Weird organisms

[Neltharion]

Though it still seems like it would Atomize some of the water, and it seems like it would also, some what melt the poor creature.

Cause no matter for how long, if the air was suddenly raised for even a nano second to the heat of the sun, you would melt. I think.

[Dutch90]

I think I'm the wrong person to ask that kind of question to

[Neltharion]

We shall just wait for the Internet to respond.


*pulls out a deck chair and cracks open a beer*

Anyone else care to join me?

[deezelboy]

*slow grinding of gears*

It's a very small area (around a micrometre) that increases to that temperature for the briefest instant (think nanoseconds). 

[Dutch90]

Giant isopod (genus Bathynomus, basically a one foot isopod that lives in the deep sea. I love how it looks just like a trilobite.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_isopod

[Thedus]

I love these things!  I found out about them about a year ago.  They're basically giant sea-dwelling wood lice.  Beautiful buggers!   

[nchurch81]

The snapping shrimph (fam. Alpheidae). Supposedly, the kinetic energy released when it snaps its "pistol" pincer briefly makes the few cubic inches of water surrounding it hotter than the surface of the Sun! The shockwave that is released can stun or even kill other shrimps and small fish. It can also smash through the glass walls of aquariums.....

I was really interested in this bit about "hotter than the surface of the sun" so I checked it.  Now it doesn't quite get that hot, the mean temperature of the sun is 11,000 degrees Fahrenheit .  The collapsing bubble created by the shrimp reaches a temperature of about 8,540 degrees Fahrenheit.  Still very hot.  This was determined by measuring the minute amount of photons released during the event, which happens over anywhere between 300 picoseconds to 10 nanoseconds.  Fascinating stuff.

[Neltharion]

So in a scale based on something scientific (aka Kelvin) that would be?

[deezelboy]

At least 5,000K.

[beckmen]

Christmas Tree Worm:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirobranchus_giganteus

And Barry, although I can't seem to find a taxonomic name for this motherfucker:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1165930/Barry-giant-sea-worm-discovered-aquarium-staff-mysterious-attacks-coral-reef.html