the BIG licker - flexible SEX or PATOLLI de ORGY
Jul 25 '01
The Bottom Line Yes playmates, the Pacific is alive!
Patolli de Orgy is a little known expression for orgy in the Pacific - under the surface of this great ocean there are billions of fish and other creatures all having it off to their hearts content. Yes playmates, the Pacific is alive!
A novel, if not particularly exciting way to reproduce is demonstrated by the linckia starfish which produces babies by dropping off all of its legs, which grow into new starfish. Not surprisingly, Starfish have no brains, much like many human sex objects.
Oysters, on the other hand have really got sex sewn up. They can change their sex from male to female to male and so on, throughout their lives. Oh, what a feeling!
The Pacific Ocean is one mighty big bucket of water. It's what saves Australia from being American and in case you have been wondering its not just a fun park for the Australian and United States Navies.
No, the dear old Pacific is pretty important to the whole planet, being the world's biggest lake. What a pity its so salty.
This vast damp spot has an area of over a hundred million square miles, or officially 165,384,000 square kilometres. Whether thats at high or low tide I don't know, but to make more sense of it its a bit less than eighteen times the size of the US or Australia. It covers about a third of the planet, which is more than all the land put together. There are nearly eighty two thousand miles of coastline and a climate that is largely monsoonal.
The surface is a bit interesting not just because its basically flat and wet, but in the northern area the currents flow clockwise and in the south anticlockwise. Presumably this keeps the water stirred.
On the ocean floor in the east is the East Pacific Rise, while the west has deep trenches, in fact the world's greatest depth of over 36,000 feet is in the Marianas Trench. Sadly, due to oil pollution mostly in the Philippine and South China Sea areas there are many endangered marine species including the dugong, sea lion, sea otter, seals, turtles, and whales.
A blue whale can weigh up to 280,000 pounds, larger than the largest dinosaur! Their brains are seven times the size of ours and the tongue of a grown blue whale weighs more than two elephants! How's that for a big licker!
Occasionally the El Nino phenomenon occurs off the coast of Peru. The trade winds slow and the warm Equatorial Countercurrent moves south, killing the plankton that is the primary food source for anchovies. The anchovies move to better feeding grounds, causing resident marine birds to starve by the thousands because of their lost food source. El Nino is now known to play a major part in droughts in Australia, so its formation and movement is very closely monitored. It seems to work broadly to a seven year cycle.
Although difficult to see in the ocean, the Equator is the dividing line between the North Pacific Ocean and the South Pacific Ocean. Brilliant idea, isn’t it? Iceburgs can be a problem to shipping in extreme north from October to May and in extreme south from May to October. Fog in the northern Pacific from June to December is a further shipping hazard.
The Pacific Ocean is a major contributor to the world economy and particularly to those nations its waters directly touch. It provides cheap sea transportation between East and West, extensive fishing, offshore oil and gas fields, minerals, and sand and gravel for the construction industry. In 1985 over half of the world's total fish catch came from the Pacific Ocean. Offshore oil and gas reserves is playing an ever-increasing role in the energy supplies of Australia, New Zealand, China, US, and Peru.
In spring, 2000, The International Hydrographic Organization made a monumental decision. They declared a fifth world ocean made up from parts of the Atlantic Ocean, Indian, and Pacific Oceans. The new Antarctic Ocean coincides with the Antarctic Treaty Limit. The Pacific Ocean remains the largest of the world's five oceans, followed by the Atlantic, Indian, Southern, and Arctic Oceans.
The biggest fish patrolling the Pacific is the Giant Sea Bass, that grows up to seven and a half feet. With 45% of the Pacific yet to be discovered all manner of organisms may exist outside our knowledge.
The most interesting objects to me are the Atolls. These are very low-altitude (most less than fifteen feet high) sandy beaches built upon coral reefs and often enclosing shallow lagoons. They are precarious to sea-level rises and the threatened population really has no where to go. When an Atoll floods there is significant risk to the freshwater. Indigenous people are at least disrupted and occasionally wiped out by a significant and sudden increase in sea level.
Atolls are really the remnants of volcanic cones that have eroded to below sea level, and coral grows forming a reef. Small inhabitable areas often occur on parts of the reef.
Bikini Atoll, second in popularity to Topless Atoll, is located in the central Pacific, and is one of a number of atolls in the Republic of the Marshall Islands. It was the location of United States nuclear tests in the 1940s and 1950s. The people of Bikini have yet to resettle their homeland, most living elsewhere in the Marshall Islands and overseas with the forlorn hope to soon be able to return to their homeland.
Bikini Atoll is supposedly one of the top five dive destinations in the world, presumably with that rapid and free suntanning aid, radiation.
Global warming is a major issue on the Atolls, hardly surprising in view of their lack of high ground. The very small South Pacific nation of Kiribati believes it is in danger of completely submerging. Kiribati comprises a number of low-lying atolls and its 90,000 people are already in apprehension over frequent droughts, storms and coastal erosion.
Very few areas are as vulnerable to climate change as the Pacific island states, especially atolls that are just ten feet above sea level. Over $1.0 billion in damage just in the past decade is due to changing climatic conditions.
The irony is that these countries are the least responsible for causing the problem of climate change.
A couple of the nasty biters in the Pacific are the Sharks, which can sniff out a drop of blood in 100,000 gallons of water and the box jellyfish with venom potent enough to kill a person in 30 seconds.
So there we have it - a snapshot of the vast Pacific Ocean and its importance to each and every one of us.
Nb; everything is true except for what isn’t
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