Re: Sensitized Slug Slime Recipe

[jfulton <jfulton@sfai.edu>]

On December2007, at 12:07 PM, John Cremati wrote:

> Researchers studying the chemistry of slug slime at the University of
> Washington have found that it is a highly organized polymeric  
> material that
> can absorb water extremely rapidly-up to 100 times its initial  
> volume.  They
> have not been able to reproduce it  yet  .....
Yet another slug tale, which is sort of interesting and sort of  
related to
photography, light writing, etc.
The Jews have special prayer shawl called a Tallit, used even prior  
to Biblical time.
It often has a lovely blue color . . . sort of like a cyanotype  
color, associated with many of them.
The very old ones, were a different blue and that color blue was lost  
for centuries. I read a
Scientific American article years back and contemporary scientists  
had found the source of
this blue historically. It is a sea snail in the Mediterranean and  
though there are many types
this one was found in a certain area as I remember. The lovely aspect  
of it is the mucus it
secretes turns a sort of purplish blue, like jeans, if put out into  
the sun. It is the sun that makes
the blue appear.
Perhaps we could use that source for some interesting spiritual  
photographs.
Jack