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Bleached corals thrive within days when touching healthy neighbour

144 points alkyon 21 hours ago 20 comments

https://archive.ph/zIPG4

fosterfriends 1 hour ago | parent

Some good news :) anything to bring back coral reefs

Okkef 1 hour ago | parent

Only if they are clones - genetically identical. So not much use in practice, unfortunately.

idontwantthis 1 hour ago | parent

We could create a bank of coral clones tagged to each individual location.

smallerize 58 minutes ago | parent

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 37 minutes ago | parent

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 47 minutes ago | parent

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 37 minutes ago | parent

We don’t use cloning enough IMO.

linuskendall 16 minutes ago | parent

We use cloning plenty - most fruits we eat are clones, and it has some drawbacks (see Cavendish bananas).

asjkff 1 hour ago | parent

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.

tcdent 1 hour ago | parent

I'm all about the concepts you're presenting, but care to elaborate on how you think the corals relate?

asjkff 55 minutes ago | parent

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.

hmokiguess 52 minutes ago | parent

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 45 minutes ago | parent

Same reason, stem cells repair damage body cells, I guess.

I am just glad coral can repair themselves.

Thumbs up to the researcher.

hmokiguess 36 minutes ago | parent

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 26 minutes ago | parent

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.

rbn3 13 minutes ago | parent

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.

aappleby 37 minutes ago | parent

No. Tesla's resonance theory has nothing to do with dark matter, consciousness, or living matter.

nomel 18 minutes ago | parent

> 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 4 minutes ago | parent

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.

kylehotchkiss 11 minutes ago | parent

My first thought when reading the headline... horizontal gene transfer?