Happy Hallowmeme From The Other 95%!

Rick Macpherson has tagged me with his Hallowmeme! He asks us to find the trailer of your favorite really bad horror flick. It is going to be really hard to top his pick of Humanoids from the Deep, but one of the first bad horror flicks I saw as a kid was Slugs. And its appropriate given the theme of my blog! So here you go, beware the mutant flesh eating overly gregarious slugs!

Since its the season for trick or treat, I'm dropping my candy corn in the plastic pumpkin grab bags of the following bloggers.

Tangled Up In Blue Guy
Bug Girl
Aardvarcheology
Paddy K
Catalogue of Organisms
Microecos
Zooillogix

I think these guys should be able to provide some interesting results!

Slugs are the Driving Factor Behind Volcanic Explosions

There is always a mollusc involved it seems. The July 13 issue of Science reports on major research titled "Magmatic Gas Composition Reveals the Source Depth of Slug-Driven Strombolian Explosive Activity"

Schematic diagram depicting the location and role of slugs near the magma chamber of a typical strombolian volcano. Figure NOT from article in Science...

Clearly, there is no reason to actually read this paper, it is clear from the title the slugs are driving highly explosive volcanic processes from deep with the Earth! Quite amazing really. From This Week in Science,

"The explosions are thought to be caused by gas slugs that rise faster than the surrounding magma and generate seismic activity near the surface of the volcano.[...]. they show that gas slugs form 3 kilometers beneath the summit craters, at the base of the volcanic pile and away from seismological processes at the surface."

It is clear that slugs are attempting world domination. It is only a matter of time before all the world's volcanoes will explode all at once and exterminate human life whereupon slugs will emerge from the dark earthen depths to dine on our smoldering carcasses.