Colossal Squid = Holy Mackerel!!

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from PZ Myers blog...
The colossal squid that was caught last year is in the process of being thawed prior to a public dissection. The Te Papa Museum of New Zealand is pulling out all the stops and are going to have web cams recording every step of the process ? the schedule of events is on-line.
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http://www.tepapa.govt.nz/TePapa/En...olluscs/ColossalSquid/TePapaColossalSquid.htm
http://www.tepapa.govt.nz/TePapa/En...as/NaturalEnvironment/Molluscs/ColossalSquid/

27 April: Thawing starts

28-29 April: Examination of four giant squid

30 April: Examination of the colossal squid

1 May: > Series of lectures - The Quest for knowledge: the elusive giant and colossal squid
> Science Express - Colossal squid: the dissection

2 May: Series of lectures - The Quest of knowledge: the elusive giant and colossal squid

This should be interesting for anyone interested in biology and massive underwater sea monsters in general!!!

The Colossal Squid (Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni), sometimes called the Antarctic or Giant Cranch Squid, is believed to be the largest squid species. It is the only member of the genus Mesonychoteuthis. Though it is known from only a few specimens, current estimates put its maximum size at 12?14 metres (39?46 feet) long, based on analysis of smaller and immature specimens, making it the largest known invertebrate.
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HA that's awesome. There fast on research. I think it was only 2 years ago they got video proof of a Giant Squid and now there are Colossal Squid. I bet theres at least one squid as large as the one in Pirates of the Caribian out there.
 
It looks like a giant penis, there I said it.
 
Think of all the hot buttered cuttlefish you could make with that!

Shoes_Buttback03 said:
HA that's awesome. There fast on research. I think it was only 2 years ago they got video proof of a Giant Squid and now there are Colossal Squid. I bet theres at least one squid as large as the one in Pirates of the Caribian out there.
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/siiiiiiigh
 
I've seen that in google images before, it can't be that new. Cool though, I love mollusks.
 
it was caught last year and the images are all over google of it being caught.... however as ive mentioned its currently in the process of bieng defrosted before a public dissection WHICH HAS NOT HAPPENED YET. You'll be able to see that in action live over the web as well as view live lectures on the subect of the squid itself over the next few days...
 
[Matt] said:
it was caught last year and the images are all over google of it being caught.... however as ive mentioned its currently in the process of bieng defrosted before a public dissection WHICH HAS NOT HAPPENED YET. You'll be able to see that in action live over the web as well as view live lectures on the subect of the squid itself over the next few days...
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Watch, they are going to be defrosting it and all of the sudden, one of it's eyes will regain pigmentation and start looking around.. One of the doctors will be like "Oh my god...." as he gets closer to look at it.
Then you'll here several of the other doctors scream, and right as the one turns around WHAM a ****ing tentacle grabs him and smacks his head into a wall, blood everywhere, he's screaming at the top of his lungs, and then another doctor rushes in with a surgical saw to cut the tentacle off, but it moves and right then the doctor misses and cuts the guy's leg off.

:p
 
zombieturtle01 said:
Watch, they are going to be defrosting it and all of the sudden, one of it's eyes will regain pigmentation and start looking around.. One of the doctors will be like "Oh my god...." as he gets closer to look at it.
Then you'll here several of the other doctors scream, and right as the one turns around WHAM a ****ing tentacle grabs him and smacks his head into a wall, blood everywhere, he's screaming at the top of his lungs, and then another doctor rushes in with a surgical saw to cut the tentacle off, but it moves and right then the doctor misses and cuts the guy's leg off.

:p
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All that was running through my head whilst I read this was that scene from Independence Day.

"What do you want us to do?"

"Die."
 
These (and their Giant Cousins) freak me out. My biggest fear in the whole world is that they find a sentient squid that everyone makes friends and prospers in peace with, because that would turn me from a forward thinking liberal into a notorious racist. Dirty squid people taking all our jobs and touching our women with their slimy tentacles*. Well, our Japanese women anyway.

* The non-slimy variety are fine though.
 
Shoes_Buttback03 said:
What? You didn't like that I refrenced PotC? To f:(*king bad. I like that movie.
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No, the fact that you apparently think that the discovery of Collosal Squid should somehow come after that of Giant Squid. They've known both existed for quite a while, just didn't have live specimens.

Oh, and the PotC sequels sucked balls.
 
kupoartist said:
These (and their Giant Cousins) freak me out. My biggest fear in the whole world is that they find a sentient squid that everyone makes friends and prospers in peace with, because that would turn me from a forward thinking liberal into a notorious racist. Dirty squid people taking all our jobs and touching our women with their slimy tentacles*. Well, our Japanese women anyway.

* The non-slimy variety are fine though.
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Squids and Octopi are superior to your erm.... our race, I welcome them.

Eejit said:
Oh, and the PotC At World's End sucked balls.
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Fixed..
 
No, Dead Man's Chest was awful too. Not as bad as AWE, but still shit. The only good one was the original.
 
Eejit said:
No, Dead Man's Chest was awful too. Not as bad as AWE, but still shit. The only good one was the original.
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Dead Man's Chest was better than the first, in the same sense and reasoning that Empire Strikes Back was better than a New Hope.
 
Well, one can't deny that 'squid head guy' was awesome. headcrab?
 
zombieturtle01 said:
Dead Man's Chest was better than the first, in the same sense and reasoning that Empire Strikes Back was better than a New Hope.
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Yeah the fact that the plot went in circles and they achieved nothing was aweshens!
Plus the fact that while in the first film the bad pirates were actually bad, raiding towns, pirating civilian ships etc. they now become the good guys without anyone blinking an eye.
 
I liked Curse of the Black Pearl. Didn't care if they were good or bad, I just liked the movie on it's own merits. But yeah, that is suspicious. lol

End of the World or whatever,... that one had me saying out loud - 'what the **** is going on'. 'this movie is ****ing shit', and then I ejected the disk.

I think I did finish watching it another day, while browsing the internet

I still think that squid head mother****er was one the coolest looking villains I've seen in my life..

He made it worth watching IMO.
 
Shoes_Buttback03 said:
HA that's awesome. There fast on research. I think it was only 2 years ago they got video proof of a Giant Squid and now there are Colossal Squid. I bet theres at least one squid as large as the one in Pirates of the Caribian out there.
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Everybody out of the way: marine biologist coming through!

I once met a guy who claimed that there were squid off the coast of Portugal that were bigger than Big Ben.
For the uninitiated, Big Ben is 96.3 metres tall.
This guy also said that there were sharks near Japan that had grown bioluminescent filaments after eating lots of anglerfish... He was a gem.
 
el Chi said:
Everybody out of the way: marine biologist coming through!

I once met a guy who claimed that there were squid off the coast of Portugal that were bigger than Big Ben.
For the uninitiated, Big Ben is 96.3 metres tall.
This guy also said that there were sharks near Japan that had grown bioluminescent filaments after eating lots of anglerfish... He was a gem.
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Deep sea fish like anglerfish scare me, they look so eerie. I've had nightmares about being surrounded by those huge-jaw zero-pigment fish and getting owned severely D:

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