You Thought It Was Pollution, but It’s Snot
Posted on : 15-10-2009 | By : Bryan McCloskey | In : Marine Science, Science
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(I stole that title from The Rachel Maddow Show, I swear to god – send your angry letters to them.)
The one-and-only Bill Nye the Science Guy was on tonight’s The Rachel Maddow Show discussing 200km-long strings of sticky marine snot in the Mediterranean Sea. OK, it was diatomaceous mucilage with associated pathogen-harboring macrofaunal excreta – but Marine Snot would make a better name for a punk band.
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Other good band name from the story? Aquaphlem. (Wasn’t that a Jethro Tull album?)