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Sounds like an episode from Seaquest DSV. The glowing orbs turned out to be phosphorescent feces.

This shouldn't have been downvoted, even if only for the phrase "phosphorescent feces" ... on its own merits.

Fun phrases forfend fatigue phenomenally.

Edit: wow, I'm realizing that "phosphorescent feces" is at more like "Eminem" levels of phoneme repetition / assonance / etc. My much more basic largely merely alliterative response pales in comparison.

Shiny shit?

Chrome coprolite

“A coprolite (also known as a coprolith) is fossilized feces.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coprolite

Oh wow, thanks for mentioning this! It makes me appreciate Terry Pratchett even more. I didn't know what the word meant but remembered it was used by the Discworld trolls in some capacity. Turns out it is used as an insult [0].

[0] https://wiki.lspace.org/Coprolite

Pratchett is fun to read. Thinking of another was it might be said:

Rocky rectal remains

“The new jewel for the new millennium—the Krieg Light.“ That’s probably the one episode I remember. Thanks for the reminder!

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