Jelification

Space Jelly Entering the Upper Atmosphere

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Here you can see the giant Space Jelly descending into the polar Aurora in an attempt to camouflage itself. As they say, this won’t hurt a bit.

Jely Supports The Troops

This year, Jely is proud to help support the troops through the literacy non-profit Books For Soldiers. Last year, BFS shipped $2.9 million in aid to deployed US troops and we are looking forward to helping them in 2010.

Here is how the donation program works:

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$.10 for every person who follows @jelyinc on Twitter.

$.01 for every tweet that uses Jely to shorten their URLs.

All of this for a maximum donation service value of $40,000. Anybody can help, you do not need to be a volunteer for Books For Soldiers for this program.

Stress Test for Monday, Dec. 14th

Hi all!

We are gearing up for the travel season and are doing a stress test on Jely on Dec. 14th.

Please use Jely all you want and especially for airport tweets – just add your airport code to the end of our URL (example: http://je.ly/SFO, http://je.ly/CLT, http://je.ly/OAK)

Please test Jely with your local airport! We need to make sure we have all of that covered.

Thanks!

@stormbear
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OK… Jely is open!

Hi all!

We launched a new project today – Jely (http://je.ly). For months you have had to put up with pictures of Jellyfish and the frequent story of jellies taking over the planet. We were cranking on our code and waned to put something on our blog.

This release of Jely creates Tweetable URLs for travel and the locations of things. For example, you can type in “pizza” and your ZIP code, and you will get a tweetable link for Pizza in your neighborhood.

You can do the same for longitude, latitude, even your closest airport (http://je.ly/sfo). Want the weather at your house? Just type in your ZIP code and tweet away!

This is a public alpha release so use our contact form for any problems you run into.

OK… I am going to damn bed.

@stormbear

The Silent Invasion Of Immortal Jellyfish

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From The Telegraph:

The Turritopsis Nutricula is able to revert back to a juvenile form once it mates after becoming sexually mature.

Marine biologists say the jellyfish numbers are rocketing because they need not die.

Dr Maria Miglietta of the Smithsonian Tropical Marine Institute said: “We are looking at a worldwide silent invasion.”

The jellyfish are originally from the Caribbean but have spread all over the world.

Turritopsis Nutricula is technically known as a hydrozoan and is the only known animal that is capable of reverting completely to its younger self.

Japanese fishing trawler sunk by giant jellyfish

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The trawler, the Diasan Shinsho-maru, capsized off Chiba`as its three-man crew was trying to haul in a net containing dozens of huge Nomura’s jellyfish.

Each of the jellyfish can weigh up to 200 kg and waters around Japan have been inundated with the creatures this year. Experts believe weather and water conditions in the breeding grounds, off the coast of China, have been ideal for the jellyfish in recent months.

The crew of the fishing boat was thrown into the sea when the vessel capsized, but the three men were rescued by another trawler, according to the Mainichi newspaper. The local Coast Guard office reported that the weather was clear and the sea was calm at the time of the accident. (more)

The jellies are fighting for the whales now!

Gratuitous Jellyfish Photo of the Week (from space)

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The invasion begins!

The Jellyfish Nebula on Wikipedia

Gratuitous Jellyfish Photo of the Week

Shiff arms jellyfish (Rhizostoma pulmo), originally uploaded by Arne Kuilman.

Jellyfish Give Their Lives To Protect Sardines

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Jellyfish from the waters off of the South Korean town of Tongyeong are being found in the anchovy nets of the local fisherman. In a Joong Ang Daily article, the fisherman claim the jellies emit a toxin that kills small fish. But we know the real story here.

The jellyfish are giving their lives to protect the noble anchovies.

“The ocean water is full of jellyfish,” complained Huh O-ryong, 48, a fisherman residing in Pohang, North Gyeongsang. “Once you pull up a net, you find 20 tons of jellyfish stuck in there. It takes about two hours to remove them all.”

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Jellies Best For Mixing Mojitos?

From LiveScience.com:

Pulsating jellyfish and their swim pals stir up the oceans with as much vigor as tides and winds, scientists have found. Their study also found that the shape of the aquatic blobs affects their mixing abilities.

Until now, oceanographers had dismissed the idea that such tiny ocean creatures could play a role in mixing various layers of ocean water on a large scale. The argument was based on evidence that any swishing from fish tails, say, would get dampened by the ocean’s viscosity (a measure of a fluid’s resistance to flow — honey has a high viscosity compared with water).

But the new study, which is published in the July 30 issue of the journal Nature, reveals a mixing mechanism first described by Charles Darwin’s grandson that is actually enhanced by the ocean’s viscosity, making these tiny sea critters major players in ocean mixing.

July 30th, 2009 | Category: Uncategorized | Leave a comment