Bleached corals thrive within days when touching healthy neighbour
122 points by alkyon 21 hours ago | 15 comments
fosterfriends 2 hours ago
Some good news :) anything to bring back coral reefs
replyOkkef 51 minutes ago
Only if they are clones - genetically identical. So not much use in practice, unfortunately.
replysmallerize 37 minutes ago
I think the article says they just haven't tested other cases. I wouldn't expect the symbiotic microalgae to be that picky.
replyEdit - The article makes Okkef's point, I just missed it.
kulahan 26 minutes ago
Sounds like a solution is still well within our reach. Normally I wouldn’t suggest something as extreme as using cloning techniques to restore wild creatures, but of course it was extreme actions that got us here in the first place, so I think this balances it out.
replyidontwantthis 48 minutes ago
We could create a bank of coral clones tagged to each individual location.
replyasjkff 46 minutes ago
Could this also, have anything to do with, Nikola Tesla's resonance theory on dark matter and consciousness, in play in living matter?
replyMore intelligent individuals should look more into this field.
aappleby 16 minutes ago
No. Tesla's resonance theory has nothing to do with dark matter, consciousness, or living matter.
replytcdent 42 minutes ago
I'm all about the concepts you're presenting, but care to elaborate on how you think the corals relate?
replyasjkff 34 minutes ago
Disclaimer: I am still finding my way in life, so take this theory with a grain of salt.
replyNew age movement, claim everything on earth is actually a hologram of the universe, experiencing itself.
So perhaps, just being in close proximity with another coral, the hologram frequency was now more in tuned.
hmokiguess 31 minutes ago
Why would the frequency of the healthy one win over the frequency of the non-healthy one though? I assume both would have their own frequencies, are you implying there's an order or tendency across frequencies?
replyasjkff 24 minutes ago
Same reason, stem cells repair damage body cells, I guess.
replyI am just glad coral can repair themselves.
Thumbs up to the researcher.
hmokiguess 16 minutes ago
I am just trying to understand your ideas and riff on them
replyCells are complex organisms and contain programming in their nature so we can more easily trace and understand its reasons
A frequency is something a lot more raw than a cell