The Dark Past of Sea Monkeys

[Quixote1818]

Interesting twist at the end.

[Cirque du So-What]

1. Worth watching

because there truly is a surprise toward the end.

[BigmanPigman]

2. I used to buy them for my first graders for birthday gifts.

They had never seen them before, some of their parents even hadn't. I used to order them from the back of Archie Comic Books. My sisiter and I always wondered where their crowns and the Queen Sea Monkey's pearls were. You can actually make them live longer than a few hours, but it takes a lot of work.

I never saw this video though, very powerful!

[BumRushDaShow]

3. K&R

Definitely remember the ads in the comic books and had some myself... But then as an adult with fish tanks, ended up getting my own damn brine shrimp for fish food!

[byronius]

4. Quite powerful. Glad someone made this.

[SergeStorms]

5. Looks like Harold...

had a bit of self-loathing working within himself. Very strange story about a very strange man. Sea Monkeys were advertised in just about every comic book when I was a kid. I never bought them, or knew anyone who did. A kid in our town did send away for a spider monkey. I arrived alive, amazingly, but the monkey was as wild as any animal I ever saw. No one dared to go near it. That poor monkey had a sad, sad life. I'm glad they don't allow anything like that now.

[Kali]

6. wow that was really interesting.

brine shrimp are fascinating to me anyway. we have a drainage that flows into a stock pond that has them and triops (tadpole shrimp) that look like tiny horseshoe crabs.





interesting history of the guy. thanks for posting.