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How to Land a Rocket Launch ‘Space Jellyfish’
https://atlas.whatip.xyz/post.php?slug=how-to-land-a-rocket-launch-space-jellyfish
<p>What used to be a rare sight gracing the twilight sky is now becoming strangely commonplace
#jellyfish #launch #rocket #space

Is "No-Brainer" a speciesist insult to non-human animals without brains such as jellyfish and bivalves? Boost for reach

#Vegan #Veganism #Speciesism #Jellyfish #Bivalve

Just a jellyfish doing jellyfish things 🪼

#pixelart #kawaii #cuteart #digitalart #jellyfish #oceanart #seaart #underwater #pixelartist #cuteillustration #chibi #indieart #cutecore #adorable #spaceaesthetic #purpleaesthetic #blueaesthetic #aquaticart

#texturetuesday #digitalphotography #aquatic #photomanipulation #multipleexposure #photocollage #photomontage #medusa #jellyfish #underwater #pixelated #surreal #abstract #plunderphonic #videocaptures #nogenerativeai

Medusas Essences

Dr. Steven Haddock discusses how bioluminescent and fluorescent molecules, genes borrowed from jellyfish and others, have become powerful tools in biotech and biomedical research.
From lighting up nervous systems to advancing medical imaging, this conversation shows how nature’s brilliance fuels human innovation.
🎧 Listen here: embedded.fm/episodes/530

Here's an excerpt:

#OceanScience #DeepSea #Bioluminescence #EmbeddedSystems
#mbari #jellyfish #author #biology #engineering #embedded #podcast

From bioluminescent "living highlighters" in cancer research to deep-sea creatures exuding glowing green plumes, the ocean floor is full of wonder. 🌊✨
Marine biologist Dr. Steven Haddock joins us to discuss these and more.

👉 Read the show transcript here: https://embedded.fm/transcripts/530.

#Podcast #OceanScience #Biotechnology #DeepSea #Bioluminescence #EmbeddedSystems
#mbari #jellyfish #author #biology #engineering #embedded #podcast

New insult: transient asshole.

https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/comb-jelly-anus-jellyfish-transient-gut-study-a8810526.html #anus #invertebrates #jellyfish

💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: 🐋🦴 Chinese scientists piloting the submersible Fendouzhe in the southeast #IndianOcean found fossil sites spanning 1,200 km at depths up to 7,000 m.

The #bones belong mostly to beaked #whales, with the oldest dating back 5.3 million years. Living #jellyfish, brittle stars, and bone-boring #worms still call these ancient carcasses home, allowing whale fall to serve as a #deepsea #ecosystem.

👉 https://www.popsci.com/environment/whale-graveyard-indian-ocean/

#fossils #marinebiology #science #beakedwhales #paleontology #submersible #nature #pliocene #ocean #expedition

Cosmic Jellyfish Seen Over Russia -

A man-made spacecraft....

Soyuz-2.1b missile launched from the Plesetsk cosmodrome - But what is its purpose? And why does it spray so much stuff in the atmosphere?

https://www.fontanka.ru/2026/04/17/76370822/

#Soyuz #space #Russia #Jellyfish #UFO #UAP

🪼🐟 #Underwater photographer Pedro Valencia captured footage of two #fish living inside a #jellyfish's bell during a blackwater dive in #Cozumel, #Mexico. Jellyfish scientist Scott Morrissey explains that this symbiotic relationship offers the fish protection from predators and access to #food, while the fish may serve as bait to attract prey for the jellyfish.

👉 https://www.discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts/marine-animals/fish-inside-jellyfish-mexico

#marinelife #scubadiving #biology #nature #wildlife

NEWSFLASH:
JELLY FISH SHUT DOWN NUCLEAR POWER PLANT

Four units at the Gravelines nuclear power plant in Nord, #France, were shut down on Monday due to the ‘massive and unforeseeable presence of jellyfish’ in the pumping stations for the water used to cool the reactors.

Photograph: Sameer Al-Doumy/AFP/Getty Images

@photography
#photography
#NuclearPowerPlants
#jellyfish
#news

[LA MÉDUSE]
... is back, mais sous la forme d'un petit sticker pailleté. Eh oui, j'ai décidé de varier un peu les plaisirs sur la boutique.
Dispo dès maintenant sur mon site:
https://ysae-illustrations.fr/produit/la-meduse-sticker-paillettes/

#medusedessin #jellyfishart #jellyfish #stickerart #stickeraddict #jellyfishsticker #sealover #oceanside #dessinnumerique #digitalart #oceanvibes #seascape

#Jellyfish Shut Four French #NuclearReactors as #HeatWave Builds

By Eamon Farhat
August 11, 2025

" #ElectriciteDeFrance SA [#EDF] was forced to shut four #AtomicReactors after a swarm of jellyfish clogged up filter drums at its #Gravelines power plant.

