By Michelle Collier, RCDD. Fiber optic cable provides a low loss medium for high-speed communications. While. the continuous fiber cable itself is low loss, terminations at each access point provide a. potential Achilles heel. The biggest cause of signal loss across fiber optic connectors is. contamination.
The blue crab's scientific name, Callinectes sapidus, is from Latin and Greek: calli, beautiful; nectes, swimmer; and sapidus, savory-beautiful, savory swimmer. Like insects, blue crabs have stalked compound eyes and can see in almost every direction at once.
Blue Sea Slug. The Blue Sea Slug, also known as the Blue Ocean Slug, Blue Glaucus, Sea Swallow, Sea Lizard and Sea Dragon, not to mention Glaucus atlanticus. Wow! That's quite a collection! It only takes a quick look to understand why such a creature would amass so many names: it's absolutely gorgeous!nce detected, the Blue Sea Slug will slowly make its way to prey using its big wing, jazz hand things, which are also called palps or cerata. I prefer jazz hands, though. Small prey can be eaten whole, large prey can be cut apart with the radula-the tough, toothy, tongue that molluscs have.