made of plastic or ceramic put that in the tank and wait for the coraline to grow over it. It would make the overall effect look more real and possibly raise questions as to "who" is in the tank?

Weird.


Posted By: Jared Wood
Date Posted: March 24 2005 at 8:04pm

I have done it!!!  It is ALIVE!!!!

MMmmuuuuuaaahhhaaahhhaaahhhaahhaaa!

Meet "Reefo-sapien"!  

 



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Posted By: Adam Blundell
Date Posted: March 24 2005 at 10:38pm

Please take that pic off, add a copywrite, and post it again.
I would absolutely love to use it in a presentation or article.  That is sooooo cool.

Adam



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Posted By: jfinch
Date Posted: March 24 2005 at 11:37pm
Right on!  I like the dendronepthea "lungs" even better then sponge.

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Jon

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Posted By: acerob
Date Posted: March 25 2005 at 10:32am
That is cool, I think the Idea sounds great.   When can I come and see it?

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Highland, UT

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Posted By: Star
Date Posted: March 25 2005 at 3:24pm

Oh come on.. you have GOT to put feather dusters for eye lashes!  They may have no other purpose than to remind people of eye lashes!

 

I love the pic... and  I'm glad I'm not the only one giggling maniacally at the Brain coral.



Posted By: Jared Wood
Date Posted: March 25 2005 at 3:46pm

Here are some eye lashes 



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Have you read my http://www.jaredwood.com/observations.htm#dinosaur" rel="nofollow - dinosaur theory yet?



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