{"id":368709,"date":"2010-02-27T02:57:34","date_gmt":"2010-02-27T07:57:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/itecsinsider.com\/?p=14069"},"modified":"2010-02-27T02:57:34","modified_gmt":"2010-02-27T07:57:34","slug":"the-real-avatar-ocean-bacteria-act-as-%e2%80%98superorganism%e2%80%99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/368709","title":{"rendered":"The Real Avatar: Ocean Bacteria Act As \u2018Superorganism\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 6pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-14070\" style=\"margin: 0px 10px;\" title=\"Avatar\" src=\"http:\/\/itecsinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Avatar.jpg\" alt=\"Avatar\" width=\"91\" height=\"74\" \/>By Catherine Brahic<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 6pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;\">(New Scientist, February 24, 2010) In the movie Avatar, the Na&#8217;vi people of Pandora plug themselves into a network that links all elements of the biosphere, from phosphorescent plants to pterodactyl-like birds. It turns out that Pandora&#8217;s interconnected ecosystem may have a parallel back on Earth: sulphur-eating bacteria that live in muddy sediments beneath the sea floor.\u00a0 Some researchers believe that bacteria in ocean sediments are connected by a network of microbial nanowires. These fine protein filaments could shuttle electrons back and forth, allowing communities of bacteria to act as one super-organism. Now Lars Peter Nielsen of Aarhus University in Denmark and his team have found tantalising evidence to support this controversial theory.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg20527493.800-the-real-avatar-ocean-bacteria-act-as-superorganism.html\" >Click here to read more&#8230;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Catherine Brahic (New Scientist, February 24, 2010) In the movie Avatar, the Na&#8217;vi people of Pandora plug themselves into a network that links all elements of the biosphere, from phosphorescent plants to pterodactyl-like birds. It turns out that Pandora&#8217;s interconnected ecosystem may have a parallel back on Earth: sulphur-eating bacteria that live in muddy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-368709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=368709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368709\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}