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| Cita: | | Lo más bonito del acuario, tu niño. Sin duda |
Y mi nena, que no se queda nada atrás.
Todo padre ve hermosos a sus hijos... Pero los míos SÍ lo son. 
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Recién se ha abierto al público la sección "tentáculos", donde entre otros atractivos llama la atención ARTE relacionado a pulpos y otros bichos:
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Esta ballena alguna vez nadó las costas del Pacífico.
Nótese el detalle de los "dedos"...
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Originalmente, las instalaciones del acuario eran parte de "Cannery Row", un distrito aquí en Monterey que otrora producía una abundancia impresionante de sardinas: pesca, empaque y distribución. Aún queda bastante maquinaria en varias partes del edificio, testigos ahora silenciosos de aquella época de gloria y fortuna. Hoy día el Pacífico no produce ni la sombra de lo que en su momento atrajo a tantos inmigrantes al Golden State... Ya nos lo acabamos. 
Ultima edición por Invitado el Oct 12 2014, editado 1 vez
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Bien, me parece respetable
GBN
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Magionne...
Hay que ser un imbécil para considerar siquiera las fuerzas armadas, teniendo en cambio este tesoro a dos puertas de tu casa:
| Cita: | MOSS LANDING -- On a typical day at the Monterey Bay Aquarium, thousands of visitors watch sea otters frolic and marvel at salmon, sharks and jellyfish in shimmering tanks.
But unknown to most of them, 20 miles to the north, in a complex of gray buildings tucked behind the blue-collar fishing boats at Moss Landing Harbor, is another ocean wonderland.
The Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute has a similar name, but it has no gift shops, celebrity chefs or tour buses. And while the aquarium focuses on educating people about the ocean, MBARI, as it is known, has grown into the ultimate scientist's workshop for cutting-edge marine exploration -- a buzzing hub of 215 researchers, engineers and other staff members.
In the 25 years since the organization was founded by Silicon Valley pioneer David Packard, it has changed the world's understanding of the oceans in dramatic ways, even though few average Americans have ever heard of it, let alone visited.
"Having people on site is a bit challenging. A lot of the spaces contain equipment, sharp metal laying on racks, overhead cranes," said biologist Chris Scholin, MBARI's president. "You can't go into the garage when you have your oil changed. That's very much true here. It's like a construction site." |
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Sigue...
| Cita: | On Saturday, MBARI will hold its annual open house from noon to 5 p.m. It's the one day each year the public is allowed to check out the robotic subs and peer into the microscopes of the institution that has begun to lift the veil on Monterey Bay and many of the planet's previously unexplored ocean areas.
"Monterey Bay is very inaccessible. It is deep, dark, cold and under high pressure," said Dan Haifley, executive director of O'Neill Sea Odyssey in Santa Cruz, an ocean science program for kids. "MBARI has been able to unlock the treasure chest that is there."
MBARI has discovered dozens of new marine species, done groundbreaking research on the causes of harmful algal blooms and explored a dormant undersea volcano.
Since 1987, the Packard Foundation, based in Los Altos, has provided about 80 percent of MBARI's annual budget. Over the 25 years, the foundation's donations have totaled $667 million, making the Packard family the world's largest private benefactor of ocean research. |
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| Cita: | Until David Packard decided that he wanted ocean exploration to be one of his primary pursuits -- in 1984, he funded construction of the Monterey Bay Aquarium along Cannery Row with his wife and daughters -- scientists had a limited understanding of Monterey Bay and the remarkable ocean world off the Central California coast.
They didn't have photos or detailed maps of the bay's seafloor, a two-mile abyss twice as deep as the Grand Canyon. They often had to wait months to get a few hours on modern research ships, let alone any submersibles. And although they had studied otters and whales and pelicans and other animals visible from the shore, they knew very little about the deep-sea life teeming below the waves.
All of that changed in 1987, when Packard, co-founder of Hewlett-Packard, donated $13 million to set up MBARI. |
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| Cita: | At first he had wanted high-end exploration to be part of the aquarium's mission. But when his family pushed back, arguing that profits should be put back into exhibits, he decided to build an entirely separate facility. His goal: to bring together engineers and marine scientists to invent computers, robot subs and machines to test water chemistry -- all intended to revolutionize humanity's understanding of the oceans.
"The ocean encompasses 99 percent of all the living space on Earth. No one has really gotten down into that living space," said Packard's daughter Julie, the aquarium's executive director. "That's where MBARI works."
Over the past quarter century, MBARI has designed unmanned submersibles, once mostly used in oil exploration, and fitted them with fiber optics, high-end cameras and thrusters that move silently and don't stir up sediment. It tethered the vessels, known as "ROVs" -- remotely operated vehicles -- to ships and recorded more than 18,000 hours of undersea footage, all carefully cataloged in huge databases. |
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| Cita: | Along the way, MBARI scientists have discovered and named more than 100 species of marine creatures. Some look like visitors from outer space, from pulsing red jellyfish 3 feet around to mysterious worms that live on the bottom of the ocean and eat dead whale bones, drawing out nutrients through plantlike roots.
"Previously, we'd study gelatinous life in the ocean with a net or a trawl," Packard said. "You'd just trawl up a bunch of mush. MBARI goes down with high-definition cameras and can see these animals in their full form, intact. They can observe how they feed, how they mate, how they work."
MBARI's crews worked with the Navy in 1990 to discover the wreckage of the USS Macon, a 785-foot dirigible that crashed into the ocean off Big Sur in 1935 while flying to Moffett Field. They explored Davidson Seamount, a dormant undersea volcano 80 miles southwest of Monterey. Scientists found its surface so marvelous -- covered with 10-foot-high forests of coral and colorful sponges the size of hot tubs -- that Congress in 2009 expanded the boundaries of the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary to include it.
Until his death in 1996 at age 83, David Packard, who had become convinced that mankind has more to gain from studying the oceans than outer space, regularly dropped by unannounced at MBARI and helped design its equipment.
"It gave him a lot of joy," said Julie Packard. "I think it took him back to the early days of HP where you had small groups of engineers and scientists working to solve problems, and he was managing by walking around talking to them, just like at HP." |
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