{"id":2848,"date":"2008-03-01T15:58:45","date_gmt":"2008-03-01T23:58:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2008\/03\/01\/15\/58\/bacterial-bukkakke-redux\/"},"modified":"2008-03-01T15:58:45","modified_gmt":"2008-03-01T23:58:45","slug":"bacterial-bukkakke-redux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2008\/03\/01\/15\/58\/bacterial-bukkakke-redux\/","title":{"rendered":"Bacterial Bukkakke, Redux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mainstream media is amazed to <a href=\"http:\/\/groups.google.com\/group\/talk.bizarre\/browse_thread\/thread\/517b10a956eb7f01\/9bfefd593d68c67e?hl=en&amp;lnk=st&amp;q=bacterial.bukkake#9bfefd593d68c67e\" target=\"_blank\">rediscover, every few years<\/a>, that white fluffy clouds are in fact basically enormous migratory reproductive organs for bacteria super colonies.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nationworld\/nation\/la-sci-bacteria1mar01,1,541887.story\">Atmospheric scientists have long known that under most conditions moisture needs something to cling to in order to condense into snow and rain. A study published Friday in the journal Science shows a large share of those so-called nucleators turn out to be bacteria.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibtimes.com\/articles\/20080301\/snowflakes-packed-bacteria.htm\">U.S. scientists only recently found out that biological organisms, such as bacteria and other such microorganisms, play a significant role in the formation and distribution of precipitation.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/cgi\/content\/abstract\/319\/5867\/1214\" title=\"Despite the integral role of ice nucleators (IN) in atmospheric processes leading to precipitation, their sources and distributions have not been well established. We examined IN in snowfall from mid- and high-latitude locations and found that the most active were biological in origin. Of the IN larger than 0.2 micrometer that were active at temperatures warmer than -7C, 69 to 100% were biological, and a substantial fraction were bacteria. Our results indicate that the biosphere is a source of highly active IN and suggest that these biological particles may affect the precipitation cycle and\/or their own precipitation during atmospheric transport.\">Ubiquity of Biological Ice Nucleators in Snowfall<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mainstream media is amazed to rediscover, every few years, that white fluffy clouds are in fact basically enormous migratory reproductive organs for bacteria super colonies. Atmospheric scientists have long known that under most conditions&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,576,577,578,72,579],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bacteria","category-bukkakke","category-clouds","category-precipitation","category-science","category-weather"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2848\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}