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If a coral could die that fast, how could a reef ever survive?
Then a scientist in Australia wrote, "I showed my students the results of our coral surveys, and we wept."
Since the invention of scuba, scientists have measured the amount of coral on the seafloor, and how it's changed through time.
I never knew what a coral could do when it was given a chance to thrive.
The truth is that even as we lose so many corals, even as we go through this massive coral die-off, some reefs will survive.
This coral lost half of its skin.
But if you look at the side of this coral a few years later, this coral is actually healthy again.
It's doing what a healthy coral does.
If a few polyps survive, a coral can regrow; it just needs time and protection and a reasonable temperature.
One of my favorite coral babies of all time showed up right after Hurricane Omar.
In this photo, this little baby coral, this little circle of polyps, is a few years old.
An individual coral can go through tremendous trauma and fully recover if it's given a chance and it's given protection.
Each of these systems that I showed you brings us closer to having the mathematical and the conceptual tools to create our own versions of collective power, and this can enable many different kinds of future applications, whether you think about robots that build flood barriers or you think about robotic bee colonies that could pollinate crops or underwater schools of robots that monitor coral reefs, or if we reach for the stars and we thinking about programming constellations of satellites.
In the South China Sea, fishermen went out of their way to collect fossilized clamshells by digging through large areas of coral reefs.
With the spotlight on more charismatic marine animals such as the whales and coral reefs, it is easy to forget that other marine life needs our help, too.
It turns out that giant clams have a giant impact on coral reefs.
And because they can live up to 100 years old, giant clams make vital indicators of coral reef health.
So when giant clams start to disappear from coral reefs, their absence can serve as an alarm bell for scientists to start paying attention, similar to the canary in a coal mine.
And the ecological benefits of having giant clams on coral reefs are likely to continue only if populations are healthy, making their conservation paramount.
Harmless scarlet kingsnakes have evolved red, yellow, and black patterns resembling those of the venomous eastern coral snake to benefit from the protective warnings these markings convey.
While he was on the "Beagle," he began researching coral reefs.
It turns out there's a lot we can learn from coral.
A coral is a very beautiful and unusual animal.
Each coral head consists of thousands of individual polyps.
If we imagine this to be a hyperintelligent coral, we can single out an individual and ask him a reasonable question.
For a coral, branching into different copies is the most natural thing in the world.
Unlike us, a hyperintelligent coral would be uniquely prepared to understand quantum mechanics.
And it tells us our reality is continually branching into different possibilities, just like a coral.
Joined with quantum mechanics, this mathematics describes our universe as a growing E8 coral, with particles interacting at every location in all possible ways according to a beautiful pattern.
It allows me to spend a lot of my time hanging out with hyperintelligent coral.
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