You don't think the squid is creepy?

 

[EDIT - I misread the subject ]

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by finkl123
[B]they had to mess with mother nature and look what happened...the poor thing died... sheesh.

i bet it left behind a very sad 160kg male Squid and 2.5 squidettes...

 

anyone up for calamari?

 

Yup! Firing up my 1000 gallon deep fryer as we speak!

 

1000 gallon - how much cholesterol is that?

 

finkl123
thats sooo true!

 

Don't forget, this is only a half-grown female Colossal Squid!




Colossal Squid has powerful beak.

 

thanks for the scale...it really shows how huge that squid is!!

 

it is amazing... but what is more interesting is that we really dont know anything about our own oceans.

there is a really good short article in this months WIRED magazine making a case for an exploratory group (like NASA) for the sea. in the decades that NASA has been operating we have learned some cool stuff about space, such as there isnt any life near us, and that anything potentally interesting would take much more than a life time to get to.

on the other hand we have only explored less than 1% of earths oceans, and so far the entire american ocean exploration effort has one crappy old submarine to work with. mean while we throw billions of dollars into space.

we went to space in search of alien life... but there isnt any, not that we can find. but in our oceans there is an abundance of life that we cant even begin to imagine. if this squid is interesting, think about some of the things that live in complete darkness at more than 100,000 psi of water pressure, feeding themselves from chemical reactions based not of oxygen but of sulfuric vents on the ocean floor shooting from the earths core at thousands of degrees. im not making this stuff up. there is bound to be some crazy down there.