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Deep Sea Monster Baffles Scientists
sbszine writes "The Sydney Morning Herald has a report of a bizarre sea creature that has washed up on the coast of Chile. The creature is grey, lumpy, and the size of a school bus. Scientists have ruled out the possibility that it may be a whale -- the creature is an invertebrate, and perhaps even a new species."
'And wow! Hey! What's this thing coming towards me very fast? Very very fast. So big and flat and round, it needs a big wide sounding word like... ow... ound... round... ground! That's it! That's a good name -- ground! I wonder if it will be friends with me?'
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I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate.
Maybe someone has seen something like this before. Are there any pics of it?
Many eyes make all oceans shallow.
I have been pwned because my
Did the Loch Ness Monster escape?
(hey - it's got to be considered!)
.. if it doesn't have frikin' laserguns on it's head?!
They finally found him!
Maybe my keys are in it! I have looked everywhere for them. :-/
One future, two choices. Oppose them or let them destroy us.
If its not a squid its amazing how it could support that big a body mass being an invertebrate, or maybe its just half chewed - note : whales have been known to eat squid and vice versa
whatever it is it is amazing.
http://www.halloweenghoststories.com/legends/creat ures1-2.html
Photographs showed a round leathery substance like a mammoth jelly fish, about as long as a school bus.
So show us the above mentioned photographs already! What the fuck kind of tease is this?
GMD
watch this
That it may be a tumor that doctors removed from Marlon Brando?
what, no picture?
Move along, nothing to see here.
I wonder how many new species we will see before and after the earth slides into an ice age?
Reminds me of a certain SouthPark episode, involving a Trapper Keeper.......
... Children, there's some huge bulbous monstrosity heading for the classroom! ...
Mr Garrison:
Rosie O'Donnell: Hello, kids!
Maybe she went swimming and drown?
10b||~10b -- aah, what a question!
Haven't been able to find a picture on the mentioned article, but I did find this. It mentions that twice strange "blobs" have washed up on shore and this one was only a few years ago.
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http://www.mysterymag.com/html/tasmanian_blobst
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found one of Cowboy Neal's ancestors!
I mean, come on, how can we discuss this without knowing what it looks like?
"Times have not become more violent. They have just become more televised."
-Marilyn Manson
It's Saddam's long lost WMDs..
(biological division of course)
http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/News_and_Information/P ress_Releases/2000/20000630.html
Link to some good pics of giant squid. mmm sushi..
where am i
The CCC's website (referenced in the article) has found a large beached whale recently. Perhaps the article confused this beached whale (which the article may speculate on the species? My spanish == bad, My spanish via babel == only slightly better) There is a picture, but it is clearly a whale.
-Sean
A large jelly like invertebrate as large as a school bus. American scientists have concluded what really washed up on the shore is no other than Rosie O'Donnel [sp?]
Obviously, this is the remains of a slashtroll.
Consider: Large. Smelly. Spineless. Gray.
A slashtroll ventured away from his keyboard under the bridge, and went to the beach, perhaps in search of a mate. It was caught by the sunlight (which it was completely unprepared for) and killed.
So, all we need is for some sick^Wstupid^Wbrave person to volunteer to visit the depths of -1 and see what trolls have stopped posting.
I'd volunteer, but I just don't care.
www.eFax.com are spammers
In other news, a new type of sushi has been added to menus in Chile. Enthusiastic connoisseurs have praised the delicate texture and exotic flavor.
"Formless protoplasm able to mock and reflect all forms and organs and processes - viscous agglutinations of bubbling cells -- rubbery fifteen-foot spheroids infinately plastic and ductile -- slaves of suggestion, builders of cities -- more and more sullen, more and more intelligent, more and more amphibious, more and more imitative! Great God! What madness made even those blasphemous Old Ones willing to use [...] such things?
"At the Mountains of Madness", by H. P. Lovecraft
I'm waiting for the next slashdot story: "Decapitated, Slime-Covered Body of Researcher Found!"
At least they didn't put a cache of explosives under it and try to get rid of it by detonating it.
Lasers Controlled Games!
The U.S. Navy is testing a new high-powered sonar system. Perhaps it is killing ocean animals whose existence we are (previously) unaware of?
It's already decaying, shouldn't they maybe, you know, find out what it is before it disintegrates into foul-smelling mush?
Must be an insect or two that does it.
The dead creature was mistaken for a beached whale when first reported about a week ago, but experts who went to see it said the 12-metre mass of decomposing lumpy grey flesh apparently was an invertebrate.
In other news, Darl McBride doesn't know what it is either, but has confirmed that SCO will sue it.
McBride alleged that being an "[nvertebrate] mass of decomposing lumpy grey flesh" is a business process patent owned exclusively by, and licensed exclusively to, SCO, and that therefore the sea monster is infringing SCO's IP.
Opinions on the Twiddler2 hand-held keyboard?
Yep, the Oregon State Highway Division already tried that, and it didn't work!
"The Chilean Navy first spotted the mystery specimen along with another large mass, but the other dead animal turned out to be a dead humpback whale."
