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Monday, April 18, 2011

Gigantic New SuperOrganism with 'Social Intelligence' is Devouring the Titanic

Gigantic New SuperOrganism with 'Social Intelligence' is Devouring the Titanic: "In 2000, Roy Cullimore, a microbial ecologist and Charles Pellegrino, scientist and author of Ghosts of the Titanic discovered that the Titanic --which sank in the Atlantic Ocean 97 years ago -- was being devoured by a monster microbial industrial complex of extremophiles as alien we might expect to find on Jupiter's ocean-bound Europa. What they discovered is the largest, strangest cooperative microorganism on Earth.

Scientists believe that this strange super-organism is using a common microbial language that could be either chemical or electrical -a phenomenon called 'quorum sensing' by which whole communities 'sense' each other's presence and activities aiding and abetting the organization, cooperation, and growth."

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