Having been a diver on the Great Barrier Reef numerous times, the scale of bleaching events means that there is often no non-bleached neighbour for vast distances. Healthy propagation rarely occurs before the brown sludge sets in, then its game over.
nomel 32 minutes ago [-]
> This incredible new result
Only if you've never talked to anyone remotely involved with propagating coral, including those in the saltwater fish-tank community!
dcrazy 19 minutes ago [-]
I remember hearing that the concern with our best techniques for rescuing coral reefs is that they would create a monoculture, and monocultures tend to be very susceptible to specific diseases.
Okkef 1 hours ago [-]
Only if they are clones - genetically identical. So not much use in practice, unfortunately.
smallerize 1 hours ago [-]
I think the article says they just haven't tested other cases. I wouldn't expect the symbiotic microalgae to be that picky.
Edit - The article makes Okkef's point, I just missed it.
ceejayoz 51 minutes ago [-]
The article says otherwise.
> Fragments from different species and even different animals of the same species did not fuse together, and so did not nurse the bleached piece back to health.
kulahan 1 hours 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.
deadbabe 51 minutes ago [-]
We don’t use cloning enough IMO.
linuskendall 30 minutes ago [-]
We use cloning plenty - most fruits we eat are clones, and it has some drawbacks (see Cavendish bananas).
idontwantthis 1 hours ago [-]
We could create a bank of coral clones tagged to each individual location.
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fosterfriends 2 hours ago [-]
Some good news :) anything to bring back coral reefs
kylehotchkiss 25 minutes ago [-]
My first thought when reading the headline... horizontal gene transfer?
socraticnoise 1 hours ago [-]
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asjkff 1 hours ago [-]
Could this also, have anything to do with, Nikola Tesla's resonance theory on dark matter and consciousness, in play in living matter?
More intelligent individuals should look more into this field.
patmorgan23 4 minutes ago [-]
No that's ridiculous woo woo. It's just that some of the symbiotic algae from the healthy coral transfer over to feed and revive the sick coral.
aappleby 51 minutes ago [-]
No. Tesla's resonance theory has nothing to do with dark matter, consciousness, or living matter.
tcdent 1 hours ago [-]
I'm all about the concepts you're presenting, but care to elaborate on how you think the corals relate?
asjkff 1 hours ago [-]
Disclaimer: I am still finding my way in life, so take this theory with a grain of salt.
New 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.
rbn3 27 minutes ago [-]
Since you mentioned you’re still finding your way in life: please be aware that the appeal of a lot of new age and „woo“ is that the act of noticing a pattern in nature, that feeling of „aaah NOW it makes sense“ is inherently pleasant and can become something you chase like a drug. These frameworks or schools of thought can provide a steady source of that feeling without necessarily being tethered to reality at all. Kind of like acid - very fun at times but catastrophic if you make it a core part of your identity.
hmokiguess 1 hours 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?
asjkff 59 minutes ago [-]
Same reason, stem cells repair damage body cells, I guess.
I am just glad coral can repair themselves.
Thumbs up to the researcher.
hmokiguess 51 minutes ago [-]
I am just trying to understand your ideas and riff on them
Cells 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
asjkff 40 minutes ago [-]
I will repeat this for the last time. I am not an expert in the field.
"programming in their nature" means they have a range of frequency, like a radio? perharps.
Nevertheless, thumbs up to the researcher. Positive vibes.
clockwork-grape 54 minutes ago [-]
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Only if you've never talked to anyone remotely involved with propagating coral, including those in the saltwater fish-tank community!
Edit - The article makes Okkef's point, I just missed it.
> Fragments from different species and even different animals of the same species did not fuse together, and so did not nurse the bleached piece back to health.
More intelligent individuals should look more into this field.
New 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.
I am just glad coral can repair themselves.
Thumbs up to the researcher.
Cells 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
"programming in their nature" means they have a range of frequency, like a radio? perharps.
Nevertheless, thumbs up to the researcher. Positive vibes.