Aquamusings Caught In The Net...

... and close to a month before they started, too!

Not even Capitaine Bonhomme could have saved 'em...

Who wanted them saved, anyways?

In other ''un-news'' of sorts, 

readily available on the web today - 

this article about how ''Atlantis may have been found 

and lost again'' - or just plainly forgotten about 

altogether! 

The news bit is not reported by Yahoo, this time, 

but by ''ufoholic.com'' 

(hence the ''un-news'' quality of it, eh;

un-news not fake news now!)

and we thought Jonas C.C.'s Sisters of the Sea 

were just the perfect way to visualize the tragedy of it all -

so, here's hoping that you agree... Sisters!

 Onwards to the wondrous -if, oftentimes, murky- realms of

entertainment! 

Cheryl versus Ashley - it is on, apparently!

With special guest-referee: our old favorite...

Christie Brinkley!?

Don`t mind Mylène de Mytilène there; 

she's just ogling, that's all...

It is the year of our Lord 2000 and 16...

And MEN... on boats...

... still have to dread encountering 

MURDERMAIDS 

(Murmurmmaids? Murderermermaids?) 

out there, on the High Seas...!

*Sigh*

 I know one... or even two... gentle ones, however: 

 Maybe even three...? 

And now - a special message from the King of the Seven Seas...

(whom we refer to, oftentimes here on aqua musings, as ''AQ'' indeed! It is destiny...)

Wow - this is as close as it is ever gonna get to a REUNION for the old alternate reality or timeline AQUA TRIO: all three in a row here - Aqua Luciano... Aqua Belle... Aqua King!  #NeverGoingToHappen #NeverMeantToBe

And about another one of our favorite water-logged characters now, from our *Aqua Force* days (see the archives of this very blog, circa 2005 ~ 2006) and all...

Onwards to... much ado about nothing, really!

You get the sad beached picture: A.W. is not one of our FAVES...

She features prominently on many other websites, however - 

those that are far less picky in their taste for 

Aquaficionadas - just behold these two picks below...

This Russian ''Waterbearer'' is on her way...

The Liquidator appears to be excited about that...!!!

(Hellboy truly, totally stole this guy's look -

if not the mandibles.

But that is another story...)

And whatever happened to these two other AQUAS... hmm? 

Anyway...

Rumors have resurfaced about a certain revival - 

and it is incumbent upon that certain umpteenth take 

on a certain member of the Aqua-Family 

to keep that hope alive... or afloat. 

Imagine that: it even got the character`s name 

TRENDING in social media!!!

There are at least three different Aqualads around, though - 

why was it this one that ``caught on`` with the public so - 

the DOUBLE AGENT one?!? 

Well...

Personally, we will pull for the slightly zombie-like kid there:

It is well-chronicled that we, at aqua musings, couldn`t care less 

about the original Aqualad, Garth - a.k.a. Temp-pest... 

And we are none too attached to the new punk 

wet behind the ears and all over, still, either - 

you know, the one that participated  

 in waging ``Aqua War`` recently... 

Now... Believe it or not, this film project is still being considered...

Then again, with ''Bill & Ted'' getting a 3rd, ah, 

''installment'' soon, reportedly...

And so many other wastes of celluloid, all over the place...

Maybe this is not such a bad idea after all?

 All hail the Sailor Man! 

Meanwhile, back in DC land, a full-fledged REBIRTH is seen 

as both necessary and as the most lucrative option 

for all of the ''meta-human'' ''super-duper'' heroes there - 

including our good old AQUAMAN, 

who celebrates his 75th anniversary this year.

Yay.

Amazingly enough, AQ is allowed to keep his classic look 

in this rather convoluted process of rebirth here; 

it is surprising given that the ''DCEU'' movie version 

is totally different from this, as we know - 

they went all grungy, 90s style ''Conan of the Sea'' 

with their choice of actor to portray him on the big screen... 

This is not surprising, however, given the degree of success 

and reacquired credibility the classic clean-cut blond 

garbed in orange-and-green sea hero has garnered, 

in the last two to three years, in his medium of birth -

his original birth, that is, back in 1941! 

 Mera, his queen, swimming by his side 

in both versions now - he can do no wrong!

And since we are on the subject, with this latest queen-sighting, 

why not round this up here with some bonafide 

AQUAFICIONADAS

once more - first, the Queen Mera, of course...

Quick ~ time, like the tide, is pressing...

Next: a certain София Павлова...

And, finally, Aletta Ocean herself...

°°°Letting all that sink in now...°°°

°°°Glub-glub-glub!°°°

Aqua Arn

How aquamusing is this now - huh? All these years I have been clamoring high and low, that Aquaman and the Nature Boy, Ric Flair, have a hell of a lot in common - when everybody else was going for the obvious Aquaman-Luke Skywalker similarities, for example...

