Edie Widder, “Ocean Enlightenment” (Open Agenda, 2021)
New Books in World Affairs
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Using Bialuminescence to Bring in Creditors
i've always wondered, you know, what is there just beyond the range of my lights? They can see me, buti see it. I mean, any animal with any sense, it does n't geck out of it. And so i've had this feeling for a long time, and i wanted to explore unobtrusively. So i developed an electronic jellyfish that imitates certain bialuminescent displays which would be attractive to large creditors. Bi aluminescence gets used a lot for defence, in a lot of different ways. There's some squid that can change the color of their luminescence depending on whether they're trying to camouflage themselves against sunlight down
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