The Milky Seas phenomenon

[Magical Realist]

Reported by sailors for centuries, they think they've figured it out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQm_JCgbjB8

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VIDEO EXCERPT: The bacteria they think causes the milky seas is a bacterium, called Vibrio Harveyi. It doesn’t want to scare off predators, it wants to attract fish. Because the place it wants to live is on the inside of a fish.

So the amount of bacteria it would take to make a glowing area the size of Connecticut is almost unfathomable. It is forty billion trillion bacteria. If each of the bacteria were the size of a grain of sand, the grains of sand would cover the Earth ten centimeters deep. The whole Earth, all of it.

What causes this? The truth is, they don’t know. We don’t know yet how it forms, we don’t know what the conditions are.

But what we do know is that it does happen, and you know who else knew it? Jules Verne. In 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea he describes the SS Nautilus coming across this phenomenon.

It’s likely that Jules Verne used real ships logs to describe the milky seas. While it may have taken science until 2005 to find definitive proof of the milky seas...