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First images from the James Webb Space Telescope

Unexpected Elements

CHAPTER

The Milky Seas

Green biologist Ken Nielsen spotted another key detail in Steve Miller's report. Proceeding the milky sea event, there'd been a massive algal bloom in the area. The glow he says is to lure fish at night so they can be swallowed. Most of these bacteria that are capable of glowing, they're the E. coli of the sea. They're the gut bacteria of fish. And where they really would like to be is back in the gut of a human. So it's an advert. Please eat this particle and get me in your stomach. Well, individual glowing flecks of dead algae may quickly be swallowed by a fish, never to be seen by a passing sailor. But

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