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Oil Exploration Leads To Video of a Mysterious Elbowed Squid
eldavojohn writes "A rare glimpse from Shell Oil of a giant squid brings to light the strange relationships some deep sea marine biologists have with drilling companies. The video of the squid (Magnapinna) is very rare as this creature remains largely a mystery to science. While some are concerned of a conflict of interest, biologists and big oil sure make for strange bedfellows. The video is from 200 miles off the coast of Houston, TX and about 4,000 feet down." Looking at this creature gives me the willies, frankly.
This is why I don't eat creatures from the ocean.
Hopefully they'll return the courtesy.
Mother nature also invented(sic) the sci-fi movie directors.
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...welcome our new 10-tentacled elbowed cephalopod overlords.
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Not Cthulhu, but possibly a distant cousin of something else:
He speculates that Magnapinna passively waits for prey to bump into the sticky appendages
Could these sticky appendages also be... noodly?
Oil Shmoil, I smell a new revenue stream for porn.
Table-ized A.I.
Someone tell Zack Snyder, maybe he can get some budget footage for the Watchmen movie, give it a proper ending.
So, if they take submersible time from the oil companies they're at risk of spuriously deciding that giant squid cause cancer? Or that they cause global warming? :)
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A rare glimpse of the Aquatic Chupacabra.
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Damn nature, you scary!
Still not as scary as Dolphins with Opposable Thumbs
It actually made me want to fire up XCom 2 and go destroy some underwater aliens! FWOOSH-BLEAH!
So this squid drifts just above the bottom of the seabed dragging its tentacles along the bottom to pickup yummy tidbits. Why not put a similar system on that Titan balloon probe for sampling the ground/lakes.
Damn, a giant squid, a robot submarine AND big oil!
Now if only;
* The robot ran BSD, but formerly ran Vista
* The MAFIAA was claiming copyright on the film
* On close inspection, the squid had a google logo but was in fact an alien species
* Some jerk had just been granted a lame patent for 'swimming at great depths with tentacles'
We'd never need another!
But how would the giant squid be able to pay?
Repton.
They say that only an experienced wizard can do the tengu shuffle.
Great, now we have Pastafarianism: Terror From The Deep, the same as regular Pastafarianism but underwater and with a lot of bugs.
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The Japanese have a word for the sensation you get looking at this sort of otherworldly monstrosity. They say oishisou, which literally means, "that looks delicious."
Use of the words "good", "bad" or "evil" is almost invariably the result of oversimplification.
On the right is the cold virus which looks like its from another planet.
Now I know what life on other planets looks like!
In other news, Cthulhu ask us if we could go drilling for Oil at another place rather than at Rlyeh, because He would rather like to be left alone slumbering in peace, thank you very much.
All this noise gives Him maddening head aches....
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to me it looks like a squid which just ate a rather large king crab. either that or it really is an alien searching for oil. Thats my story and I'm sticking to it.
If it were anything else...
I was thinking about frying it in oil to make a new type of Calamari.
Houston isn't on the coast. It's 50 miles from the coast at Galveston, which leaves two questions:
1) Was the squid found 150 miles off the coast at Galveston, or 200 miles?
2) Are there no longer any geographers working at National Geographic?
Score: 1 (pedantic+)
Whats the Japanese word for "That would make good tentacle porn"?
Name...That...Autocomplete!
That would be something like "sugoi shokushu-hentai ni narisou".
"oishisou"
Thank god it was taped by a robot. Nobody got insane this time.
-- dnl