"The 'massive and unforeseen' [um, not if you read my posts -- very much FORESEEN] presence of jellyfish in the filter drums of pumping stations closed four out of six reactors at Gravelines on the north coast of France, EDF said in a statement on Monday. Pumping stations for coastal #NuclearPlants usually draw in sea water for cooling, sometimes exposing them to marine life.

"A #MarineHeatWave is intensifying off the west coast of France, with unusually warm waters in the English Channel near Gravelines, data from #Copernicus Marine Service show. Jellyfish populations can 'bloom' at such times, and France has closed several beaches in recent weeks due to invasions of the eight-legged molluscs, according reports compiled by the beach information app Meduseo."

Read more:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-11/jellyfish-shut-four-french-nuclear-reactors-as-heat-wave-builds

Archived version:
https://archive.ph/bahil

#EuropeHeatWaves #France #Jellyfish #RethinkNotRestart #NoNukes #NoNukesForAI #NuclearPowerNoThanks #NuclearWasteIsForever #NuclearPowerPlants #ExtremeHeat #RenewablesNow #RenewableEnergy #RethinkNotRestart
#LeNucléaireNonMerci #ClimateChange #WarmingOceans

HT @PariaSansPortefeuille

Invasion of #jellyfish, heat, water too hot: #GlobalWarming threatens the functioning of #NuclearPowerPlants

Several reactors are regularly forced to stop to protect river #biodiversity. While cuts in periods of high heat still have a very limited impact on supply, electrification of uses and #ClimateChange could make a difference.

Marie Toulgoat , Published 11 August 2025

"When nature paralyses the French nuclear park. Four units of the Gravelines nuclear power plant (northern) are at a standstill on Monday 11 August due to the 'mass and unforeseeable presence of jellyfish; at the water pumping stations used for the cooling of the reactors, EDF announced.

"These automatic stops of units 2, 3, 4 and 6 'have had no consequences on the safety of the installations, the safety of personnel or on the environment', #EDF assures on its site. The plant is thus temporarily completely shut down, as its other two production units 1 and 5 are currently under maintenance.

"On Sunday, 29 June, no steam volutes escaped from the chimneys of the Gulf nuclear power plant (Tarn-et-Garonne). Due to the intense #HeatWave in #France, the reactor in operation at the site was shut down. In the middle of the summer of 2024, the nuclear power plant had already been forced to reduce its production."

Read more (en Français):
https://www.humanite.fr/environnement/canicule/meduses-canicule-eau-trop-chaude-quand-le-rechauffement-climatique-menace-le-fonctionnement-des-centrales-nucleaires

Archived version (en Français):
https://archive.ph/zNGD2

#NoNukes #NoNukesForAI #NuclearPowerNoThanks #NuclearWasteIsForever #NuclearPowerPlants
#NuclearPowerNoThanks
#NuclearPlants #Heatwaves
#ExtremeHeat #RenewablesNow #RenewableEnergy #RethinkNotRestart
#NoNukes #NoNukesForAI #Atomkraft #AtomkraftNeinDanke #LeNucléaireNonMerci

#Jellyfish attack #NuclearPowerPlant. Again.

By Susan D’Agostino | October 28, 2021

" #Scotland’s only working nuclear power plant at #Torness shut down in an emergency procedure when jellyfish clogged the sea water-cooling intake pipes at the plant, according to the Scotland Herald this week. Without access to cool water, a nuclear power plant risks overheating. The intake pipes can also be damaged, which disrupts power generation. And ocean life that gets sucked into a power plant’s intake pipes risks death.

[...]

"The clash between gelatinous jellyfish and hulking nuclear power plants has a long history. These spineless, brainless, bloodless creatures shut down the Torness nuclear power plant in 2011 at a cost of approximately $1.5 million per day, according to one estimate. Swarms of these invertebrates have also been responsible for nuclear power plant shutdowns in Israel, Japan, the United States, the #Philippines, #SouthKorea, and Sweden.

"Humans have unwittingly nurtured the adversarial relationship between jellyfish and nuclear power plants. That is, human-induced #ClimateChange has raised ocean water temperatures, setting conditions for larger-than-usual jellyfish populations. Further, the relatively warm water near nuclear power plant discharge outlets may attract jellyfish swarms, according to one study. Also, #pollution has lowered #oxygen levels in sea water, which jellyfish tolerate more than other marine animals, leading to their proliferation.

