What is "barnacles"

Usage examples of "barnacles".

Administration and the CPC, working our way along molded troughs of plastic covered with the greenish-silver substrate left by the barnacles, past an electric array, beneath a tree of radiator panels thirty times as tall as a man, and entered the emergency lock at its nether end.

I was no longer able to take the barnacles for granted, and I began reading about them whenever I had a spare moment.

The most profound thing I discovered, however, had nothing to do with the barnacles, or rather had only peripherally to do with them, and was essentially a rediscovery, a rewakening of my wonderment at the bleak majesty surrounding us.

He followed me reluctantly into the airlock, and once we had shucked off our suits, he talked about the barnacles all the way back to my quarters, insisting that they would not have vacated the station if there had been nothing wrong.

The barnacles were hermaphroditic, and the initial metamorphosis always resulted in female barnacles alone.

I had shifted my position so that the light from the port behind me cast my shadow over the surface, and, a neurological change having been triggered by the shift in light intensity, some of the barnacles in the shadow were opening their plates and probing the vacuum with stubby gray tongues, trying to feed.

The barnacles, perhaps sensing some vast overload of light through their photophores .

Or rather, new colonies of barnacles have attached to the newly reunited station, not covering it completely, but dressing it up in patches.

I took especial pleasure in going outside with him, in accompanying him on his rounds and watching as he cleared barnacles away from communications equipment and other delicate mechanisms.

Watching him stump about over the skin of the station, huge and clumsy in his pressure suit, a monstrous figure made to appear even more monstrous by the light spraying up around him from this or that port, hosing offending clumps of barnacles with bursts of oxygen from the tank that floated alongside him, sending them drifting up from their perches, I had the impression not of someone performing a menial task, but of a gardener tending his prize roses ormore aptlya shepherd his flock.

His attention was fixed upon one of the modulesthe avionics lab, I believefrom which a large number of barnacles had detached and were drifting off into space.

The barnacles were hermphroditic, and the initial metamorphitosis always resulted in female barnacles alone.

If Sauter were to be believed, by giving up their purchase on the station, the barnacles were essentially placing their fate in the hands of God, taking the chanceand given the vastness of space, the absence of ring secretions, it was an extremely slim chancethat they would happen to bump into something and be able to cling long enough to attach themselves.

There were a few sparse patches of barnacles around us, creatures that for whatever reasonimpaired sensitivity, some form of silicate stubbornnesshad not abandoned the station.

CPC, working our way along molded troughs of plastic covered with the greenish silver substrate left by the barnacles, past an electric array, beneath a tree of radiator panels thirty times as tall as a man, and entered the emergency lock at its nether end.