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In the kitchen is a planter of yellow tulips with pale-green markings engulfed by a mass of purple grape hyacinths.
Plant molecular biologist Chris Bowler (Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France and Stazione Zoologica, Napoli, Italy) explains that molecular phylogeny and morphological studies suggest that diatoms originated ‘probably as the result of a eukaryote being invaded or engulfed by a photosynthetic eukaryote, most probably a red alga’.
Laughter engulfed the audience.
Among the many highlights: Morningland, whose high priestess preaches that Christ will land a UFO "the size of Texas" in Long Beach, Calif.; Richard W. Noone, who says the Earth's crust will shift on May 5, 2000, turning oceans into "maelstroms of death"; and Meade Ministries, which believes the "world will soon be engulfed in a sticky white substance."
At 8:58, however, after assessing the North Tower roof, a helicopter pilot advised the ESU team that they could not land on the roof, because"it is too engulfed in flames and heavy smoke condition."