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Author Topic: Star jelly, sky whales and cloud jellyfish  (Read 3616 times)

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Star jelly, sky whales and cloud jellyfish
« on: January 07, 2013, 10:13:40 AM »

Star jelly is a white-grey translucent jelly, that supposedly falls during a meteor shower. It is unknown what exactly it's made of, but analysis prove it to be masses of bacteria. This brings me to the next thing I'd like to post about, "atmospheric beasts" which is basically the idea that a whole ecosystem of flying\floating creatures lives in Earth's atmosphere, or more generally speculated, to be living in the atmosphere of a gas giant. Most  People who believe is sky beasts, also believe that the "star jelly" is actually the remains of a dead air jellyfish, which is almost believable, considering that the flesh of some sort of jellyfish (especially one lacking a central nervous system), would be quite similar to the star jelly. So just something I wanted to post, I personally don't believe in them, but the idea is very interesting... ;D
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Re: Star jelly, sky whales and cloud jellyfish
« Reply #1 on: January 07, 2013, 10:17:23 AM »

where axactly did you find this info?
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Re: Star jelly, sky whales and cloud jellyfish
« Reply #2 on: January 07, 2013, 10:20:52 AM »

Mostly Wikipedia actually, also nothing is plagiarized, I just gathered the info in my brain and wrote it down in my own words :P
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Re: Star jelly, sky whales and cloud jellyfish
« Reply #3 on: January 07, 2013, 01:13:31 PM »

I find that concept quite interesting as well, the whole idea of an ecosystem existing in the upper atmosphere is fascinating.

La la la la....
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Re: Star jelly, sky whales and cloud jellyfish
« Reply #4 on: January 08, 2013, 09:29:38 AM »

could you post a link? sounds funny enough to read
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Re: Star jelly, sky whales and cloud jellyfish
« Reply #5 on: January 09, 2013, 01:13:37 AM »

If those claims can be verified, that is very strange indeed.
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Re: Star jelly, sky whales and cloud jellyfish
« Reply #6 on: January 09, 2013, 10:32:06 PM »

also, science is a verb now, so... SCIENCE!

also, you will never look at dolphins the same way

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prmx0lYBTko