Gregory's ServerA spectacular sight 1225m (4019 ft) beneath the waves off Baja California as E/V Nautilus encounters the amazing Halitrephes maasi jelly.
Full video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9D0eyl7-XQA
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   @wonderofscience it's so interesting how the same patterns in nature repeat themselves. I'm torn if this reminds me more of an eyeball or a sunflower. @wonderofscience That is as breathtaking as the environment it lives in. Absolutely stellar. @wonderofscience @wonderofscience spouse got interested, looked it up, and now thinks correct term is βpolychromatic photoluminescenceβ because light came from an external source. Thoughts? @wonderofscience jellyfish look like what Iβd imagine if eyes would evolve into without a face. Stunning and terrifying lol. @wonderofscience Going to Mars is cool science but we are forgetting the beauty and richness of our world. Thanks for sharing! @wonderofscience This here is the reason I donβt swim in the ocean. I want a nice swimming pool where I can see whatβs in the water. (But yes, itβs gorgeous.) @wonderofscience That particular clip makes it look like CGI more than anything else... Deep sea lighting is remarkably simple and modern CGI can easily reach realism that good... It fooled me or a minute. @wonderofscience I LOVE seeing the beauty of ocean life and learning about this spectacular underwater realm. @wonderofscience living art. Wonder how much more there is down there that we know nothing about?  @wonderofscience so letβs just say u got stung by this, how bad would it be? The more mesmerizing, the more pain?  @wonderofscience I legit just thought this was a picture of fireworks at first! Magnificent!  @wonderofscience This is gorgeous! I also wonder if, for critters beyond the reach of any oceanic current, this propwash is the most chaotic thing that has ever happened to them. It's got to be, right? It's like being caught in an underwater tornado. I'm not being critical, I'm sure it's fine; I'm just curious. @wonderofscience - amazing & wonderful - why is it everything is designed in a circular pattern on earth or under the sea?  @wonderofscience Looks like living neon!! What could be more cyberpunk.  @wonderofscience It blew my mind when I learned that this is just one stage of the jellyfish's life, and its many other forms look nothing like this. All that talk about insect life stages in school made me feel so smart as a kid but I felt betrayed for not being taught this until my 30s. @wonderofscience @DemocracyMatters when I dream of spaceships to take me and explore the wonders of the cosmos, I will dream of what you posted here. @wonderofscience Thank you so much for posting the youtube link .. this delights my eyes and I watched it in wonderment! @wonderofscience Beautiful! After gazing at its beauty for a while, it made me think this would be one of the looks for Billy Porter if he were a Jelly. ππ€π @wonderofscience as a small child in late 59s, I got caught in a riptide on an old air mattress, no life jacket. I was unable to swim and fell off. Above me in the water was this beautiful vibrating star that I reached for the center. I wound up in the hospital for a week, and to this day jellyfish frighten me to death. @wonderofscience This is such a beautiful and amazing world we live in, and yet we do our best on a daily basis to screw it up. |
@wonderofscience this is absolutely beautiful