" They Didn't Die, They Thrived"

Japanese Tsunami Debris arrive sooner TPT

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FTA: "This should be a warning to everybody that this stuff is coming a lot faster than we thought it was.

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 "It looks like there is a very, very abundant community of Asian organisms that have been floating in the ocean for a year and are intact and alive on this float," Chapman said. "Everybody is worried because the majority of them do not live on this coast."

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 "The other thing astonishing to us is that they should have died or starved to death, but are obviously in very good shape. They did very, very well floating across the ocean on this thing. They didn't die, they thrived,"

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My comments:  What do you think?  Is this the first time in the last 14000 years that life forms have arrived from Asia on the western Hemisphere?  Somehow I doubt it.  Further increases my skepticism of human migration over the Behring land bridge.  Why postulate a massively challenging land based migration when the world is interconnected by Ocean?