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From: JAHAYES@MIAMIU.BITNET (Josh Hayes)
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Subject: Re: Forgotten Entities: Do You Remember Any?
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Date: 27 Oct 90 18:36:11 GMT
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Bathybias: The primeval slime at the bottom of the ocean, under
the hypothesis that life becomes more primitive the deeper you
go: fish and whales at the top, then squids, shrimp, slimy things
that crawl upon the slimy seas (whoops, started Riming there :-).
Proposed, then found, by Ernst Haeckel, if memory serves. Brought
up water samples from the abyss, stuck it all in alcohol to preserve
the life, and later found it to be this jelly-like gook: bathybias.
 
It turns out, unfortunately, that if you take seawater and add it
to alcohol in the proper proportions (which are fairly broad), it
complexes into jelly-like gook. Interesting, but not quite the
solution he expected.....
 
I KNEW that Biological Oceanography class would come in handy some day.
 
Josh Hayes, Zoology Department, Miami University, Oxford OH 45056
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