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http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/09/0927_050927_giant_squid.html
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Chip Midnight
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09-28-2005 10:04
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09-28-2005 10:08
Totally awesome
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09-28-2005 10:08
How can you people think about squids when the world as we know it is unravelling!!!!!!
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09-28-2005 10:11
How can you people think about squids when the world as we know it is unravelling!!!!!! Like this.. Mmmmm, Squid.. _____________________
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09-28-2005 10:39
That's awesome. Thanks for posting this, Chip. I've been interested in giant squid for as long as I can remember, probably seen every Science Channel program ever made about them. It's absolutely amazing that someone finally encountered a live one. It's just too bad the animal was so badly injured in the process. I don't think it's known whether those tentacles grow back or not.
EDIT: Oh, and a couple quotes I almost forgot to respond to: How can you people think about squids when the world as we know it is unravelling!!!!!! Well, no offense, but my answer is how can you think the loss of one business in SL, which, as great as it was, is soon to be replaced by one if not several competitors, should somehow take away from our recognizing and celebrating a new landmark in scientific history. You do realize that encountering a giant squid in the wild has been the holy grail of oceaography and marine biology for centuries, right? To me that's a little bigger than my SL cashflow. Like this.. Mmmmm, Squid.. Hehe, Zap. I love a good calamari as much as the next person, but you wouldn't want to eat this one. They're full of amonia. It would be like eating Windex. _____________________
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09-28-2005 10:39
Cool read and pics. Thanks for sharing, Chip.
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Eggy Lippmann
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09-28-2005 10:40
We have a (dead) giant squid in an aquarium here in portugal... its really cool.
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09-28-2005 10:46
Giant? Looks to be about 5cm wide from here.
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09-28-2005 10:46
I saw this just this morning and was fascinated. As a child I was a huge Jules Verne fan and have always wondered about the true existence of this magnificent animal. As a scuba diver this find is even more fascinating for me.
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09-28-2005 10:53
That's awesome. Thanks for posting this, Chip. I've been interested in giant squid for as long as I can remember, probably seen every Science Channel program ever made about them. It's absolutely amazing that someone finally encountered a live one. It's just too bad the animal was so badly injured in the process. I don't think it's known whether those tentacles grow back or not. It won't grow back, but they say the loss of the tentacle is not life threatening. I hope not, stating such when it's the first time they've ever seen one live and in it's natural habitat is a bit condescending. I was wondering what it was that hooked it so badly that it had to tear it's own arm off to get away.. poor thing. _____________________
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Anya Dmytryk
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09-28-2005 11:04
cool! does that mean they can finally replace that nasty giant squid that's been at the smithsonian's natural history museum since i was a kid???? that thing has got to be at least 20 years old. ewwwwww!
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09-28-2005 11:05
This giant squid is big... It is clever... But it has a far nastier, bigger relation
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09-28-2005 11:06
Giant? Looks to be about 5cm wide from here. Just saw it on the news.. About as long as a bus.. _____________________
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09-28-2005 11:13
This giant squid is big... It is clever... But it has a far nastier, bigger relation Ladies and gentlemen, click here if you dare The Colossal Squid Awesome. I didn't know those specimens were considered a different type altogether. Squid and Octupi are fascinating. They're very intelligent and cunning, and also quite beautiful (in a horrifying sort of way!). They're so alien. _____________________
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09-28-2005 11:33
The harbinger of Cthulu has come.
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09-28-2005 11:41
I wonder if they've ever seen the Family-Size Squid?
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09-28-2005 11:52
If octopi are already crafting simple weapons, think what the giant squid must be up to. Soon they will raise their armies against our naval forces. They will steal our holy texts and decipher the light of our ancient Hebrew secrets with their torus-shaped brains, and with these secrets will trigger octopocalypse.
Among their more unusual behavior, the octopuses employ a unique defense mechanism by tearing off the tentacles of passing Portuguese man-of-war jellyfish. The octopuses are immune to the tentacle's painful sting. When they encounter potential predators, the octopuses waft the captured man-of-war tentacles in two pairs of its upper arms as an effective deterrent. _____________________
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Dear friends, things are worse than they seem.
09-28-2005 11:59
Our invertebrate enemies have been watching Oprah:
A male blanket octopus fills a modified tentacle with sperm, tears it off, presents it to its prospective mates, and then drifts off to certain death. Females store the tentacles inside large internal body cavities until they are ready to lay their eggs. At that time, the female pulls the tentacle out and "squeez[es it] like a tube of toothpaste," over the eggs, said Tregenza. _____________________
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09-28-2005 12:24
I have read where they suspect that these creatures speak a language of sorts though color that they display. Not just limited to the color, but also encompassing where the color is displayed and for how long it cycles.
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09-28-2005 12:28
yeah. there are so many awesomely creepy creatures in the oceans. they amaze me and creep me out at the same time.
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09-28-2005 14:00
Stranger than science fiction, really.
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09-28-2005 14:02
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09-28-2005 16:07
Don't forget it's wee cousin the Giant Cuttlefish:
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09-28-2005 16:58
Most interesting thing about Humbolts, and other cephalopods are the growth rate.
They are short lived (only 2 years) and recover up to 25% of what they eat in body weight. Also, they have green blood, which is copper based. _____________________
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09-28-2005 17:08
Also, they have green blood, which is copper based. They will make good conductors for the electrochromatobeams needed to bring the light out of the meeting tent and onto the earth where it shall scour the land of its moisture and feed the depths of the dark brine that has hungered for this day for millenia. _____________________
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