Cleaning out the inbox

Another inbox cleaning and we'll start with this tremendous article from Scientific American on the 40th anniversary of the Voyager project.
The recent film "The Farthest" from PBS on Voyager was so good and I plan on a future post just discussing the film.



One of the "Moon Trees" were recently destroyed in Florida by Hurricane Irma.
One of the experiments on Apollo 14 was taking several different tree seeds into space and then planting them upon return to see if the trip affected the seeds ability to germinate.
Unfortunately, the seed packs burst when going through decontamination and were mixed together.
No one knew if they would be able to germinate at all, but after they did, many places around the country were given one of the trees including the White House.
Irma's roll through Florida took out the NASA visitor's center tree (a Sycamore).
No word on if a replacement could be developed from another tree via a cutting as of now.
The Moon Tree link has a list of the location of every Moon Tree in the country..,

More Irma destruction as the New York Times writes of many of the nests of Sea Turtles being devastated by Irma.
This is quite a shot as Sea Turtles take 25 to 30 years to get to the reproductive age, so that takes a lot of surviving to get to that point.
Not to mention that a turtle clutch of 100 eggs will see just one hatchling make it to adulthood and you can see how hard of a hit that this destruction of nests might be...

The Guardian writes of the catch of a translucent lobster in Maine.
A translucent lobster is clear, although in this case, the lobster organs cannot be seen, so it's more of an off-white.
The Maine Coast Fisherman's Association believes that the lobster is considered "leucistic", which means it has lost some of its pigment, but not all of it.
I first heard this term when I had reptiles, so it wasn't unfamiliar to me, but I was surprised to hear it used with a lobster!

I've been a fan of Tervis Tumblers for quite a few years now.
I have almost all of the teams that I root for and you read about here (Don't have a Xavier yet) and I love the product.
There are Tervis stores around the country (although none that I've ever seen) and now Tervis starting to give each store a machine that people can make their own Tervis as written in the Tampa Bay Business Journal.
The "Fun Fuser" only takes a few seconds to take the inside cup and weld to the outside cup, but buyers can design their own wrap or logo for inside the cup to personalize it.