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Topic Categories: Invertebrates • Streaming videos
Posted on: June 4, 2007 8:59 AM, by "GrrlScientist"
tags: shrimp, pistol shrimp, ocean, streaming video
This streaming video shows how a pistol shrimp hunts; by laying in wait for its prey to wander nearby, then using its claw to blow a stunning blast of water at a speed of 100km/h with temperature 5000C [1:33].
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I love that the scientists who first saw the light flashes called it 'shrimpoluminescence'.
Just finished reading an excellent book by Andrew Parker called Seven Deadly Colours, which mentions this - Parker says that the pistol shrimp is the only animal to create light in this way, but the mantis shrimp does it too.
Posted by: Ed Yong | June 4, 2007 10:11 AM
Is that 9900C correct? It says it reaches the temperature of the sun. If we assume they mean the surface of the sun, that is approx 5800K which is approx 9980F.
I always found these shrimps amazing, I'm trying to remember which wildlife show showed two of them fighting?
Posted by: Chris' Wills | June 4, 2007 12:50 PM
It appears that the number of 5000K is correct. Check this link out.
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Posted by: Taylor Hain | June 4, 2007 1:33 PM
Can't argue with nature :o) though it does say at least 5000K for the temperature these bubbles collapsing can produce.
I guess that the commentator just gave an example that people could relate to as being very hot.
The surface temperature of the Sun is 5500C according to http://www.nmm.ac.uk/server/show/conWebDoc.3664
Convert to Farenheit and forget to change C to F, easy typo.
Posted by: Chris' Wills | June 4, 2007 2:03 PM
This is the way that the recent advances in low-temperature fusion were made: they created collapsing bubbles similar to this in a high-deuterium acetone solution.
Posted by: Justin George | June 4, 2007 11:59 PM
wtf is with the setting ??? all those broken down shit ?
Posted by: matelot | June 5, 2007 12:40 AM
tags: cat... ???
Posted by: Pierce R. Butler | June 6, 2007 4:24 PM
weird, huh. i fixed it, though.
Posted by: "GrrlScientist" | June 6, 2007 5:39 PM