They are not Sea-Monkeys. Me... being the former webbedmaster of SeamonkeyMania.com can say assure you of this. Most folks aren't able to get Sea-Monkeys to live past 6 months.

I do however, have an Ecosphere myself which I purchased in December of 2001. Of the three shrimp inside, I still have one that's still alive and kicking. When that one dies, the Ecosphere people will "re-charge" the sphere with new algae and shrimp for a nominal fee.

Agreed SEO... just as I'll never foget Carl Lewis attempting to sing the national anthem back in '93.

Espn forced YouTube to remove it, but you can still see part of it here:

http://www.zippyvideos.com/5752355776759776/carl_lewis/

Age is not the reason for such a pathetic answer. It has more to do with our education system coupled with today's culture. Paris Hilton for example, is a good bit older, and you can be certain that her answer would have been every bit as vacuous.

"Sis... are you in there? Kick if you can hear me!"

It would be overkill using special effects to pull that off. It's really much simpler.

Was there some point of light in the sky... likely... but that doesn't mean much.

The effect you see when the camera is zoomed in is the effect that almost any camcorder (with digital zoom) will give you when zooming all the way in on a very distant point of light in the sky.

Once the camera enters into digital zoom (after exhausting the optical zoom) it can give you very misleading results on distant objects. Try it sometime with a very distant airplane (in which you can only see a smll light with the naked eye) and zoom all the way in with your (digital zoom equiped) camcorder.

You'll get similar results... sometimes even cooler!

Strangely enough, I find the one on the right more appealing.