I thought it was well known that humpback whales and giant squid were mortal enemies... I'd say these two had an all out battle and both died as a result.
Well that's my theory, I'm stickin' to it.
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This sounds awfully similar to the colossal squid that was found a few months back. The article with pics is at http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/2910849. stm
I would have thought that someone would have suggested picking the thing up and dumping it in front of SCO HQ. Where the hell have all the zealots gone?
Come on, you knew that eventually someone would film the blowing up of a whale. If for nothing else, the wanted to get on "When Whales Explode" or whatever it was on FOX.
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Coastguard reported a dead humpback floating near it, before it ashed ashore. These toothed whales often engage in battle with giant squids, Squids being very yummy for those whales, although fierce combatants, and big to boost! Looks like both parties didn't survive the clash. Should explain the missing tentacles.
The creature is grey, lumpy, and the size of a school bus.
Jimmy Hoffa! I knew he'd be found!
There are photos available on the CNN site:e .science.reut/index.html
"Giant sea creature baffles Chilean scientists"
http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/americas/07/02/chil
Unless someone has already posted
Errr, crack?
The Blob!
True warriors use the Klingon Google
I wonder how many new species we will see before and after the earth slides into an ice age?
I don't think you, me or we are going to see many new species before or after.
What others will see are your, mine and our dead corpses.
And they will see it long before the end of any ice age.
Remember that old joke about what do you call a million lawyers at the bottom of the sea? (the answer is: a good start).
Well.. they're back!
The plagerism brought to you from "The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy".
Um, those would be SPERM whales that eat giant squid, not Humpback whales. Please remember not to confuse "Sperm" and "Hump Back". It could be embarrasing in other circumstances...
Who is naming these whales anyway, Ron Jeremy?
It's the source code for Internet Explorer
The only "photos" you'll see are in advertisements.
"I'm so moist I'm sticking to the leather." -Kermit the Frog on The Late Late Show
This pic of the thing doesn't show it all, but it definitely looks big and like it would smell bad.
Frogs are primitive animals - so the occasional extra toe is not that unusual. But this is very unusual.
The thing that intrigues me is that there are people who have expertise in the area of texture and smell of decomposing whale skin. Is there a professional society for these people?
Anyway, sounds neat, and I'm sure they can figure out if it is a whale by doing a little PCR and sequencing. (I think this is my answer to most science questions these days)
Oh beloved weapons of mass destruction why wont you marry me?
Indeed.
"Why aren't they singing?"
"Umm, Jim? Those aren't George and Gracie."
"...Uhoh."
anyone else remember reading about underwater microphones picking up a sound that is unidentified by marine biologists? Apparently the sound is so loud they had to check for geology explanations such as volcanoes or earthquakes. Marine biologists claim that the giant squid could not make the noise because it lacks a throat or something similar. So... they have a rare recording they think came from a living creature so large that no one knows what it is! Makes you think about what lurks in the deep ocean....
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It's grey and lumpy because of a skin condition, you insensitive clod! Imagine a Beowulf blob of these! In Soviet Russia, grey blob finds you! It's SCO's intellectual property, you can't show it to anyone
Giant sea creature baffles Chilean scientists
looks like a jellyfish
"Blah blah blah SCO blah lawsuit! Ha ha ha!"
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"Stupid" would be failing to check the links that posters have provided. There are plenty of photos of the organism.
Ah the differences between PCP and PCR ...
I don't think drugs have changed all that much since I was in college. In the 60s my college was the acid distributor for the East Coast. I was there in the early 90s and there were still a suspiciously large number of chemistry majors.
...if Chile will call the Oregon Department of Transportation to remove this giant thing from the shore?
http://www.accountkiller.com/removal-requested
Reuters has finally put up some pictures.
You've all been waiting for this, but of course in a photo it just looks like a big gray blob.
Ever wonder what happens to all that fat from those liposuction surgeries? Looks like it ended up on the coast of Chile.
!@#$% whole-grain cereal. When I want fiber, I eat some wicker furniture. - G. Carlin
http://wwwi.reuters.com/images/mdf309627.jpg
now i can't imagine why any newspaper would be hesitant to post that picture. goate.cx part 2?...
This is actually the best way to dispose of a whale carcass. Fish, crabs etc. will quickly dispose of a million whale morsels; one big chunk of whale will take weeks of nibbling, and in the meantime stinks to high heaven. The trick is to detonate the explosives from outside of the fallout zone...
AP photo
Reuters photo
right here.
Enjoy.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/030 702/168/4kihz.html
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Of course they had to send it to a French lab, it also being an invertebrate.
In the wild there are no dumb lions tigers or bears. Only humanity subsidizes the continued existence of the stupid.
A similar finding occured in Florida in the late 17 century. Back then (like today), people could not decide if it was a whale or an octopus. You can take a look at some pics here
My other OS is the MCP!
There's a picture of it in this CNN article.
http://www.msnbc.com/news/933992.asp?vts=070220031 435
The parent is an f*ing troll, why the hell was I modded down?
-Sean
The Japanese catch and eat whales for "research". Perhaps a Japanese scientist was on the scene to "test" out a sample.
This is the iligitimate father of most of my extended family....