But who has been standing by Flair's side aaaall of these years, 

ever-so faithfully (hell, much more so than his women!) HUH? 

That's right - the guy on the left, on Ric's right:

Well, okay, they switched sides on that last shot 

-the one with the near swastika logo - yikes!-

(makes one think of the old nazis in Antarctica 

storyline, in Aquaman tales...!

The ''Helga'' there has the same Flair hair, too!

That's another story...)

but you get the idea!

So, all of you non-wrestling fans out there...

WHO IS THAT GUY, BY THE NATURE BOY'S SIDE?

Huh?

It's Arn Anderson - that's who!

And wouldn't you know, now, that 

another Arn Andersson

(this one has two ''s''es, yes!)

renowned in his own field,

has composed

the utmost perfection 

as far as an 

ATLANTIS ANTHEM 

could go!

Go straight to track 36 

at the 01:47:34 mark 

for Arn Andersson`s Atlantis

- and you will be astounded!

On top of that, the WHISPERS at 01:31:58
evoke so much a certain queen of the sea - Mera!

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Behold - The Icicle Of Death: The Brinicle!

Photo Credits: Gizmodo
- not Aquasimodo, Gizmodo!

Must-see! Time-lapse video captures ‘icicle of death’ reaching Antarctica’s sea floor

Known Yahoo Chase Kell of the Daily Buzz linked (heck, he embedded) a video of this phenomenon to his short article on the subject which was published on Yahoo News this past Thursday, November the 24th, 2011.

The article, unlike the majority of the stuff that Yahoo News routinely "reports" day in day out, got rave reviews because it was, as one commenter so eloquently summarized, "something interesting to watch - finally!"

Only problem was - people would not be able to watch for very long as the video was soon BLOCKED, for the ever-popular reason invoking COPYRIGHT GROUNDS...

Thanks a million, BBC!
And thank you Yahoo, too, for your lack of foresight into these matters which should only be YOUR DOMAIN after all...

Maybe, just maybe, if you're lucky, you may be able to see some of the footage on the website of origin: the BBC's "Frozen Planet" site.

But best of luck with that - most likelier than otherwise, it is not available to watch in your country on copyright grounds too, if you are found to be outside the "Angel Isle" - aka the United Kingdom.

The footage will show you exactly how ALIVE our planet is - if you ever do get to see it, you will be amazed at the results of the work put together by this crew from BBC's 'Frozen Planet' which used time-lapse photography to capture what has been dubbed the "icicle of death," documenting its frosty reach as it blankets life on the sea floor under a sheet of ice. This fascinating phenomenon is caused when ice from above leaves behind a very salty brine, which gradually sinks as it is more dense than the sea water that it encounters progressively.
"As it descends, the sea water around it freezes instantly and forms a sheet of ice - a brinicle - that grows downwards toward the sea floor," explains the video's narrator. "Winter is reaching down from the cold world above." And there is suddenly no escaping from that at all...!

Once this "Icicle of Death" or brinicle has reached the sea floor, a web of ice freezes everything it touches, encasing sea urchins and starfish in a frosty tomb. R.I.P. sea urchins and starfishies.

The BBC footage was taken near Antarctica's Ross Archipelago, under the sheets of ice at Little Razorback Island. Time lapse is the only way to go here, of course, yet shooting this was still a bit of a "race against time" since no one really knew how fast brinicles formed, in truth! The entire process usually takes five to six hours but could have been longer still - or shorter, depending on thermal conditions, really. The bottom line is that Nature has its own agenda (as configured by its Creator, of course) and we should not be interfering with that, certainly not through sheer negligence.

It is so imperative that you get to watch it, too: for it is footage such as this, showing just how impressive the magnificence of God's Creation really is, that can get some people to realize what the hell we are doing to this Creation...!

Eco-minded characters such as Captain Planet, Aquaman, Tintin and so many others will never succeed in this as much as footage like that, not in a million years (and we don't have a million years. Nor does the planet, maybe! But that is another story.) Only material such as this, therefore, footage which makes us realize how stupendous our planet really is, can extirpate such comments out of us as "Nature is always more impressive than anything man can do" - or create.

Uber user known as Topwater (how fitting for aquamusings here...!) said it so beautifully too: "Wow," he exuded, "that's better than any special movie effects I've ever seen. Simply amazing!" Others were deeper (!) and versing downright philosophical, stating that "Nature is amazing and filled with many awesome and mysterious wonders. It's too bad that we unnecessarily destroy so much of it." So terribly true. Yet more proclaimed "Our planet is amazing! Too bad everyone is glued to their computers and cell phones."Or quite simply "wow - yahoo finally did post something worth watching. Very nice." Only it cannot be viewed, really...

:-I