Oil Exploration Leads To Video of a Mysterious Elbowed Squid 256
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.
Hmm yeah... (Score:5, Funny)
This is why I don't eat creatures from the ocean.
Hopefully they'll return the courtesy.
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Re:Hmm yeah... (Score:5, Funny)
Anything that lives that far down must be tough, it'd be like eating prawn flavoured tyres.
Re:Hmm yeah... (Score:2, Funny)
No less elbowed and worm-like, but probably a little more appetizing.
I, for one... (Score:2, Funny)
Killed milions of them myself (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Cthulhu (Score:5, Funny)
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 [wikipedia.org]?
Re:I, for one... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Who knows what else is down there? (Score:5, Funny)
Oil Shmoil, I smell a new revenue stream for porn.
Giant Alien Squid? (Score:3, Funny)
Someone tell Zack Snyder, maybe he can get some budget footage for the Watchmen movie, give it a proper ending.
Re:Conflicts, always conflicts. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Nice animal (Score:5, Funny)
Nature (Score:2, Funny)
Damn nature, you scary!
Oh Shit (Score:5, Funny)
Terror from the deep! (Score:4, Funny)
Bimimetics anyone? (Score:2, Funny)
Nearly the perfect article! (Score:5, Funny)
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!
Re:Who knows what else is down there? (Score:5, Funny)
But how would the giant squid be able to pay?
Re:Cthulhu (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Nice animal (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Mother of all viruses? (Score:2, Funny)
On the right is the cold virus which looks like its from another planet.
Now I know what life on other planets looks like!
Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn (Score:5, Funny)
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....
Its just a squid... (Score:2, Funny)
Oil and Squid (Score:4, Funny)
Geography? (Score:2, Funny)
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+)
Re:Nice animal (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Nearly the perfect article! (Score:3, Funny)
Yeah, well, in Soviet waters, squid exploration leads to oil discoveries!
Re:Nearly the perfect article! (Score:1, Funny)
Not quite the last article needed.
We'd also need a dupe.
Re:Nice animal (Score:1, Funny)
That would be something like "sugoi shokushu-hentai ni narisou".
Re:Nice animal (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fht (Score:2, Funny)