The above Subject Headline sure is jam-packed with Big Guys.
God is certainly a Big Guy.
The Big Bang is certainly Big otherwise it would have been called the Bang.
Read on to find out why the lowly Oyster rightfully deserves to be up there with the Big Guys.
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If you are like me, you woke up today thinking that you did not know enough about the Oyster. Thank your lucky starts that you have me in your Sheltered in Place Life because I am going to tell you all about Oysters and how Complicated They Really Are...
Oysters
are filter feeders, drawing water in over
their gills through
the beating of cilia.
Suspended plankton and
particles are trapped in the mucus of a gill, and from there are transported to the
mouth, where they are eaten, digested, and expelled as feces or pseudofeces.
Oysters feed most actively at temperatures above 10 °C (50 °F). An
oyster can filter up to 5 L (1.3 US gal) of water per
hour. Chesapeake Bay's once-flourishing oyster
population historically filtered excess nutrients from the estuary's entire
water volume every three to four days. Today, it would take nearly a year.[8] Excess
sediment, nutrients, and algae can result in the eutrophication of
a body of water. Oyster filtration can mitigate these pollutants.
In addition to their gills,
oysters can also exchange gases across their mantles, which are lined with many
small, thin-walled blood vessels. A small, three-chambered heart, lying under
the adductor muscle, pumps colorless blood to all parts of
the body. At the same time, two kidneys,
located on the underside of the muscle, remove waste products from the blood.
Their nervous system includes two pairs of nerve cords and three pairs of
ganglia.
While some oysters have two
sexes (European oyster and Olympia oyster), their reproductive organs contain
both eggs and sperm. Because of this, it is technically possible for an oyster
to fertilize its own eggs. The gonads surround
the digestive organs, and are made up of sex cells, branching tubules, and
connective tissue.
Once the female is fertilized,
she discharges millions of eggs into the water. The larvae develop in about six
hours and exist suspended in the water column as veliger larvae for
two to three weeks before settling on a bed and maturing to sexual adulthood
within a year.
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Now you know that the Oyster has 2 Kidneys. If you do not know this, you skimmed over the above extremely interesting information about one of the great wonders of the world you live in.
Go back and read it again and don’t skim this time. I’ll wait...
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Are you wondering if this Blog Posting is going anywhere? It certainly is and you are about to see where it is going.
Back in 1966 Time Magazine published its first cover ever that was made up of Only Words and I’m sorry to say the words were...
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Think back to how complicated the Oyster is and ask yourself this question...
Do you really think the Oyster was created by the Chaos and Mayhem and Violence of the Big Bang Explosion?
Oh my gosh! All is truly lost. I just heard one of you say, “Of course not, Fella. The Oyster required 2 Big Bangs.”
Would I kid u?
Smartfella