"Some look at jellyfish and see elegant ballerinas of the sea, while others view them as pests. Either way, they are nothing if not resilient. Jellyfish are 95 percent water, drift in topical waters and the Arctic Ocean, and thrive in the ocean’s bottom as well as on its surface. Nuclear power plant operators might take note: Older-than-dinosaur jellyfish are likely here to stay."

Full article:
https://thebulletin.org/2021/10/jellyfish-attack-nuclear-power-plant-again/

#OceansAreLife #NuclearPowerPlants
#NoNukes #NoNukesForAI #RethinkNotRestart

#Jellyfish Keep Attacking #NuclearPowerPlants

By Gabriel Geiger
November 2, 2021

"Jellyfish are continuing to clog the cooling intake pipes of a nuclear power plant in Scotland, which has previously prompted a temporary shutdowns of the plant.

"The #TornessNuclearPowerPlant has reported concerns regarding jellyfish as far back as 2011, when it was forced to shut down for nearly a week—at an estimated cost of $1.5 million a day—because of the free-swimming marine animals.

"In a short comment to Motherboard, #EDFEnergy, which runs the Torness plant, said that 'jellyfish blooms are an occasional issue for our power stations,' but also said that media reports claiming the plant had recently been taken offline because of jellyfish are 'inaccurate.' '[There were] no emergency procedures this or last week related to jellyfish or otherwise,' a spokesperson said. [Um, did they previously work for #TEPCOLies?]

" 'Like many other seaside power plants, the Torness plant uses seawater to prevent overheating. While there are measures in place to prevent aquatic life from entering the intake pipes, according to the #BulletinOfTheAtomicScientists, they are no match for the sheer number of jellyfish that come during so-called 'jellyfish blooms.'

" 'Usually, screens prevent aquatic life and similar debris from being drawn into the power plants’ cooling system,' the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists wrote in a 2015 blog post. 'But when sufficiently large volumes of jellyfish or other aquatic life are pulled in, they block the screens, reducing the volume of water coming in and forcing the reactor to shut down.'

"While the case in Scotland has once again spotlighted concerns regarding the jellyfish and potential power plant shutdowns, these concerns are far from new. In 2008, a swarm of jellyfish shut down a nuclear power plant [#DiabloCanyon -- which had another incident in 2024] in #California, and three years later the same occurred at a plant in Japan [#Shimane]. In 2017, jellyfish clogged a power plant in Israel [#Hadera]."

Source:
https://www.vice.com/en/article/jellyfish-keep-attacking-nuclear-power-plants/

#GlobalWarming #WarmingOceans
#ChangingOceans #OceansAreLife #OceanTemperatures #ClimateCrisis #Overfishing #NoDeepSeaMining #NoNewNukes #NoNukes #NoNukesForAI #Oskarshamn #Torness #RethinkNotRestart

Het slechte imago van kwallen is vaak helemaal onterecht, zoals bij deze prachtige oorkwal, aangespoeld op het strand. Aan de kleur van haar geslachtsorganen kun je zien dat het een vrouw is. Haar tentakels zijn voor mensen onschadelijk. Kwallen bestaan voor ongeveer 95% uit water en onder de hoed hebben ze een spijsverteringsorgaan dat kleine visjes en garnaaltjes kan verteren.

#jellyfish #oorkwal #beachcomb #wadden #waddeneiland #noordzeenatuur #kwal #vlieland #terschelling #schiermonnikoog

A visit to the Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium last weekend. #zoo #animals #PointDefiance #Tacoma #photography #nature #marinelife #Pacificseanettle #jellyfish #shark #hammerheadshark #aquarium

El cangrejo, probablemente un Dorippe frascone, lleva a la medusa Cassiopea, que suele nadar invertidas. Usa sus dos pares de patas posteriores para agarrarla y sus dos pares anteriores para caminar. De esta manera, está protegido por la medusa. #cangrejo #crab #medusa #jellyfish

All the other #Jellyfish laughed when Leopold started researching the #Armadillo for a personal project. But now that tourist season was peaking, he was the only one who could safely navigate the bay.

Alle anderen #Qualle lachten, als Leopold anfing, das #Gürteltier für ein persönliches Projekt zu recherchieren. Aber jetzt, da die Touristensaison ihren Höhepunkt erreichte, war er der einzige, der sicher durch die Bucht navigieren konnte.

#OddZoo #KleineKunstKlasse #MastoArt #FediArt

HD Ver: https://youtu.be/plhnBHytteg
Play at: https://rive.app/community/8438-16186-speculative-biology-1-ocean/

#rive #youtube #youtuber #youtubechannel #vector #vectorart #vectoranimation #vectorgraphics #alien #speculativebiology #creature #creaturedesgin #animated #animation #animation2d #2d #2danimation #ocean #water #animator #jellyfish #fish #art #artist #indie #indieartist