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[SPEC]Extremophiles
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Red Walrus
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With the new update, the genetic manipulated extremophiles being the deep sea nectar gains a little more weight as a theory.

To Investors: Concerning the RRC Article
Tagruato is aware that many of you are shocked and angered over the recent article by the Ravaille Research Center. The Slusho! Board of Directors would like to assure you that the article's claims are completely false and that there is no Seabed's Nectar available outside their contained factories. The author of the article, Dr. Abe, is known for his suspicious research methods. In 1994 he was brought before his university's academic board in regards to his genetic manipulation of Australian Aphynos. We have dealt with similar predators before. The article has been stripped from all subsequent issues and our legal department is currently looking into further retaliation methods. Please contact a Tagruato representative for more information on this matter.


1265.08.41
Vol. 131. 476-491

Nectar (cont'd)
steady stream of print and media adevertising. nutritional information concerning
Slusho! drink remains limited, leaving some suspicious consumers with a sour
in their mouths.
Last month, inadvertantly coinciding with public pressure from the FDA regarding
plans to finally import Slusho! to the United States, my department at the Ravaille
Research Center realised its own preliminary study on Slusho!'s mystery ingredients.
Despite slight food coloring changes to affect color and, in the case of Ch[???]
Rage, texture, our tests uncovered some surprisingly recognizable culprits.

Unfortunately, due to Slusho!'s peculiar response to traditional testing [methods?]
none of these ingredients could be definitively verified. We postulate the p[???]
presence of the following: Carbonated water, glucose, sodium citrate, vitamin[???]
D-pantothenol, citric acid, oleoresin, gelatine, sucrose, acetate isobutyrate, phos-
phoric acid, carob bean gum, and potassium benzoate. True to their reputation, rep-
resentatives from Tagruato ignored our attemps at correspondence regarding
findings, despite repeat phone calls, emails, and an ill-fated office visit.

None of these ingredients, on their own, send up any health-related warning […]
Most are prevelant in any number of other publically available beverages. Except,
Of course, for the glaring blue whale in the room: Seabed's Nectar ('kaitei no mitsu"),
Slusho!'s self-proclaimed "special ingredient" and centerpiece of their prolific adver-
tising campaign has somehow evaded classification in any kind of international [???-
etary database. Unfortunately for the inquiring consumer, there's no law that [forces???]
corporations to give all of the secrets of their recipes. Formulas for som of Slusho!
competitors have remained hidden for over a century.

Tagruato hides behind these legalities when faced with questions regarding
acquisition methods and the chemical makeup of Seabed's Nectar, claiming the [???]
of rival companies has forced their silence. Tagruato's successful evasion of both [gov???]
ernment and privat research, however, may be costing a higher price for [country?]
that they realize. Assuming, despite public disagreement on the subject, that Seabed's
Nectar does have the restorative powers that Tagruato claims in their campaigns or-
ganized research into the ingredient could lead to growth in preventative and homeo-
pathic medicine. Their choice to hide what could be a great benefit to the coll(ected)
knowledge of mankind seems both unethical and disgustingly profit-oriented.

Concerned about the wealth of information lost by Tagruato's negligent act (?)
my department managed to obtain a small sample of Seabed's Nectar. Our [???-
sions are spotty at best, based on diluted specimens and poor investigative [???-
tions. Our findings are too consistent, however, to be discounted completely
short term exposure to the substance, some initial tests revealed accelerated
growth, increased strength, increased soft muscle tissue growth, sharper eyes,
better digestion. smoother skin, and a full-body, pleasant sensation that one of our
researchers actually dcscribed as "a wave of pure happiness". The rest of this
will attempt to summarize our findings based on preliminary tests with Seabed's
Nectar and, hopefully, lay die foundation for more extensive research. We all?
Our testing regimen with a current case study: the notorious documentary footage
depicting an 84-year-old woman drinking twelve large Slusho! Beverages and

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fleabit
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I'm thinking that those 14 drilling sites are not drilling for oil at all.

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Saiyan King
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Ding Ding Ding Ding.... give that man a prize
Think youre dead on there

fleabit wrote:
I'm thinking that those 14 drilling sites are not drilling for oil at all.


Ive had that same sneaking suspicion (sp?) for a while now. The closer we get to things, the more im feeling that oil drilling is a cover for it, or oil was the initial product being searched for when the other was found, and being that the nectar isnt an approved substance, they may want to keep it hush hush how much they are taking from down there

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IncidentCloverfield
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Maybe the monster does rely on it as a food source and Tagruato is taking it ALL if the 14 drilling sites is sucking it all up. And maybe when it is gone the monster either follows a boat carrying it to New York OR as people are ingesting it and it is being dumped in pipes and sewer lines it heads to New York. Maybe...?

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iconsumer
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I just wanted to refresh a hypothesis I had a long time ago in regards to the nectar and see life... I think the new evidence supports it, or at least something close to it.

*searches for old post*

Ah, here it is :

http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=21331&highlight=spill+oil+dsi

iconsumer wrote:
slusho has been referenced many times IG as giving people more strength and spirit, correct?

Between the Slusho site and Tagruato we know that the ingredient in Slusho is found on the sea floor, or maybe even below the ocean floor.

