Another Great idea from downunder.

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On the news tonight was a tourism minister wanting to prevent coral bleaching (an increasingly serious issue) by covering the Great Barrier Reef in shadecloth.

Exhibiting :
a) misuderstanding of coral bleaching;
b) an unbudgetted 6 billion bucks;
c) I wouldn't want to try to surface on a snorkelling safari beneath a couple hundred square kilometers of plastic mesh. (BTW, you'd have to strain yourself severely to get in the water in the first place)
 
There was a blurb on the radio at lunch that another Auzzie idea has hit the market recently. The Wonder Jock. Functions like the Wonder Bra but for the male posterior. "Lifts and separates." Supposedly sold 50,000 in short order via limited retail outlets and a website. Shannow, can you verify?
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There was a blurb on the radio at lunch that another Auzzie idea has hit the market recently. The Wonder Jock. Functions like the Wonder Bra but for the male posterior. "Lifts and separates." Supposedly sold 50,000 in short order via limited retail outlets and a website. Shannow, can you verify?
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never heard of that one....
 
Gary,
funny you should mention that. When a power station that I work at was officially opened by the state Premier, we were, at the time in drought (or is that "still" ?). The hills at the back of the station were parched.

So we painted them green...looked good from the presentation area.

As to pigments and corall, the corall is a symbiotic relationship between an animal, and an algae. The algae photosynthesises, and creates food for the animal. When temperatures are too high, either the algae leaves, or the animal ejects it. Leaves the Corall looking like uncooked calimari.

Maybe we need to genetically engineer better algae, or more tolerant hosts.
 
I thought the main problem with the coral was the purple-ish looking star fish that like to eat coral? I forget what they are called.
 
Crown of Thorns ?

Yep that's a problem. But they'll starve out in the not too distant future.
 
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