Photos capture life inside a drop of seawater
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Photos capture life inside a drop of seawater
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#2Absolutely spectacular.
The diversity of marine life is nothing short of astounding. More deep sea missions!
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#3> These tiny invertebrates can be found in the deepest ocean trenches and the highest alpine lakes, even in damp mosses and wet leaf litter. Walter once got a call from an Orthodox Jewish organization wanting to know if there were pieces of non-kosher creatures floating in the New York City tap water. The answer was yes. It’s hard to avoid these relatives of shrimp and lobster—Walter has studied them all over the world, in the Red Sea as well as Antarctica. Wherever there’s water, copepods thrive.
I'm wondering how this was handled in the end. Do Orthodox Jews drink the tap in NYC today?
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#4> But copepods typically range from about 0.2 to 1.7 millimeters in length, just large enough to magnify using conventional lenses and equipment
Does that mean conventional macro camera lenses or a microscope?
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#5If you like those pictures, you will probably also like this music video:
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#6> These tiny invertebrates can be found in the deepest ocean trenches and the highest alpine lakes, even in damp mosses and wet leaf litter. Walter once got a call from an Orthodox Jewish organization wanting to know if there were pieces of non-kosher creatures floating in the New York City tap water. The answer was yes. It’s hard to avoid these relatives of shrimp and lobster—Walter has studied them all over the wor…
An article about that question:
https://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/07/nyregion/the-waters-fine-...
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#7I probably shouldn't mention how much seawater I accidentally swallow whenever I'm in the ocean swimming.
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#8> These tiny invertebrates can be found in the deepest ocean trenches and the highest alpine lakes, even in damp mosses and wet leaf litter. Walter once got a call from an Orthodox Jewish organization wanting to know if there were pieces of non-kosher creatures floating in the New York City tap water. The answer was yes. It’s hard to avoid these relatives of shrimp and lobster—Walter has studied them all over the wor…
Guidance from rabbis varies (no central source of authority in Judaism). Some orthodox rabbis will view the copepods as not kosher and suggest filtering the water. Less orthodox rabbis will say the water is fine because the copepods are not visible to the naked eye.
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#9> These tiny invertebrates can be found in the deepest ocean trenches and the highest alpine lakes, even in damp mosses and wet leaf litter. Walter once got a call from an Orthodox Jewish organization wanting to know if there were pieces of non-kosher creatures floating in the New York City tap water. The answer was yes. It’s hard to avoid these relatives of shrimp and lobster—Walter has studied them all over the wor…
An article about that question: https://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/07/nyregion/the-waters-fine-...
I guess nobody's going to mention the elephant in the room, so I'll take the hit. Where the hell am I supposed to find tiny kosher cocktail sauces?
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#10I wonder that the commercial model is for endeavours such as this? I guess you collect royalties from people who want to publish the photos, but although you get a one-off wow factor I don't see there being a big market for these kinds of photos.
Is it a hobby/pursuit or can you actually make a living doing this kind of thing?
P.S. It's a fascinating thing and I love it!