this was incredible
 

Just got back from Florida with the family for spring break. There was this bioluminescent phenomenon going on most of the week at night. I didn't take this pic, but this is what it looked like. It was unreal. Like glowsticks in the waves. It was on the sand for a few minutes also. I googled it and it is some sort of organism (dinaflagelate) that causes it. It goes on all night. Any of you ever see this?

spring break, huh...could it be used rubbers?
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How...

romantic?

Romantic is NOT using a rubber.

I saw that in Puerto Rico. They have a bioluminescent bay there and you can go for kayak rides at night to see it.

Turn around and tell him to put one on.

Unfortunately, not in the house WE rented

Don't those organism have/discharge phosphorous to make the glow?

You spelled orgasm incorrectly.

ROFL

Pollution

I thought we were going to hear a good story.

I've seen that in Puerto Rico. It's little organisms who get all excited and their little bodies glow. They're like tiny, little, aquatic fireflies. You can catch the glowing water in your hand. In fact, you can spread it all over your naked body and run through town in the middle of the night glowing like a naked, neon madman. Of course, that also requires Tequila.

FAX

Mr. FAX is on the case.

Ooo snap!

he also misspelled phosphorus as well. who's counting?

He might not want him to wear one so he can feltch it out before they snowball.

Don't **** with a guy that does chemical formulations every day. Both spellings are correct. :D

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depends: do they have to emit elemental phosphorus (charge zero), or a hybridized phosphorus that's part of a compund? :p

NERD FIGHT!

J/K, your guys' knowledge is very impressive.

Glow sticks mating on a Sham-WOW

Pretty cool. Haven't seen that myself. Not usually at the beach at dusk though.

WTF is a compund? ;)

I'm all out of stories today, this is being outsourced to Mr. Fax

Drugs in the water...

I remember this one time - I'm in a Banshee at night in combat conditions, so there's no running lights on the carrier. It was the Shrangri-La, and we were in the Sea of Japan and my radar had jammed, and my homing signal was gone... because somebody in Japan was actually using the same frequency. And so it was - it was leading me away from where I was supposed to be. And I'm lookin' down at a big, black ocean, so I flip on my map light, and then suddenly: zap. Everything shorts out right there in my cockpit. All my instruments are gone. My lights are gone. And I can't even tell now what my altitude is. I know I'm running out of fuel, so I'm thinking about ditching in the ocean. And I, I look down there, and then in the darkness there's this uh, there's this green trail. It's like a long carpet that's just laid out right beneath me. And it was the algae, right? It was that phosphorescent stuff that gets churned up in the wake of a big ship. And it was - it was - it was leading me home. You know? If my cockpit lights hadn't shorted out, there's no way I'd ever been able to see that. So uh, you, uh, never know... what... what events are to transpire to get you home.

Seen it at sea when I was in the Navy.

it's a compound that's been through a conundrum.

Another interesting protist's visual (and odorous) phenomenon, watermelon snow.
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/31/51...6e5c75356d.jpg

I'll bet that was cool.

Unfortunately, you and your friends now all have cancer.