Gulf Oysters Are Yummo!

Who does not love to grill seafood with friends and family around, the bbq grill fired up, playing football down by the beach…ahhh those are the days. Some nice Gulf oysters with a little garlic and bacon…maybe a little bit of lemon.

You should be aware of Vibro Vulnificus though, and how oysters can be treated to reduce the risk of this bacteria.

Vibrio vulnificus is a gram-negative bacterium that occurs naturally in warm, unpolluted seawater.

Most normal people would not be affected by vibro vulnificus, but if you have liver disease or cancer or a few other types of diseases you could be at risk. There are 3 different post harvest methods to reduce these risks, which are: IQF (fresh-frozen technology), heat cooled pasteurization, and high pressurization processing. To learn more check out www.beoysteraware.com .

A Planet Similar To Earth, I’ll Pack My Bags And Meet You There….

There was a recent article which I will show a brief snippet from:

Earth may have a twin orbiting one of our nearest stellar neighbors, a new study suggests.

University of California, Santa Cruz graduate student Javiera Guedes used computer simulations of planet formation to show that terrestrial planets are likely to have formed around one of the stars in the Alpha Centauri star system, our closest stellar neighbors.

Now.. that information is interesting, and as I finished reading the article, I see the first comment:

Wow. Not only should we be able to observe such planets (earth-like or otherwise), but if we detected any we could realistically send a probe or two to study them. If it pans out it might be the most exciting extra-solar planet discovery in history.

There are several other comments along these same lines.. now what i want to know is.. do people not realize how far away this is? Alpha Centauri A & B are roughly 4.35 light years away from us. Proxima Centauri is slightly closer at 4.22 light years.