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Bleached corals thrive within days when touching healthy neighbour

114 points21 hoursnature.com
fosterfriends • 1 hour ago

Some good news :) anything to bring back coral reefs

Okkef • 1 hour ago

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

smallerize • 52 minutes 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 • 31 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 • 41 minutes 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 • 31 minutes ago

We don’t use cloning enough IMO.

idontwantthis • 1 hour ago

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

socraticnoise • 47 minutes ago

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asjkff • 1 hour 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.

aappleby • 31 minutes ago

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

tcdent • 57 minutes ago

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

asjkff • 49 minutes 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.

hmokiguess • 46 minutes 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?

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asjkff • 39 minutes ago
clockwork-grape • 34 minutes ago

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