The Tagruato site has mentioned rigs everywhere (not necessarily just oil... do they even specify specifically that they are oil?), with one being built relatively near NYC.

We can surmise that they are drilling / farming the ingredient needed for Slusho, correct?

The Tagruato site also mentions them upgrading their ships to be double hulled (thus alluding to oil spills of past).

- - -

SO, what if what happens is after drilling a lot of the deep sea ingredient, and upon transferring it away from the oil rig, a tanker hits an iceberg, or runs aground, etc. etc. and a massive amount of the deep sea ingredient (concentrated consumable power) flows into the ocean... the sea life then consumes it, and wackiness ensues.


Btw, I think it's more likely that the DSI simply mutates a few creatures rather than my original "sea-life-lego-monster" idea.

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fleabit
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The Targruato site says about their drilling, "primarily for petroluem." But they don't specify it's only oil. I think their orginal platforms were oil platforms, then they found seabed's nectar while drilling on a new platform (ones drilled in 2003 or 2005, south and north), and used the drilling technology from their subsidiary company to find more, and create new platforms soley for this ingredient.

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Red Walrus
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Another Investor news tie-in?
Tardigrades in Space (TARDIS) project

Another tie-in with the tardigrades from Investors News. I don't know if they are testing/using technology derived from the indestructable qualities of the extremophiles or research on the tardigrades themselves which is a real life fact.

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TAGRUATO LAUNCHES FIRST SATELLITE
Through its Bold Futura subsidiary, Tagruato successfully launched its first geostationary satellite "Hatsui" yesterday afternoon. At first, the launch was thought to be rescheduled because of poor weather conditions. Yesterday morning brought heavy rain and lightning strikes near the launch pad. Despite this adversity, however, the abort command was overruled by CEO Ganu Yoshida. After a five minute delay, the launch went off without any disasters.

Mission Chief Kenji Matsui claimed, "At first we thought the lightning might strike the satellite. It could cause a fire to catch within the electrical systems. It would have been seven years of hard work and sleepless night wasted."

When asked why he overruled the abort command, Yoshida said, "Because here at Tagruato, we don't let lightning stand in the way of achieving our goals. In this case that goal was reaching for the stars."

Yoshida could not be more specific as to what "reaching for the stars" entails, but assured us, "It will be big."

Bold Futura recently announced that one billion Yen will be allocated towards space research. "The future of man depends on our ability to spread outwards into the universe. At Tagruato, we want to be the first to take you there," Yoshida added."


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http://www.alphagalileo.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=readrelease&releaseid=523509

"For the first time ever, animals are now being exposed to an unmitigated space environment, with both vacuum conditions and cosmic radiation," says the ecologist Ingemar Jönsson, a researcher at Kristianstad University in Sweden.

One of the aims of sending the tiny tardigrades into space is to find out whether they can cope with the rugged conditions in space, which has previously been predicted but never tested.

Tardigrades are one of the most tolerant animals on earth when it comes to dehydration and radiation, a characteristic that would be required in order to survive a trip through space. But the project is also part of research into the fundamental physiology of the tardigrade, primarily of the mechanisms that underlie their ability to withstand desiccation.

The project, named TARDIS, has been selected by the European Space Agency (ESA) to be one of ten European projects being given the opportunity to carry out scientific experiments in a true space environment.

Ingemar Jönsson, who is participating in the space project together with two German biologists and a radiation biologist in Stockholm, will then examine the returning tardigrades in great detail. Among other things, he will determine whether they still have the capacity to reproduce, and whether there has been any damage to their genes.

Exposing organisms to the space environment provides us with knowledge of how living cells are impacted by the stress factors out there. And the few groups of animals that have the potential to get through a space journey alive will constitute a key source of knowledge when the time comes to create ecosystems in space.

Follow the tardigrades' space journey and Ingemar Jönsson's continued research work at: http://tardigradesinspace.blogspot.com/

The satellite that will be transporting TARDIS through space until September 26 can be seen on the Web. The position of the FOTON-M3 satellite can be monitored in real time on the following Web site: http://www.n2yo.com/?s=32058

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Red Walrus
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Kinda cool tarigrade statue:

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Wow, that looks pretty monstrous Very Happy

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That looks like a modern reimagined Tundro




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OliMango
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Holy hell.

Look at the monster gif now. It looks A LOT LOT LOT like this thing.
http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c339/fuzzykittenlover/1195678625708.gif

I'm convinced now that it's this thing.

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Bleah. His feet are all clingy looking, Creepy ugly thing. I can imagine giant critters like that scuttling all over NY. ::bleaaah:: Gross.

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Red Walrus
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I'm not saying this is right but it's interesting, if (with a big IF) they were the smaller monsters it would explain that scuttling sound in the trailer. Also they have a scary way of eating their prey, they have three sylets(like sharp straws) around their mouth which they use to suck up their preys' juices(like slurping a Slusho! Smile )

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Does no one else see the connection between this thing and the shot of the monster in the trailer?

I thought it was obvious....

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OliMango wrote:
Does no one else see the connection between this thing and the shot of the monster in the trailer?

I thought it was obvious....


i don't know that it was obvious, but i would say that a giant one of these is a possibility for the monster.

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