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The tail fan is aerodynamically functional, whereas the elongated central paired plumes are used for display, which together reflect the interplay between natural selection and sexual selection. – Wang Min	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Here is an animal that has all kinds of signals of being a juvenile, outside its bones, inside its bones, in its joints, and it has long, isolated plumes extending from its already-very-long tail. This is quite different from living birds and tells us that these decorative feathers preceded adulthood in dinosaurs. Of course, perhaps they're using these feathers in a very different way from living birds, too. – Ashley Poust	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
The discovery of plumes is one of the biggest surprises of my scientific career. – Dante Lauretta	Found on CNN 4 years ago
There are still plumes going out. There's a couple cracks that's close by that still have steam coming out, there's a lot of glow, a lot of fires. – Ikaika Marzo	Found on CNN 5 years ago
If there are plumes on Europa, as we now strongly suspect, with Europa Clipper, we will be ready for them. – Jim Green	Found on CNN 7 years ago
Cassini and Enceladus really allowed us to see the kind of things we could do with mass spectrometers and, more importantly, with material that's coming up straight out of the ocean, it's a way of viewing the ocean without drilling into it. We didn't necessarily have to land ; we could sit there and and sample to study quite a bit about these ocean worlds just from flying through the material that comes out of the interior. That's what the plumes are about on Europa as well. It's that connection to the interior ocean. – Hunter Waite	Found on CNN 7 years ago
They started to burn the spilled oil, people see massive plumes of black smoke, this is a large spill, and the problem is of a systemic nature. – Dmitry Lisitsin	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
When you start seeing smoke plumes come up that are severe black, you know they're in the brush, and they're not too far away, and when you see flames -- when you see flames, it's really time to leave ! – Joe Welz	Found on CNN 8 years ago
When you start seeing smoke plumes come up that are severe black, you know they're in the brush, and they're not too far away, you look at it: Hey, it's time to go! And when you see flames -- when you see flames, it's really time to leave! – Joe Welz	Found on CNN 8 years ago
Your death and my death are mainly of importance to ourselves. The black plumes will be stripped off our hearses within the hour; tears will dry, hurt hearts close again, our graves grow level with the church-yard, and although we are away, the world wags on. It does not miss us; and those who are near us, when the first strangeness of vacancy wears off, will not miss us much either. – Alexander Smith	added by anonymous 9 years ago
The shaft of the arrow had been feathered with one of the eagle's own plumes. We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction. – Aesop	added by anonymous 14 years ago

The tail fan is aerodynamically functional, whereas the elongated central paired plumes are used for display, which together reflect the interplay between natural selection and sexual selection.

– Wang Min

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Here is an animal that has all kinds of signals of being a juvenile, outside its bones, inside its bones, in its joints, and it has long, isolated plumes extending from its already-very-long tail. This is quite different from living birds and tells us that these decorative feathers preceded adulthood in dinosaurs. Of course, perhaps they're using these feathers in a very different way from living birds, too.

– Ashley Poust

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

The discovery of plumes is one of the biggest surprises of my scientific career.

– Dante Lauretta

Found on CNN
4 years ago

There are still plumes going out. There's a couple cracks that's close by that still have steam coming out, there's a lot of glow, a lot of fires.

– Ikaika Marzo

Found on CNN
5 years ago

If there are plumes on Europa, as we now strongly suspect, with Europa Clipper, we will be ready for them.

– Jim Green

Found on CNN
7 years ago

Cassini and Enceladus really allowed us to see the kind of things we could do with mass spectrometers and, more importantly, with material that's coming up straight out of the ocean, it's a way of viewing the ocean without drilling into it. We didn't necessarily have to land ; we could sit there and and sample to study quite a bit about these ocean worlds just from flying through the material that comes out of the interior. That's what the plumes are about on Europa as well. It's that connection to the interior ocean.

– Hunter Waite

Found on CNN
7 years ago

They started to burn the spilled oil, people see massive plumes of black smoke, this is a large spill, and the problem is of a systemic nature.

– Dmitry Lisitsin

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

When you start seeing smoke plumes come up that are severe black, you know they're in the brush, and they're not too far away, and when you see flames -- when you see flames, it's really time to leave !

– Joe Welz

Found on CNN
8 years ago

When you start seeing smoke plumes come up that are severe black, you know they're in the brush, and they're not too far away, you look at it: Hey, it's time to go! And when you see flames -- when you see flames, it's really time to leave!

– Joe Welz

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Your death and my death are mainly of importance to ourselves. The black plumes will be stripped off our hearses within the hour; tears will dry, hurt hearts close again, our graves grow level with the church-yard, and although we are away, the world wags on. It does not miss us; and those who are near us, when the first strangeness of vacancy wears off, will not miss us much either.

– Alexander Smith

added by anonymous
9 years ago

The shaft of the arrow had been feathered with one of the eagle's own plumes. We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction.

– Aesop

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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