Earth and Space News: Kauna'oa Hawaiian Red Algae Affirm Aspects of Magnum's Blood Brothers

Summary: Kauna'oa Hawaiian red algae are as akin to kauna'oa Hawaiian dodder and kauna'oa Hawaiian shells as an Afghan and an American are Magnum's Blood Brothers.

illustration of kauna'oa Hawaiian red algae (Galaxaura rugosa) as wrinkled coralline (Coralline rugoſa) in J. Ellis and D. Solander, The Natural History of Many Curious and Uncommon Zoophytes (1786), Tab. 22: Public Domain, via Biodiversity Heritage Library

Kauna'oa Hawaiian red algae, like an Afghan to Americans on Magnum PI action drama television series episode Blood Brothers Dec. 6, 2019, are unrelated to kauna'oa Hawaiian dodder and kauna'oa Hawaiian shells.

Second-season tenth-episode director Peter Weller and writers Eric Guggenheim and Peter M. Lenkov broach the blood brothership between loyal, sworn, but unrelated buddies as actual siblingship. The series' 30th episode overall commemorates Theodore Calvin's (Stephen Hill), Thomas Magnum's (Jay Hernandez) and Rick Wright's (Zachary Knighton) brotherly commitment to Sebastian Nuzo (Domenick Lombardozzi). The latter, whose brother Paulie (Louis Lombardi) now deploys the dedicated trio, died in the series' debut episode, I Saw the Sun Rise, Sept. 24, 2018.

Hawaiian white hibiscus (koki'o ke'oke'o locally, Hibiscus arnottianus scientifically) and kauna'oa Hawaiian red algae respectively epitomize and symbolically explain Season One's and Season Two's 10th episodes.

Season One's tenth-episode koki'o ke'oke'o Hawaiian white hibiscus ideally fortifies Rick for failed flirting with Toni (Jamie-Lynn Sigler) despite finding filched poker-game money and forced-laborer passports.

Kauna'oa Hawaiian red algae get grabbed by collectors and predators to whom they give sustenance, just as Ahmed (Mohit Gautam), albeit grudgingly, generates for his traffickers. They harbor spermatangia (from Greek σπέρμα, "seed" and αγγος, "vessel") from short filaments on the reproductive organ-holding conceptacle floor of their thalli (from Greek θαλλός, "twig"). Kauna'oa Hawaiian red algae, Galaxaura rugosa (from Greek "γάλακτος, “milk,” αὔρα, "breeze") and Latin rugosa, "wrinkled") scientifically, includes 1.97- to 2.76-inch- (5- to 7-centimeter-) tall thalli.

Kauna'oa Hawaiian red algae individually juggle flexible-jointed, hard, smooth-tubed segments with crosscut-tip, hole-tipped, multidirectional branches; hemispherical domes with maximum 5.91-inch (15-centimeter) diameters; and one substrate-rooted holdfast.

Daniel Solander (Feb. 19, 1733-May 13, 1782) knew kauna'oa Hawaiian red algae cylindrical joints as "almoſt united" and "wrinkled with circular furrows" and tops as "compreſſed."

Kauna'oa Hawaiian red algae lodge cylindrical, ringed, semi-rough joints, flattened ends and multi-directional branches in Jean Vincent Félix Lamouroux's (May 3, 1779-March 26, 1825) scientific description. They manifest redness, as Rhodophyta division, Florideophyceae class, Nemaliales order and Galaxauraceae family red algae members, through chlorophyll a, beta carotene, phycocyanin, phycoerythrin and xanthophyll pigments. They need water salinity and temperatures respectively between 34.975 and 35.464 parts per thousand and between 75.2 and 80.6 degrees Fahrenheit (24 and 27 degrees Celsius).

Kauna'oa Hawaiian red algae observe water nitrate, phosphate and silicate concentrations at 0.01 to 0.923, 0.108 to 0.167 and 0.983 to 1.56 µmol/L (micromoles per liter).

Kauna'oa Hawaiian red algae populate sea waters with dissolved oxygen versus oxygen saturation concentrations at 4.657 to 4.932 milliliters per liter versus 100.603 to 104.112 percent.

Kauna'oa Hawaiian red algae queue up at 0- to 39.37- to even 147.64-foot (0- to 12- to even 45-meter) depths in temperate, subtropical and tropical waters. They realize as intertidal warm-water plants ranges requisitely removed from kauna'oa Hawaiian dodder, ravagers of other vegetation's chlorophyll, and kauna'oa Hawaiian shells, releasers of deadly poisons. They suggest solely superficial siblingships, through signature gold-yellow colors, with the kauna'oa Hawaiian dodder and kauna'oa Hawaiian shells that ancient Hawaiians saw as of shared ancestry.

Calcium carbonate versus blood turn kauna'oa Hawaiian dodder, kauna'oa Hawaiian red algae and kauna'oa Hawaiian shells versus one American and one Afghan into symbolic blood brothers.

(left to right) Orville "Rick" Wright (Zachary Knighton), "T.C." Calvin (Stephen Hill) and Thomas Sullivan Magnum (Jay Hernandez) in CBS-TV's Magnum P.I. season 10 episode 10 Blood Brothers: Magnum P.I. @MagnumPICBS, via Facebook Dec. 6, 2019

Acknowledgment

My special thanks to talented artists and photographers/concerned organizations who make their fine images available on the internet.

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